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

[Ryannumber1gamer]

Smart move there Kenny Boy. Instead of being polite to people to see if you could maybe get a few fans. You be a freaking dickhead to them. Yet he wonders why there's so much hate for him -facepalm-

[Zaysho]

Meh, I'm a star trek fan and I didn't see star trek comics anywhere else so, I bought it. You're right tho.

Another thing I found funny, is that when I was walking out and saw pender's booth. Some guy pointed out how juile-su looked like knuckles, penders told him to get away from his booth immedatily. I cracked up a bit.

 

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Maybe he doesn't want SEGA's lawyers overhearing anybody. Though, you know, he could've just laid the confusion to rest (with typical style of backtracking and outright denial of what's in front of him), but it's not surprising he's doing all this terrible PR all by himself. I really, really hope it comes back to bite him in the ass.

[superwplf]

Just how afar were you? Is he X-Men by any chance? I would've just ran and kept on running the minute he spotted me.

I was behind some booth with plushies, I guess he saw the flash from the phone.

[Ryannumber1gamer]

Is it any wonder why no one even went over to him? He went on like a asshole to people, and the price of his crappy sketches and pictures with that ugly Julie-Su? Is it any wonder why him and the project is so hated upon?

[Gabz Girl]

Damn, and I heard some say that Penders was supposedly quite a nice guy in RL but these comments from superwplf make him sound like a nasty ol' man who only cares about money. Why the hell would you charge people for taking pictures of your booth? That's pathetic!

[Ryannumber1gamer]

Damn, and I heard some say that Penders was supposedly quite a nice guy in RL but these comments from superwplf make him sound like a nasty ol' man who only cares about money. Why the hell would you charge people for taking pictures of your booth? That's pathetic!

Well to be fair, is it anymore pathetic than flat out ripping off a Sega character and then more or less confirming it by claiming he's in his rights to do so?

[Zaysho]

Well to be fair, is it anymore pathetic than flat out ripping off a Sega character and then more or less confirming it by claiming he's in his rights to do so?

 

No, but he's already fighting an uphill battle to convince people that LSC isn't connected to Knuckles or Sonic at all, and his antics are just going to make that climb harder (or maybe impossible). Shooing people from your booth when the point out the similarity? Making people delete photos from their camera because his booth happened to be in the shot? I can't imagine anybody is going to have any nice "free publicity" for Penders because of this. And no one will stop pointing out those similarities, not when it's so blatant and he's not even explaining or trying to put a spin on the confusion, but instead being an out and out jerkass.

[Ryannumber1gamer]

Given that design, I'd say it already is impossible. I'd really be surprised if Sega lets him get away with that design, especially after the whole mess of The Dark Brotherhood bs where Kenny Boy tried the claim that it took things he created even though they for the most part had nothing to do with The Dark Legion.

[baba_944]

anyone saw my pic? It's Knuckles.

[Zaysho]

Given that design, I'd say it already is impossible. I'd really be surprised if Sega lets him get away with that design, especially after the whole mess of The Dark Brotherhood bs where Kenny Boy tried the claim that it took things he created even though they for the most part had nothing to do with The Dark Legion.

 

I really hope SEGA can call him out on this hypocrisy. He needs to be knocked down a peg, because claiming these designs aren't even remotely inspired by Sonic but crying foul about the Dark Brotherhood borders on lunacy (oh wait...).

 

 

anyone saw my pic? It's Knuckles.

 

We'd been talking about it for a few pages now, actually...

[superwplf]

I'm going back tommorrow because I bought two tickets for my friend and me but, he couldn't come . Ah well, more scumbag adventures with kenny!~

[Ryannumber1gamer]

*Sarcasm* Oh boy! I bet you must be excited to talk to old Kenny Boy again, after all, he's one of the greatest writers of all time *end sarcasm* 

[SIXTH-RATE SOMA]

It could be a bit of both. It could be that Penders was a nice guy in real life, but slowly succumbed to his vices as the fruits of his labor turned sour. It happens to the best of artists at times. I imagine the bitter failure of everything that wasn't Sonic-related is also what's had him so determined to see this one successful. Some of the best lies are the ones we tell ourselves, and sometimes the truth is just too frightening for people.

 

I dunno. I see that Penders is a hack-fraud of an artist, but there's just too much we don't know about Penders the person for me to be comfortable condemning him entirely. It kind of reminds me of Phil Fish; we all know he's a jerk, but there's more to people than that. We can only ever see this side of him from here, no one can really tell what's rolling around that head of his.

 

I guess what I'm trying to say is, by all rights hate Penders the Artist, but maybe we should cool our heels a bit with Penders the Human Being. That part of the story will forever be a mystery to us.

[biznizz]

...Was the Lara-Su or Julie-Su the other echyd'nya from Penders' Twitter banner? In any case charging twenty bucks for a goddamn photo, in a public area no less, is absolutely disgusting on every level. But I guess we shouldn't have been surprised.

[Sunwalker]

If you mean by trying to be life-like and horrifing then yes, I think it was cgi.  

Funny thing is, I did try to get a photo from afar but, he caught me and told me to delete the photo and if you aren't going to pay 20$ then he was going to call the authorites. So, I deleted it and I didn't really want to pay 20$ dollars so I went.

Meh, I'm a star trek fan and I didn't see star trek comics anywhere else so, I bought it. You're right tho.

Another thing I found funny, is that when I was walking out and saw pender's booth. Some guy pointed out how juile-su looked like knuckles, penders told him to get away from his booth immedatily. I cracked up a bit.

 

That is it. Until now I was divided whether I wanted or not that this project could have a modicum amount of success to compensate all the drama involved.

 

But the dude has crossed all lines and there is no redeeming quality whatsoever on this crap. Now TLSC and all his other projects can burn in hell for all that I care.

 

The dude do not want people to see his crappy both? Then in order to compensate for it, for the first time on Internet, I am going to show something far more humiliating: his pitch for a Sonic movie that he made for Sega. Here is the video:

 

http://youtu.be/oc2-fUf8wBs

 

Wait, there is more! Here is his PowerPoint presentation to SEGA:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B95glW8UeSnia2xuRWljQzFyTWc/edit?usp=sharing

 

The kids on the video seem to be the same as in Sonic Live, not that it is easy to tell since the lighting is awful for someone who claim to be also a director. The video itself has a quality worse than even the worst home videos. He couldn't even come with a proper Sega logo and used a haphazardly made photo of the TV screen instead. The kid says that Sonic is more than a video game and that his dad knows what Sonic actually is. How this dude thinks that he is the only thing that matters on Sonic! At least he has the guts to tell SEGA execs on their faces that his company is called "Floating Island Productions".

 

The part that actually matters, the movie premise itself, says absolutely nothing about what the movie would be about: Sonic was looking for Uncle Chuck, instead he finds a note saying that it is his birthday and then he flies on a hoverboard. Woah! It is going to win twelve Oscars, Ken Penders is a movie genius!!!1!!

 

About the presentation, note how he said that the movie would establish Sonic as an iconic character like Batman or Spider-Man. Talk about patting his own shoulders, which only shows how deluded he is about his on relevance for Sonic. This guy overestimate his talents by a huge margin. When someone knows his own strengths and weakness, it helps to focus on what the individual has the competence to do, helps to know where to improve and, more importantly, become more humble. But Penders is above all that because he is unable (or do not want) to admit his own mistakes.

 

He also hypocritically  boasts on the presentation about all the multimedia and International recognition of Sonic, when actually he couldn't give a damn about Sonic himself or anything beyond what he had written. He also outright lie by stating he was over 13 years with Sonic. His tenure was of 12 years and, to add insult to the injury, look at the properties of the Powerpoint file: the file is from September 2006, while he has left the comic at the end of 2005. The guy is presenting himself as a writer while he had already left the position, if it is not being a liar then nothing is.

 

He also says that he is "[R]ecognized by many Sonic fans as the premiere writer for Archie Sonic's comic". Don't make me laugh.

 

Is there still any doubt about why this shit never was bought by SEGA? Well, at least we have learned that his movie was going to be called "Sonic Armageddon", which fits well with what Ken Penders is to Archie Sonic's old continuity.

 

P.S.: Here is another download location for the video and the presentation, just in case the ones above go down:

https://mega.co.nz/#F!aYZhGJCY!x7hfv61m0vT6W0q9qqJAwA

[biznizz]

...What the actual F*CK.

 

....Was.... WAS THIS THE PITCH THAT KEN SABOTAGED BEN HURST FOR!?!?

 

 

No, no! NO!

 

Okay, Sonic Live came out in 97' and if we assume this was made in 1999-2002, then maybe those are indeed Stephen Penders & his cousin from that Special. So the SatAM movie was killed.... just so Ken could pitch this pile of sh*t.

 

I have no words.

 

I have no idea where you got this, Sunwalker, but.... I... I need to think on this for a bit. The stupidity of the "pitch" and the powerpoint is just too overwhelming.

 

...Again, I'm not surprised that he shot the unnecessary bit with a VHS cam (shot on sh*tteo, par for the course), but I'm surprise how lazy the pitch is.

 

We have no idea how old Sonic is in that clip; is the reason he sounds like a child because it's a flashback? Is it present day? Who shot hoverboard Sonic down? Is this SatAM? The Archie series? Neither?

 

We learn nothing from this. At all. Is this a continuity with SatAM's Robotnik? The Adventure Eggman? Hell, is the SatAM cast in this? Going by Uncle Chuck, maybe...?

[Ryannumber1gamer]

Oh my....that was just awful. The lighting was terrible, the logo looks like It was created using Photoshop, that kid at the beginning sounds like It's reading right off of a script along with feeding Ken's stupid thoughts that only he knows what makes Sonic into a great series, then don't even get me starting on the voice acting. It sounds like the little girl is voicing Sonic who is supposed to be at least 15 to 16 and don't tell me It's a young Sonic because if It's going off the comics, It means for Sonic to have his modern design, he'd have to be 15 or 16 since that's when he got the redesign. On top of that, if it did get the greenlight, Old Kenny boy himself would probably like to be the one making the animated movie and well we already know he has horrible art skills plus the crappy trailer for The Lost Ones don't paint a pretty picture for him.

[horridus]

Jesus Christ. It never ends. The pavilion of fail is just... too much. 

 

And I have to add to it. 

 

He's posted pictures of 'fans' (friends of his, going by the names) in front of his poster and... look at what Lara-Su is wearing. Take a good look. 

 

 

Recall.

 

She's a teenager. 

 

She's... a... a teenager... 

[Ryannumber1gamer]

Ken. Just why? What the f**k is your problem!? You are seriously trying to add sex appeal to these ugly designs. Ken would it seriously just listen and work on your freaking artwork for once!? 

 

Man can I not wait for this piece of shit to bomb. Some good characters drawn by the great Tracy Yardley reduced to this freaking shitty artwork. Does this man have any respect for these characters at all!?

[biznizz]

...So her face was slightly changed from the pink Grinch to a fugly pink Knuckles clone in Krystal's Star Fox Command outfit.

 

Pay $20, to stand in front of that. Nigh-on outright criminal.

 

Piss off, Penders. You goddamn pissant.

[Ryannumber1gamer]

Oh god. He had CGI Lien-Da there as well.

 

https://twitter.com/KenPenders/status/484895002154508288

[Eitarou]

Isn't the point of sex appeal to bring people into your series, not drive them away?

[antyep]

All this just make me cry for these characters. No character deserves this. It's a fate worse than death.

[biznizz]

Oh god. He had CGI Lien-Da there as well.

 

https://twitter.com/KenPenders/status/484895002154508288

 

Seeing someone stand next to it just drives home just how absolutely ugly that Lien-Da design is.

 

Another $20 down the drain. Might as well have outright burned that cash, "Bernie".

[Johnny2071]

I was behind some booth with plushies, I guess he saw the flash from the phone.

I don't mean to sound like a digicam know-it-all, but in the future, trying using a camera without the flash on, and also with a silent shutter.

 

Photography is kind of a minor hobby for me. As for stealth, people have said that I have a habit of not making noise when I walk through a hallway (in my case, the living room foyer).