I just recently unearthed a tome-sized book which included a sort of episode from the original Sonic series they ran. (I'll put up a scan of the cover soon.) Upon looking at it, I was shocked to find all of the work they had put into it, and that the book was really long for a little kid's book. It took me a good half hour to read it all.
Looking at the disaster that is the current timeline (Post-Sonic Adventure), it makes me wonder if it really would have mattered what timeline was used; this timeline here and its comic additions made equal amount of sense to Shadow being an alien, after all. This Robotnik was also the original one, which, while his design was a bit primitive for my taste, he still got the job done, unlike the current clown we have going on.
What do you think? Was the original story better, or worse? Will there be a third timeline, which will reduce the once beloved SegaSonic timeline to the status of the Archie one? Is there any hope of Sonic having a sensible storyline?