It won’t be long before Sonic the Hedgehog 3 hits theaters and IDW Publishing is capitalizing on Shadow’s role with a brand-new one-shot story. As fans wait with bated breath to see what Shadow will bring to the franchise, a new comic will re-examine Sonic the Hedgehog’s most tragic rival.

Sonic the Hedgehog might be SEGA’s most well-known mascot, but if there’s a character that rivals him in popularity, its Shadow. Shadow made his first appearance in the game Sonic Adventure 2, which followed him, in part, as he and his team attempted to conquer the world. Shadow became an instant hit with fans and he later got his own spinoff game, Shadow the Hedgehog, which dove into his tragic past with his creator, Gerald Robotnik, and Maria Robotnik. Beyond the games, Shadow has appeared in numerous Sonic adaptations, including shows like Sonic X, Sonic Boom, and Sonic Prime.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning tells the second half of the story that began in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, with Ethan Hunt out to destroy an AI system called The Entity, which is housed in a sunken Russian stealth submarine. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and Dead Reckoning writer/director Christopher McQuarrie remains at the helm, working from a screenplay he crafted with Erik Jendresen.

Cruise is being joined in the cast by Hayley Atwell, reprising her Dead Reckoning role of thief-turned-IMF-recruit Grace; Vanessa Kirby as arms dealer Alanna Mitsopolis, a.k.a. the White Widow, a character who was previously seen in both Fallout and Dead Reckoning; Ving Rhames as IMF agent Luther Stickell, who has been part of this franchise since the first Mission: Impossible movie in 1996; Simon Pegg as IMF agent Benji Dunn, who joined the party back in Mission: Impossible III; Henry Czerny as CIA director Eugene Kittridge, who was introduced in Mission: Impossible (1996) and finally made his long-awaited return in Dead Reckoning; Rolf Saxon as William Donloe, a CIA analyst who got in trouble after Ethan Hunt accessed his computer way back in the first Mission: Impossible; and more Dead Reckoning reprisals: Esai Morales as the Entity-serving terrorist Gabriel; Pom Klementieff as Gabriel’s former ally Paris; Shea Whigham and Greg Tarzan Davis as US Intelligence agents Briggs and Degas; Mariela Garriga as Marie, a mysterious woman from Ethan and Gabriel’s past; Mark Gatiss and Charles Parnell as the heads of the NSA and NRO;. There are also a handful of new additions to the franchise: Holt McCallany as Secretary of Defense Bernstein; Nick Offerman as Sydney, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Katy O’Brian, Stephen Oyoung, Tramell Tillman, Janet McTeer, Hannah Waddingham, and Lucy Tulugarjuk in unspecified roles.

Along with Skarsgård, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, Taylour Paige and James Remar will join the cast, as well as Stephen Rider, known for playing Blake Tower in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Daredevil. Although the original 1990 IT movie was shot in Pickering and Port Hope, Ontario, both of which are popular filming locations for small-town U.S. shows, this time, most of the scenes for IT: Welcome to Derry were shot at the Delta Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario. Over the course of nine episodes, the series will take place in the 1960s before the events of the film and will also include the origin story of Pennywise the Clown.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, a bunch of exclusive first-look images from IT: Welcome to Derry were shared, which included a range of characters from the series dressed in attire suitable for its 1960s time period. Although there hasn’t been any reveal, as yet, regarding whom the cast of actors in the series are playing, among the pictures, Jovan Adepo can be seen in his military outfit, suggesting he could be playing a younger Will Hanlon, as well as Paige, Will’s possible future wife, Jessica. Although creators Andy and Barbara Muschietti state in the interview that they don’t want to give too much away, they do confirm that the Hanlon family will play a part in IT: Welcome to Derry. The new IT: Welcome to Derry images also suggest a look at how the series will explore the tragedy of what happened during The Black Spot timeline, which is found in Stephen King’s IT novel in the second interlude and briefly mentioned in the first IT film, where Mike’s father, Will Hanlon, talks about his painful memories to his son.

The Black Spot nightclub was opened by Will and his friends, whose customer base was mostly black soldiers from the nearby Army base and a place to provide safety. One night in 1930, members of the Maine Legion of White Decency, a radicalized white supremacist group, raided the venue, burning it to the ground and killing the people who had become trapped inside along with it. Mike’s father reveals that he saw a giant bird with balloons sweep down from over the fire, which Mike recognizes as the same bird he saw a few years ago, hence discovering this event to be an earlier sighting of the sadistic killer clown,”IT”.