Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27441478-20160601052927/@comment-27441478-20160615103024

With the very little information we have, I presume his TL-SC will be mostly made up of his Echidna fan characters (hopefully). If does manage to use non Echidna, well established characters of pre-super genesis wave, that would be the most utter disrespect. Its like pissing or defecating on someone's grave. Please leave them in peace.

"Before the game came out he seemed okay with Archie using his characters."

Because he hadn't yet filed for copyright from them yet. It was around 2009 when he started sh**. Once he got legal hold of them behind Sega and Archie's back, then he filed the case against EA.

Since I never have played Chronicles, I dont really care much for those guys who were taken from there.

However, I really do want non-Penders characters to show up again, so far they haven't. I suspected Sega or Archie are tieing up loose end to make sure ex-Archie staff members dont "get an idea" and follow down the dark path Penders took. I respect Pender's rights to his characters and stories, but he didn't need to be an asshole about it. On his side of the case, the reaon he went apes*** with the lagal cases is maybe because either Archie didnt pay him or didnt pay him enough in royalties for their use of characters(?)

Regarding "his" Echidnas, even though he created them, their design was purely based off of the existing 'Knuckles the Echidna' so he shouldn't have been able to claim them. He can keep the stories he wrote and "pure" original characters such as Geoffrey St. John (There werent any other Mobian/Skunks around both before or during Archie or Sega's Sonic games) and thats pretty much it. Matter is, most of the legal information about the case is still ongoing and thus, largely confidential to the general public, until the case is done for. Sega/Archie doesnt want to say anything about it, Ken Penders has been pretty open on his own private forum, but he might be subjected to bias (therefore not very trusted), and neutral parties dont care enough to get news or information from them. Regardless, the damage is done. We wont be seeing them again.

Once I have the time, ill put up a memorial on my page dedicated to the lost.

" Why is one Mobian spared, while another taken? To this day, I couldn't give you an answer. But death comes for us all, eventually. When you lose over 200 characters within a single legal agreement, it's easy for one death to become just another number. But all I knew was my childhood   was gone, and a part of me wished that I had been taken instead. The dead - they've settled their debts. It's up to the living to pick up the tab.