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

[Zonic 2099]

Oh right, because fighting your targeted audience on every little detail they find to be bad will totally result in them investing in your stories.

Oh wait, Paramount doing the complete opposite of that netted them not one but two very successful movies! How odd...

[Rabid-Coot]

My critics are mostly bots and I will continue to get into the same arguements with them at every opportunity.

[Rabbitearsblog]

5 hours ago, Zonic 2099 said:

Oh right, because fighting your targeted audience on every little detail they find to be bad will totally result in them investing in your stories.

Oh wait, Paramount doing the complete opposite of that netted them not one but two very successful movies! How odd...

And yet, he still responds to those "critics."

[Shiny Gems]

5 hours ago, Rabbitearsblog said:

And yet, he still responds to those "critics."

Makes me think as if he is being trolled.

Not that the critics are trolls, though, at all. What I mean is that he is like a person responding to trolls, one who keeps biting the bait from the trolls when "The only winning move is not to play." Again, the critics are no trolls, but what I am saying here is just like the person who should stop replying to trolls, he should not give the critics any attention, especially if he thinks that way about critics. He does not have to respond to them.

You know what I mean here? Again, there are no trolls in Ken and the critics' scenario, I just wanted to do a small comparison with the conclusion being for him not to pay attention to those critics if he doesn't think good of them.

[Rabid-Coot]

Feels like what tlsc is changes depending on the mood of the day.

[CertifiedNobody]

He should be careful about being so open with using Knuckles in his books. He doesn't even bother calling him K'nox.

[King Scoopa Koopa]

"Should" and Ken Penders have never played nice together.

[Rabbitearsblog]

8 hours ago, Rabid-Coot said:

Feels like what tlsc is changes depending on the mood of the day.

Can't he make up his mind?

[ZERO_ninja]

I've not really kept up with this over the years, but it's been 8 years now, has anything actually materialised? 

Scanning over the thread just looks like Penders winding people up on twitter is all there's been. 

[Razule]

10 minutes ago, ZERO_ninja said:

I've not really kept up with this over the years, but it's been 8 years now, has anything actually materialised? 

Scanning over the thread just looks like Penders winding people up on twitter is all there's been. 

He's posted like 5 pages in varying stages of completion.

[ZERO_ninja]

Just now, Razule said:

He's posted like 5 pages in varying stages of completion.

At that pace he might have a full issue in another 20 years time!

[MetalSkulkBane]

Well, if you count every time he wrote something on Twitter as the "part of the experience", then LSC is around the 3rd book by now.

[Shaddy Zaphod]

There's a member here who was formerly a translator (sorry I can't remember your name) and I believe they said it was closer to 16 or 17 pages. Which is still nowhere close to the projected amount.

[VRiderCh]

I saw "Ken Penders" trending on Twitter and immediately came here. It's like an old cowboy movie where the one guy runs into the saloon to warn everybody that the outlaws are back.

Edit: Oh, it's for whatever this "BoingKid" thing is... which... what?

26 minutes ago, Shaddy Zaphod said:

There's a member here who was formerly a translator (sorry I can't remember your name) and I believe they said it was closer to 16 or 17 pages. Which is still nowhere close to the projected amount.

I believe that was AdamisFox?

[Zaysho]

The Boingkid situation isn't really much like the stuff with Penders and Archie a decade ago, but Sonic fans will always prioritize beating a dead horse.

Both suck, but they are such different scenarios. Penders got it in his head that his published work from Archie was being used wholesale in a Sega game but he wasn't involved, when he realized Archie fucked up somewhere, he took advantage of that to copyright his creations and collect a paycheck from Sega (didn't quite work out that way). Regardless of what you think of this or the end result, he at least had some grounds even if it was pretty flimsy.

Boingkid basically made an unsolicited submission to IDW about getting their original webcomic published and distributed, presumably ignored (which is typically what publishers are supposed to do) and then eventually abused Twitter's DMCA system to target IDW Sonic content (by the official artists working on the book) with Belle claiming plagiarism (they claimed the timing between their submission and Belle's introduction but this still requires them to prove their work was even looked at and in particular seen by Evan, who likely would not have). The qualities shared between Boingkid and Belle are barely even surface level (you can strain to boil them both down to being based on toys), evident by the fact they had to draw their character with Belle's features to even attempt to make a point that no one could take seriously.

I don't think they have much in common, and I honestly can't see that case going to court or having an effect on the comic.

Also, anything related to that situation is best directed here.

[CrownSlayers Shadow]

So, a really shitty publicity stunt in other words?

[King Scoopa Koopa]

4 hours ago, CrownSlayer’s Shadow said:

So, a really shitty publicity stunt in other words?

What's funny is that at first, I thought this was referring to the last decade of TLSC buzz.

[Zonic 2099]

I'm inclined to disagree because with the morale of the story being "Guns are not toys." It's rather stupid for ONE society to ban them all and risk being ill prepared should a war occur with another much more hostile society or an invasion much like Robotnik's who knows how many decades later.

There's a reason why most real life politics don't mesh well with series like Sonic the Hedgehog that are meant for all ages but has it's targeted demographic being aimed at kids.

[Mobotropolis]

Sonic doesn't use a gun for the same reason Goku doesn't; his pride won't allow it. 

He gets greater satisfaction from testing the limits of his physical ability. 

People forget about that Great War story because - 

• Ran during a time of the book's unpopularity (the gap between Robotnik's death and the introduction of Eggman)
• It was not an interesting story to begin with
• Had no SegaSonic Characters in it 
• It was a backup 
• Ran over 20 years ago 

So yeah; people may forget.

Expecting even your fans to remember footnotes like that is silly. 

[The Tenth Doctor]

Comparing a story about cartoon echidna's giving up weapons to a real life event is in bad taste.

[Jovahexeon Jax Joranvexeon]

2 hours ago, The Tenth Doctor said:

Comparing a story about cartoon echidna's giving up weapons to a real life event is in bad taste.

Welcome to Penders Avenue, given that this has been his MO for the last few months.

[King Scoopa Koopa]

Months?

[Jovahexeon Jax Joranvexeon]

2 minutes ago, King Scoopa Koopa said:

Months?

Yeah, he's lately been likening real life tragedies to his work to somehow make it seem brilliant lately.

[King Scoopa Koopa]

6 hours ago, Jovahexeon Jax Joranvexeon said:

Yeah, he's lately been likening real life tragedies to his work to somehow make it seem brilliant lately.

I honestly thought he'd been doing that for years now.

[Jovahexeon Jax Joranvexeon]

2 minutes ago, King Scoopa Koopa said:

I honestly thought he'd been doing that for years now.

That's a possibility. He's just gotten especially obnoxious about it in the past few months, especially when he tries to tie it into current events.