I think possibly the worst part about it is the face. It's a fairly realistic face, with s generic Photoshop shade over it in the shape of some sunglasses... on one of his weird-as-fuck bodies. It's just wrong in every way.
*huddles to send a spiritual message to the future* my future sons and daughters...I don't have much time to send this message. when I pass, please place this tweet on my tombstone. literally engrave every aspect of this screenshot onto my tombstone, the world must know how this image affected me....thank you in advance....
I was just going to zoom on by signed in anonymously, but the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this image was Battlefield Earth. There's no way I'm going to be able to divorce this in my mind from Tom Cruise's doofy stilts and nose hoses, along with the almost complete lack of a camera angle that wasn't tilted and tinted. Also, Ken Penders confirming loads of tight echidna ass-shots? + - I know sex sells, but something tells me that the art is not going to live up to that type of hype, if such hype should even be made in the first place . Look at that semicolon, dash, and end parentheses. " + - You're about to see Xero wearing zero. MWAHAHAHAHA "
Battlefield Earth was John Travolta, not Tom Cruise. Perhaps L Ron Hubbard was a role model for Penders. Both seem filled to the brim with utter nonsense.
I just. I don't even. Normally, authors IGNORE the creepy-ass fan messages. I really really wish he would. Because Jesus.
Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse... This is not an attractive project. Who is going to buy this!? I wonder if he genuinely thinks his stuff is good, or is he trolling everyone? I can do better than this.
Well, you could argue we crossed the parody point months ago, and considering his underwear-clad teenage jailbait protagonist cover, were already dangerously close to the other one...
A lot of furries aren't even into the pornographic side of things. You'll always have the minority into seeing nudes with virtually any fandom, and the same applies here too. I could see his posters at that Florida convention disgusting, or off-putting, a fair deal of them. Parody or not, the very idea of him pandering (Nearly typed pendering.) to that minority adds to the creep factor his art already has from the uncanny valley. I think it's mind-blowing that we've gotten to the point where we're half-jokingly wondering if Penders is going into that territory.
Just to clarify (because he was replying to me), I didn't ask anything creepy or sexual. Here's my tweet :
I think that was the point my tired brain was trying to make in that post where I confused Tom Cruise and John Travolta somehow. Even amongst those who do like that sort of thing, the art is not going to do much for them. They may be pervs, but they're pervs with standards. I think, above all, it was more about how Penders responded and not how the question was asked. Sure, one could say he was being cheeky and everyone is exaggerating, but the fact that Xero is in some sort of loincloth and there's a teenage echidna on the cover in a bikini does give credence to the idea that one wouldn't put it past him to do that.
http://leoncorona.tumblr.com/ Sooo.....Kens a scumbag. More @ 11. Also, start from the bottom as thats how the email chain goes.
Ken does have a point, though: He kind of does need proof this is the actual artist. Anyone could claim they made that picture.
Does it justify that he's using material done by someone who didn't give him the permission to use that stuff ?
**Every time I see this topic at the top, all I think is "god, what butt up ass thing has he done now?..." How is it a grown man can act like an arrogant 13 year old deviant-artist so thoroughly, I mean, it's staggering... We obviously can't get to him with even constructive words, the only way is to just completely ignore this Lara-su comic, don't even buy it to burn it, or buy it ironically, money isn't ironic. Well one person needs to bite the bullet, to scan it and torrent it, but one sale is all he deserves, unless you can manage to steal it lol
Yeah I realized that right after I posted. but I'm on the Tumblr guy's side until some proof is found that he isn't the original artist and is just trying to stir trouble.