Megathread The Lara-Su Chronicles and Ken Penders topic - READ PAGE 164, POST 4096

[Ellipsis-Ultima]

I spy a new page for The Storm story...

[horridus]

Huh. So you are correct. Judging by the giant quiff on Geoff's head and the bright flash, I'm gonna assume that's the second page of The Storm, wherein the redesign transition whatever thing happens.  

[goku262002]

The Splatoon 2 community is the best:

[Adamis]

3 hours ago, horridus said:

Huh. So you are correct. Judging by the giant quiff on Geoff's head and the bright flash, I'm gonna assume that's the second page of The Storm, wherein the redesign transition whatever thing happens.  

I confirm.

[Zippo]

Sir_Miheal's Magnum Opus. 

[pocket]

15 hours ago, goku262002 said:

Here guys I'm gonna give you nightmares and crap all over 1 of the best boxarts at the same time:


(Credit for this terrifying mock up goes to Sir_mihael at Retro)

What are the odds of Penders unironically liking this and also requesting a "original artwork copyright Ken Penders" mark on it?

[BlueSky]

On ‎24‎.‎7‎.‎2017 at 10:57 PM, Tylinos said:

Something worth noting is that, as off-model as the uncanny valley Sonic drawing is, and even with literally hundreds of replies worth of criticism and rejection on it, it's still netted him nearly 400 Likes as of now, which may actually be the most Likes he's ever received on a tweet by a wide margin.  For comparison, his actually-legitimately-decent drawing of Captain America from the other day only has 9 Likes.

Gee, this is social media in a nutshell; all "Sanik"'s get the likes and the attention while some good stuff is left unseen because it doesn't get enough lift and isn't "daring" enough.

There might lie something good about that but right now I see pretty much mostly bad stuff coming from it.

If I'd be on Twitter I might go and give a like for that Captain America tweet just because it's good-looking and I love doing stuff other's don't. Even when I feel pretty indifferent about Captain... One person wouldn't too too much but still...

It's kind of sad he can't do stuff in a way he's actually good at because he doesn't get attention by doing so. Maybe that's the reason why he went on full steam with that lawsuit, for getting as much attention as possible...

[SonicComicFanboy]

 Question because I am legit curious?  How is Ken bankrolling his projects & con visits?  He hasn't worked in comics in ages, no doubt whatever royalties he did get from Archie are running low if not gone.  Does he have a day job?  Is his wife paying for it?  Is he secretly paid by SEGA to harrass Archie-Sonic fans?   How does he do it!?

[King Scoopa Koopa]

1 hour ago, SonicComicFanboy said:

 Question because I am legit curious?  How is Ken bankrolling his projects & con visits?  He hasn't worked in comics in ages, no doubt whatever royalties he did get from Archie are running low if not gone.  Does he have a day job?  Is his wife paying for it?  Is he secretly paid by SEGA to harrass Archie-Sonic fans?   How does he do it!?

I think rumor is it's that one.

[Sgt Nate V]

Resized for your convenience from Sonic Retro:

Also from the same thread:

EDIT: Fixed the second picture.

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[horridus]

And a small, decidedly odd bit of news.

...yeeah, that's a nice gesture and all but... maybe you should just.. finish the app, release it, and such, before thinking of having amateur voice actors do anything??

[King Scoopa Koopa]

36 minutes ago, horridus said:

And a small, decidedly odd bit of news.

...yeeah, that's a nice gesture and all but... maybe you should just.. finish the app, release it, and such, before thinking of having amateur voice actors do anything??

The winners will be the ones who don't end up participating. Of course, having all the losers take on roles will fill out the cast rather quickly.

On the other hand, this means the real winning move really is not to play.

[Tenko]

Sooo...we were all joking about how he would turn-a-bout and start attacking IDW with his disputes etc now that they were the Sonic licence holders.

All in the last 24 hours... I didn't actually think it would happen when we were joking around about it..I thought he couldn't shock me anymore.

[Tylinos]

This isn't new.  He's brought up his (understandable) frustration over IDW not paying him royalties a few times before.  It's a bit telling that he didn't step up voicing his anger toward them until this week, though.

I'm more bemused by that first tweet there about Fulop, along with this:

After months of insisting (up until as recently as last week) that Archie's license issues were because they wanted to drop the book to focus on Riverdale, he's now fairly confident that they lost the license because Sega pulled it from them over the Fulop lawsuit instead.  I mean, hey, it's good that he finally seems to agree with what people have been telling him for months now, but after all of his talk about Riverdale, it's...pretty silly looking.

[SonicComicFanboy]

 This man is just pathetic!

IDW hasn't even reprinted any of the DC or Marvel Star Trek books have they?  As far as I can tell they have only done Gold Key.  They don't owe Ken a single coin!

 This man is just, good lord.  He's just determined to mooch off any publisher that has any franchise he's ever worked on.  That's just sad.

[RedFox99]

10 minutes ago, Tylinos said:

 

Did he steal that joke from Sonic boom?

[Korke]

I guess my hope in humanity has raised up a bit. Or not, seeing as this could be some kind of reverse mentality strategy?

Who knows...

[SenEDDtor Missile]

34 minutes ago, RedFox99 said:

Did he steal that joke from Sonic boom?

Wouldn't be the first time he stole something.

[Tenko]

33 minutes ago, SonicComicFanboy said:

 IDW hasn't even reprinted any of the DC or Marvel Star Trek books have they?  As far as I can tell they have only done Gold Key.  They don't owe Ken a single coin!

Is that right? Surely not? While he's usually forgetful on things he himself has said in the past, he's generally pretty good with his fact checking, especially when it comes to money. Im not much of a Star Trek fan so I can't verify but it would be interesting doing a check to see if it is indeed only the Gold Key ones being reprinted.

[SonicComicFanboy]

2 minutes ago, Tenko said:

Is that right? Surely not? While he's usually forgetful on things he himself has said in the past, he's generally pretty good with his fact checking, especially when it comes to money. Im not much of a Star Trek fan so I can't verify but it would be interesting doing a check to see if it is indeed only the Gold Key ones being reprinted.

As far as I can tell they've just done Reprints of Gold Key and the British Star Trek comics. As well as some newapaper strips & photoplay cina-story esque comics of the origonial.

They haven't done the DC, Marvel or Malibu Star Trek books in reprint yet.  And now I would'nt blame em if they never do.

 

 So yea.  Ken is full of hot air on this one.

 

http://www.idwpublishing.com/product-category/star-trek/star-trek-gold-key-archives/

http://www.idwpublishing.com/product/star-trek-the-classic-uk-comics-vol-1/

http://www.idwpublishing.com/product/star-trek-the-newspaper-strips-vol-1/

http://www.idwpublishing.com/product/star-trek-new-visions-vol-5/

[goku262002]

Sir_mihael actually managed to fix Pender's crap drawing into a decent looking sonic:

[RetroRy]

9 hours ago, Tenko said:

Sooo...we were all joking about how he would turn-a-bout and start attacking IDW with his disputes etc now that they were the Sonic licence holders.

All in the last 24 hours... I didn't actually think it would happen when we were joking around about it..I thought he couldn't shock me anymore.

It's like suddenly, wherever the Sonic comic goes, he is the ghost that follows it.  It can't be coincidence that he has suddenly dropped Archie Comics from his tweets and replaced it with IDW.  It just can't be.  He is so pissed that comic is going to continue without him.  And the last tweet "That's right. Neither @IDWPublishing or @EaglemossLtd have any documents showing transfer of rights from @StarTrek comics creators."....HOW IN THE HELL WOULD YOU KNOW THIS KEN?!  How and not because "you're in the business".  You have barely been in the business for years!  Suddenly you have all this intimate knowledge of IDW and their contracts?  How?! 

 

Basically saying, "why do you attack me all the time and not Ian?"  There are plenty of people who attack Ian, mainly at your behest.  The difference?  Ian allows them to actually criticize him without having to respond like a crying child.  Even Ian's supporters have had criticisms on some of the stories he has done.  While some don't like you as a person, people actually like some of the elements you introduced.  The same for Fulop or Boilers or other writers.  You choose to blow up over the slightest bit of criticism and turn it into an attack on your integrity because you can't be proven wrong.  You just can't, because you need to be the "savior of Sonic".

So many people have already responded to this but it blows my mind that there are still supporters for this guy.  He calls people who criticise him bullies but his responses to them are way worse.  Though I gotta admit, this was the best response I've seen to Ken in a long time:

 

[Meta77]

I am amazed people actually still like him sure some old stories were decent but the man is a douche

[RedFox99]

Just now, Meta77 said:

I am amazed people actually still like him sure some old stories were decent but the man is a douche

He seems to resort to insults too often.

[horridus]

11 hours ago, Tylinos said:

This isn't new.  He's brought up his (understandable) frustration over IDW not paying him royalties a few times before.  It's a bit telling that he didn't step up voicing his anger toward them until this week, though.

I'm more bemused by that first tweet there about Fulop, along with this:

After months of insisting (up until as recently as last week) that Archie's license issues were because they wanted to drop the book to focus on Riverdale, he's now fairly confident that they lost the license because Sega pulled it from them over the Fulop lawsuit instead.  I mean, hey, it's good that he finally seems to agree with what people have been telling him for months now, but after all of his talk about Riverdale, it's...pretty silly looking.

This is a pretty typical pattern for him. After all the other false starts concerning Archie's cancellation he kept changing his tune and pretending like he and he alone had the special professional insight to know what's going on. Him flip-flopping suddenly after having spent the rest of the year convinced that it was because Archie wanted to focus on Riverdale is nothing surprising. Guy really wants to look like someone in the know about this stuff. 

As for the rest of it, his sudden focus on IDW, well that's not surprising either. He sporadically brought up IDW in the past years, but the fact that he is now suddenly THIS focused on them is a little too convenient to be a coincidence. Particularly since he's now going to have to confront the awful reality that the intended Pre-Reboot Gravy Train he envisioned for himself has just been derailed and crashed into a ditch courtesy of IDW's extreme unlikelihood of ever wanting to touch any Pre-Reboot material ever. 

However, as this is the LSC Chronicles Thread, I feel compelled to add something pertinent about Lara-Su Chronicles, and so I bring you this... decidedly odd creative insight from the man.

How.... very lovely.