Writing credits
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics):
- Main series: Issues #11, #13-22, #24, #27-28, #31-36, #38, #41-50, #53, #58-65, #67-69, #79-82, #84, #88-102, #106-109, #114-118, #120-124, #131-144 (Mobius: 25 Years Later), #145-152, #154-159
- Knuckles The Echidna Miniseries/Full series - Full series.
- Princess Sally Miniseries - Full series.
- Sonic Live
- DC Comics' Star Trek: The Next Generation vol. 2 (four issues, two specials)
- Malibu Comics' Star Trek Deep Space Nine (two issues, one special)
- The Lost Ones (one issue)
- The Republic (planned live-action series, currently in Development Hell)
- Exiled from Continuity:
- Because of the lawsuit against Archie Comics, Ken legally owns the rights to the characters he created for Sonic The Hedgehog. Among these characters are almost all Echidna sans Athair (created by Michael Gallagher), most of the games cast extended family (Elias Acorn, Matilda, Rob o' the Hedge, Jules and Bernie; the name of the king, Sally's father, is also his, leading to a rename in the post-reboot), Geoffrey and Hershey St John, and most importantly, Robo-Robotnik (Robotnik's counterpart from a universe he won, and became the series Big Bad after the fist doctor's demise) and Anti-Sonic and his world (who is more known as the popular Scourge the Hedgehog after Ian Flynn took over as head-writer). Despite "owning" the last two, he legally cannot use them without Sega's approval.
- A misconception built out of the post-reboot is that Penders own all the characters, which includes Mina Mongoose, Mammoth Mogul, Finitevus, Monkey Khan, among others. This is not true. They were phased out to avoid further lawsuits by other creators inspired by Penders, which did happen with Scott Fulop. Fulop tried to take Mammoth Mogul with him in 2016, but lost the case against Archie. Ian Flynn characters remained in the post-reboot.
- However, this does not apply to the characters of Sonic Chronicles, who were inspired by the Echidna characters created by Penders. His lawsuit against Bioware was thrown out of court twice. Sega, in turn, legally owns Shade the Echidna and the Nocturnus Clan. They don't use the characters is due to multiple reasons (the lawsuit, a change in direction in the franchise, Bioware closing its handheld development team). Ken can boast he owns Shade (who he claims is Julie-Su, rather than a Expy of her), but he doesn't actually do so.
- What Could Have Been: Ben Hurst, creator of Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), wanted to find a way to make season 3 a reality as either a new season or a movie. Then Ken Penders told Sega that Hurst was trying to co-opt the series, which led to Sega rejecting his deal. Penders would later try to pitch his own movie to Sega, but this never came to be.The next day, I got a call from Ken Penders, who had been alerted by his contact in their office that I was interested in getting a Sonic movie going. I generously offered to include him in the effort and told him my strategy. Get SEGA to become invested in the idea by hiring us to interview their creative game designers, execs, etc and see if we could develop a story line that would fulfill the third season - and simultaneously give them creative ideas to develop new games. A win-win, situation.
Then, I called SEGA back, but I was shocked when the exec "lit" into me, telling me, "People pay US to develop Sonic product, we don't pay them!" Then she hung up on me. Obviously, Penders had related my strategy to them in a less-than-flattering way. Thanks for the knife, Ken.
So, I gave up. Later, I was informed by friendly fans that Penders had written in his message board or some such place that "Ben Hurst doesn't know how movies are made in Hollywood." (Hey Ken, read "Adventures in Screenwriting" by William Goldman and get some humility) Then he dropped hints that HE would be the writer for a big Sonic Feature Film. That was three years ago.
