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/sthg/ #472 - Penders Panel Edition
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Taking bets on how long it'll take for a question to trigger Penders.
Caleb Nelson
Nothing will prepare me for this.
Connor Wilson
Hey look, Bored the Mom's kid showed up.
Xavier Sanders
G I V E M E T H E P E N D E R S
Grayson Brown
...
Brody Russell
>there are actually kids at the convention cute
Landon Barnes
i'm scared
John Morales
Long time no see
Jace Brown
Will anyone ask him how a fucking hypocrite he is for doing that panel?
Jackson White
...
Lincoln Flores
Hopefully people keep it classy and his panel will pass without incident.
Aaron Price
>Kids at a Sonic convention You expected something else?
Dominic Davis
Which Adventure game had the worse worst Sonic level: 1 (Sky Deck) or 2 (Pyramid Cave)?
Cooper Reed
Diggin' this "Work It Out" remix.
Jace Sanchez
Hell yeah.
Aw, that's just depressing.
Carter James
Penders' Panel is gonna make this whole thing fall apart just watch.
Adrian Long
WORK IT OUT
Aiden Bailey
that's funny
Henry Williams
Pyramid cave by far.
Jordan Long
Here we go boys, buckle up for a wild ride.
Nothing will happen, people will just ask him about working on the comic
Ayden Turner
Here we go.
Julian Campbell
My friends all know I'm a Sonic fan and assume it's only popular with adults who played the classics as kids. They're surprised when I tell them kids are still fans of the series.
Connor Jones
Did they discover /sthg/?
Jordan Foster
IT'S TIME!
Benjamin James
Neither of those levels were bad.
Worst Sonic level in the Adventure games was Crazy Gadget. If you include Shadow then Final Chase.
Carter Lopez
He does not sound like how I thought he would.
Connor Hall
Oh crap, he actually sounds normal. I was hoping he'd have a voice to match the madness inside.
Gabriel Wilson
Give me a break. Almost everyone is an adult there, and to be honest when I think of Sonic communities I don't really think of kids. But yeah, some are to be expected, and it's kind of refreshing to see.
But now let's watch Penders.
Julian Scott
Same.
who is this impostor
Zachary Wilson
I CAN'T FUCKING DO IT, LADS.
THIS IS TOO MUCH FOR ONE MERE MORTAL TO HANDLE
Zachary Williams
SWEET IVO'S DICK IT'S HAPPENING
Noah Butler
The audio is so desynchronised it's really making this hard to watch
John Smith
Is he going to lecture or is he gonna take questions.
Colton Harris
So far it's not cringe but will everything fall apart during the Q&A. Will there even be one?
Jayden Gomez
History of Sonic panel, user. Dunno if there's a Q&A. If they are smart, they won't do it.
Andrew Lee
JUST SAY SOMETHING FUNNY, FAT BOY.
John Collins
I have a feeling there won't be a Q&A. He just got up there and started going through the history of the comic practically day by day. He's probably going to keep talking until he runs out of time.
Chase Russell
>Will there even be one? I somehow doubt it, but even if they did I can imagine some question screening went on.
Dylan Robinson
Pyramid Cave was much worse than Crazy Gadget.
>pinpoint-accurate gammabots >grabbing ghosts everywhere >hourglasses >that one segment where you have to escort a key through all of the above for about 45 seconds >that really long tunnel with the hourglass at the beginning >shitty camera angles everywhere >visuals suck compared to every other sonic level to boot
Hudson Perez
This. You might as well only listen to the audio.
Dylan Carter
I bet he'll ignore Bollers
Ryder Brooks
So the direction of the book at the beginning was specifically designed to be the SATam backstory and characters cominded with the tone of AOSTH. That's interesting. I wonder how it mutated into the monster it became.
Aaron Nguyen
Hey, Sonic Revolution user, can you take a picture of how many people are seated listening to the panel?
Jace Young
>I wonder how it mutated into the monster it became.
You're listening to it.
Gabriel Wright
Penders' panel is actually.... pretty boring so far. Kind of disappointing.
Chase Gomez
SA1's worst sonic level was Lost World.
Cameron Gutierrez
>So the direction of the book at the beginning was specifically designed to be the SATam backstory and characters cominded with the tone of AOSTH. That's interesting That's pretty obvious if you read those issues because that's exactly what they were.
>I wonder how it mutated into the monster it became. Combination of shitty writing (Penders) and shitty editorial (Gabrie).
Colton Morgan
>rejected Sonic meeting a Mario parody >let everything else sail by
Curse you 90s SEGA Licensing Department!
Grayson Bailey
>Ken Penders panel >lot of people talking in the background >not a single shot of the audience
Chase Cox
>rejected Sonic meeting a Mario parody I guess that means STC had less Sega oversight.
Dylan Campbell
sky deck, its just clumsy
pyramid cave just had the the slightly annoying switch things. Crazy gadget is more awkward.
Andrew Richardson
>Ken Penders looks like Walt Disney if he were stung by 1000 bees and also not Walt Disney.
Julian Gonzalez
>buffering
Lucas Parker
Oh boy, he's talking about Endgame.
Hudson Allen
Looking back, it was a disturbingly accurate presage of Sonic Heroes's level design..
Christian Gonzalez
A considerable amount, actually. Sorry in advance if the pic is fucked.
Christopher Rivera
Ah yes, the best possible choice for a Sonic movie and totally not an incoherent Fugitive ripoff.
Austin Murphy
Take your pictures upside down dude.
Landon Foster
The only good thing to come out of Endgame is literally just this Spaz cover.
Liam Diaz
What the actual fuck are you doing with your phone
Nicholas Peterson
I didn't know it was in Australia
Landon Ross
You know, if I were someone who didn't really know about the comics and went to this panel to learn about them, Penders would seem like a reasonable person with a lot of useful extensive knowledge on the comics.
But now he's getting to the Knuckles comics...
David Jackson
Here's a rotated picture. I can't believe someone is actually there.
Christian Moore
>if I were someone who didn't really know about the comics Which, in fairness, is the majority of the fanbase.
Noah Carter
Oh shit, you're next to boredmom? Move over to their table!
Adrian Evans
>The Knuckles comics >I'm the reason the comics sold And it begins
Jeremiah Reyes
>I can't believe someone is actually there. I meant, not at the panel paying attention (which is also amazing), but at the convention and here.
Tyler Garcia
it's just iphones use a fucked up method of orientation, it looks fine when viewed on the phone but when I upload it it's fucked
>iphone I know, but it's better than what I had before.
Daniel Mitchell
So Ken Penders admits that he wrote for Knuckles because Knuckles had no character at the time (which is not true, but whatever). So he basically used Knuckles to write his own fanfiction.
Chase Morales
We knew it was coming. I'm waiting for the part where he plugs his Lara-su bullshit.
Samuel Campbell
>THEY NEEDED MY NAME ON THE BOOK IN ORDER FOR IT TO SELL
Michael Ward
He has on at least one occasion literally said that he used Knuckles as a stand-in for his own character and series.
Asher Lee
wtf is happening in the crowd?
John Thomas
Oh boy, questions.
Tyler King
Q&A begins!
John Cook
OH BOY HERE WE GO
Kayden Russell
people doing better things than listening to penders
Logan Reed
>get invited to do DVD covers >get invited to work on movie projects
Jackson Harris
This is going to be a good thread I'm not a regular here but I'm glad I lurk
Josiah James
Oh, so the Japanese copy of Sonic Adventure that they used for the comic belonged to Spaz? That's pretty cool.
Juan Bailey
>I'm so glad I didn't have to adapt the games
Joseph Parker
I have to say, it does sound like SEGA didn't give too many damns about the comic to not give them a copy of the game....
Christian King
...did he really...
Logan Davis
>inb4 microwaves and babies
Evan Ramirez
stop clogging the stream its always buffering ffs
Hudson Walker
SEGA really didn't care about the comic, but that doesn't excuse a lot of what they did in the Adventure adaption.
Sounds like by SA2 SEGA got into the habit they had once Ian was on of using the comic to tease the games instead of trying to adapt them.
Caleb Cox
Is he killing time so he doesn't have to answer more questions?
Colton Scott
>>get invited to do DVD covers
More like he came to them and tried to make himself look like hot shit.
Jaxon Butler
Seems like SEGA doesn't care if writers know about Sonic or not considering Pontac and Graff having to look up cutscenes on youtube.
Dominic Lopez
A lot less. If I recall the writers even got to walk away with ownership rights to all their characters.
Hunter Hughes
>cheering for Underground
Cameron Murphy
>Ken rejected a Sonic Underground arc One of the only good decisions he's made.