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(Probably my first and last journal entry to at least this group.)
So with the recent backstory cover of how Tails and Bunnie met there seems to be really big problems with the timeline. Namely when and where things happened.

First and foremost we have to assume that the games are canon before the comic states otherwise due to both Sega mandates and Ian outright saying he wants all the games to be canon in his comic.

With that said let's get down to work on that timeline:

Eggman rises up and wages war on the Acorn Kingdom. This is roughly when Bunnie gets her limbs damaged and replaced.
Sonic 1 happens and during Sonic 1, Sally and Sonic first meet. Sonic inspires Sally to take action against Eggman and this leads the the FF's establishment down the line.
Sonic CD eventually happens afterward. The time for this has been left extremely vague and thus anything made about it until something is made solid is assumptions at best.
Sonic 2 8-bit happens. This is where Sonic first meets Tails.
Tails Sky Patrol happens almost directly afterwards in-comic since it was stated in a flashback.
Sonic 2 16-bit happens and this is when Tails and Sonic pretty much cement themselves as a team.
Afterwards Sonic 3&K happen and Knuckles with the Chaotix is introduced.

Now it's safe to assume that after Sonic 3&K the FF was established somewhere along the lines of a year afterward in the new continuity

However there are some huge flaws and contradictions due to the recent additions to the backstory of how Tails and Bunnie met.

First and foremost: How did Tails meet any of the FF's before they were established when Tails was with Sonic up until that point?
This is a clear contradiction to that flashback unless Ian was planning on retconning Sonic and Tails meeting up and teaming up before joining the FF but we'll get to that shortly.

Now this could be explained with saying: "Well this happens after S3&K." However there is a statement in that flashback that proves otherwise.
Tails outright says: "Rosie was taking care of me." Now this right here is contradictory to Sonic 2 8-bit ever happening and completely throws any doubt that Tails and Bunnie met before S3.

Now you may think I'm done but actually there are more holes and inconsistencies.
Let's just assume for a moment that Ian meant that Tails was being taken care of BEFORE he met Sonic. This isn't possible due to the previous issue DIRECTLY STATING that Tails met the FF's and became friends with them BECAUSE of Sonic. So now not only do we have an indirect contradiction we also have a direct contradiction in a back-to-back issue with flashbacks.

However I'm STILL not done. Time for everyone's favorite game. The age game.
Now the reason that was brought up as to why this flashback even happened actually established that Bunnie lost her limbs at an extremely young age.  More likely than not below 10, but for the sake of argument let's say it was 10.
No one see a problem with this? Nope. Not yet.

Now within the flashback that shows Tails and Bunnie meeting and becoming friends it's clear that Tails is younger than he is now. Right at this moment in the comic he's 8. So let's assume that within the flashback he's 5-6 and Bunnie is 15-16. That means that the timeframe from Eggman attacking and Sonic meeting up with the FF's was 5-6 years.
Now this implies that when Sonic first met Sally they were both roughly around the age of 6-7 since Sonic had appeared to Sally shortly after the castle was under siege and we know that both Sonic and Sal is at least 3-4 years younger than Bunnie since Bunnie must be around 19 to be married and Sonic is stated to be 15.

Now does anyone see a problem with this timeline? I do. A big gigantic glaring one.
How old was Tails when Sonic 2 happened in this comic? Because even assuming it was a few years after Sonic CD he would have been at most 4 since he has been implied to be born within the same year that the war started. Why is this a problem? Because that would mean that Tails stopped Wendy at the mere age of 3 and met Sonic at that age too. Too young? Alright let's assume that he was 4. But wait a moment...he can't be because over the course of Sonic 2-Sonic 3 a year passes and a year still has to pass before the FF can be made. So ultimately it is impossible for Tails to be any older than 4 when he first met Sonic in the comic.

Furthermore it is implied that SegaSonic (the game that had Mighty and Ray) is also canon and also happened within the time frame Sonic 1 - S3&K. Which doesn't make sense since that would have had to happen before Sonic met Tails which would inflate the timeline even more.

In conclusion:
Right now the ages are screwed beyond repair. Events have happened that couldn't have possibly have happened. Bunnie met Tails when he was younger than he should have been with no logical explanation. Tails met Sonic when he was roughly 3-4 years old (if not younger) according to the comics and the best part of all of this is that this is giving Ian the biggest leniency on Bunnie's age when she lost her limbs that I possibly could.

Whaddaya think?
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Toby-Barrett's avatar
You're making assumptions that the comic follows in order the same way the games did.
In this scenario, Sonic meets Tails and the Freedom Fighters before Sonic 1 even happens, and Sonic 2 for the Game Gear happens after Sonic 2 for the Genesis.