There's a good writer for Frontiers
Kek, Ian Flynn is a woke fucking clown who slipped in a lesbian relationship into the Archie comics. Whenever he gets full control of a story, he turns it into a tryhard edgefest far far worse than anything Shiro Maekawa ever wrote for the Adventure games, like all of Sonic's friends dying and him literally crying about it. Then he acts unprofessionally and blames imaginary SEGA mandates because they told him that Sonic shouldn't be lying in a puddle of his own tears like a faggot. He's also a shipfag, which immediately disqualifies anybody from being a good writer, because shipping is a mental illness when participated in by anybody but teenage girls.
Note that this guy's only work before the Archie comics was a tryhard edgy Sonic fancomic called "Other M" which was a big furry cringefest. Fans should never work on Sonic because every Sonic fan has his own autistic idea of what the series should be and will force it into whatever he's working on. This is especially true for SatAMfags/Archiefags who are the lowest, most repulsive types of Sonicfags. Classicfags get a pass because they're mostly just gameplay and mechanics autists, so they don't turn everything into a cringefest like Archiefags.
If you don't like edgy stuff then you'd hate most of what Ian Flynn has written. In Sonic Adventure 2, you don't see Shadow sobbing like a bitch about Maria. SA2, and even Shadow the Hedgehog, were generally more focused on being "cool and badass" rather than serious or dramatic; the former actually appeals to the series's target demographic, while the latter appeals to manchildren who are too immature to be capable of expressing themselves outside the scope of cartoons for children (see also: recent cartoons like Adventure Time and Star vs. the Forces of Evil). Sonic Adventure 2 ends with Sonic and Shadow powering up into Super Saiyans to fight a giant space lizard while hard rock plays in the background, and if that's too hardcore and serious for you then I don't know what to say.
Americans in general should never be allowed to work on Sonic, except in a strictly technical and mechanics-focused sense, like Sonic Spinball, or Sonic Mania (and even this one smells of shit a little bit). Americans either make shit way too kiddy (SatAM, early Archie, the live-action movies, and the Pontac and Graff games such as Colors and Lost World), or they make it way too dramatic to the point where it can only be enjoyed by manchildren (later Archie, Other M, Ghosts of the Future, and other fan-comics). That's not to say the Japanese have a spotless track record for keeping the tone in a comfortable place, but they're way better than American writers in this regard. People think Shadow the Hedgehog is the height of cringe in the Sonic games but it's way more charming and amusing than some garbage from Archie or IDW. In Shadow the Hedgehog the protagonist is a serious, stoic badass who's killing aliens with machine guns. In the comic books, especially the recent IDW comic books, it's a bunch of literal fucking WOMEN talking about their FEELINGS, and they keep trying to force this "wholesome" tone in - that is, when they're not jerking themselves off with an uber-edgy story like the Metal Virus arc, which always fail to be "cool", and are only melodramatic. Completely Reddit-tier.
