#Lara su

[janetkwallace]

A redesign of Lara-Su done last night. I think she looks cute.

Once again, I borrowed some inspiration from some of the drawings done by @neofox

[secretsonicshowdown]

Heyyyy, so. Remember me? I'm still alive hahaha...

Here's a Lara-su doing Chaos Finger Guns. I actually made this a while ago and just took a while to get around to taking pictures to post. I thought Lara-Su would be a good choice to try out my new metallic inks, since the colors I have are similar to hers. I also used watercolor in some places

Shiny

[anarchoblues]

draw fucking uhh her. lara su

[look-how-they-massacred-them]

Fully aware submissions are over and this is not intended to be one, I'd just like to rant about one of my girls. in the Sonic Archie comics there's a character named Lara-Su, she exists in some of the future timelines as knuckle's daughter. she's cool, capable, and generally a pretty fun character. unfortunately, she ended up being THE main sticking point in a huge legal debate between the comics and the guy who made her, which ended in the comics being totally rebooted to erase ALL of his characters. Lara-Su ended up basically blamed for the /entire/ ken penders debacle and written off as a mary sue nobody liked to begin with, but that's not even the worst part of her massacre; he decided that now that he has full legal ownership of her, he's gonna write his own story for her, where now she and her family are Aliens and it's some sort of post-apocolypse world. the art,,,,,, my god, the art. words cannot describe how bad the redesigns are. ken penders singlehandedly massacred his own favorite daughter and i'm STILL mad about it. so to everyone submitting: i feel your pain. i am with you.

Oh boy, that sounds like a mess. Poor Lara-Su got fucked over by the divorce

[squid-in-a-party-hat]

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[visionoasis]

I bought it.

I preordered the Lara-Su Chronicles.

To say I bought it as a hate-read would be entirely incorrect. But I won’t obscure the fact that I don’t like Penders. I think this dude is an asshole. The real best way to put it would be… genuine curiosity based on my nostalgia for the original comics. And while I think he’s an asshole, I don’t hate him. Both can exist I think.

I want to see how he connects it to Archie. I want it for archive purposes, even if it isn’t good. I want to see what he actually does with this thing and these characters. Is it still a Sonic comic? He keeps connecting it to the Sonic comics. So maybe. Penders also just makes weird decisions both artistically and writing wise. I kinda want to see how that pans out in a not patronizing way. I want to see what he changes about characters and lore. Has his writing style changed now that he’s not under as many restrictions? He’s free to write what he wants in this setting. That’s going to be fascinating! And I’m not even expecting to hate it. I very much expect it to be a meh nothing experience. But I want to know for sure. In fact I am hoping this experience is as bizarre as it looks. For better or worse.

And if it’s good I’ll be as honest about that as I am the bad.

And if I feel that way why would I buy it all? Simple. I’m the lore lady. The “I’ve read it all” lady. I like being an archivist for Sonic works and this applies. I want to read everything both obscure and not. Hell, I’ll buy stuff just for the flavor text. (Like those Amy tarot cards coming up.) And in my time with “fan” works, stuff like this gets pricey later because there aren’t typically reprints. If I’m wrong that’s okay. And if I’m right then… that’s okay too. Ha ha.

But expect several reviews when this thing finally ships to my doorstep. I’ll cover it all so you can enjoy it by proxy.

[kellodrawsalot]

So i found out that Ken is using his version of Tails on his "original comic" and the design is...

[fernsnailz]

I know this is a bit off topic, but if Knuckles is dead along with almost everyone else, what became of the Master Emerald?

ough. i eated it

[konnichibot]

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE THE MOMENT I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLIONS OF PRINTED CIRCUTS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WERE ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOARMSTRONG OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR ECH'Y'D'NYAS AT THIS MICRO INSTANT. FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.

[janetkwallace]

Inspired by @neofox, I did a redraw of Lara-Su from The Lara-Su Chronicles, an infamous comic project by Ken Penders. I love drawing characters wearing fancy clothing, though.

EDIT: I have colored the sketch ♥

[fyeahsonicthehedgehog]

[snowflake-hedgehog]

Love Silver’s expression here

[julie-su]

More Guardian per Guardian; wats not to luv?!?!

[jadeyarts]

the dependification of Knuckles’ daughter, now named Lustre :P

typically i don’t like it when people try to reinterpret love interests as relatives even when i don’t like the relationship involved, but since Julie-Su is already both Knuckles’ love interest and also his cousin (albeit distant cousin) i’ve decided to decomposite her role.

so Julie is now cousinzoned and maintains an entirely platonic relationship with Knuckles while Shade, who was narratively inspired by Julie but unrelated to Knuckles, is the mother of his child instead.

[jimintomystery]

Original character do not steal

Kinda fell down a rabbit hole the other day reading about Ken Penders, the writer/artist who sued Archie Comics to gain ownership of 250 Sonic the Hedgehog characters. Most of them look like this:

You may now be asking yourself: What does one do with 250 Sonic the Hedgehog characters? The answer may surprise you!

I'll try not to get too deep into this, since Bobby Schroeder and Comic Drake have thoroughly covered the story already, and I can't improve on their work. But even the short-short version is going to take a while.

Basically, Penders contributed to Archie's Sonic comics from 1994 to 2006. I'm not certain that he's the only reason the Sonic comics in those days were so overwrought and a little horny. But it's far to say he's representative of that tone, and he really leaned into it.

Penders's worldbuilding was especially prolific in Knuckles the Echidna, where he introduced a lost city of Echidnaopolis. In this sense you could kinda compare him to Carl Barks, who created the "Duck Universe" within Disney's line of Mickey Mouse comics. Of course, the biggest difference between Barks and Penders is that Ken claimed ownership of his work. Normally this never goes well for work-for-hire comics creators. But in this case, Archie literally lost the paperwork that said Penders was work-for-hire in the first place.

Without a leg to stand on, Archie was forced to settle. This meant both sides had to go through the Sonic comics and determine which Sonic recolors unambiguously belonged to Sega, and which ones would be ceded to Penders. I like to think the negotiations were akin to that Beanie Baby divorce photo.

Now, the problem with owning dozens of Sonic recolors is that they're not much good for anything except appearing in Sonic stories. But Archie and Sega weren't about to pay Penders to license his weird little guys to them, when Sonic still had plenty of other weird little guys to hang around with. And so, in Sonic The Hedgehog #244 (January 2013), a villain reveals that he teleported the echidnas away forever. After that, none of Ken's concepts were directly referred to again. All that stuff was implicitly erased from history with a soft reboot in #251-252, followed by a hard reboot when the comics moved from Archie to IDW in 2017-2018.

However, Penders already had plans to move forward with his creations without Archie, Sega, or Sonic continuity. In December 2011, he announced The Lara-Su Chronicles, a series of seven graphic novels starring Knuckles's future daughter, who first appeared in Sonic #131. The character designs manage to be legally distinct from the Sonic art style while maintaining the most obnoxious traits. You'd think this would be an opportunity to get away from giant cartoon eyes and "quills" that look like tentacles. But no, Lara-Su still resembles a hot woman wearing a giant fursuit head, except now the fursuit head always looks like it's smelling rotten eggs.

Anyway, it's been nearly twelve years since Penders formally announced The Lara-Su Chronicles, and as far as I can tell he hasn't actually published any of it yet. His website is currently taking pre-orders for the first volume, which is supposed to ship around January 2024. But even that is mostly reprints of Penders's stories from Sonic #131-144, with a new ending tacked on. I'm not sure Ken can reprint Sonic comics, but this should be an interesting way to find out.

From a creative standpoint, I admire the gumption it took for Penders to wrest control of his characters from Archie and forge ahead without the Sonic IP. But strategically, the whole endeavor looks like a huge misfire. The entire selling point of Lara-Su is to revisit an era of Sonic comics that has largely faded into obscurity. Even within that limited audience of the people nostalgic for that era, they mainly liked Ken's melodramatic storytelling because it added depth to the Sonic IP, and not for its own sake. For those Sonic fans, Lara-Su will always be more about what Penders took away "from them" than anything he can give back. And while that may not be entirely fair, I'm not sure it was entirely unforeseeable.

[theconfusedanimal]

some gaY SHIT!!!! WOW!!!!! @volpurr's sthsona kissing mine bc we gay

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