Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27103557-20160617125247/@comment-27441478-20160716151848

I dunno, Im sort of on the fence about the Post SG world. The new character designs and mandates keeps me from taking the comics and characters seriously than I did back before Penders' Purge took effect. Largely due to the injustice brought upon the characters. By permanantly removing the characters, it equates no more or less than death.

Its similar to Stalin's Purges. Not only are the victims effectively 'killed; but their names, images, appearances in video, mentions in songs, words, phrases, prints and photographs are to be swiftly located and permanently destroyed. This is so much so when there is similarly not allowed references of them, not even by NAME in the post SG world. That said, I am still hung up by the injustice and swift removal without warning, heck, take a look at this: http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Ken_Penders'_legal_cases

"In late 2012, all characters created or introduced by Ken Penders were removed from any further use or reference in Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog comic franchise. Due to story arcs in production at the time in both Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog #243-#246) and Sonic Universe (Sonic Universe #46-#49) heavily featuring characters created by Penders, both books were subject to sudden rewrites (with changes in font sometimes even mid-sentence) and art edits. Sonic the Hedgehog #244-#246 were entirely rewritten to remove dozens of characters from the advertised Knuckles-centric story,Sonic Universe #46-#47 replaced Rob O' the Hedge and Mari-An with the functionally-similar Bow Sparrow and Thorn the Lop, and most of the affected issues were subject to edited cover art, ranging from removed characters to entirely redrawn covers. 

'Additionally, Rob's removal forced the rewriting of Sonic Universe #46's entire Off Panel.Additionally, reprinted material is books such as Sonic Super Special Magazine #6 and Sonic Super Digest #2 greatly deviated from the content advertised before their release. Both books advertised Chaotix stories (namely the "Return to Angel Island" arc which was intended to be split up between the books), but SSSM #6 instead ran stories from the Iron Dominion story arc and both books avoided reprinting any stories containing work by Ken Penders. The Digest also omitted Julie-Su and Saffron Bee entirely from the Chaotix profiles, and all Penders-created locations on Angel Island were renamed on the included map to generic terms. Additionally, the stories that reprinted in the magazine edited most mentions of the Dark Egg Legion into "Eggman's Army," and an entire page featuring Lien-Da was removed from the Sonic the Hedgehog #209 reprint.'"

Sound and look familiar?

http://imgur.com/9wE1azh

http://imgur.com/AhwCQlt

http://imgur.com/JxK4CNF

Because it should.

That being said, there is a likelihood that Ken Penders may be a Josef Stalin reincarnation.

Due to butchering of the entire story, they might as well go ahead and make a Mainstream Sonic game out of the train wreck which is what the comics are now