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mycatscrimes
Jan 2, 2020
Riverdale rules, Penders only wishes he could write a trainwreck like it.

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holefoods
Jan 10, 2022

I don’t think penders wishes he can write like anyone else because he probably already thinks he’s perfect

mycatscrimes
Jan 2, 2020
True. If he had self awareness, he might wish he could write a Riverdale level trainwreck. But he doesn't. Tragic.

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant

Rockman Reserve posted:

thread giving me flashbacks to being excited for a new issue of sonic only to open it and get slapped in the face with Ron Lim art


Sally looking like someone found the acorn there.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Rockman Reserve posted:

thread giving me flashbacks to being excited for a new issue of sonic only to open it and get slapped in the face with Ron Lim art



The guy in the back's looking fresh with his matrix-ish sunglasses and leather bondage suit

zetamind2000 fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Apr 12, 2023

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

We're looking for an artist whose main skill is not being ken penders

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.


I think this, right after Station Square outright drops a nuke on Robotropolis

Zibraltar
Jul 15, 2007

by VideoGames
2003 was such a wild year for the series. If things hadn't gone full soap opera prior to Ian joining, things would have been different.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

wait. SILVER SURFER RON LIM did this? lmao

Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


Synthbuttrange posted:

wait. SILVER SURFER RON LIM did this? lmao

Yes, that's the guy. Point and laugh. It's fully deserved.

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

Synthbuttrange posted:

wait. SILVER SURFER RON LIM did this? lmao

When those issues came out I was like in middle school and it still managed to be obviously insultingly phoned-in to my idiot Sonic-comic-buying child brain.

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost

kirbysuperstar posted:



I think this, right after Station Square outright drops a nuke on Robotropolis

Sonic starts running, immediatey snaps his wafer-thin pelvis clean in half

Robot Style
Jul 5, 2009

I guess we know what parts of an image Ken likes to focus on...

https://twitter.com/KenPenders/status/1647522519921065985?s=20

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

That coloring is atrocious.

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
majin boob

SatansOnion
Dec 12, 2011

finally figured out why the Penders house style grosses me out so drat much

the characters in that image look like porn actors covered in body paint...until you hit the faces with the huge animu/Sega eyes, plus the humanoid-ish face structure, give or take whatever the gently caress he's trying with those noses, and the dsl as the viscerally repulsive cherry on the poo poo sundae. dude rode his crazy train off the rails and directly into the darkest, grodiest corners of the uncanny valley

Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

Skipping the inking stage? Bold strategy, Cotton.

Breadallelogram
Oct 9, 2012


he's an innovator

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

Decades and he still can't loving draw.

chaleski
Apr 25, 2014

That bottom picture is clearly just a photo a topless woman that he drew a terrible face on, right?

mycatscrimes
Jan 2, 2020

SatansOnion posted:

finally figured out why the Penders house style grosses me out so drat much

the characters in that image look like porn actors covered in body paint...until you hit the faces with the huge animu/Sega eyes, plus the humanoid-ish face structure, give or take whatever the gently caress he's trying with those noses, and the dsl as the viscerally repulsive cherry on the poo poo sundae. dude rode his crazy train off the rails and directly into the darkest, grodiest corners of the uncanny valley

Its some real Cats 2019 poo poo

ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

I loving hate the glossy look the coloring gives his characters more than any other element of his art

Which is an impressive feat

Knormal
Nov 11, 2001

chaleski posted:

That bottom picture is clearly just a photo a topless woman that he drew a terrible face on, right?
Yeah, his Anthony Mackie "drawings" made it pretty clear he's tracing at least sometimes.

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

Seriously what does he do to get paid? I can't find a drat thing he's credited for post sonic. It can't be the Laura Sue Chronicles because there is almost no output.

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005

Annointed posted:

Seriously what does he do to get paid? I can't find a drat thing he's credited for post sonic. It can't be the Laura Sue Chronicles because there is almost no output.

There's merch on his website, but why you'd buy that ugly poo poo is beyond me.

Seems he's on the con circuit, probably makes some money that way?

Zibraltar
Jul 15, 2007

by VideoGames
His wife has a good paying job iirc.

Chairman Capone
Dec 17, 2008

Zibraltar posted:

His wife has a good paying job iirc.

Not to be too much of an rear end in a top hat towards him personally, but... he's seriously married!?

SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL
Feb 21, 2006

Holy Moly! DARKSEID IS!

With kids! I think his own kids are in that Sonic trailer he did. One positive thing about Penders is he’s devoted to telling his story. Yes, it’s a lousy story and I don’t like his art which I understand to be objectively terrible and I think he’s delusional to a degree, but he’s dedicated! Slowly!

Maybe he’s a good dad? Maybe he even (based on the r/relationships thread) has good basic hygiene and does equitable house work? Who knows. That said though if I found out someone I was married to was still writing some weird teen/young woman scenarios I’d leave no matter how clean he was.

Robot Style
Jul 5, 2009

His son was one of the kids in the Sonic Live comic, using a television remote as a controller because they didn't actually have a Genesis.

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014

Robot Style posted:

His son was one of the kids in the Sonic Live comic, using a television remote as a controller because they didn't actually have a Genesis.

lol

Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

Robot Style posted:

His son was one of the kids in the Sonic Live comic, using a television remote as a controller because they didn't actually have a Genesis.

Still probably hasn't played a Sonic game, huh?

Zibraltar
Jul 15, 2007

by VideoGames

SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:

With kids! I think his own kids are in that Sonic trailer he did. One positive thing about Penders is he’s devoted to telling his story. Yes, it’s a lousy story and I don’t like his art which I understand to be objectively terrible and I think he’s delusional to a degree, but he’s dedicated! Slowly!

Maybe he’s a good dad? Maybe he even (based on the r/relationships thread) has good basic hygiene and does equitable house work? Who knows. That said though if I found out someone I was married to was still writing some weird teen/young woman scenarios I’d leave no matter how clean he was.

Peak Penders Sonic > Peak SatAM cartoon Sonic. But the lows are lower.

He's a good realism artist. But he really struggles with drawing Sonic characters.

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

Zibraltar posted:

Peak Penders Sonic > Peak SatAM cartoon Sonic. But the lows are lower.

this, i can almost - ALMOST - agree with. but this:

quote:

He's a good realism artist.

is fuckin' madness. He literally just traces celebrities!!!

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

Zibraltar posted:

Peak Penders Sonic > Peak SatAM cartoon Sonic. But the lows are lower.

He's a good realism artist. But he really struggles with drawing Sonic characters.

THE KEN PENDERS SUCK ZONE: He's a good realism artist

Annointed
Mar 2, 2013

Good on him for not having anything showing him as a bad family man. That's one good thing at least.

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
penders has slowly unlearned how to draw

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

penders has slowly unlearned how to draw

I feel like even most of the stuff he was credited for in the Archie era was heavily fixed by Spaziante et al (which I hope I'm spelling correctly but I ain't calling him by his old moniker these days).

SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL
Feb 21, 2006

Holy Moly! DARKSEID IS!

Reminds me where super-early Liefeld pencils were being cleaned up by Karl Kesel’s inking on Hawk and Dove.

Zibraltar
Jul 15, 2007

by VideoGames

Rockman Reserve posted:

this, i can almost - ALMOST - agree with. but this:

is fuckin' madness. He literally just traces celebrities!!!

Check out the portraits of his folks he did, and his Star Trek TNG work. He can do it. He just can't do Sonic.

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Robot Style
Jul 5, 2009

Well, his Kirk looks a bit more like Steve Buscemi than William Shatner...

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