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NotLessOrEqual wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: I'm not straight up accusing Ken Penders for stealing and/or destruction of corporate documents since I don't exactly know whats going on with Archie Comics drama.

What I do know however is that Archie Comic's fired their legal team because they misplaced Ken Penders contract. (All the details and citidations are on his article.)

I just find it awfully suspicious that Ken Penders claimed legal rights to his Sonic fan characters despite signing a Work for Hire contract (meaning all the characters he made legally belong to Sega), in yet the very contract appears to be missing when it was brought up in court, thus Ken Penders got what he wanted and went off to start his Lara-Su Chronicles while Archie had to soft-reset the Sonic comics.

Archie fired their legal team and Sega became more hard-@$$ with the mandates, perhaps to prevent similar thing happening again in the future.

I love Sonic the Hedgehog forever, but Sega just isn't that bright of a game company. I am not emphasising the "accusing" Penders of such deeds however, what is suspicious is that Peners some how "knew" that the document was not present in some way. To win the case, Penders must had to have known known previously that the contract was not present at SEGA/Archie, or else starting up the lawsuit without prior knowledge is legal suicide. It is just too much of a coincidence it so happens to be missing at the right time, at least without the need of someone physically infiltrating Archie/SEGA's office and ransacking the place in search of the contract to ensure it was not there to begin with.

Couldn't really get why Shepard betrayed Ghost... It's complicated: http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Shepherd Either Penders had someone on the inside or Fuzzballs more sneaky than he lets on.