User blog comment:Soniczero000/My thoughts on Archies comics/@comment-76.177.167.191-20130412235230

If you ask me, Penders is worked up for no reason. I say this because many of the characters and storylines done by Penders have always belonged to Archie comics. Before someone tries to give a rebuttal, think about it: it was Archie who published all of Penders' stories for the time he worked for the company (please correct me if I'm wrong), and the characters he wrote introduced automatically became the property of Archie starting the issue they debuted in and, thus, (in my opinion) are still allowed to be used by Archie since Penders left. I sympathize for you, Penders, and I understand why you sued Archie, but by suing Archie, it caused at least half of the entire cast of characters released from issue one to the recently released issue 247 to be practically erased from Sonic comic history either visually (like the remaining echidnas Thrash banished) or are not referred to by name (see issue 247: when NICOLE and Team Freedom are at the newly rebuilt Castle, Nicole and Rotor are talking and Nicole refers to Geoffry St. John- another character created by Penders- as an "agent" of the absent Ixis Naugus, who appeared in SatAM, which keeps Naugus safe.) Most of those characters are either really cool, like Julie-Su and Remington, cute, like Saffron Bee and Knuckles' half-brother, "Kneecaps", or really important to characters NOT created by Penders (example: Sally, Antoine, etc.), like Sonic's parents, Sally's mother and brother, Alicia and Elias Acorn, and the Amy's cousin, Rob O' the Hedge, and his family. In my opinion want this to be settled soon, because I want to see some plot holes filled, such as will Geoffry take regain control his body since the mutating Naugus possessed him, will Rob O' and his family reclaim the throne in Mercia, and will Elias return to New Mobotropolis, help overthrow Naugus, and take back his rightful role as King of the Kingdom of Acorn. I guess the recently started Worlds Collide arc (and the fact that both Sonoc's world and Mega Man's world were reset) will give Archie and Penders some time to come to an agreement, and will hopefully lead to the return of the banished echidnas (and Saffron Bee, who was banished at the same time Julie-Su was) by at least by what I hope will be at least sometime next year at the earliest. Please read this Ian Flynn and Ken Penders. I want the characters exclusive to the comic to still be used, because they make the comic series unique and give us readers a different view of the story Sonic and everything and everyone in his world compared to the games, and that makes the comics truly special. By the way, I want to congratulate the guys at Archie for- last month- making it to the 50th issue of Sonic Universe (wish it was the originally planned Sonic Underground epilogue I read about a few months ago. After reading final cut, [remainder of this sentence is a spoiler, so read at your own risk] I'm worried about Shard...), and also for the upcoming 250th issue of Sonic the Hedgehog as well as Mega Man's first milestone in its 25th issue next month. May there be many more for all three comic series.