Board Thread:Archie Sonic/@comment-25225319-20160223065526/@comment-477304-20160404235846

Spacephobic-Sonic wrote: Myself 123 wrote: It's very unlikely that we'll see them again, Penders won the rights to the characters he created whilst he was working with Archie comics and is using them to make his own series. Sega refuse to even acknowledge the possibility that his contract didn't state that all of his characters would be owned by them. With these things in mind, it's unlikely that any kind of negotiation between Sega and Penders will ever occur. You'll just have to accept that and move on. What did you mean by "''' Sega refuse to even acknowledge the possibility that his contract didn't state that all of his characters would be owned by them." ???  '''

I think it will be a risky idea to have replacement characters since all Pender's major characters (the ones that was in more than 5 issues) had more impact on the stories like the 25 years old saga but them not have the same impact can be okay.

plus I think having a female echidna (who's 100% different from Julie-Su) that has some type of relationship with Knuckles will be riskier but who knows,the future of the comics maybe like adding  the old characters back but giving them new back stories if Pender gave Archie the rights to use his characters the way he wants them to be (since I know that his series Lara-Su Chronicles is going to be weird or bad if it did come out yet and renaming their species to aliens was ridiculous.)

Bet since SEGA mandated that there can't be relationships with the game's Archie counterparts or have family members so it can be really awkward. I simply meant what I said. Penders should've had a contract that meant all the characters he created belong to them, so they refuse to acknowledge anything different, making negotiation difficult.