🎨 Artcow Ken Penders - Former Archie Sonic Comic Writer/Artist

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Having read the comics for the bulk of its run, I can say one of Ken's biggest problems was the lack of focus. The comic just kind of lazily drifted from one plot point to the next without actually resolving what happened before. This was mainly due to the fact that Ken has stated that he believes that "Only the creator is allowed to write a character." He would actively ignore any characters or stories he didn't make and would get legit angry when someone else worked with his characters.
 
Lemonz298 said:
Well, apparently, Locke is based off of his own father who he had a "complicated" relationship with. Considering what a terrible, awful character/father/husband Locke was, it really makes me wonder what kind of person Ken's dad was.

I wonder if his dad microwaved him as a baby too. Is that why he looks like a human potato?
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I’m guessing that bad since I did post about his father voting for Wallace. So there is that. I’m not sure if I should feel bad or not about his father.
 
Lemonz298 said:
Having read the comics for the bulk of its run, I can say one of Ken's biggest problems was the lack of focus. The comic just kind of lazily drifted from one plot point to the next without actually resolving what happened before. This was mainly due to the fact that Ken has stated that he believes that "Only the creator is allowed to write a character." He would actively ignore any characters or stories he didn't make and would get legit angry when someone else worked with his characters.
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That's kind of hilarious when you think about it because he still used a number of characters he didn't create and determined the fates of those characters himself, with his original plan to kill off Sally because he thought she no longer served a purpose.
 
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The Doctor said:
That's kind of hilarious when you think about it because he still used a number of characters he didn't create and determined the fates of those characters himself, with his original plan to kill off Sally because he thought she no longer served a purpose.
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Well, people have pointed that out to him, but his ego is so immense that he thinks he created Sonic. Here's an exact quote from him.

I’m hoping my story [The Lara-Sue Chronicles] inspires the next generation to do their own thing as opposed to playing in someone else’s sandbox. I never saw Sonic as playing in someone else’s sandbox because Sonic didn’t exist when I began working in comics. I didn’t grow up with the character the way today’s kids did. From my point of view, I was one of the players building the sandbox others wanted to play in.

He legitimately thinks he created Sonic.
 
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Lemonz298 said:
Well La-Di-Da Penders. That just means you have creative ownership of that specific artwork. That doesn't mean you own the freaking characters within it.

For a guy who obsesses over copyright as much as this buffoon, he knows very little about it. This guy really is an alternate universe Chris-chan.
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The analogy is at this point is coming true day by day.
 
Is Ken Penders getting better?

Jokes aside, I’m glad Ken is stepping up to the plate to become the next CWC, now that OPL is in jail. Can’t wait for the milk to come from this when Paramount and SEGA shitcan him and his wife leaves him, taking the kids.
 
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Dumbchan said:
You... really do not know how copyright works then, if this is about you wanting money out of paramount.

Artwork, not the characters. You didn't work on the movie, thus you get squat.
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He will get jack and shit and jack left town.
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I'm not crazy, right? I think if he had as much dedication on his writing and art as he did on NFTs and trying to 'own the haters' with his shoddy examples of copyright, he might've actually been good at it.
 
LoverofPi said:
Pen wrote the "pretending to be sonic to sleep with buny rabot" bit, but I think the rest is true. The name, color change, scars etc. all came after Penders left for good.
Also Evil Sonic is about as distinct a character and concept as "Evil Spock." Literally all the things that make Scourge even remotely theoretically usable outside of Sonic lore were added by other people.
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Pender's description of the scourge NFT calls his chest scar that was given to him by knuckle's dad literally punching him out of super sonic form mid-transformation which made him fucking green in the first place a "tattoo" so that should really sum up the level of knowledge penders has about some of the characters he's managed to lay claim to.

It's actually ironic a penders created character had a badass moment after penders left that was a callback to shit that actually happened in the games.
starborn427614 said:
Julie-Su and Lara-Su are OK. The rest are a bunch of nobodies that added nothing to the comics.
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There's a reason he focused on butchering those characters as the main focus of his "TOTALLY ORIGINAL COMIC" and it's because they were actually popular amongst the "not knuckleses" that filled the archie sonic universe. I remember people liked the dark legion too, which is more than likely why bioware decided to do a plotline looseley based on the guys without being the guys.The fact Ken penders sued over a fucking "splinter echidna faction survived the supposed massacre thousands of years ago and are fucking PISSED and going to conquer the fucking world now" plotline is fucking wild still all these years later because it's such a fucking obvious concept to go to if you so much as glance at the hinted background lore surrounding the echidnas in the games.

Dumbchan said:
Not really. I think the only one I was ok with was Knuckles' daughter - before Ken ruined her appearance completely in his new comic.

I always found his stuff too much especially since I was a kid and had a hard time grasping like even 15% of his awful writing.
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I gotta admit though the fucking "knuckles has emerald cancer because he's the chosen one and got microwaved as a baby" was funny as hell and Knuckles does look kinda cool as a glow in the dark bastard but there's better ways of getting to shit like that.
Has penders revealed the NFT art for his ORIGINAL COPYRIGHTED WORK that is green knuckles yet, by the way?
 
The Lawgiver said:
Pender's description of the scourge NFT calls his chest scar that was given to him by knuckle's dad literally punching him out of super sonic form mid-transformation which made him fucking green in the first place a "tattoo" so that should really sum up the level of knowledge penders has about some of the characters he's managed to lay claim to.

It's actually ironic a penders created character had a badass moment after penders left that was a callback to shit that actually happened in the games.

There's a reason he focused on butchering those characters as the main focus of his "TOTALLY ORIGINAL COMIC" and it's because they were actually popular amongst the "not knuckleses" that filled the archie sonic universe. I remember people liked the dark legion too, which is more than likely why bioware decided to do a plotline looseley based on the guys without being the guys.The fact Ken penders sued over a fucking "splinter echidna faction survived the supposed massacre thousands of years ago and are fucking PISSED and going to conquer the fucking world now" plotline is fucking wild still all these years later because it's such a fucking obvious concept to go to if you so much as glance at the hinted background lore surrounding the echidnas in the games.


I gotta admit though the fucking "knuckles has emerald cancer because he's the chosen one and got microwaved as a baby" was funny as hell and Knuckles does look kinda cool as a glow in the dark bastard but there's better ways of getting to shit like that.
Has penders revealed the NFT art for his ORIGINAL COPYRIGHTED WORK that is green knuckles yet, by the way?
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The copyright I’m going to say no on that since well it’s a NFT although that vox lady on Fredrick’s stream did bring up a good point about him risking another suit.
 
Lemonz298 said:
Well, people have pointed that out to him, but his ego is so immense that he thinks he created Sonic. Here's an exact quote from him.

I’m hoping my story [The Lara-Sue Chronicles] inspires the next generation to do their own thing as opposed to playing in someone else’s sandbox. I never saw Sonic as playing in someone else’s sandbox because Sonic didn’t exist when I began working in comics. I didn’t grow up with the character the way today’s kids did. From my point of view, I was one of the players building the sandbox others wanted to play in.

He legitimately thinks he created Sonic.
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That's one interpretation of his words. The "sandbox" he's talking about seems to be a reference to the stories that make up the 'world' of Sonic, as readers of the Archie comics knew it. Not so much that he created Sonic the character/brand as it is he helped create the comics-based world of Sonic, which children and sonic spergs got into flamewars over.
 
The Gangster Computer said:
You'd think this weirdo would actually be happy that (he thinks) people still reference and remember his gay echidna wank and that he may have left an impact on this franchise, but instead he's so bitterly possessive and greedy that he would rather be hated than remembered.
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Any similarities the film's elements have to his creations are purely superficial yet he still thinks they're totally stealing his ideas and that he somehow has ownership over the concept of the red echidna boy he didn't create having family. And to further the irony, he still uses Knuckles and Sega's version of echidnas in his new work but under vague names despite it obviously being Knuckles and echidnas, characters he technically should have no right to use according to his own logic.

The only time you could make a case for the games ever taking any influence from his ideas was for Bioware's Sonic Chronicles shit, but even then it was distinct enough that it could only be considered an homage to his work that was more focused on what Sega introduced (while also being significantly less obnoxious than the shit he introduced), but instead of being honored the faggot decides to throw a hissy fit and has the whole thing shut down with Sega and Bioware barely putting up a fight while he just smugly gloated over achieving nothing and gaining nothing other than shutting down a project.

I honestly hope he does go after Paramount, a movie studio that wouldn't hold back against him in court just so he gets a taste of what happens when you're no longer fucking around with the incompetent management of Archie and SoA.
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Penders is gonna be the Dave Mustaine of comics, seeing and claiming his hand in things far removed from him forever. That will be his legacy. "That new Metallica song? Yea, i wrote that riff 40 years ago when I was 17 and they stole it!" At least Dave had talent despite his weird reverse starfuckery.
 
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