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Archie should find its own direction and go for its own canon,

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It does.

Name a canon that has King Elias, Queen Alicia, Mina, Geoffrey, Drago, Fearsome Foursome/Destructix, Mammoth Mogul, Zonic, Tails as the "Chosen One," Knuckles as the "Savior/Avatar," Nate Morgan, Colin Kintobor (and the many others), Hope Kintobor, Merlin Prower, Amadeus/Rosemary Prower, Fiona, Downunda, Albion, Echidnaopolis/Dingo City, etc.

Archie has its own direction. It has its own canon. It just adds bits from every other Sonic canon in existence, but it does it in its own way. Hence, why many "game fans" hate Archie for "messing up the characters" and many "SatAM fans" hate Archie for "messing up the characters." Archie, at the end of the day, does what it wants to do and goes against what those who don't take Archie for what it is--a mixture of everything with a different spin--get upset.

For every person that complains that there is "too much" of something, there's another person complaining that there "isn't enough" of the same thing. The funny thing is that while there's some listening to that stuff on certain issues (definitely not on the minor ones), for the most part, Archie is just doing its own thing. It's only restrictions would be on whatever ground rules have been set since Sonic isn't Archie's property. Those ground rules haven't affected much or else Archie wouldn't be what it is now. For example, complaints about Robotnik's "looks" (and most other characters) are extremely minor & totally unimportant--and anyone who actually believes that's important, I'd like to know if you'd read the comic if Robotnik had his SatAM look but the only characters in the comic were the Sega cast; because if "design" is more important than story/characters, then we'll just have to agree to disagree. Mountains are made out of molehills a lot of times--and personally, Archie mirrors SatAM more than any other Sonic universe so we SatAM fans have the least to complain about with regards to representation. SatAM doesn't exist without the games, nor does Archie. Archie acknowledges the games sometimes--why care so much as to lose perspective about Archie itself: Archie is its own canon no matter how much it references other Sonic universes, including SatAM or the games.

Ugh, bad memories. I hated that look, but it didn't affect my opinion of the story (which wasn't that high anyway).

I look at designs the same way I look at pencilers--some are more pleasing than others. But it's the story that matters. I care a zillion times more about what the writer is doing than the artwork. I'll comment on designs because I don't like everything (and so I enjoyed Amy talking about Fiona's horrible outfit in #172), but dwelling on that beyond a minor discussion is not something I can ever do. It's just not important to me similar to the cover of a comic or book. If it's nice, great. If it's not, I just can't care.