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Distant Shadow wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: Distant Shadow wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: Myself 123 wrote: So many echidnas died that day. Which given game canon, they were suppose to be dead to begin with.

I'm honestly glad it's all gone. All the echidnan lore over the years became confusing and convoluted while the games kept it simple with Knuckles being the sole survivor of aztec echidnas.

My only lament is Shade and the Marauders can't replace Julie-Su and the Dark Legion, that would of been a beautiful insult towards Ken Penders for all he's done. You mean you want to insult Penders? Just because I'm not as much of a fan of the comics as I am for the games doesn't mean I approve of what Penders did. Yes he has rights to his OCs and I am supportive of his rights to keep them just as I would be for any Sonic fan with OCs, but going so far as one lawsuit after another, especially when he signed a work for hire contract which makes his OCs property of Sega, this contract just so happened to be missing when normally such lawsuit would obviously be foolish if it was still there. Instead of talking it over with Archie and Sega like adults, he went ahead and threw a wrench into their production which upset both the comics and the audience.

His first lawsuit was because he believed Shade and the Marauders was too much like Julie-Su and the Dark Legion. I think it would be poetic justice if the comics did indeed replace them because of the characters Penders had removed. I'm not saying I approve of what he did, I'm just saying that what's done is done. I don't see any point in trying to insult him when I'm sure the lawsuit was insult enough. I'm ready to let it go. Yeah, but I still think Sega should replace Dark Legion with Marauders. Not just to annoy Penders but because they have rights to the Marauders to begin with.