I've been aware of the Archie\SatAM characters for a long time. First time I seen any of them was on Youtube when I was 12. It was interesting to see the take they had for Sonic early on compared to what was then modern Sonic. And then a bit after that I learned about the comics through one of the Sonic compilation games I had for the original Xbox. Not necessarily because it used the SatAM characters, but because of those butt-fuck insane covers. I could gleam that there was some kind of story, but I could not tell what that story would even be. Either way I was fascinated by that alone. Now I know a lot of the early cover art had little or nothing to do with what was actually happening in most issues, lmao.