Y'know, I used to like Ken. However, with the end result of "the Pendering", I have to say that I loathe what he has become. With one fell swoop, characters that people came to love...like Elias, Geoffrey St. John, and so forth are all gone because he wanted more money. The man felt he should be paid for work he was already paid for...again. I think he forgets that the characters he made were based off characters created by another company. The whole mythology around the echidnas were based off concepts created by Sega creators...chaos emeralds, guardian of the floating island, lost people, and such...his run was interesting but ultimately not as engaging as what Ben Hurst and co accomplished with SatAM. They, as the NC put it, "took something from nothing and created something wonderful".
He could never truly call the echidnas his because they were Sega's to begin with. Yet, he's making all this concentrated effort to make all his characters from the book "different and unique" when (from what I've seen) all they are is but a shadow of their former selves. Sorry, but I'll take the original version of Lara-Su please...heck, I like Ian's Jani-Ca version better. She pawned evil Knuckles.
Plus, she and Silver go great together. Poor Silver getting into these time travel situations.
About the whole unemployment thing...I can feel for the man. Living in California is not cheap but that's why there are jobs. I know he doesn't want to work for anyone ever again, but sometimes that's what you have to do. I was unemployed for a year and took no unemployment. I worked temp jobs, did work for my Dad, whatever I had to get by.
