and theres the foot fetish thing too, but honestly that feels almost like a minor point. Ken, now having full right over his echidna OCs, changed them to be not echidnas but an alien race called ‘Echydnya’ (yeah), and he’s gonna give them their own visual novel series: The comic was reviewed in the web series 'Atop The Fourth Wall' on September 15th, 2014. A single issue of it was published by Image on March 2000. Every single hanging plot thread had to be retconned, and theres years of comics that are now officially not canon because of it. Ian Droid are from Ken Penders creator-owned series, The Lost Ones, which had yet to be published at the time. This meant that the publishers had to actually reboot the entire current plot because they could not legally use these characters anymore. Archie tried to argue that due to his contract the characters were actually now the property of SEGA… only to be unable to find the actual contract he signed (ken probably swiped it on the way out). All of them, including ones in current story arcs. Ken, rather than backing down, decided to go all-in and claimed copyright on all of his characters he created for the sonic comics. The case was dropped, but that wasn’t the end. In addition to his works for Sonic and Star Trek, Penders wrote and illustrated comics for DC, Marvel, Image and Disney for series such as Disney Adventures, Savage Sword of Conan, and The Green Hornet. Ken tried to sue sega due to the evil badguys in sonic chronicles (yes, that sonic chronicles) being supposedly similar to his. some of those characters included a pink girl echidna literally named lara-su (whether it was done in reference to the mary sue trope or not I honestly dont know)

Ken penders was a really not great artist for the sonic comics, who introduced loads of brand new characters who would never be seen outside of them, including basically an entire race of space echidnas.

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