Penders Reclassifies Lara-Su as an Alien

The evolution of Ken Penders’s The Lara-Su Chronicles after a de facto victory against Archie Comics last year.  In the past 24 hours via Twitter, Penders announced a complete species change for the title character:

“Lara-Su is not an echidna nor an animal, but an alien,” Penders said in response to a follower’s question.  “She is a member of the Echyd’nya species. There are 2 reasons why. 1) I needed to make some adjustments to broaden the audience while making certain longtime fans get answers and resolution.  2) there are plenty of real world examples where English speaking people referred to places that natives referred to with a different name in their own tongue. Same thing here. I was especially motivated to make the change based on the difficulty I’ve seen people have pronouncing the word “echidna”.”

Penders notes this has nothing to do with the semantics of the concluded lawsuit with Archie Comics.

“My recent responses were just me wrestling with myself as I was making a creative decision I’ve been contemplating for awhile now,” Penders says.  “The idea of using Echyd’nya instead of Echidna is yet another point that the story is very much a sci-fi adventure set in its own universe.”

We will keep tabs on Penders’s new projects as developments warrant.