Crazy Stars

What did you do this with?

Do you still like them or do you prefer IDW now?

If we're talking about both series as a whole, I mean, obviously the IDW comics have a better batting average. Archie has some very low lows. If we're talking Flynn era Archie vs. IDW... I don't know, I think I like both of them similarly, but for different reasons.

I think it's kind of a fool's errand to directly compare them too much. It's apples and oranges. One was Ian (and other writers, but mostly Ian) trying to wrangle and build off of the most insane and sprawling Sonic AU ever made that played by WILDLY different rules and had comparatively little oversight from Sega. The other is a series that's more limited in what it can do, but in exchange it gets to expand on the actual factual universe of the games and influence the franchise as a whole in a way we've never seen before. One was a sci-fi soap opera adventure series very much in the vein of Claremont X-Men, the other is trying to go for more of a streamlined shonen adventure style. Archie had a cast of hundreds (thousands?), while IDW has a much smaller cast, going for quality over quantity. And perhaps most importantly, the Archieverse ran for nearly 25 years and had over 500 issues total to explore its ideas, only truly hitting its stride near the halfway mark, while IDW Sonic's only been around for seven years and about 100 total comics.

@vvisteriae

It's always been so tied to found family. Sonic 2 happened and ever since then, they never stopped making siblings who love each other despite not being blood related.