Yeah you can thank Ken Penders for his brilliance in poisoning the comic from the late 90s until 2006 when Ian Flynn took over and cleaned up his mess.
Then he made a bitchy fit and decided to sue SEGA and Archie for royalties and total character possession, and somehow won due to a fuck up caused by Archie in the 90s that in turn causing the comic to go into a messy downfall and Archie ordering the reboot button because characters that Penders and other creators made made were being barred from use by day. guys a petty freakazoid who hangs out on twitter saying his ORIGINAL THE CHARACTER ECHIDNA COMIC DO NOT STEAL will surpass anything Archie makes, pfft as-if.
Theirs way too much I've seen about this mess in the past year to explain to out of the loop people but to summarize,
This is Knuckles now |
according to Pender's vision.