Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24412830-20151208004354/@comment-1669199-20151231010529

Kroshy wrote: Genesjs wrote: Admittedly both timelines have (or in the case of the old timeline, HAD) some interesting things going for them, but I still consider the new timeline to still be too far in its infancy days and be given an accurate judgement on its overall quality. Maybe in time it can develop into something good overall, but until then I'm gonna have to side with the old timeline on virtue of it being the more developed of the two, even depite its problems with some of its own storytelling. Well maybe if they decided to focus on their new timeline instead of doing another cross over then we would have a better idea about how good this new universe is. It is early in this univers' life but even reading all the way up to worlds unite I know very little besides the minor character changes.

Even after all that complaining I am very interested amd still really want to know more xD

Even if the creative team didn't focus on the crossover arcs, the new timeline would still be only a couple years old, which is still too young for me to form a more sure opinion on how it compares to the old timeline. I say a good 7-10 years would be the bare minimum to flush itself out, especially since it's got a support comic in Sonic Universe to help expand story arcs much faster than if it was just one comic. Since, on average, 12 comics come out for these comics in a year (one comic per month), just 7 years of comics from this new timeline would bring forth 84 issues from just one of the comics alone, and taking the other comic into account that number is doubled to 168 individual issues. I don't recall if the new timeline was started between the main comic and Sonic Universe simultaneously, but even if there was a small delay of one or two issues between both comics starting stories featuring the new timeline the overall numbers in the 7 year period I gave would still be very close and could still bring a lot of content to the table. I'm sure by then we'll have an ongoing universe that'll be large enough in size to stand on it's own compared to the old timeline, but I still think 10 years' worth of comics from this new timeline would be ideal in the long run, since by then both comics will have well over 100 issues by then, and if I recall the old timeline ended somewhere around 300 issues counting both the main comic and Sonic Universe.

10 years, even 7, may seem like a long time, I know, but to me it's a fact that the new timeline, if it's going to survive for more than just a few years and try to produce a new universe comparable in scope to the old one then it has quite a lot of work to do if it wants to catch up.