Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-679780-20140506144907/@comment-1669199-20140507214703

Sacorguy79 wrote: No, Archie sued Ken over his claims to his created characters. Archie claimed that Ken had signed a "Work-for-Hire" contract, where anything Ken created would be property of both Archie and SEGA. However, Ken denied this, and the lawsuit ended up in his favor.

So now he has the rights to create lovely things such as this:

https://31.media.tumblr.com/fbe0d1fa22c552ee54ee4a00c5318b63/tumblr_inline_n4km2nUx7L1re1bwb.jpg

That is gonna be Lein-Da's new look for (what I'm assuming) is his Lara-Su Chronicles story? I... would prefer if this style wasn't used -- its ugly-looking, IMO. The blue-lips and longer tail I think she can do without. Same goes for the high-heels -- I thought boots worked just fine. Basically I thought her best design was the one she had before the whole Worlds Collide arc. This design feels to me like Ken is trying unnecessarily hard to make Lein-Da look sultry and provocative, and quite frankly I don't think it would fit well with the whole Sonic-esque universe that the character has been featured in -- assuming of course Ken Penders is gonna try to keep his Lara-Su Chronicles story kid friendly. If not, then I suppose I wouldn't be surprised if this new design was made with the idea in mind that Lein-Da would be taking a rather... dominating part-time job on the side, shall we say.

On a more positive note, I suppose the glowing lights on the design are kinda cool and would be decent to use for certain aspects of the general Dark Legion apparel -- if it weren't for the fact that they'd almost constantly remind me of a certain other group of formerly-exiled Echidnas.

Seriously though, while I could care less for Ken's Lara-Su Chronicles, I hope to God he doesn't use that design if he isn't gonna be primarily aiming to get the attention of the core audience of the Archie Sonic comics -- and Sonic the Hedgehog in general. There's a difference between looking a little sultry/seductive and looking like someone who does naughty things for a living.