I know I'm an eternity late to this, but this just goes to show how retarded Ken is. Tom is such a low-tier character and Sonic being a kid hurts the film franchise more than helps because it harms the integrity of his freedom-loving "come what may" attitude. It's probably the cringiest thing about the movies other than the flossing. Serious question: who gives a shit about Tom? He's so garbage-tier most people (myself included until I read tweets and shit with his name in them) don't even know his name, he's just "the cop guy" or "Donut lord." By the second movie he's a redundancy.
Penders turned Archie Sonic into Kingdom Hearts: Stupid, convoluted trash that only autists could ever really enjoy. It added some flavor - maybe but only after other writers came in to clean up the mess - and even then more of an obscure lore/databook sort of thing, less a story-telling thing. Penders can't write his retarded stories with his stolen Sonic OCs for one reason... he knows deep down his characters are nothing without the backbone of the SatAM lore to hold them up. Remove sonic from them, and they're boring, uncanny-looking furries.