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Turns out Ken Penders called bull$#!7tery on Sonic Chronicles: Dark Brotherhood on a SEGA/EA lawsuit. That means Shade and the Maruders cannot replace the Julie-su and the Dark Legion in the comics.

It sucks because it would of been very satisfying if Archie comics simply replaced Julie-su and Dark Legion with Shade and the Maruders... but it's worse than that for both Archie comics and canon games.

Are you a fan of Shade the Echidna? Hope she would appear in future games? Well too bad. Because of Ken Penders, Sega cannot have her in neither games nor comics.

Even Sega allows Archie comics to make use of their lesser characters like Tails Doll, Nack, Bark and Bean, Mighty and Ray and so on, characters we haven't seen in the games since the 90s and only cameod a bit in recent games. Shade the Echidna will not be allowed a return nor these privileges. If Sonic characters had a tier-system of frequancy in either games or comic, Ken Penders himself made sure shade the Echidna, a character that was never his to begin with, stays at the bottom all because so he can make barely legal and badly made non-Sonic fanfiction.