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

[Shadowlax]

14 hours ago, horridus said:

One would hope so. But Penders seems to have an uncanny ability to induce *baffling* stupidity in people, given the incomprehensible incompetence displayed by Archie during the lawsuit. 

Is that his stand ability?

[Shaddy Zaphod]

It's like Survivor from Part 6. Just shoots tiny bits of electricity through the ground (or in this case the internet) and can instantly make anyone around him stupid and angry.

[Shadowlax]

Also to be fair in reference to Archie during the trial, no Archie had been fumbling with legal documents artist payment and rights for years. While I don't think Ken had a case, the fact that he got as far as he did means that he didn't induce incompetence, Archie had been incompetent the whole time. Which is known.

 

Spoiler

So actually kens stand is gold experience requiem. 

 

[Salamander]

Ken's stand's power is to induce something, that's for sure.

I think it might be horror.

[The Tenth Doctor]

There's that empowering, feminist pleasing, not creepy on a making into a sex symbol Lara Su-kini again....

[Ryannumber1gamer]

11 minutes ago, The Tenth Doctor said:

There's that empowering, feminist pleasing, not creepy on a making into a sex symbol Lara Su-kini again....

But it's fine because "er cos play is worse"! 

[King Scoopa Koopa]

5 hours ago, Ryannumber1Scarer said:

But it's fine because "er cos play is worse"! 

And you can bet no one will stop him from proving it, too.

[RobotnikHolmes]

Jeez, Ken's organizing is as worse as his comic-making.

[BlueSky]

On ‎24‎.‎10‎.‎2016 at 2:35 PM, RobotnikHolmes said:

Why does Penders even cling to those old Knuckles comics and his Mobius 25-years Later stories? The Knuckles comics I can assume because they were good at the time, but nobody liked the future Mobius soap-opera even when it came out. They're both hideously out-dated both in writing and nonsensical sci-fi elements, and releasing them today would be like selling old dinosaur dung to the general public. XP

Maybe he thinks it's so retro already it'll be the latest hot in the time he actually makes progression in said "project" and he'd be the coolest guy on the block because of it... I can't think of any other reason...

And maybe he's planning publicing those in-digital versions for free and only trying to get money for the physical ones? I don't know but that could be one way, probably not something he would do but still.

 

Maybe the booth is meant to be embodiment of Halloween? (And if that's meant to be feminist, I'm starting to feel a bit sorry towards some of them... )

Btw at the moment of writing some tweet posts in the forums are glitching, everything's scrolling down itself  when they're around in the current page even when I'm not scrolling. Makes liking/quoting pretty frustrating...

 

[Dr. Detective]

At this point it's obvious to me that The Lara-Su Chronicles isn't in development hell... The Lara-Su Chronicles IS development hell!

He's M. Night Shamalyizing us and we don't even know it.

[horridus]

Aaand we have minor waxing of philosophic on the Lara-Su Chronicles, as well as some insight into the creative process. 

You know, that's all very nice and good that you're evidently going beyond your usual scope, really it is, but... it'd be nice if you could *show* us how this is so that maybe other people might be able to judge for themselves if you're actually accomplishing what you say you're accomplishing in your work. Kinda hard to get excited when you're not really demonstrating *why* this is a big deal. Also, dude... pick a plot and stick with it. Seriously, if you're 'figuring it out now' you're only serving to delay things all the more. 

Not really sure what to say about his process, cause let's face it, everyone does such things different- some people start with the beginning, some the end, and so on and so forth, even if this technique sounds... less than productive towards the end that Penders claims that it serves, from my perspective. 

[Blazey Firekitty]

I'm starting to believe Ken is delaying the comic on purpose and never plans to release it. I don't know what he'd gain from that but I'm having a hard rationalizing his actions otherwise.

[Shaddy Zaphod]

Well I mean

 

it's not like he'd really gain much from releasing it either.

[RobotnikHolmes]

Ken keeps bragging about how much "detail" he's adding to his stories...

why can't he just write a decent story, with none of that useless fluff he spreads throughout?

[horridus]

I suppose this would fall under advertising. 

Remind me, how many adventures has Lara-Su really been in circa 25YL? We both know 30YL ain't happening anytime soon, and that whole 'Evil Future Knuckles' storyline that she was introduced to was pretty much nullifed by the existence of 25YL proper, soo I'm kinda drawing a blank about how many legit adventures she's been into before now. 

[BlueSky]

^ That probably means just that he's right about it being her greatest adventure yet whatever he ends up throwing between those imaginary covers (since he's so much more into digital publishing than real printing anyway).

[Tylinos]

When writing that tweet, he was probably thinking along the lines of "This is going to be the biggest story yet for my characters!", and didn't really realize what he was doing when he specifically called it Lara-Su's greatest adventure.  This is why you shouldn't use the "______'s greatest adventure yet!" cliche, kids.

Meanwhile:

I have to admit, while I'm not a fan of his art style in the slightest, this is rather nice of him.

[horridus]

Aaand the pendulum swings.

 

I am curious- has anyone ever tried to bring up the fact that his demands were completely untennable in the face of Archie's contract with SEGA? Namely his desire for copyright over his characters is directly in conflict with the fact that Archie only prints Sonic comics so long as everything is owned by SEGA, and that by demanding his ownership, he was essentially asking the company to risk the right to print said comics in the name of appeasing him and him alone?

I bring this up because every time he talks about this, he never mentions the contract thing, ever, nor does he ever see fit to mention some of the other things that he feel's entitled to.

Archie is no saint in this entire affair, but his continue dishonesty when it comes to this subject is... extremely trying, to say the least. 

[Blazey Firekitty]

I honestly wish Ken hadn't ever come back into the public eye. He would have been remembered as a guy who maybe wrote some questionable things, but didn't really do anything wrong but fight with Karl Bollers. It's sad that he showed back up as this "repo-man" over the past few years who's taken away pretty much everything he gave.

[Dr. Detective]

17 hours ago, Blazey Firekitty said:

I honestly wish Ken hadn't ever come back into the public eye. He would have been remembered as a guy who maybe wrote some questionable things, but didn't really do anything wrong but fight with Karl Bollers. It's sad that he showed back up as this "repo-man" over the past few years who's taken away pretty much everything he gave.

I'm torn.

On the one hand, even though I wasn't the biggest fan of the old comic continuity and I prefer the new one far more, I sympathize with everyone who feels they lost something special and genuinely miss it because of that.

On the other hand, everything that Ken is doing and saying now is providing me with far more entertainment then he's ever managed to when I eventually got around to reading his stuff. Where would we be right now without Ugly white String Bikini Lara-Su and Demonic, scary terra-bad 3D Rendered Lien-Da? 

[BlueSky]

^ Somewhere where I wouldn't need to worry about how Elias is going to end up look like and fear it coming to my dreams after it maybe happens...

[horridus]

And we've an update on where at least one of the stories is. 

I assume he is mentioning that prequel story he claimed he would have ready... I'm not sure of the exact time, but it was a long while back. The Storm, that's it. 

[RetroRy]

On 11/7/2016 at 8:43 PM, horridus said:

I am curious- has anyone ever tried to bring up the fact that his demands were completely untennable in the face of Archie's contract with SEGA? Namely his desire for copyright over his characters is directly in conflict with the fact that Archie only prints Sonic comics so long as everything is owned by SEGA, and that by demanding his ownership, he was essentially asking the company to risk the right to print said comics in the name of appeasing him and him alone?

I bring this up because every time he talks about this, he never mentions the contract thing, ever, nor does he ever see fit to mention some of the other things that he feel's entitled to.

Archie is no saint in this entire affair, but his continue dishonesty when it comes to this subject is... extremely trying, to say the least. 

Continued dishonesty and continued ability to spit half truths.  Ken is constantly vocalizing that Archie had the opportunity to work with him and THEY decided not to, putting the blame squarely on them and pushing the agenda to demonize them.  However, he never seems to ever go in depth into what his actual demands were.  Weighing the options, his demands would have done far more damage to the comic than just his characters being removed and only a certain group of the fandom knows it (mostly here).  I've seen many a fan turn on Archie for not working with Ken when they in fact don't even know what Ken's terms were really about.  They just know Ken's side because he is the most vocal so you really only hear one side.

I agree that Archie does share the blame for what happened but Ken is spinning it to be that they are the ONLY ONES to blame.

[SBR2]

On ‎11‎/‎8‎/‎2016 at 5:37 PM, horridus said:

And we've an update on where at least one of the stories is. 

 

I assume he is mentioning that prequel story he claimed he would have ready... I'm not sure of the exact time, but it was a long while back. The Storm, that's it. 

It's not related to Sonic. BTW It's Set after Sonic The Hedgehog #144.

[Ryannumber1gamer]

The only two Sonic/TL-SC related stuff that's surfaced over the last two or so weeks, with the rest being a lot of Election based stuff. All we know is there's supposedly more TL-SC items to come (Don't know why when he can't sell the stuff he already has), and his request image thing speaks for itself.