as someone who likes sonic the hedgehog but hasnt gone balls deep into the lore
what the fuck is the deal w ken penders
ken penders was a really not great artist for the sonic comics, who introduced loads of brand new characters who would never be seen outside of them, including basically an entire race of space echidnas. some of those characters included a pink girl echidna literally named lara-su (whether it was done in reference to the mary sue trope or not I honestly dont know)
Ken tried to sue sega due to the evil badguys in sonic chronicles (yes, that sonic chronicles) being supposedly similar to his. The case was dropped, but that wasn’t the end.
Ken, rather than backing down, decided to go all-in and claimed copyright on all of his characters he created for the sonic comics. All of them, including ones in current story arcs. Archie tried to argue that due to his contract the characters were actually now the property of SEGA… only to be unable to find the actual contract he signed (ken probably swiped it on the way out).
This meant that the publishers had to actually reboot the entire current plot because they could not legally use these characters anymore. Every single hanging plot thread had to be retconned, and theres years of comics that are now officially not canon because of it.
Ken, now having full right over his echidna OCs, changed them to be not echidnas but an alien race called ‘Echydnya’ (yeah), and he’s gonna give them their own visual novel series:
its uh.. yeah. and theres the foot fetish thing too, but honestly that feels almost like a minor point.
I had no idea baby lumpsucker fish are this cute. They’re also just a really cool group of fish. I’m going to let Scientific American’s beautiful phrasing stand for itself about these little guys:
“Available for birthday parties, weddings and corporate functions in the Under the Sea region, the lumpsucker is a chubby, almost-spherical fish with modified pelvic fins that have evolved into adhesive discs on their undersides. So literally lumps with suckers. (…)
Other than looking like swollen eyeballs… with eyeballs… lumpsuckers have some pretty strange things going on. For one, they’re pretty awful swimmers, thanks to their round bodies and tiny fins, and when disturbed they tend to flap around aimlessly in different directions. Which is not how escape generally happens. As newly hatched larvae they are surprisingly well developed, equipped with a fully functional mouth and well-developed digestive system. This allows them to begin feeding on tiny crustaceans and fish just 10 days after hatching. Sometimes they’ll resort to eating each other because nature.”
The Room Tribute is an incredible RPG adventure tribute to one of the greatest worst movies of all time, adding superb pixel art animation, lots of great easter eggs and a wicked sense of humor to the super cheesy dialogue and bizarre story of the original.
It’s a great game in it’s own right and a must play if you’ve ever experienced the bizarre broken oddity the is The Room. Highly recommended.
Btw, no cephalopods were harmed in the making of this photo! The little squid is still in the water, in a petri dish, with the dime underneath the dish.
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