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Ken Penders on Twitter
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bro
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don't think he's gonna be rushing for that paycheck
tinybro
that art......
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what the fuck did I just look at?!
Zita
ah, ken penders
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oh no, you've never run into ken penders and the lara-su chronicles before?
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i have never known anything about archie comics sonic but i do know about ken penders
tinybro
his lack of self awareness is honestly impressive at this point
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i mean, hey, if nobody's ever sued salvador larocca or greg land for the likeness-lifiting, why would anyone sue him, right
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That's a fair point.
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Man, I'll never fail to be amazed at how impressively Ken Penders shot himself in the foot.
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No, I have no idea who this is!
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This dude was one of the guys behind Archie's Sonic comics for, like, thirteen years. (This isn't to say he was good, mind)
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He did a lot of stuff Sega apparently wasn't a huge fan of and had a tendency to, uh. Reuse designs. A lot.
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I read every Sonic comic by Ken Penders, and they’re...
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(some of his stuff was also not great for other reasons, like popping in a 30+ year old love interest for a fifteen year old and later declaring some stuff he wasn't allowed to put in the book)
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^that's a good site for a longer explanation.
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a comprehensive guide to What The Fuck Is Up With Ken Penders
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Anyhow, he eventually got kicked off! Then promptly turned around and sued Archie Comics for using the characters he created for them.
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Then he decided he'd take the hundreds of characters that he'd created and do his own separate sci-fi epic with them, the Lara-Su Chronicles.
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He's been working on it since 2011, and that cover is probably the most that's been completed.
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the available art is really Not Great
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lacerata: Thank you!
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I... has this man ever seen another living creature?
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His lawsuit nonsense is probably a massive chunk of the reason Archie lost the rights to Sonic and it moved to IDW.
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Has he ever actually seen a comic?
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Good question
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it's worth noting that a lot of those characters literally only had one-note personalities they'd hit on every appearance to get the same beat every time, and most only existed to be names said aloud as if merely having lots of named characters was a sign of a story's meaningfulness/complexity
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penders was a genuinely terrible writer, who understood no concept of "narrative progression" that could exist between "catastrophic, character-destroying" or "nonexistent".
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Actually, he might've done well in DWRP.
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he'd just be another renne
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he's that sort of person about his characters