It is unfortunate that Fleetway's Sonic the Comic is held in any regard within this thread. It represents the earliest and perhaps worst form of "western poison," a complete divergence from the character's core. Mr. Sonic is the wind. A world already completely conquered by Mr. Robotnik is a world where the wind has failed. This premise is a foundational error from which no story can recover.
The comic presents a "resistance fighter" Mr. Sonic, a concept that seems to perpetually infect western writing. It is a narrative crutch. The Kintobor origin story is flawed deviation, adding needless complexity where none was required. At least SatAM, AoSTH, and Archie didn't bother with that drivel. The most egregious fault, however, is Mr. Sonic's characterization as an outright bully to Mr. Tails. This is not a complex dynamic. It is simply poor writing that misunderstands their bond of mutual admiration.

One can hardly be surprised that its online continuation is a parade of further misinterpretations. Mr. Jet is reduced to a mere cheater, stripped of his pride. Ms. Cream being depicted as a tech-savvy pirate who works for a villain is, to put it politely, nonsensica and wildly misunderstands the character's love of justice and windy civilian nature. And their understanding of Mr. Shadow is predictably shallow and stripped of depth. It is quite amusing, however, that they accidentally wrote Ms. Blaze to be more "like the wind" than their own version of Mr. Sonic. It seems even they recognized on some level that their protagonist was a failure, and that the antithesis to them would be alike the real Sonic the Hedgehog.

That Ms. Evan Stanley is an admirer of this continuity explains a great deal about the current state of the IDW comics. The obsession with resistance narratives and the consistent fumbling of established characters are not new problems. They are the continuation of a legacy of misunderstanding what makes Mr. Sonic, Mr. Sonic the Hedgehog.