Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24252369-20140127025101/@comment-4533965-20140127035850

Actually, people speculate that Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood was inspired by characters and events that occurred in the Archie Comics, i.e. Shade the Echidna being based off of Julie-Su. To be frank, I believe Sega used Archie as their source material for Sonic Chronicles. But, I could be wrong.