>>39567187 But that's okay, after managing to get himself fired from a job making comics about multicolored animals beating up robots, he's moved on to better things. Like his upcoming movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quGiiAeCyjo
You'd think that but with Penders it could easily be a long lost relative of Robotnik that's totally different and introduced for one story and then forgotten forever.
>>39567531 He already introduced several long-lost, distant, or secret relatives to Robotnik.
He was planning on having that frozen guy (guarded by a Gamma recolour) be revived as a new villain even more evil than Robotnik. Who was his ancestor from thousands of years ago. And whose birthday was 6/6/66. I'm not making this up.
Eons. Penders always had this original story he wanted to write called Lost Ones or something but could never get anyone to sign of on it.
So when Knuckles was introduced in the early 90s and had no real story back then besides "Lives on island alone" he took the opportunity to dump his story there and make all the characters Knuckle's relatives to make it fit. The dudes from that video (and the Image Crossover) were just one part of it.
>>39567773 >>39567921 A huge, massive villain that was foreshadowed as being super important in the Knuckles series was actually supposed to be the villain from The Lost Ones.
He kept pushing this movie (the trailer is recent) as being "based on the hit comic book series!" Except I'm pretty sure only one issue is any was ever released, and that was over a decade ago.
No Penders wanted to use him and foreshadowed him a bunch in the comic but he didn't actually ever show up.
There's a possibility the original identity of "Anonymous" was going to be him but most people think that was going to be original Robotnik before Ian changed it to ADAM following Penders getting the boot.
>>39568206 Anonymous was going to be Ivan for Penders, and Robotnik Prime for Bollers. Both terrible, but not the Lost Ones villain. The Lost Ones villain showed up in the Image crossover, where the entire story was about the Lost Ones with Knuckles the Echidna and Image's characters guest starring.
>>39568722 It looks like some sort of fourth dimensional being trying to enter our world, trying to compress itself into our three dimensional space. The connect the dots was probably made as a secret plot to help summon the beast and destroy our world.
But of course, it was drawn by Penders, so it wasn't good enough to truly summon the dark lord.
Because the one thing people wanted to see was more Sonic Live.
Video games are played with sideways TV remotes? Sonic was created by some guy named Jerry? Bad photographs instead of panel art? STARRING PENDERS' OWN KIDS?
I cannot wrap my brain around this concept. Sure I can read the sentence and understand all the words but when put into that permutation it like throws a segfault in my brain.
>>39569400 To be honest, seeing the way the man writes and draws while believing himself to be talented, and seeing how he conducts himself in general...I feel sorry for any kids of his.
I mean this guy has an eBay page under an alt name selling off his own stuff like they're high-end collectors items. He's put out those video clips for "The Republic" and "The Lost Ones" COMPLETELY SERIOUS about them. It's just....so delusional.
The best part about Sonic Live isn't even the fact that Penders came up with such a retarded idea, but that Archie actually let him do it. Think about it, an actual editor received this story outline on his desk, read it, stamped it, and said "yes, I think this is a good idea."
>>39569930 It's pretty clear that back in the day, Archie didn't give a single fuck about the Sonic series. It was just some video game tie in, after all. It's selling well now, though, right? I have to wonder if editorial actually cares now, or if we're just lucky that it actually has good people working on it at the moment.
Until just before the Penders and Bollers boot the editor for the Sonic comic literally just didn't care and was the first person fired when corporate shake ups caused Archie's higher ups to look at the state of the comic and realize how badly it needed to happen.
The editors lack of involvement in anything is the main reason Penders and Bollers kept undermining each others works and getting away with it because nothing was checked.
Either that or are at the very least all willing to do the research necessary for the comic.
For example Ian Flynn sucks at Mega Man games too much to play them by his own admission so he got into the source books and stuff to find out about it. Now he knows enough to attempt a Super Adventure Rockman adaptation and most people don't even know that game exists.
So has there been an update on Ken's suit with Archie? I know his lawsuit against Sega got thrown out simply because the court realized it was retarded to try to settle copyright infringement when there was still an ongoing battle to determine if Penders even has those copyrights to begin with.
Okay, after seeing >>39568078 all the ones that at first looked like hilarious scribbles to me at least look -vaguely- Robotnik-shaped.
I honestly want to know what kind of deranged mind would have thought this was a workable idea. You'd have to know what you were drawing in advance without numbers to guide you along the dots, and in -lots- of places the order in which they need to be connected is not clear at all.
What likely happened was Penders drew the image and then broke it down into dots without considering whether or not people would actually be able to solve it. Numbers alone would have made it easy.
>>39570351 From my understanding it looks like he's just trying to drag things out as much as possible. I don't get how he is "too poor" to fly to New York when this whole thing started (trying to get the case thrown out because there was no way he could travel for it) but is able to keep multiple lawyers going this long.
>>39570391 on top of which, in several spots you clearly are meant to stop connecting it to others, and by clearly I mean TOTALLY NOT CLEAR AT ALL and yet they're all the same color.
>>39570472 Plus, it doesn't tell you to just connect it to two others of each color, it just says to connect all of the same color, which results in >>39568722.
The jagged lines of the mustache alone are impossible if you don't know it's a mustache before had otherwise you'll connect them like a normal person and end up with the oblong circle thing.
I bet you anything that if you went to his message board and asked him why this "puzzle" was so poorly thought out, he'd find a way to blame Archie. "The editor said putting in numbers for the dots wasn't in the budget, they were too busy buying kittens to throw into the furnace."
Yeah he has a board where occasionally he outlines plots he would have done, how he's totally going to undo everything Ian did when he gets control of the comic and he WILL get control of it, and he said Rotor is gay.
He'd also find some way to take a shot at Ian, too. Probably something like "but this was back when we experimented and tried new things like connect-the-dots to entertain our readers (I'm told the comic rarely deviates from its usual formula anymore, not that I'd know, I have no interest in reading it)"
I think my favorite part about his board is that half of the questions fielded to him are answered by his sycophantic forum administrator, which raises the vital question: how the fuck can a Ken Penders sycophant even exist?
The guy's apparently a furry, going by his avatar. That's about the only thing keeping me from believing it isn't just Ken himself.
>>39570699 And if he wouldn't say it, his mouthpiece BobR would.
When Sonic Universe was announced, he kept saying it was just a quick money grab to get attention of the game fans....even though people tried to explain several times that it was basically like the Knuckles series without the focus on Knuckles. And even though Ken had already been writing in Rouge (kissing a man literally old enough to be her father) and Shadow (apparently not biological).
(wait, what am I saying? The Knuckles series didn't focus on Knuckles)
>>39570865 I'm pretty sure they predicted that the comic was going to be cancelled soon after Ken left because "sales are just soooo bad you guys seriously."
Knuckles was cancelled 32 issues in. Sonic Universe is coming up to issue 44. Knuckles was cancelled due to BAD SALES. In fact for a few months before it got the axe Ken was actually telling people to start buying two copies of each issue when they came out.
If you ask him now, though, it had nothing to do with poor sales. He'll tell you how the "climate" was bad for comics and Archie was trying to sink him.
>>39570675 You forgot the part where he said that Ian ripped off his unused stories. Like by having Bunnie and Antoine get married. Because you know having characters who have been an item since the early days of the comic get married was such an original and unpredictable plot twist.
It's even sadder because when he first stopped working for Archie, he said he wasn't going to talk about his unused plot ideas so as to not cause problems for any other writers.
>>39570991 The Knuckles comic should have been about a loner with a handful of friends trying to protect a magical rock.
Instead it was about hidden cultures within hidden cultures within hidden cultures, and people keeping every single thing a massive secret from everyone else for extremely vague and stupid reasons, and about eight other characters, maybe two of whom had anything close to a personality, who basically were there to do Knuckles' work for him. In secret.
Knuckles never defeated the villains in his own series. He just kept them busy for a bit while his ancestors behind the scenes actually saved the day or the villains died in freak accidents somewhere else.
And then it ended with a Kraven the Hunter ripoff named (getting creative here) Hunter, and a giant purple humanoid ape in a sumo diaper.
I think in the early days after his departure he was more courteous and civil because he was actually deluded enough to think the comic would start tanking without him at which point Archie would practically beg him to come back and throw wads of cash at him and let him do things on his terms. So he played Mr. Nice so that he'd still seem like the good guy when he was inevitably brought back.
Obviously this was an idiotic plan and he very quickly became bitter when he realized it wasn't going to work.
>>39571081 I think that's exactly what happened. Archie wasn't letting him write anymore, but he was allowed to stay on as an inker. He did one issue and then took off on his own thinking The Lost Ones was actually going to be successful.
Then it wasn't, and he realized the only thing he was ever remotely recognized for was a licensed comic book and so after several years of not caring he decides to sue for Recolor the Echidna #47.
The way I heard it, he was up for a contract renewal, so he left voluntarily for basically the same reason, so they'd beg him to stay and renegotiate better terms. Either way, he's an idiot.
He hasn't said anything about it. My guess is he wised up and realized he needed to wait for his lawsuit to actually conclude and get the rights issue settled before he could actually go ahead and start publishing stuff with his characters.
You can probably see this >>39570431 pattern showing through by now.
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>>39571139 You mean his Lara-Su/Brotherhood stories? I think he said he was going to be selling them at SDCC like two years ago. All his "promo" art from the last few months just got laughed at, even by his supporters.
I think he was also talking about releasing the Knuckles series but "carefully editing out" anything blatantly owned by SEGA. Which shows how much he actually cared about writing about the licensed material as well as how insane he is.
I don't know if I'd go that far. The Sonic fandom is a massive shithole but the Archie comics are only a small part of it. The weirder parts of the fandom were dominated by the Archie/SatAM people like a decade and a half ago but by now the weirdest and biggest group are the Sega autists. Something about the simple color-schemes and edgy-but-safe attitude of the post-SA games brings out the strangest people.
>>39571587 I'd forgotten about that myself. I think he also took a presidential address, changed it around slightly, and attributed it to one of his characters too. I'm gonna try to find it.
>>39571639 I'm a mod for a particular Sonic forum, and that donut lips weirdo spams the boards with his hour long videos of talking about nothing. And he always likes to say "god bless" at the end of his posts.
>>39571780 Ban him. He's already been banned just about everywhere anyway.
He's obviously mentally disabled in some way. He talks in nothing but cliches. Everything he says essentially comes down to "some people think this thing, but other people think this thing, because of the first thing should _______ happen? God bless."
>>39571909 Not the same anon, but I think the best Walmer story has to be the one where he posts this giant interview he wrote....with himself. Except he claims that some guy on the street approached him doing interviews about 90s cartoons and JUST SO HAPPENED to bring up SatAM. And the guy took him to McDonalds for the interview. And he provided a detailed transcript of the interview, including notations on when he laughed in his answers, but the interviewer wished to remain anonymous.
This is the guy who obsesses over a single screenshot of Sally puckering her lips, and copy-pastes it on every message board he can so he can discuss in detail whether anyone agrees that Sally may have put lipgloss on for that scene.
This is the kind of mentality we're talking about. And I'm not even going to get into his obsession with characters melting into goo because they kissed someone and it "felt so darn good."
>>39572025 I think that's what got him banned at Bumbleking. He used to spam his Youtube videos all the fucking time, I kept telling him to stop PMing me about his videos but it turned out I wasn't the only one he was sending them to.
Of course according to him he got banned because he GOT TOO CLOSE TO THE TRUTH, whatever that means.
>>39572071 A friend of mine got a note from him asking for a commission, I think it was Mina and Amy kissing until they melted into a puddle in a bath tub. She told him she didn't do fetish stuff. He kept sending her notes and emails for a while, and then started posting, "Did you get my email about drawing Amy and Mina kissing and melting into goo because it felt so darn good?" all over her page (this was before you could hide posts). He really is fucking creepy, no social skills at all.
This. Go to a message board he's not banned on and take a shot every time he says one of the following:
>so darn good >funny kiss >red herring >got something up his sleeve >many feel/many have said >a major backlash >throw fans off (his trail) >the way I see it/it's just my humble opinion >(something about the WWE) >who's to say >it really makes you think >true intentions >(random, baseless percentages) >god bless
You could plug all that into a random generator and record it for twenty minutes and upload it to Youtube and you basically have any of his posts.
>>39572332 In my humble opinion a funny kiss would make you feel so darn good you melt into a puddle of goo, but some may say that we don't know the true intentions and that it might be a red herring, like 70% there's something up his sleeve we don't know about to throw us of his trail, but there is also a 30% chance that there will be a major backlash. SHOULD PAUL KAMINKSI BE FIRED BECAUSE OF THIS, who can say, it's just my thoughts. God Bless.
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Oh, what the fuck? Sonic is supposed to be a kid-friendly series. A KID-FRIENDLY SERIES! I can't even bring myself to finish the rest. I find myself just that appalled.
>>39572567 No one looks up to the worthless Stephen Baldwin. Except that he is brothers with Alec Baldwin. But that's not about looking up to him, it's about looking up to his family.