So-called factions and "entities" that did fuck all in Archie Sonic pre SGW

These guys were worse than than the ANBU Black ops. They could've at least helped Sonic in keeping Robotnik from expanding his empire but nope, gotta observe and give out vague clues or appear once in a blue moon a deal with one specific threat and vamoose. And these four are just the tip of the 'berg.

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Trekkie Knuckles looking dope though.

wasn't the deal with the echidnas was they couldn't care less about what happens to the rest of mobius?

This guy tried the wait-it-out method. Too bad immortality does not protect you from existential oblivion. Wish Archie allowed Flynn to make a story about the final fates of the old characters.

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Penders's Knuckles Clone Army never appealed to me. The interesting stuff happened when they had to integrate later, "bigger" games like the Adventure series and Unleashed into their world.

didn't he actually reform in one of those "into the future" stories?

That way of thinking bit them in the balls. Hard.

iirc, their plan was "we'll deal with him WHEN he finally comes over here."

Look where that got them. Oh wait you can't because they're gone.

Their uselessness was more profound during the Adventure era

They were just copying what all the other comics in the 70s and 80s were doing.

This is why I'm happy considering Endgame to be the actual end of the comic like it was intended.

Why Endgame? It was a piece of shit and some of the worst writing the comic has to offer. #40 offered a better ending point.

Why didn't shadow play a big role in this series.

Who the hell likes a literal edgelord that has used real guns before, and why the hell?

Sega doesn't want people spamming Shadow, it would make him lose his appeal.

He's easily one of the best characters in the Flynn era

Wasn't them forcing Shadow into Archie (Mobius X Years Later to be precise) one of the big reasons that Penders left?

dunno duncare

If I recall, the comic never explained why they didn't do anything during the Sonic 3 plot.

They were still in hiding or something?
But yeah, it gets odd in hindsight when you consider that they were on the island during the Sonic 3 issue, the Sonic & Knuckles issue, SonicQuest, etc.

Not really, he was a grumpy little bitch instead of the class smug dick he was in the games who snarled just as much as Sonic but much more coldy.

>Penders spends years hyping up the echidnas
>Literally goes on fan forums and says both the good and evil ones could easily defeat Eggman if they wanted to
>Then suddenly Bollers writes Return to Angel Island
>A story where Eggman invades Angel Island and curbstomps the echidnas so baddly they're forced to live in mud huts
>The good and evil echidnas team up but their efforts are so fruitless, Sonic and Knuckles have to go there to bail them out
>Year later, Flynn has Eggman invade the secret echidna homeland and destroy it with ease and turns the evil echidnas into Eggman's goons

>Penders is literally still seething about it to this day

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Sega doesn't give a fuck about Shadow, guest appearances and shitty dlc aside. In a sonic only franchise, shadow should have been the one who gets more attention as a main gameplay choice when tails, knuckles and the others where shafted game play wise.

Shadow like Sasuke before him suffered the badass decay and put on a bus tropes due to the polarizing fandom and lack of certain direction their respective companies wanted to do with them without losing money and angering their fans. Years later, they barely show up but for only special occasions which puts them in the obscurity bin for their value as important charavters that literally just exist for fan service purposes. Even their fan service has low expectations and both of them have nearly less fans than they used to, only being supported by the fujo crowd most of the time.

Editor, not Sega, and this was during the blitz that was the immediate release of Shadow's self-titled game.

>I'm a dipshit and don't understand how marketing works.
There's a reason they were able to treat Shadow's DLC for Forces as an effective piece of advertisement despite being garbage.

That's what I was saying, dipass.

They were advertising buddy more than Shadow gag. Sega couldn't care less about how shadow is marketed anymore. Fans certainly don't outside of fangirls

They advertised Buddy as the gimmick to push the game. Shadow was the DLC bonus to get you to buy the game while it was relatively new. Buddy was a curio, Shadow was treated as a desirable element, a luxury item. That's the whole point.