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Just part of Google's temper tantrum over being caught doing something illegal and being told they can't.

COPPA is fine, even good. It's YouTube's typical hamfisted response that's the problem. Even the FTC reportedly don't think YouTube is handling this properly.

Isn't Miyamoto pretty heavily involved in this one?

Cover is the first thing people see, and is often seen as advertising for the book. There's a reason people say "don't judge a book by its cover," though in this case...

He needs to quit using it because tomorrow never comes, since his stories never go anywhere.

"Dodged a bullet"? Well, put it this way, it's more like:

Wait, if they aren't real, then why do some drop out?

Isn't the whole "echyd'nya" (or whatever) thing supposed to be an in-universe reboot sort of thing? Like, they were echidna before, now they're... that?

I want Sticks and Cosmo to found the new Freedom Fighters, but get captured by Eggman and trapped inside Scratch and Grounder Badniks, leaving a humble, low-ranking rookie computer analyst named Sally to step up and take charge.

J.K. Rowling? He'd probably make J.K. Simmons (his portrayal of J. Jonah Jameson, specifically) look easy to work with. "They're clearly ripping off my seminal character, Drago, rather than creating something new and original that would fit in this world, and that's just sad." Even when he was at Archie, he couldn't break out the firehose to wash away what Bollers had done with "his" stuff in Return to Angel Island fast enough. Collaborative work is not his strong point. He's the guy who'd show up at a Battle of the Bands to perform a solo act, and if he was forced to bring others along, he'd probably tell them to just sit there and look pretty while he does the rest.

Well, yeah, but by that same token, we have good comic book stories and we have comic book stories Penders wrote, but they're all comic books. ...much as the latter scratches and claws to escape that fact.

Not that I'm aware of, but can't confirm or deny. I just took the first usable results from a few Google Image Searches.

Seems like your standard comic book universe sourcebook profiles to me, aside from the aforementioned flourishes unique to Penders himself (I.e. family trees).

Behold the Viewing Globe:

Ick, I'd hate to have my body associated with this thing. And is it me, or does the guy laying on the table look less like an "Echyd'nya" (or whatever) and more like just one of his many Knuckles clones? As for the chair thing, playing devil's advocate here, but maybe he's doing it because of their tails? (They do have tails still, right?) You know, like those 90's pics of Looney Tunes where they're wearing pants backwards so their tails can stick out of the zipper?