Several years before the events of Sonic the Comic, Hammerhead employed Porker Lewis (then known as "Oscar the Pig") before anybody knew he was a criminal. The shark convinced Porker that he was working towards creating a clean energy, but was hiding something from his favourite worker. Porker discovered that Hammerhead was building the most powerful bomb ever, so destroyed all the files that the pig had created under Hammerhead's employment. When Hammerhead was outed as a criminal, the shark made sure that everyone knew Porker was his right-hand man and would be implicated as a terrorist for years to come. To escape the police, Porker fled to Mobius and assumed a new identity.