Ken Penders Chat: The Details

Here’s all the details from the chat that you need to know:

• The Chosen One storyline will be running from Sonic #95 to #97.
• The Sonic Adventure 2 storyline will appear in Sonic #98, meaning the Ultimate Villain may not appear come #100.
• The K:20YL saga is expected to begin sometime during Sonic #101-#110, when Lara-Su, Knuckles’ daughter, will be introduced.
• Don’t trust the Diamond Sonic previews; according to Ken, the publication can’t keep up with that’s going on in Archie land.
• There may be a surprise in the comics involving Tails. No, he will not be a villain, and he will not be killed off.
• The Sonic comic may be “Survivor”-ized soon.
• Knuckles stories from #101 will be bumped down to six pages, as opposed to eight. Two pages of every issue will now be devoted to a specific area of the Sonic world, based on readers’ input.
• According to Penders: “To give everyone an idea of what life on the frontlines is like, I’ll use myself as an example. When Archie was publishing SONIC, KNUCKLES, and SONIC SPECIAL, there was more than enough work so that I could concentrate strictly on Sonic and nothing but. Since the demise of the latter two series, that has resulted in less work, and thus forcing me to look elsewhere to make up the difference as far as pay goes. It also necessitated long dry spells because Archie had a backlog of stories that had to be published. So when I was working on the KNUCKLES storyline that was featured in SONIC #91 through 94, I was working on Digimon and Pokemon covers for Beckett publications, pencilling an Emperor’s New Groove story for Disney illustrating an online comic for www.pajamaman.com and working on preliminary sketches for a romance comic to be published by a foreign company, to say nothing of reworking THE LOST ONES into a graphic novel.”
• And finally, the Chaotix will not return to the comics just yet.