While many Archie Sonic fans have wanted further collections and reprints, this likely isn't the format they were hoping for. Having taken pre-orders since late December, former Archie Sonic writer and artist Ken Penders has revealed the cover proof for his upcoming hardcover reprint of Archie Sonic's "25 Years Later" saga.
Cover proofs featured in original blog post.
The saga, originally printed as a secondary story across 2003 and 2004, focuses on the interpersonal and political relationships of Knuckles, his partner Julie-Su and his future daughter Lara-Su in a post-Eggman world. In the original run of the comic, time altering events ultimately wrote this version of the future out of existence, and a different future was explored after Penders' departure in 2006. However, Penders states that this collection changes the final page of the arc, which will now link the story to his other Lara-Su Chronicles projects.
Penders remains a controversial figure in the fanbase for many reasons, with one major point of friction being what he claims to own following prior lawsuits. While rulings have made clear that Penders owns (or partially owns) a number of characters he created while working for Archie Comics, what isn't quite as clear is if he owns the right to reprint comics that feature SEGA owned characters and contain work by other Archie Sonic creators. Perhaps the strongest example is the panel featured on the back cover, originating from Issue 144, in which Penders is only credited as writer, with penciling, inking, and coloring attributed to Steven Butler, Jim Amash, and Jason Jensen respectively.
Penders anticipates the book to be available at Comic-Con in July, with earlier shipping to pre-orders.
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