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Sega and Archie could legally use the characters afterward, but only in a capacity approved by Penders, one in which he would also be paid royalties.

Sonic's smart-mouthed characterization back in the day was likely a reason behind this, which is why so many otherwise questionable adults are written as being wise and deserving of reverence compared to the impetuous speedster. The role of the echidnas, namely Knuckles' dad and girlfriend/wife Julie-Su, was of far more importance to Ken Penders than anything actually involving Sonic. Knuckles was reimagined as a chosen one whose greatness had been told to his father years before in a dream, causing Knuckles' dad Locke to irradiate Knuckles' egg and give him superpowers of sorts. Instead of having Knuckles be the sole surviving echidna, Penders introduced an entire mythology behind his actually surviving people, which was very obviously based off of DC Comics' Superman and other Kryptonians. He would also write the entirety of the spin-off Knuckles the Echidna comic book, which is where he would really make an impact on the books' continuity. From there, he introduced numerous elements and characters into the stories that were fairly removed from the Sonic the Hedgehog video games, namely because Penders hadn't really played them. started his run on the title, starting with issue #11.

That would begin to change, however, once Kenneth Penders, Jr. Following this and a court settlement, many characters created by Penders abruptly ceased to appear in the comics.When the series first began in 1993, the Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog series was a fairly simplistic and silly book, not unlike the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon of the time. In the fall of 2012, Archie Comics fired its legal team and replaced it. After declaring that he would "use every legal means at my disposal to protect and preserve" his works, Archie Comics filed a lawsuit against Penders in the fall of 2010 in an attempt to retain their copyright holdings of his characters and concepts. In January 2009, Penders began copyrighting various stories, characters, and artwork that he created for Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and spin-off titles, and these claims were certified as of April 2010 by the US Copyright Office. In addition to his work on the Sonic franchise he has written and illustrated stories for every major comics publisher including DC, Marvel, Image and Disney on such a diverse array of titles as Star Trek: The Next Generation, Disney Adventures, Savage Sword of Conan, Captain Atom, and The Green Hornet among many others. He also illustrated the cover for the SatAM Complete series DVD release. Ken Penders was a writer who worked on the Sonic the Hedgehog Archie comics.