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

Discussion in 'General Sonic Discussion' started by Paps/KKM, Jul 7, 2010.

  1. shilz

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    His Sonic Chronicles fanart was weird. He put some cyborg echidna into Shade's armor, which seems pretty redundant.
     
  2. Forte

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    I know, right?
    At least his version of Surge has wings.

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  3. MykonosFan

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    To update on things, he tweeted a few hours ago that he's keeping the Twitter account active. He might make it private, but he won't be deleting it. He mentioned getting an e-mail from someone detailing a bit of how difficult it can be for someone on the autism spectrum to hop social media platforms, so he's decided to keep it going. Which is fair enough, it's a considerate reason. I'll share his own words here for posterity, but I guess the "goodbye Ken's Twitter" alarms are done for the time being.

    Thread: https://x.com/KenPenders/status/1880037417744494632

    Back to your regularly scheduled "Oh god what is he doing to those old issues in the Knuckles Omnibuses" vibes.
     
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  4. Volphied

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    Being stuck to Elongated Muskrats toxic nazisite due to autism making it hard to switch is some living hell kind of stuff.
     
  5. Adamis

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    So he's not leaving...again. Told ya.
     
  6. Deep Dive Devin

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    Fucked up that "Ken Penders twitter continuing to exist" is not even the first horrible thing he's blamed on autistic people
     
  7. Volphied

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    Had Ken actually cared about them he would gently help them with moving away from xhitter. Like seriously, that is the last friggin place people on the spectrum should browse. It mentally drains even perfectly healthy people.

    Fuck you Ken.
     
  8. Starduster

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    I'm forever going to be near the front of the line to laugh at Ken and I would not be surprised if he is just using autistic folk as a crutch for his own vanity, but I don't think it's Ken's responsibility to shepherd autistic folk away from Twitter, not least because I don't think he's equipped to handle it. I don't know if Ken has any personal experience of autism, either in himself or his family, but if he doesn't then I would not expect him to then have any clue how to navigate something like that - I sure as hell don't. If what he's saying is true, then it sounds like he's trying to make the best choice he can in a bad situation.
     
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  9. Deep Dive Devin

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    Yeah I don't actually want him near autistic people at all. The last time he even brought up the subject was reaching for a reason why people criticized him and comparing them to Trump supporters (yes, really), somehow just sidestepping the demography of all of these groups to find ANY scapegoat to get away from admitting that he just kinda sucks.
     
  10. Volphied

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    All I'm saying is that if I were in Ken's shoes and received an email that went, paraphrasing: "Hi! Please don't leave twitter. I'm stuck in here due to my autism." I would in my reply show at least some slight concern about what kind of effect that hellsite must have on autistic people.
     
  11. Blastfrog

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    Regardless, it should still be backed up.
     
  12. Vertette

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    All social media sites are bad honestly, we should just go back to foru- oh hey!

    Anyway no surprises here, hasn't he said he'd leave multiple times now?
     
  13. MykonosFan

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    It seems so. We'll probably be back here again in 4 months.

    (Also shuttled out a post about some BlueSky versus Twitter thing; the Twitter talk is only lightly relevant to the thread as is so let's not head down that tangent please)
     
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  14. The Joebro64

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    Penders has sent out emails to those who purchased the Lara-Su book to let them know they can preorder the first volume of his Knuckles omnibus. Can't upload a screenshot (not mine, don't worry) but it's around 20 issues of Sonic/Knuckles comics in chronological order for $100.
     
  15. David The Lurker

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    Oh so that explains that

    For those interested:

    The text from his site

    Not gonna lie, I want to read Dan's foreword. But I don't want to spend a hundred dollars on a book where half the stories are going to be recolored terribly, not to mention the altered line art. That book is not going to look good. Hell, I don't understand why the book has the dimensions it does. The first reprint he did had the worst boarders, and that's just going to continue, isn't.
     
  16. Starduster

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    $10 for a signature and an extra $15 for personalisation? Lmao, who the fuck do you think you are, Ken?
     
  17. BlackHole

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    Jack Kirby. He thinks he's Jack Kirby.
     
  18. it's amazing how Penders' version looks so much worse.
    there's something deeply unsettling about his unique style, the borderline anatomically correct anthropomorphism makes my skin crawl.
    it's the similar feeling I get when I look at explicitly satanic artwork, honestly.
     
  19. Volphied

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    Ken is committing the cardinal mistake of applying human proportions on noodle-limbed animals. That's why all his Sonic art looks so uncanny and bizarre. Ken studied human anatomy for drawing, and now he's trying to apply it on the absolutely wrong type of characters. For example, his Star Trek fanart looks fine, mostly.
     
  20. Deep Dive Devin

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    He drew for the official Star Trek comics, most of what you've seen probably isn't fan art. It's easily his most professional work, and does a good job justifying why Archie would ever have hired him in the first place.