Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-11463617-20150226035707/@comment-679780-20150227050442

Candy55101 wrote: I don't understand what you're saying? "All Archie can ask from Sega is permission to use the Classic era characters until they start with the Dreamcast era of stories. Fans would gobble the comics up if Archie can pull that off." Also, what's the difference if they used a plot device to reboot the comics or just plain rebooted it? "It just seem kinda cheaty to me" Who/what are they cheating? If you mean their world record then I don't blame them for doing a "soft-reboot" to keep it. I understand that they had some legal issue with their own group, it's just how they work there way out of it looks sloppy to me. It was more like a hard reset than a soft one. They worked themselves into a corner, both story and legally and instead of trying to work their way around the proble, think of decent sollutions to go with, instead they just reset the entire thing, as if it was all a dream, or was it~♪

They could of at least said permanant good-byes to Penders characters, close off old alternate zones and introduced new ones or concentrate stories in new areas of Mobius, there were many choices to go by, yes they were small and tid-bitty but worth it to build up on the Mobius they wanted. But no they just couldn't think it through and much rather just reset everything... but instead of starting a sequal series like DC and Marvel would do, they just stick the new timeline onto the old timeline like Mega-CD onto the Mega Drive and we all know how that turned out!

Simply ending the story for good and starting a brand new comic series on post-SWG Mobius would still be regarded as "ArchieSonic" even if it's a new Mobius. Not only would it avoid the hassle and mess that Archie struggled with to introduce the new Mobius but would open them to much-much more story oppotunities than they have now.

Right now the SGW happened and the characters have to move on and forget it happened while we only know so much of what happened from the paradigm change. If Archie simply finished the first Archie Sonic comic series and started a new, then it really did never happened and the slate would be completely brand new than just wiped clean.

Do you see what I am getting at? Archie worked themselves into a corner and Sega wanting changes and Penders calling shenanigans was not helping, I get how stressful it must have been at the studios. But it just seem they wanted two things- To start a new Mobius to make Sega happy and Penders of their back but did not want to finish the old Mobius. So they just "made it happen, whatever" which now ends up with a cosmic mess they have to sort out.