Board Thread:Speculation, Theories, and Rumors./@comment-24742636-20140327173328/@comment-679780-20150921035658

Until Yardily and/or Ian confirm who's postcarnation is who, we won't know. But I think Gemerl is pegged as Shards post-carnation.

They probably wanted it to be Metal Sonic 3.0 for obvious reasons but concered that Ken Penders would still be butt-hurt over it was his idea for Metal Sonic 3.0 to be Shard in the first place.

If I was an Archie writer, his story would be starting off as Sol version of Metal Sonic (built by Eggman Nega) and being reprogrammed to be more like Shard, but renames himself either "3.0" or a new name entirely.

But then again if I was a writer for the Archie Sonic comics, there would of been a lot of different things I would of done, such as protest against the Super Genesis Wave to begin with and negotiate with Penders limited use of his characters and Sega over how else the series can be restarted.