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STH235SilverLover wrote: BlueSpeeder wrote:

Neon Girl Star wrote: I didn't know the Archie comics existed until I found out about it on Wikipedia, kinda makes sense for me, after all, I'm English, the comics are made in America so I don't think any of those comics went to England. At first, I never liked the series, but as time passed, I started to like it. Although there's stuff in the comics that put me off:
 * There are too many Echidnas in the comic, this is a comic franchise called Sonic the Hedgehog (although I know that Knuckles had his own comic series which got cancelled) so why involve a huge number of Echidnas in the story? Anyway I believe that Ken Penders was the one to introduce them (except Knuckles obviously).
 * A few of Ken's characters sort of look like parodies of characters in other works of fiction. Yup, Ken is very uncreative.
 * Sonic's parents look too much like their son, his Mom just looks like Sonic wearing a dress, having girly features, has blue eyes and having a bit of blonde hair on top. His Dad has hair too, but it's brown (as a robot, the hair appears to be gray). His uncle has eyebrows and a mustache, although, I've always been used to the way he looks.
 * That second Genesis wave messed up the ending to this issue. I find it to be unnecessary to the series, but I think it was done as a result to Ken Pender's lawsuit which may explain why Sonic's world became altered.

I still like the series despite the stuff I have a problem with. Here's the reasons why I like the comic:
 * It has references to the games.
 * Silver being in it.
 * Ian Flynn's brilliant writing.
 * Tracy Yardley's art style.

But I have a concern that the series could get cancelled because people might dislike the story changes which would lead to low sales and Archie having to stop production. I'm probably worring too much though, like Blue Speeder said, he loves the changes so there's still a chance the series will still continue if that's the case. I'm just hoping Ian will be allowed to use more characters and have Sonic's world restored. What every writer---especially Ian Flynn---did was add to what Ken Penders began and make it even better. Yet, the more building was done, the more of the STH comics came to depend on Penders's works. By the time Penders finished copyrighting his works in 2013, so much of the Archieverse had been built upon what he started that the old continuity was effectively rendered impossible to work with, hence necessitating the reboot.
 * There's at least a hundred echidnas in the comics last time I've checked.
 * Flynn has also made characters based from other material. Every writer has done that.
 * They're all hedgehogs...? :P
 * The comics were getting messed up long before that issue. It's safe to say that the reboot was necessary.

On that topic, I noticed that, in STH #257, Dr. Eggman directly says that the Super Genesis Wave's effects cannot be undone, hence indicating that the reboot is permanent. We readers already knew that, of course, but IMO, that's gotta be the first time Archie Comics themselves have OPENLY admitted it instead of futily trying to dress it up like they have been. One more thing, I sort of already knew why the reboot was done, but I'm happy for you to explain it more from what you know.