Sonic Shrine
The Comics
There have been several Sonic the Hedgehog comics over the years; Fleetway's Sonic the Comic in the UK and Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comic in America, followed by IDW's Sonic the Hedgehog.
The Fleetway comic was discontinued in the early 2000s while the Archie comic ran up until 2017, when Sega ended their partnership with Archie. At that point Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog numbered 290 issues, while its sister comic Sonic Universe made it to 94 issues. The Archie comic universe was rebooted in Sonic the Hedgehog issue 252.
The Archie comic is known for having its own take on several of the game elements and characters - for instance, Knuckles is not the last echidna, his people live in Echidnapolis, and are at constant odds with the Archie-invented dingo faction and the Dark Legion. The Dark Legion is a group of cybernetically enhanced echidnas. Knuckles had his own comic series for a while that centered on these storylines.
The currently running Sonic the Hedgehog comic is published by IDW, but several staff that were involved in the making of the Archie Sonic comics now work on the IDW Sonic comic.
Notable Comic-related Sites:
Dan Drazen's reviews of Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog: https://www.andrews.edu/~drazen/sonic.html
Fanmade continuation of Sonic the Comic: http://www.stconline.co.uk/
Fanmade continuation of Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog (pre-reboot): http://archiesoniconline.com/
Fanmade restoration of Archie's unfinalized Sonic the Hedgehog issues, as well as a possible continuation (post-reboot): https://twitter.com/Archie_Restored
The Games
Sonic games on the Gameboy Advance
Sonic Advance, Sonic Advance 2 and Sonic Advance 3 follow the basic format of the original Sonic games. In addition, the games allow playing as several different characters. Sonic Advance 1 features Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy as playable characters. Sonic Advance 2 introduces Cream the Rabbit as a new playable character. Sonic Advance 3 features a tag team system where the player selects two characters to form a team.
Sonic Battle is a fighting game spinoff that features Sonic and his friends as well as a new robot character, Emerl. Players progress through the story by winning a series of fights and collect fighting techniques that are used to customize Emerl's moveset.
Sonic Pinball Party is a Sonic-themed pinball game.
Sonic Adventure Series
Sonic Adventure
The Egg Carrier Chao garden is still my favorite, followed by the Station Square Chao garden. Adventure fields were a lot of fun to muck around in, especially with Tails' flight ability.
Sonic Adventure 2
I was really into the story at the time I played this, so Darkspeeds' SA2 comic was one of my favorite things. Out of the stages I enjoyed the treasure hunting ones the most. I also spent a lot of time in the Chao garden.
Check out my Chao garden page to see the Chao I'm currently raising!
The Animated Series
The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
A 1993 animated cartoon featuring Sonic and Tails in their fight against Robotnik. The series is slapstick comedy in the vein of classic cartoons and consists of 65 episodes.
Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM
Centers on Sonic fighting Robotik together with a group of his friends that call themselves the Freedom Fighter. They also prominently features in the Archie Sonic comics.
Sonic Underground
A musically based cartoon in which Sonic is a prince, and has a sister and brother named Sonia and Manik. Together they are on a fated quest to defeat Robotnik.
Sonic X
In this series Sonic and his friends (as well as Eggman) are sent to the human world due to the chaos emeralds interfering with one of Eggman's machines. This leads to complications as Sonic and Eggman each attempt to collect the seven chaos emeralds that have scattered all over the world.
Sonic Boom
Sonic Boom is a 3D animated series that features redesigned versions of Sonic and his friends, along with new character Sticks the Badger. The plots are comedic in nature. However, Knuckles' lack of intelligence is often played uncomfortably hard, and there are some unkind jokes on the show. Don't watch if you can't look past these things.
Archie comics also published a line of Sonic Boom comics.
Favorite Episodes:
Fuzzy Puppy BuddiesBattle of the Boy Bands
Way Past Cool Links
http://www.soniczone0.com/
Provides commentary and strategies for each stage for the
following titles: Sonic the Hedgehog (1-3), Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic CD
http://www.soniccenter.org/maps/?url=maps
Contains stage maps for a variety
of 2D Sonic titles.