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.
To summarize, This is Knuckles now | according to Pender's vision.
Wait. Let me get this straight. This guy was a comic artist working for Archie making the Sonic comics? That "art" is bad even by fan-art standards. Like, laughably, cringingly bad. Those CG renders make REBOOT look like Avatar. Wth?