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Ian "BumbleKing" Flynn - Head writer of Sonic the Hedgehog comics for IDW Publishing and Mega Man for Archie Comics, Narrative Director for Rivals of Aether, writing for Archie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and more

Kyle "KyleJCrb" Crouse - Founder & Administrator of the KNGI Network, host of the Nitro Game Injection video game music podcast

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PRIORITY Q&A

John B.

Between all the different versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles you have watched/ read what are your favorite versions of each Turtle.

AfroLuffyX

The Preview pages for Sonic’s 30 anniversary comic seem to not have speech bubbles and dialogue, will the comic have The characters be silent or The dialogue and speech bubbles weren’t added in yet?

AWF

I recently saw a short video from the late Stan Lee (link provided for reference) where he goes on a mini vent about fans treating comic characters as if they're some kind of static being with set limits or abilities that have to be written a certain way, i.e. "so and so would beat so and so because reasons", with Stan explaining that characters abilities only matter as far as the writer writes them.

As a writer, how do you feel about this? I've seen folks say you write some characters poorly, or "out of character", to which I've always said "in character is however the current writer decides to write them". What's your take? https://twitter.com/BlueTlouNerd/stat...​

Diane W.

What would interactions between Sticks and Cosmo (from Sonic X) be like?

Papadripopolous

Ian, have you considered other writing formats? You're a comic writer, of course. But could we some day possibly see Ian Flynn, novelist?

Minty (KoFi)

Did any of the Diamond Cutters ever see/encounter Infinite during the war? Considering Infinite was also a mercenary, would they have recognized him or even crossed paths with him in the past?

Joestar_SSB (KoFi)

If you were handed the opportunity to completely retcon / rewrite / rework Infinite The Jackal's backstory with little to no restrictions (be it in either game or comic format) what would you change, and what of his character would you like to further explore?

Happytimes (KoFi)

Rouge's greediness pre-reboot Archie sometimes seemed more malicious...Was this intentional?

Creative Name (KoFi)

The story I've always heard about you getting brought onto Archie is that you kept sending them unsolicited scripts until Penders left, and when he left, they brought you on as head writer to replace him.