I guess I should clarify that I like them more in concept than I do under Penders' awful writing.
I'm a big fan of expanded universes, what goes on in different corners of the world, and the old Sonic comic was good at that. Sonic was constantly going on adventures to different locales and meeting different people, and the world was strange and bizarre and unshackled by the needs to fit into Sega's broader marketing.
IDW's Sonic has thus far taken place in Animal Village A, a cave, Angel Island, and Animal Village B. There's no sense of a lived in world, just generic locations for Sonic to get into fight scenes.
OK I agree with everything you are saying and desire that.
One of the reasons I didn't like the pre-reboot expansion but liked the reboot expansions is because the pre-reboot heavily leaned in one specific time of expansion but never really felt like it expanded beyond that. It seemed like it mostly focused arouns the kingdom, royal family, knuckles's peeps and various other grandfathered in storylines I did not give a single crap about. And it being so focused on those things, for a guy like me who came up in the adventure era , it left me assed out.
I feel like the post reboot era was better executed in this regard the characters and plot lines introduced there spaned all types of sonic characters and and eras of sonic .You had blaze existing and fighting mecha pirates, you had chaotix hanging out with an entire new set of species under the sea, you had shadow dealing with his black armed bretheren. You had sonic and the FF learn there FF crews stationed around the world. And i'm sorry that you lost knuckes's family, but once the comic became unshackled from all that penders stuff its creations became much more interesting.
So in generally I agree with you and desire that for the new comic. Sonic's world is virtually undiscovered, yes we know places that exist but in general interacting with other people in sonic's world/mobius/animal land whatever you want to call never happened untill like... now. Like 2 years ago. ( though that's because we assumed there was a single world untill a few years ago ) . So its a fresh landscape you can add some character to
But I understand why the current book is the way it is
1) There is only a single book at the moment
2) They probably need to use the characters which doesn't allow room for background development in a single book.
I think the issues you have will eventually sort themselves out as more spin off books are in the rotation and it allows other characters to go and exploe and expand on stuff in stories dedicated to more than a single issue. But untill then I get why this is happening.
