THE KEN PENDERS CHRONICLES: PendersCON Alert level 5- something actually made it to sale

ahhh you know, it'd be a good idea to archive everything from every dev and official account too. certainly they would all matter more to the preservation effort than Penders lol

 

Is there an easy way to archive/scrape an entire twitter account? I tried WFDownloader, and it saved all the images and videos, but none of the text

 

While scouring Twitter for yet more Wiki sources, I came across something extremely shocking I couldn't have come up with if I tired.

And he didn't tweet this on April 1st either. He genuinely wanted the first cover of the Endgame saga (a serious storyline where Sonic is framed for murdering Sally) to be a silly parody of the O.J. trials. Words cannot describe how utterly hilarious this is.

 

Bojack Horseman. We had Bojack Horseman. What do kids these days have? Nothing.

 

I think the funniest part of this is calling a character "Ford Bronco" after the car OJ Simpson drove. Doesn't surprise me the guy has always been weird. xD

 

This is hilarious but also kinda cringe. They made the right call going with a more serious cover.

 

Per that Twitter thread, Linkara apparently reviewed Ken's former magnum opus The Lost Ones a couple years back.
I'm... mildly curious to see how his not-Sonic stuff is. I completely wiped my memory of that one Star Trek comic written by him that I found years ago. (I think the pictures are somewhere in this thread. Christ, 168 pages…)

 

He did a few single-page filler stories for Valiant's short-lived The Legend of Zelda series, most of which just revolved around listing off Link's ancestors for what felt like ages. So just the Penders usual, really.

Come to think of it, had that series continued, there's a pretty high chance that he would've dumped all the ideas from his questionable Native American comic pitch onto Zelda instead of Knuckles, and The Lara-Su Chronicles would be a follow up to a story named Hyrule: 25 Years Later instead.

And I highly doubt that Nintendo would've kept him on a leash any more than Sega did, given how they were already fine with Valiant's Game Boy series being essentially just Falling Down (1993) with Mario.

 

With 160+ pages to go through, this entire thread is already a fascinating cultural study of first world problems.

You could write brilliant scholarly articles about how stupid this whole saga (Penders) has been over the past 2 decades.

 

Just wanna note here that the "cyber native Americans" thing is, as far as I can tell, an unsubstantiated rumor. It sounds plausible given how he used the Felidae in the Sonic Adventure comics (among his general brand of weird racism), but the earliest source I was ever able to find on it being a real thing he supposedly pitched was from kiwifarms, which I wouldn't trust even if that thread were backed up, which I don't think it was.

 

That's good to know.

I've always believed in the claim simply because of how quintessentially Penders it sounds, not once asking where it originated from.

Maybe the whole thing began as a game of broken telephone regarding The Lost Ones, a real Penders-written sci-fi comic with questionable treatment of ethnic minorities.

 

Would it not have been sourced from his website/Forums?

 

I'm not sure what "would" means here. I looked for the source and didn't find anything in particular. If Ken talked about having written and pitched a thing like this, his forum makes a lot of sense to check, but I didn't, because I'm not sure where and how to start. There was a lot of stuff there. Can you just keyword search snapshots on the wayback machine? If so, I never learned how.

 

So Ken just posted his final Tweet:

Can't even lie, this goes kinda hard.

 

Yeah, it would go hard...if it wasn't apparently plagiarized.

 

... They look nothing alike.
Both are based on this classical painting of Lucifer.

Spoiler: Artistic nudity? idk how mods will feel about this.

 

That makes more sense, though considering he's been caught tracing before, you'll pardon the skepticism.

 

I understand the skepticism in that regard, but even a quick glance at the 2 it should be obvious there was no connection. Scourge has entirely different proportions and his head is at a different angle to show his whole face, unlike Lucifer.
The other artist probably only said Penders was "Stealing my flow" in an exaggerated way, with the only connection being that it's Sonic characters doing the Lucifer painting and not a genuine accusation of plagiarism.

 

Somebody should compliment Ken on his Ian Flynn fanart