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That is true. I guess Ian's writing redeemed much of the characters for lots of readers.

 

That's one way of looking at it, and I'm sure it's true for some fans. However, I think it's also likely that many people genuinely enjoyed at least some of Penders' contributions. If you're in your 20s now and have been reading the comics since you were a teen or, like me, even earlier, you've been a fan of the world Penders and Bollers built. I was a massive fan of the Knuckles series from age seven to it's cancellation, and started reading Sonic with issue 52, up to just before the book really became a train wreck. It just started getting too dramatic to me, playing more like an episode of Dawson's Creek than an adventure story. I was also getting into other comics by fellas like Chester Brown, Alan Moore, and Frank Miller. I actually love drama, but the way it was beginning to be handled was cheesy, and it just got worse after I was gone. Whenever I look at the issues I missed however, most of the really god-awful stuff (the slap, Tails weeping with fused-together fingers) was written by Karl Bollers, not Penders. Which leads me to the conclusion that despite it's faults, fans generally liked what Penders brought to the table. I believe the backlash is mainly due to his shifty business practices, poor treatment of fans and professionals, the lawsuit, and perceived arrogance. Ian Flynn was on clean-up duty after Penders and Bollers left the book, but most of the characters he redeemed were messed up by Bollers, not Penders. Penders even revealed that if he hadn't been fired, a lot of what he was planning to do was cleaning up after Bollers as well, re-deeming Sally and the like. So I do think the long-time fans do (or at least once did) enjoy Penders' contributions more than they admit. I think the fans who want things to stay as they are now are generally those that got into the comics after Flynn established their current tone. And Flynn's reboot is a really good comic from what I've read. In fact, it's a lot better than I expected it to be. Is it exactly what I'd want out of a Sonic book? No, I'm someone who grew up on the Bollers-era, and despite my criticisms of his work, I really like a lot of what he did. I just think he took it too far. But Flynn's doing a good book, and I get why people who were introduced to this version of the series don't want to see it change.

https://www.fanficti...SatAM-Landslide A fan-fic I wrote. *Invader Zim voice* Praise me, PRAISE ME!

What do you think it would feel like to press your mouth against the rose-petal lips of Ken Penders in a sweet-scented embrace?

I love it!

Everything would go well until Rotor dies in an accident. The trauma would drive Sally mad. She'd use her surgical abilities to make a suit out of Rotor's body. Then she'd sew Snively into the Rotor suit and force him to act like a walrus. You know, like in that movie Tusk. (Not the Jodorowsky one.) When the Freedom Fighters found out and tried to stop her, she'd sew them mouth to you-know-what, creating a Mobian Centipede.