Ken Penders: “I’m Not Involved With [Archie/Narrative Ark Lawsuit] Filing”

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1. Yay! Both of my tweets got featured-Uh, I mean, oh wow! I guess he’s not the dastardly fiend this time after all.

   Seriously though, if not Penders, then I really wonder who’s trying to shake things up again this time. I’m not sure if I’m ready to have to memorize a new name that will solicit “boo’s” anytime it’s brought up in a Sonic forum.

   I mean yeah, I want creators to have their rights as much as any other Sonic fan around here does. I just don’t appreciate how ultimately we have to pay for it in the end, the outcome of this case likely being that the comics will either get rebooted/rewritten AGAIN, or the comics will finally get canned by Sega.

   All because Archie couldn’t keep all their papers in the proper place back in the day. Ulghhh.

   1. Only if they are still causing issues. If it’s over a new character that could be a problem, but if it’s old characters, then at worst they just stop selling back issues, and focus solely on the new canon. There’s no need to reboot it if there’s no actual issue with what’s currently being produced.

      1. I don’t know, at this point I’m too used to video game companies overreacting and taking the most drastic decision possible as if it solves all problems while in reality it just causes more. Regardless of the outcome, I hope we loose a lot less than what we lost last time, if anything at all.

         1. We shouldn’t lose anything if it is Scott Fulop apart from the reprints maybe. Here’s the characters he owns:http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Scott_Fulop%27s_creations

            As you can see, it’s only really the Destructix and Mammoth Mogal, who aren’t in the new canon anyway

2. Now he says that he’s been reading our article:

   “I was reading the comments on TSSZ News – http://tinyurl.com/New-Archie-Lawsuit … – and all I will say is there is a lot of misinformation being thrown out.”

   Source
   https://twitter.com/KenPenders/status/760661292415787009

   Okay Ken, first you say that you have no involvement or even much knowledge of what’s going on, yet you claim that we’re being misinformed despite not knowing any more than you apparently? Cause if you actually do know something we don’t, then PLEASE. Explain it to us. That can’t honestly be “all you have to say”.

   1. Just found the full context to that statement.

      And that kids is why you read every single statement in a conversation before you let your emotions get the best of you, go off on a tangent and call somebody out for something.

      I’m really not used to Twitter’s format yet. But yeah, still, if there’s anything you can add to this for us, it’s welcomed.

3. Why do I have the feeling I’m going to end up buying mass back issues (whatever the archive WON’T reprint) or doing mass downloads.

   This comic is basically dead. And Sonic will only be relevant once every year or two. Mario games like 64, Sunshine, and Galaxy come once per console generation, but he at least has spinoffs to fall back on (Kart, Party, Golf, Tennis, Paper, etc.). Sonic doesn’t have that.

4. Maybe I’m too damn cynical, but I feel like Penders popularised this bandwagon in the first place with the initial bust up over his Knuckalikes, and now everyone else is getting greedy because they’ve seen they can get away with it.

5. It’s like when the superheroes break into their primary super-villain’s lair and they’re like “alright, what’s going on!?” and the villain is just sitting on the couch watching Family Feud in their ratty underwear like “Bitch, what?”

   However, part of me feel like Penders intended for us to find him in his underwear to throw us off the trail. If we’re too busy wondering what that off-color stain on the crotch is, then we’re obviously not thinking about how he could be involved…

   I come up with the weirdest analogies sometimes, but it works….

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