In 2013, the longest running video game-inspired comic book published by Archie Comics, Sonic the Hedgehog was rebooted following a lawsuit between Ken Penders and SEGA that started in 2011 over the usage of the former’s characters in the DS game made by BioWare and SEGA, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. The result of this is the plots in Archie Sonic that were going on at the time to be heavily rewritten with the characters made by Penders being removed from the comics up until the reboot that launched in #252 of the series.

However, after the comic’s reboot, Ian Flynn wanted to tell the stories that could’ve been published had the lawsuits never happened. It is called “Lost Hedgehog Tales”. The first chapter was released on 30 October 2015, but after that, Ian Flynn was told that he is not allowed to continue LHT due to copyright, whether if it was from Archie or Ken Penders, either way, LHT has been put on indefinite hiatus. Though Flynn did say that he does intend to finish Lost Hedgehog Tales, most fans had given up on LHT and deemed it to cancelled and moved on.

I haven’t given up though, I want to know what happens next, and I imagine everyone else does too. We can’t go one never knowing what could’ve been. Several characters have stories that were set up but are yet to be resolved. There are questions left unanswered, mysteries left unsolved. We need closure to those stories. We need to know the truth. Let’s tell Sega of America, Archie Comics, and especially Ken Penders that we want to know what happens next in Lost Hedgehog Tales, tell them to let Ian Flynn continue to tell us the stories that we need to hear, and please, be polite about it, be nice to them when you tell them about this. They’ll just ignore you if you say horrible things to them.

If we let them know everyday just how much Lost Hedgehog Tales means to all of us, then we can change their minds and lift the copyright and allow Flynn to tell the stories we need to hear.

Sign this petition, and together, we can win.