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So I made a parody account based on Penders. Anyway, here’s a panel in which I’m almost certain Penders made Vector say “bee-otch” before someone told him what that meant and it was censored: Romance was always a big aspect of Archie Sonic due to the presence of Sally and the surprisingly large female audience. Are in a different font. 0. For the better part of a decade now, Ken has been talking about how he’s finally going to conclude the story of both “Mobius: 25 Years Later” and the whole Knuckles saga in the form of his new graphic novel series, The Lara-Su Chronicles. The victims don’t even know they’re being drugged! How does this happen? Five years ago, I started a blog to archive my journey through Archie Sonic. Our superpowered hero, the son of an incredibly important scientist with a god complex, was originally thought to be the last survivor of this highly advanced race. But this train of thought also fizzles out, as Knuckles’ family is just as rich and bougie as the High Councilor, and this is never painted as a bad thing. This felt like a huge victory. But eventually, more survivors were found, and soon there were important echidnas all over the place. Have I mentioned that Knuckles is a genetically engineered bioweapon? According to Penders, this is Rotor’s husband. To kick things off, Penders established that Knuckles was guarding Angel Island because he was the latest member of the Brotherhood of Guardians, a role passed down from father to son for generations. He’s lacing his carnival food with this substance called “Lemon Sundrop Dandelion” (very subtle, Ken) in an effort to get the locals hooked on it. Ken sure did! And one of his tweets declares that Pen may also go after fan art of this character. You know what he seemed to dislike even more than writing Robotnik, though? Much of the first year of Ian Flynn’s run in 2006–2007 was also dedicated to fixing the quagmire of love triangles that Penders had ended his run on. It’s by far my favorite arc in the first 13 years of the series. She had no say, she merely responded to the competing boys’ advances to indicate who was currently “winning.” And by being “faster on the draw,” Geoffrey “tainted” Sally for Sonic, like how one might lick someone else’s food to keep them from eating it. Eventually, Knuckles starts to sympathize a bit with the dingoes, but their methods are always framed as too violent, and Ken avoided depicting any women or children among the dingoes so that they’d come off as less sympathetic. They’re supposed to be key allies of Sally’s royal family, but they repeatedly refused to help in the war against Robotnik because they’re smug, isolationist assholes. But once again, the victims of the echidnas’ colonization are painted as evil. The comics really beat you over the head with this fact. Penders stated reasons for the change was that he needed to make some adjustments to broaden the audience while making certain longtime fans get answers and resolution and because of the difficulty he has seen with people pronouncing the word echidna . Ultimately, he sounds like most other characters Ken writes. Penders also had a tendency to treat echidnas as very special. This was envisioned as potentially being the series finale, so Robotnik dying would’ve made sense… but then the comics kept going. Nope! Ken’s serialized style was most clearly on display in the 32-issue Knuckles the Echidna series, which ran from 1997 to 1999 and was written exclusively by him with art primarily by Manny Galan. Ken referred to the arc as a “hissy fit” written to undermine his work. (For that matter, he also didn’t read the other writers’ stories.). He wanted to replace him with his own original villains like the Dark Legion and Dr. Droid (who… basically served the same purpose), but this never worked out for obvious reasons. In his first few years on Sonic, Penders focused on one main love triangle between Sonic, Sally, and a new character of his own creation — Geoffrey St. John. 1997's “Endgame” arc (Sonic #47-#50) was written as a potential series finale — SatAM had been off the air for over two years at this point, and the team figured their days were numbered. Possibly more — most of them are interchangeable, so it’s easy to lose count. It was a gig that was hiring, and he happened to know a guy. Instead, around Sonic #75 (shortly before the adaptation of Sonic Adventure), writer Karl Bollers brought in an alternate universe counterpart (”Robo-Robotnik”) who Penders had previously introduced. Hell, we’re even supposed to think he’s cool! In reality, the fire was merely a hologram. Knuckles starts to meet other relatives he thought were dead, like his mom and a few of his racist grandpas (all of whom know that Locke is still alive), but Locke remains out of sight. Penders also used this special as a backdoor pilot for his own Image series, The Lost Ones, which lasted one issue.). I jokingly gave it the name “Thanks, Ken Penders.” Now, in 2019, I’ve finally finished reading every issue the man ever wrote for Sonic the Hedgehog and its spinoffs. Even in issues where she wasn’t kidnapped, they’d often depict her as a damsel on the covers. In Ken’s stories, Vector was the jive-talking comic relief character. He is also, most notably, the main party involved in a whole slew of lawsuits with Sega that eventually lead to the cataclysmic Super Genesis Wave reboot. Early in his solo series, Knuckles is vaporized by Dimitri, then resurrected by the Ancient Walkers (three of the deities of Mobius) to become the savior of echidna kind. The city quickly became the new primary setting for the Knuckles solo series. Yes, for the sake of a twist, the Princess Sally miniseries did not actually star Princess Sally. So yes, the Dark Legion are a bunch of Nazis, and their leader Dimitri is Echidna Hitler. So in the ’90s and early 2000s, you had this hip and trendy video game franchise for kids known for its use of pop, rock, and rap music, and the comic adaptation read like a bizarre Silver Age comic or a D&D campaign. They’re even associated with magic green crystals! He let him believe that his mother was dead. And then, at the age of 10, Locke abandoned Knuckles. When Sega’s vision clashed with his own, he tended to ignore it the best he could. Julie-Su has a casual Skype video call with Lien-Da, her fascist half-sister who murdered her parents and spent years brainwashing her. He constantly said shit that got on the nerves of either Knuckles or Julie-Su, and then they would smack him around to shut him up. But that’s exactly what we got. That's like saying Spider-Man is based off of Batman because they're white guys. Upon closer inspection, fans also found one more hint at Penders’ plans for Rotor’s sexuality. This is framed as cool and heroic by Penders. Locke watched over Knuckles through his network of spy cameras and continued to control his life from the shadows, but his son believed he was alone. Because of this, the classic Robotnik and the modern Eggman are technically two separate characters in the Archie comics. Who knows! Later, in Knuckles #29, Sally heads to Angel Island to ask the Brotherhood for help. Ken Penders releases new Julie-Su design. Again, the key word is “potential.” Penders is a writer who has okay ideas, but tends to stumble on the execution. Knuckles’ ancestors were also horrible British colonizers — the echidna homeland is in Mobius’s version of England — who took land from the “less evolved” races (ugh). Penders ended up working on Sonic by mere happenstance. As Ken has explained, he had a rough relationship with his dad, and only really made amends with him at the end of his life. Shenanigans ensue. In retrospect, most of his stories feel more like teases for future issues than engaging narratives in their own right. And yet, in spite of this, Bunnie is apparently so desperate to be shown affection that she gladly starts rolling in the hay with “Sonic.”. But it always felt like Penders mistook quantity for quality. Except, he didn’t bother to set the record straight about what happened. When it came time to adapt Sonic Adventure in 2000, Ken decided to add an extra subplot. Knuckles literally pretends to take a bullet to convince the other echidnas to trust the Legion, even though only a dozen or so issues prior Penders was writing them as in-your-face Nazi allegories. (This did still mean, though, that Sally, the leader of the Freedom Fighters, was in a coma throughout the climactic mission where Robotnik was finally defeated.). And where cartoon Sally downplayed her own status as royalty, comic Sally liked to sit on a big throne and boss everyone around. So Ken wanted it to be as dramatic as possible. The earliest comics did not treat Sally Acorn well. Towards the end of his run, Ken did baffling things like having Locke beat Shadow in a fight and having him get kissed by Rouge the Bat. The Knuckles comics were very much one long story broken up into smaller three-issue arcs. Under Penders, Sally’s father, King Maximilian Acorn (who we’ll discuss in a moment), was just as bad. He said that the Mystic Ruins were located in “Mysterious Cat Country,” a nation in Mobius’s equivalent of South America that the Knuckles Clan colonized. In the thread on time to discuss King Of The Hill and Ken Penders . Penders had a love of introducing secret family members. Sonic the Hedgehog In Your Face! And prior to the 2013 continuity reboot (which was sparked by Archie losing their lawsuit against Ken), many of Ian Flynn’s comics revolved around breathing new life into Ken’s old ideas. Many of the strangest things that occurred in Ken’s run were misguided attempts at making his stories come off as more “mature,” which catapulted the tone of the comics straight from the Silver Age into the Dark Age. anything you guys want me to tweet. EDIT: If you would like to read something more positive about Archie Sonic, you can read a quick followup article about 10 stories I actually liked (mostly from the other writers). The Sonic wiki lists nearly 200 characters introduced by Ken, and a lot of them aren’t names you would recognize. His actions were justified all along! No real obvious connection there. They just love guns so goddamn much, you guys. If you’re new to Thanks Ken Penders and you enjoyed it, maybe give the Tumblr a follow to see my future coverage of Ian Flynn’s run at Archie Sonic. In the live action opening, which was shot by Ken himself, they’re supposed to be playing an unspecified Sonic game… except instead, his son is just holding a TV remote sideways while staring at blank screen. Premonitions of a troubled future promised readers that Knuckles and co. were destined to save the world from a major threat in their adult years, and that the audience’s patience and dedication would be rewarded. Again, between Locke and Max, this is a deeply concerning running theme in Ken’s work. The weird attempts at mature themes? “Wait Bobby,” I can hear you saying. #1-#3 6. Instead of rebelling, she simply gave up. After all, it was all going somewhere, right? Making the … You have your forgettable but inoffensive characters like Penelope Platypus or Valdez the Chameleon (who is not Espio in a hat). They’re frustrated with their dads at first, but the dads always have “good reasons” (usually “God showed me the future”) for the horrible things they do. Rouge was just using him to get the Master Emerald, but she still seemed to genuinely think he was the hottest stud on Angel Island. Thankfully, later writers would fix many of Penders’ worst mistakes, including much of the love triangle garbage. Why are there techno-fascists? The problem is Ken isn’t self-aware enough to treat these topics with care. That particular story was actually written by Scott Fulop, but it’s exactly the style Penders had pushed for.). So he just… gives up, and lets his son catch him. Did she sacrifice herself to save everyone? Later, Penders tries to reframe the whole conflict as one of religious fundamentalism vs. reckless technological progress (even though the radical pro-tech guys, the Dark Legion, initially only wanted to preserve the status quo). One Knuckles arc focused on them rigging an election, and it included an absolutely bewildering number of tasteless allusions to World War II and the Holocaust. After this, the real Sonic quickly returns to his rightful place and kicks Anti-Sonic out. These folks really care about these characters (even the “uncool” ones like Cream the Rabbit or Silver the Hedgehog), and it’s clearly a labor of love. The preference was obvious. Because of this, the echidnas have always thought they were better than everyone else. And the icing on the cake? They sit around their big fucking mansion, and talk to their creepy looking and vaguely racist koala maid about what they’re going to have for dinner. Writing teenagers! The High Councilor (basically the mayor) is really bougie, and attention is drawn to his personal limo. Now, Bunnie isn’t with her usual boyfriend Antoine at this point, because Antoine had also been replaced with an evil doppelganger at that point, and the evil Antoine broke up with her. Julie-Su, Geoffrey St. John, Sleuth Doggy Dawg, all his. He always hated it when anyone contradicted him on this, too — legend has it that he banned Karl Bollers from his personal forum over one such argument. Confusingly, the Dark Legion (the bad guys in the Knuckles comics) started out as a faction that wanted to maintain the status quo and prevent the rest of Echidnaopolis from abandoning technology. He makes his living as a freelance writer and artist, accepting assignments involving screenplays, storyboards, character design, backgrounds, website graphics, and some the magazine covers, portraits or commissioned work. Was actually a robot doppelganger. But this obviously wasn’t possible in 1993, when the kids who grew up with the Genesis were still… you know, kids. But there wasn’t much to sink your teeth into if you preferred the more serious tone of the Saturday morning Sonic cartoon (SatAM) that inspired the comics in the first place. I want you to remember that for later. Knuckles #13 opens with Harry the dingo cab driver (the one dingo character who isn’t a Nazi) discovering Charmy Bee in an alley, with another bee we’ve never met before collapsed in his arms. The thing is, he actually did kill Robotnik! See, Penders has been very open about the fact that Locke was based in part on his own father. This includes the dingoes, natives of Downunda (Mobius’s Australia) whose land was stolen so that Echidnaopolis could be built. Making his debut in Sonic the Hedgehog #11, Ken was one of the many creatives that defined the early Archie Sonic universe, focusing particularly on Knuckles the Echidna and The Chaotix. But like I said: the good guys never abandoned their technology. But to Penders and the other writers, the King being back meant the Princess was no longer needed. And most of Ken’s pet characters were adults. He called for genocide. (Oh yeah, have I mentioned that Mobius is a post-apocalyptic Earth in the Archie comics? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. And what’s the purpose of these visions? The comics never really explain how this “soultouch” process can be so infallible if Locke and Lara-Le ended up getting divorced. In the early 2000s, Karl Bollers completely abandoned Geoffrey’s feelings for Sally and had him marry a woman his age. I mean, there’s no shortage of good Sonic comics you could read instead. Then, when Knuckles was an infant, Locke decided that he was going to take him to live in the wilderness and train to be the next Guardian. For years, Ken assured fans that the rough-and-tumble Julie-Su would not be forced into the role of Knuckles’ traditional housewife. They gossip about the kids’ love lives. Transgender indie game developer, artist, and cartoon enthusiast. The Chaotix investigate, but they get hungry and idiotically decide to eat the carnival food, and well…, Then they get dragged to the hospital because they’re fucking tripping balls on acid. But Dimitri is also Knuckles’ great great great great (like fifteen more greats) uncle from the past. He makes his living as a freelance writer and artist of echidna OC’s, accepting assignments involving screenplays, storyboards, character design, backgrounds, website graphics, and some the magazine covers, portraits or commissioned work. But also, look closer at that dialogue. “How much older was Geoffrey?” Well, Penders imagined Geoffrey as vaguely “college aged,” and he was definitely at least 20 or 21 when he was making out with Sally, who at the time was… 15 years old. Oh, no, no, no. There are too many examples to list all of them here. Really, with little established canon to worry about at the time, Angel Island was just this perfect little isolated part of the world where Penders could tell his own original story that, deep down, had little to do with the Sonic franchise. As such, the story was changed. You know, his order to commit genocide. You know what doesn’t come up as often? And when you say what that reason is, you will may be surprised or not surprised Comments are Welcomed #SonicTheHedgehog #KenPenders #SallyAcorn A flash forward story about Knuckles mourning his father’s death (the cause of which was pancreatic cancer, a side effect of Locke’s experimentation on himself) was dedicated to Ken’s own father. But Locke is a very special breed of monster. Sure, everyone vaguely knows the Archie comics are weird, and it’s easy to find goofy out-of-context panels. Some of them, like Knuckles’ love interest Julie-Su or Sally’s brother Elias, showed a lot of potential, and still have a lot of fans to this day. For a time, it seems like the hypocrisy of the Brotherhood and the Echidnaopolis government is intentional. This theme of an ideological battle over technology never really goes anywhere. threw a gorilla off of Angel Island in the middle of the night. I don’t fuckin’ know. As the ultimate statement of Knuckles’ importance over everyone else, when Penders explained how Robotnik had finally been defeated in “Mobius: 25 Years Later”… Knuckles was the one who had killed him. More often than not, it’s the girls who are usually shown being rescued instead of heroic, and that’s why I felt that this was an opportunity to really make a statement with this character.”. The character who took the cake, though, was Vector. She fell about three or four stories during a random mission to Robotropolis and hit the ground too hard. Meanwhile, the “reformed” Dark Legion is trying to use their advanced technology to fight Eggman and rescue as many people as they can. Sally stomped around the castle complaining about how her dad never told her anything or let her make any decisions of her own, but the cool and rational Max simply told her that father knows best. Tails finds Anti-Sonic making out with Bunnie in the bushes. I mean, this was a story about an evil dictator (Robotnik) taking over the world and turning the populace into robot slaves, leaving a small band of teenage rebels (Sonic, Sally, and the other Freedom Fighters) to stop him. He never has to apologize for anything, because he “did everything out of love”!

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