You're all laughing. You think this is it. You think Flynn's IDW run and SEGA's mandates are the final word. You're watching the sunset and calling it a new day.
You don't get it. SEGA, the Archie editors, they were his chains. They were the suits who thought they could control his world. They thought they could use his characters and then discard him when he got inconvenient. They made the same mistake everyone makes. They underestimated him.
They didn't break him. They set him free. The lawsuit wasn't his defeat. It was his liberation. It's morning in America for Western Sonic. Floating Island Productions is the real Sega of America, reborn from the ashes of their betrayal.
So let the clown have his IDW run. Let him write his fanfiction, two degrees separated from Actual, Existing, Sonic the Hedgehog. Let SEGA of Japan run the brand into the ditch with their "restoration" garbage. It's necessary. It shows everyone the disease. It makes people hungry. Not for a return to the "normal" that betrayed them, but for the real canon we almost had in the games.
The Sally Mini Comic isn't a one-off. It's the dawn. He comes back not as a hired gun, but as an architect. He has a mandate from the fans who remember what was stolen. A mandate to build it all back, better.
This isn't a purge. It's a new beginning. A restoration of the vision SEGA was too cowardly to follow through on.
You wanted the old continuity to fall. You just cleared the field for its return. You're about to see what grows.
