Honestly Ian Flynn is his own can of worms due to his own controversies online. Not as bad as Ken Penders but he is much younger so he has his own problems which includes fetishes and torture porn of Sally for some weird reason
I don't know much about Flynn outside of he now writes the comics, the games and the cartoons. which for brand synergy is probably for the best there's a guy with a part in all of it.
I remember that issue. I probably still have that one.
Funny thing, the horse guy was a reference to Shaun Connery.
He's the best damn writer the series has ever had, so I really don't give a fuck about whatever personal shit or online drama. On the topic of Flynn, I think one of the key reasons Penders is so hated is because he ruined the end of Archie Sonic for everyone. Flynn managed to turn into into an actually decent book after a few years of world building house cleaning. But here comes Ken with his lawsuit and the comic just unceremoniously ends in the middle of the most ambitious storyline the book has ever had. Plot threads unresolved, well loved characters lost forever, and decades of world building gone. For better or worse. Personally I think the IDW comic is a massive improvement in most ways, but still. What could have been.
yeah I personally couldn't be bothered about the personal life about a dude working on Sonic. unless you're a fat old robotnik shaped retard like ken, you're probably just an autistic weirdo. and I couldn't IMAGINE having to deal with the fucking Sonic fanbase on a day to day level on social media. I'd fucking kill myself. I have read a little bit of his later Archie stuff too. both right before and after the reboot. my little sister was buying it and I would flip through it if I saw it laying around. my best friend's kid I've went through some early archie shit with him, and he gets the IDW books when the collections come out and what little I have seen of it through that it seems pretty good. and frontiers was a little annoying with all the constant "HEY SONIC REMEMBER THAT TIME *insert game here*" but I get why it was like that, and was happy they at least tried to pay lip service to all the other shit before it. although I'd have to assume by default Flynn's stuff is probably consistently pretty good because he's been doing sonic for 20 fuckin years now.
It's legal. He owns the copyrights to the stories and any use of copyrighted characters from Sega would fall under fair use. Think CDI Zelda.
Except your last point doesn't work as Zelda CDI to my knowledge has never had a re-release since
Is that a legal issue or no one wanting to play cdi Zelda?
Golly, I sure can't tell!
It probably could be released if the proper parties wanted to.
How is it fair use to sell your work with other peoples work in it? This isn't a fan project (which they could still go after) he's selling books. The CDI games exist because they licensed the rights to use them (and they wouldn't be able to reissue them today without Nintendo's permission) but that has nothing to do with fair use at all. You can also license out your stuff for a limited time (see the dozens of games like MK9 that had to be removed from sale when the license for the guest character ran out). I can't imagine any scenario where Sega would have licensed their characters to him.
Read the Kurama poster replying to Ken. He has it mostly right.
DC doesn't lose contracts that specifically state that people can't do that. he totally can it's legal. he just can't sell it with Sonic and Knuckles on the cover and probably has to retitle it. now, he probably shouldn't be able to because I could almost guarantee that contract probably did exist and did say he can't do that, but it didn't in court. I explained it earlier Elliot Maggin wrote Superman books in the 80s that he legally owns the stories inside. he had Penders draw covers for them sometime in the last decade and he could reprint them as long as he didn't sell them as "SUPERMAN" he owns the interior story completely. it's got superman, lex luthor, superwoman, some random dc aliens in it. he can't reprint it as a branded Superman thing because DC owns that. but he owns the specific stories inside and doesn't have to alter them in any way. he just can't throw the logo on it. as long as ken pays the artists and inkers and letterers and shit he's good.
It's funny you mentioned these comics while I was rummaging through my Archie Sonic collection. I had similar thoughts regarding Ken's characters- especially the Echidnas, when I was growing up.
he straight up had evil sonic fuck bunnie in the woods after mina and amy both told him to fuck off. I've been laughing about that since I was a kid. what an insane plot point. the funniest part is she thinks it's normal sonic who comes back and they literally never clear it up. he's like huh bunnie's being weird as fuck and keeps kissing me. oh well. and then he basically just ignores her. it's hilarious. we're led to believe that bunnie thinks she fucked sonic randomly who then just ignores her after and sonic has no idea why she's acting like his girlfriend. then evil sonic sees rouge and moves on to fuck her instead which I assume he did because she was just hanging out with him for the next few issues.
The funny thing is Ken pays people shit money just to find comics on some sites instead of some copies he claims he had. Like paying Alex 100 dollars to scan comics from Sonic magazines. It is very suspicious if said man claims he wants to bring new titles to the fanbase. And for some unknown reason, he is editing some panels for the comics because I guess he is a perfectionist I guess. The thing is he is an artist himself. Just a pretty bad one and has been known to trace art from other series and comics so it's not like he needs a team of artists to help him. He just does it all himself and it shows with bare-breast milk arc….
This is the odd part, even if he doesn't have the comics on hand, why ask other people to find 'em? You can easily find Archie comics online or even on torrent sites by this point.The funny thing is Ken pays people shit money just to find comics on some sites instead of some copies he claims he had. Like paying Alex 100 dollars to scan comics from Sonic magazines. It is very suspicious if said man claims he wants to bring new titles to the fanbase. And for some unknown reason, he is editing some panels for the comics because I guess he is a perfectionist I guess. The thing is he is an artist himself. Just a pretty bad one and has been known to trace art from other series and comics so it's not like he needs a team of artists to help him. He just does it all himself and it shows with bare-breast milk arc….
not to powerlevel too much but I know vaguely of a guy who has as a hobby the last few years since he knew that stuff was unlikely to get a reprint, been working on digital restorations of all of that material. the sonic comic was something that he shared with a dead family member so he's got a lot of emotional attachment to it and wanted to reprint his own like extremely high quality reprints of it.