Like, just look at Blade of Courage. This is pure unadulterated WIND right here! Because, whoever wrote it is going off of whatever notes Sonic Team gave him in Japanese and stuff, and so he just writes that Sonic to the best of his ability. And it's cool!

Meanwhile, with IDW, it's Ian Flynn who THINKS he knows Sonic, but really it's Archie Sonic he knows best, and anything game-canon related comes with loads and loads of headcanon and personal opinions preventing him from just writing it accurately. And there's Evan Stanley whose biggest flaw is that she is perfect at writing Amy Rose specifically, which means characters like Silver get uwu-fied under her pen and she didn't even realize it until it got pointed out to her. Because she's a tumblr fangirl who treats her favorite characters like soft babies or whatever, and that mindset is perfect for being able to capture the purest essence of Amy's character especially with Heroes and Battle as her reference material, but very very very flawed when trying to write characters like Sonic or Silver or even Shadow. Like, don't try and get Maria Robotnik to write Shadow, she's only gonna make him cutesy and stuff because that's how she sees him.

I don't have anything against Ian or Evan, though. I'm sure with time, they will improve and I have high hopes that they do. Evan already has learned of her shortcomings, and wants to improve. And since Ian has direct contact with Sonic Team at times, it's inevitable that he will become more understanding of the actual material he is writing for.

But Sonic Team needs to step in a lot more and actually take control of the series more directly. Their character supervisors and writers need to take action a lot more closely, instead of only caring about keeping Shadow alone in-line or whatever.