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- Aug 4, 2016
Not only that, but he tried to come out as some kind of iconic "ARTIST COPYRIGHT LOYALTY HERO", instead coming off as a warning to other comic companies who want to hire freelancers, and to freelancers, what not to do if you want to keep a job and be respected.
Agh, I fucking hate how every single text bubble in Penders's comics emphasize every other adjective, adverb, or noun.I found it, I found it holy shit after 14 years. How cool! This is a letter published in the Sonic comic, criticizing Ken's art in the Sonic comic.
The entire page is *quite* autistic and worth a read if you want. The letter in question turns out to be kinder and more naive than I remember, although in the reply you see that some stuff was left out. I wonder what the whole version said.
Text:
"Moving along to the Knuckles segment, Mr. Penders does a decent job throughout the book. There is no particular rise or drop in quality. To be honest, I haven't been his biggest fan when it comes to Furry art. But he can draw humans far better than I, so I have no room to talk. Considering how he was first drawn, Mecha-Dimitri is on-model and with enough insane detail to satisfy me. The only qualms I really have are Green-Knuckles's bony knees, Tobor's eyes on page 8, and Kommissar's proportions on page 3. I don't know what bugs me about her on page 3, she just does. Regardless of those few points, the quality is consistent and it gets the story across."
Let's look at those pictures~! These are characters I don't remember, so I had to do some googling.
I noticed people making fun of Ken's OCs. I found this.
Tiny story under the cut.
I remember that I hated, HATED when Ken did the comic art, though as a child I didn't yet understand why. Today (literally today) I realize it's because he draws in the Mariana Trench of uncanny valley -- I spent more time grossing out at the skin-wrapped horrors than I did reading, and honestly it's still the top experience that taught me how not to draw. It was the same embarrassed confusion as learning what a bad video game was for the first time. Ken's art introduced me to the fact that it's possible to hate something about Sonic...an introduction to critical thinking.
In short, Ken Penders was the gateway out of the Sonic fandom for me. Maybe I should thank him actually.
Example: "This comic fucking sucks. Ken Penders is a talentless copyright-trolling hack!"
That's strange. He seemed to have a huge fetish for Asians. Especially the Japanese, judging by his shitty comic, "The Lost Ones" where every single character is some form of Japanese or asian.Archie's Sonic the Hedgehod is already dead with it's "infinite hiatus" and the last time an issue came out was December of last year. As for what Ken Penders has been up to since this thread died? His forum is dead and I could find no recent references to his book on his Twitter. All he does now is bitch about Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders ruining America. Oh, and implying Asians are emotionless robots.
What a fucking shit eating, scum sucking waste of human life. Considering American copyright, unless Ken Penders decides to untard himself and Sega relaxes due to that, or Sonic survives another 70-some years, the comic is forever fucked.You get all that? Main characters cannot show excessive emotion, the main character can never actually lose, none of the Sega originating characters can bond with each other & none of the Sega originating characters can be killed off, not even for a planned cop out. Goodbye substantial conflict, goodbye suspense and goodbye basic storytelling. They throttled any chance of them writing anything that might sell, no wonder this comic fell apart.As per the legal settlement of the case, new and increased mandates from Sega Incorporated were put into effect in any and all Sonic the Hedgehog related contents, including (but not limited to) games, television series, films, toys and even comic books. For Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comic series specifically, as relevant to the legal case, the following mandates in effect are (but not possibly limited to) as follows:
- Sega-specific original characters are not permitted familial relationships unless already established (like Cream the Rabbit and Vanilla the Rabbit) with some limited exceptions (eg. Charles Hedgehog). ACP-exclusive characters (Sally, Rotor, Bunnie, Antoine) are permitted however.
- Use of Ken Penders characters or any of his content from the Pre-Super Genesis Wave are forbidden (although settlement grants ACP legal use of his creations under limited conditions, reasons for not doing so are not disclosed to the public by either ACP or Sega Inc. as of this time).
- Content from certain games are not permissible:
- Black Doom from Shadow the Hedgehog.
- All characters and content (with the exception of original Sega characters) from Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.
- Replacing said characters with post-incarnations however, is permissible. (eg. Maximillian Acorn → Nigel Acorn).
- Archie Comics Publishing are forbidden to reference Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie, Sonic Underground or Sonic X unless granted specific permission from Sega Incorporated.
- ACP is forbidden to using the character Doctor Eggman Nega unless specifically granted permission from Sega Incorporated.
- Sonic's home planet is no longer permitted to be referred to as “Mobius”, be it Light, Dark, Prime or otherwise.
- Only one Metal Sonic is permitted for appearance but no multiples.
- With the exception of the character Nicole allowing effected characters to remember the previous universe, these memories are forced to 'fade' and be rendered irrelevant.
- Character depicitions such as Classic Sonic, Classic Tails, Classic Eggman or any other classic depictions of Sega's characters are not permitted unless permission is given directly from Sega Incorporated. (However some ACP publications have shown scenes of the 'Classic' characters in shadows, silhouettes or bare resemblance to them in flashbacks). With the 25th anniversary of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise however, this mandate appears to have been lifted.
- Sonic is not allowed to “lose”. He can be 'put down' and experience hardship but is not allowed to completely 'fail'.
- Main and/or significant characters are forbidden in forming intimate or love-relationships. ACP-exclusive characters are permitted however (Bunnie and Antoine) but not with Sega's characters (Sonic the Hedgehog and Sally Acorn).
- Original Sega characters are to conform, stay conformed to their modern designs as of Sonic the Hedgehog #71. None are allowed to change or modify their existing wardrobe or wear any different wardrobe at all, regardless of the story context.
- Sega-exclusive characters cannot be "killed-off", whilst Archie-exclusive characters are not mentioned in this mandate, it remains unclear whether this rule may apply to them also.
- Sonic and Sega-exclusive characters are not allowed to show excessive emotion.
An example of established-requirement of censorship of emotion from Sonic the Hedgehog #166 (left: original, right: current)
Probably from Penders himself. He's continually trying to cover his own ass whenever confronted.
