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Don't get me wrong, I support Penders rights to his echidna ust as I would stay fair to any Sonic fan with a Sonic fan character.

But being Sonic fan characters we have to accept that they, to a small degree, belong to Sega due to source materials. Penders did sign a Work for Hire contract even though it was coincidentally absent when it went to court.

What peeves me off about Ken Penders is not what was rightfully his but how he went about doing it at the expense of others. I dunno how Scott Shaws legal prediciment went through but if it's anything like Penders I bet Shaw was like "Hm... I want to take legal action, but I don't want to be a right d!¢k about it and upset the fans of the comic." and thus negotiated with Archie and Sega than throwing a wrench into their works.

Another thing is Penders has poor understanding over claiming knock-offs, such as claiming Shade and Nocturne were ripping off Julie-Su and the Marauders. I wouldn't be suprised if BioWare admits inspiration from Archie Knuckles mini-series and I'll admit there is some likeness between the two but not enough to warrant a lawsuit over given they're regarded different echidnas set in seperate continuities. For example BioWare actually attempted more diversity amongst their echidnas while Ken Penders just base all the echidnas he designed after Knuckles.

So while I'm not all that a fan of the comics he crossed the line over to the games removing Shade, the Marauders and any chance of a sequal to Sonic Chronicles as well as making Sega look more bad than they need to be, I still call Ken Penders a right berk for thinking of just himself than the whole audience he catered for.