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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.
 * There's at least inert 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.