User blog comment:Admiral Leviathan/Ian Flynn's off Again!/@comment-115265-20110109080356/@comment-167456-20110109182522

So have you actually read the book? The publishers' previews say it doesn't go on sale until next month, and while they do credit Ian Flynn as one of the writers (along with Michael Gallagher), such previews are never exactly infallible.

Even if it is true, the only reason I can think of for it is to avoid paying royalties to the original writers, which is awful but hardly Ian Flynn's fault. If the editors or publishers asked him to re-write some stories, why would he refuse? Plenty of highly successful and critically acclaimed writers reuse story ideas all the time. It's hardly the sign of a hack, and it's especially common on long-running licensed series (like Sonic). In fact, a fair number of issues by previous writers were just re-hashes of episodes from SatAM.

As for the comment that the story screws up the comic canon, you've just said that the story has been rewritten by the guy who is now writing the comic. Maybe the re-written version (if it is being re-written) will be different. (It's not including "Naugus Games" either - according to ME, Ian Flynn has said that he has no intention of trying to put "Naugus Games" into Sonic Select, for this very reason.)