Stanleyhasregretted how she designed the Sorceress' Darkwing form as being naked and with exposed breasts because of how inappropriate it is for the comic and how she wasn't aware of that effect when she designed it.
Promoted Fanboy: Author/artist Evan Stanley was eventually hired as writer and artist of the officialSoniccomics thanks to her Awesome Art. She was presented this opportunity by simply being a Fandom VIP because of this comic and entering a fan contest in 2010 (surprisingly, she was only 17-18 and didn't even win). To reflect this, she has called herself a "professional Sonic Fan" and her Tumblr blog was named Professional Sonic Fan from 2012 to 2016.
Schedule Slip: While there have been many major schedule slips for various reasons, especially during issue 10 due to college, the schedule slips for issue 18 are insane, with the cover only coming over a year after the last page of issue 17, and page 12 (albeit uncolored) coming nearly a year after page 11. The former is confirmed to be because of Stanley's job as animator and storyboard artist of Concrete Genie and freelance work on Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW). The latter is confirmed to be because of her job as artist and lead writer of IDW Sonic, as well as other freelance work.
The comic was going to be set in Station Square, but Stanley reckoned it would take place in Peru in real life, which is too far and Stanley isn't good at Spanish in the first place.
Evan Stanley has admitted that Vennie and Sicily were originally supposed to die and go Ax-Crazy, respectively, but her new co-writer, Okida, convinced her to give them better fates.
Stanley considered revamping her Original Characters from her previous stories before Ghosts, but she couldn't think of a right place for them. She has also made several original characters and Alternate Universe counterparts of canon characters which are never going to show up in the comic, such as Marine the Conspiracy Theorist.
Issue 15 originally did not have Silver and Blaze holding hands in one panel. Evan Stanley changed this when she saw a fan's idea of Ghosts of the Future Silver and Blaze “holding hands while appearing threatening”.
The original Gratuitous Spanish dialogue in issue 16 was different (it was changed according to feedback from Spanish speakers to be more genuine):
Sonic: Sí, pero... ¿No es demasiado?note Yeah, but… It’s not too much?
Shadow: Si esto es, ¿qué más da?note If it is, who cares? It's a party. Quit worrying and enjoy it.
The finale stream released on 20 January 2024 on Picarto and 6 April 2024 on Youtube revealed various information on the scripts, plot and characters for the comic.
The unreleased part of the story would involve a battle between the New Chaotix children (Silver, Blaze, Vinnie and Sicily), Shadow, the giant Shard and STC Sonic with GTOF Sonic inside him against STC Robotnik. Meanwhile, GUN would futilely try to fight off his forces before getting overwhelmed. Nicole would try to strike an alliance with Robotnik due to him having last Chaos Emeralds but would be brushed aside, so she pulls an Enemy Mine with the heroes instead. Tikal would be trapped as Tikallix, almost smashed before escaping to a shard of a Master Emerald. Zachery would attempt to hijack Robotnik but would fail miserably and be trapped in the Death Egg. After a massive battle, Fleetway Super Sonic appears in response to the Chaos energy being thrown around and absolutely tear up everyone involved. The result was a Death Egg on the verge of exploding which will take out a good chunk of San Francisco along with it. Kinotobor and Nicole manages to delay the ROCC's meltdown which allows Shadow to use Chaos Control to stop the timer altogether. After some quick planning, Shadow resorts to using the energy to kill two birds with one stone by using it to send the STC cast back to their own dimension, allowing it to explode relatively safely over there. However, the remaining unused energy would enter Shadow, frying all of his nanites and render him blind and unconscious. With the Death Egg gone, the heroes are plummeting to the ocean with Sonic and Shard stunned by the explosion of energy. Silver in his desperation gains the ability to fly with his powers and catches everyone. This massive explosion and energy surge would result in the Second Devourer, Scourge's boss entering Earth using Shadow as a puppet. Nicole would spasm and become good in response to its arrival, revealing that she is originally good but was corrupted by the Second Devourer to be orchestrate its attack on Earth and her corruption by it was cured by its arrival, as it fulfilled the program installed on her and setting her free. As the Second Devourer unleashes its smoke of death and petrification on the city, Sonic overconfidently thinks that he can just rush it as the Chaos Emeralds have been assembled and he can just beat it with his Super form, only for him to get devoured instead. Meanwhile, the others who are protected by Silver and Vennie's barrier return too late to see their parents turned to stone. Afterwards, they would make their way to Angel Island as a refuge which has landed outside the coast, in where Nicole during her time as evil built a replica of the Space Colony Ark on the island. Nicole attempts to access the systems to let them in but as it was created during her time as evil, the systems shut her out as it doesn't recognise her. As such, the heroes would use various ways to break-in. After breaking in, the heroes reassemble and use the Master Emerald to restore Tikal and create a barrier around the whole complex, allowing them to enter the Second Devourer safely when it arrives. When inside the Second Devourer, they run into Scourge and possibly Antique, who have been reduced to the Second Devourer's mouthpieces. After a quick battle, Vennie manages to snap Scourge back to his senses with her powers. They later go though a massive list of cameos of various Sonic timelines and worlds before reaching Sonic himself. Sonic has been reduced to a thrall just like Scourge and is barely holding on his sense of self. Shard realises that since his Chaos Drive is powered by the first Sonic ghost, he can use it to bring Sonic back by merging the two spirits. This succeeds but it causes Shard's death. Afterwards, Sonic, Shadow and Silver goes Super (or even Hyper) and blasts their way out of it from the inside, wounding it. After everyone has escaped, Silver pushes the SD out of their dimension through the hole it came though, essentially squeezing out the life it took from its victims for the last few centuries and restoring them. The comic ends with the adults of the New Chaotix passing their duties to the children who become the new heroes, now that GUN has been neutered with Nicole's leaving and that there are now Chaos Emeralds and the Master Emerald to protect. Sonic, Shadow (who is still blind) and Tikal decide to stick around but take a backseat to heroism as their centuries-long duty is finally fulfilled. Rouge and Omega, restored by the Second Devourer's defeat, arrive and take care of the blind Shadow. Scourge and Antique make it back to Moebius. Scourge reunites with a restored Fiona and makes up with her.
The Black Knight arc would be a quest for the Holy Grail. Big the Cat would be the Fisher King. Robotnik from Satam would be Vortigern and Snively would be a Celtic warlord. Sonic and Metal Sonic/Shard would become Silver's sword and shield respectively.
Tails, Amy and Knuckles were supposed to show up as half-formed ghosts during the hunt for the Master Emerald shards and the heroes are supposed to restore them. However, this was dropped as Sonic isn't around and it would feel like cheap cameos being thrown out instead.
Sonic's confusion over why Blaze is in the future instead of the Sol Dimension during the Secret Ring arc would involve the Blaze from the Sol Dimension entering and causing havoc. This was quietly dropped due to making the story too complicated.
Regarding the person who would absorb the energy from the exploding Death Egg, it was initially Sonic instead of Shadow. Instead of frying nanites and inflicting blindness, Sonic would be sent back in time losing his memories, turning into Chaos. His identity had to be beaten back into him. Shadow was planned to die and become a Chaos ghost like Sonic but it was dropped.
The first Hybrids were created by the Ancient Echidnas through gradual Bio-Augmentation of their members. The ancient Hybrids later went nearly extinct (the only ones left are Knuckles and maybe the Babylon Rogues).
This is when the Darker and EdgierBackstory Horrors kick in. In modern times, Project Shadow began with the first modern experiment to create a Hybrid. The Project continued with G.U.N.'s breeding program, in which they manufactured artificially-created sperm mutated with Chaos Energy and recruited human women, many of whom were poor and from developing countries, to bear the superpowered Hybrids as for G.U.N. to use as Tyke Bombs. Project Shadow was shut down due to the program's exposure to the public and fears of the threat that the increasingly and extremely mutated Hybrids might pose. The humans discriminated against the Hybrids for a long time, and Sonic's heroism helped bring down the Hybrid discrimination. (In fact, Sonic, his friends (definitely not including Shadow), and the SatAM characters were the original modern Hybrids.
Additionally, Hybrids are born early like marsupials if through live birth, or from eggs otherwise, and while romantic relationships between Hybrids are more common, romantic relationships between humans and Hybrids aren't taboo and they can still have children.
Sonic is Japanese-Hawaiian. He was also born without a name, only a government-issued ID (he apparently was a result of the God-awful breeding program and grew up in the foster care system run by G.U.N., where he was bullied by others for his then-extremely-rare Amazing Technicolor color. He was given the nameNicholas, Nicky for short, at the orphanage and was only given his current name by Tails. Sonic and Shadow are fluent in Spanish because they hid in Latin America for a while (in Shadow's confirmed case, about a century).
Nicole was created aboard the Ark by Professor Gerald Robotnik and was there for what happened to Shadow.
Professor Von Schlemer and Gold the Tenrec, official characters in Stanley's "The Silver Age" arc of Sonic Universe, will not be appearing as major characters. They'd most likely be in a cameo.
Time in the Sol Dimension runs faster than in the "GOTF-verse", thus its present time is 200 years more than the present time in the GOTF-verse. This is why GOTF-verse Blaze was born in Silver's time period.
Ghosts, or Chaos Spirits, are not immortal, yet they can last a few thousand years in general. When nearing their end, they start slowly, very slowly, turning into Soulless Shells, losing their memories, then sense of identity, and then physical identity, before losing their sentience, and finally dissolving back into Chaos Energy when their time is complete. Their period can be shortened by repeated mental stress (a Despair Event Horizon can "kill" them) and injury (known as "peeling" or "fraying"). A creation of a Chaos Spirit usually destroys the physical body to prevent Doppelgänger situations, but Tikal and Vennie still have them. Tikal can't wake up in her physical body again because the brain's higher functions are permanently damaged.
Tails and Amy were part of the last generation mass-produced by the breeding program and were adopted by human families. Sally Acorn, led a Hybrids right activist group, whom her SatAM friends Bunnie, Antoine D'Coolette, and Rotor the Walrus were part of, when Hybrids started to integrate into human society. Sonic supported them and their cause and even had a crush on Sally.
Chaos Spirits can only be created through a certain Chaos Control ritual (Sonic, Tikal, Antique) or dying while filled with Chaos Energy (Vennie, Scourge), thus their existence is exceptionally rare.
Silver the Hedgehog and his family come from Brookdale, Santa Cruz County, California and the New Chaotix mansion is located in State Route 1 near Half Moon Bay. Note Evan Stanley grew up in Santa Cruz.
The original surviving generation of characters after the deaths of Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles and Eggman would join the New Chaotix to oppose GUN, who initially consisted of Team Dark and Team Chaotix. Cream is confirmed to have survived to old age.
Write What You Know: Several elements are based on Evan Stanley's life. For example:
Silver, his sisters, and Blaze are all homeschooled and Stanley was homeschooled until high school.
Silver is interested in evolutionary anthropology, which Stanley is also highly interested in.
Issue 10 is titled "Masakatsu Agatsu" (spelled as "Masaka Agatsu" on the cover), which means "True Victory; Self Victory" in Japanese and is one of the concepts of aikido, in which Stanley has taken classes in for years). In fact, aikido influenced Evan Stanley's philosophical and spiritual beliefs which also influence this supernatural-themed comic.
Stanley broke her dominant hand at the age of 11 and didn't get it set or had pain medication for a few days. This pain is really reflected in the issue 17 incident, when Silver gets his hands impaled by Metallix.
Silver's sisters are based off Evan herself, with her various traits divided up among the sisters.
by Wolfupup9404's idea to add Scourge to her own Ghosts of the Future fancomic.