This madness didn't truly hit me until I scrolled to the bottom.by most accounts they were just rubber stamping stuff without ever looking at the content, but then saw this cover:
And want "WHAT?"
by most accounts they were just rubber stamping stuff without ever looking at the content, but then saw this cover:
And want "WHAT?"
"The World's Most Way Past Cool Comic!"by most accounts they were just rubber stamping stuff without ever looking at the content, but then saw this cover:
And want "WHAT?"
by most accounts they were just rubber stamping stuff without ever looking at the content, but then saw this cover:
And want "WHAT?"
If nothing else, this explain why SEGA mandated that sonic can't cry, even if that was a bit of an overeaction ( "sonic was shown depressed? Let's make sure he can't show sadness ever again!")by most accounts they were just rubber stamping stuff without ever looking at the content, but then saw this cover:
And want "WHAT?"
by most accounts they were just rubber stamping stuff without ever looking at the content, but then saw this cover:
And want "WHAT?"
I'm getting a nosebleed.by most accounts they were just rubber stamping stuff without ever looking at the content, but then saw this cover:
And want "WHAT?"
the 5th panel with the characters looking at Knuckles make me burst out laughing for some reason.Lets not forget the time Ken Penders had Knuckles walkThe IsraelitesThe Lost Tribe to Albion withRobin HoodRob o' the Hedge bybeing a mix of Moses and Jesushaving faith andparting the seawalking across the water with the lost tribe.
I know the thing under his nose is supposed to be an outline, but dang does the line looks like a nose ring in this angle.
Makes sense I guess, have Sega kept some of his knuckles shit canon or wiped it all after they lost the lawsuit?
Hahaha yeah I thought they would've done that but didn't expect them to make him the last of his kind lol that's nuts.
That's just keeping him in line with how he's always been in the games.
If you think that's nuts, you should check the story about the edchina race in the sonic bioware rpg that was one of the key points of this whole mess when penders sued Sega and EA because of them, and also how they erased the entire race in the comics by a evil tasmanian devil.
Just read up on it there, didn't know he had went after EA too. I still don't understand how he managed to copyright stuff within Sega's property. Iirc they lost because they didn't have a copy of his contract or something dumb, right?
Something like that. Sega said he signed a work for hire contract, like most comic book writers which makes it so that anything made for the comic is property of the employer, but they could not find any copy of it to prove it. Some think it was due to pure incompetence on their part that they lost something like that, which would make sense considering how little they seemed to care about the comics at the time.
Wait, what? Who wrote in this change to Charmy... Penders or Flynn? Wouldn't it have been enough for the Super Genesis Wave to change Charmy's age?
morbid curiosity.
I think the issue with that is , sega for the most part , likes to keep their spin off seperate. The reason the DiC sonic characters even lasted so long in the book was because of old contracts and sega not paying attention. Even when the reboot happened, Ian Flynn current sonic comic writter had to argue for it. And even still eventually they just got rid of em. So if they were confronted with this dilemma, they would easily just opt to not use those characters again because they have characters from the games that are draws and they can create new ones. Nothing worth suing over, you just won't see em again.
That's Ian Flynn's work. He's been in charge of the Sonic comics for the last 15 years or so, ever since Penders was fired. All of Flynn's work is, at its absolute worst, perfectly competent and professional. And usually it's better than that.
At that point in time it was under Ian Flynn. Ken Penders left after issue #159, and the brain damaged Charmy Bee was issue #177. Ian, did later apologize for it though, and there hasn't been a problem like this since, I think. The series would get a reboot with the 2013 issue "new 252" though, because 3 years prior was when Ken Penders sued the company, and that dispute lasted until the very end of 2012.
To put it, Very briefly: There is a story where evil sonic from the asshole dimension comes and impersonates sonic and just starts making out and doing stuff with another character she agrees to this because she thinks he's sonic. She agreed under false pretenses and how this may have effected her is never actually addressed.
