User blog comment:MeltingMan234/List of Banned Characters in the comic/@comment-457038-20141210143348

Most of these I can't exactly say will be hugely missed. A chunk of them I've never heard of. There are a few on that list that we'll feel bad about, like Drago, and seeing as Elias was finally getting interesting, and Feist, who looked kind of a cool guardian. There were WAY too many echidnas anyway. But most of them we will be fine with. Sonic still has Uncle Chuck and one day maybe we'll find out what happened to his parents.

But don't worry about Scourge, okay?

I mean come on. Scourge started as Evil Sonic, and one of the first things Flynn did upon Penders leaving was turn him green and give him backstory. There was an Evil Sonic in SatAM. There was an Evil Sonic in Sonic Underground. Nobody's going to try and copyrite him away from Sonic Team. But villains like him will have to wait for their re-introduction until the regular characters have been restablished.

After all, Flynn is still in the throes of Sonic Unleashed.