Anyone care to back up these claims?

[nuckles87]

Ken Penders, who works at Archie comics, originally wanted to kill off Sally for...whatever reason. Anyways, he actually got around to making an issue where yes, Sally fell to her death. Naturally, Sally fans got pretty upset over this, and demanded Sally was brought back. Long story short she was, and Sonic and Sally made out and it was all cute and poo.

But, Penders wouldn't be beat just like that, oh no. If he couldn't completely kill her, he'd do the next best thing and ruin her character completely. So, he began writing her as a whinyclingyselfishbitchprincess, so that less people would like her. And it worked. Now almost noone knows about SatAM and only knows Sally as she's being written in Archie comics.

In our opinion, Archie's just as bad as any fancomic or fanfiction out there. So, yes, this is a club made up of Satam purists from hell.

Ok now, I'm no lover of Penders, but I am a long time reader of Archie. So let me be perfectly clear here.

EVERY SINGLE TIME Penders has written a story with Sally, he has portrayed her as STRONG, INDEPENDENT woman and leader. He has written for her character VERY well before and after End Game. Read "Brave New World" among other stories to get what I mean.

Penders has never had this "blind hatred for Sally", and if he has, he has never presented it.

Do you know WHY Sally has been presented in Archie as a bitch since Sonic returned from space? It's because the comic's editor, JF Gabrie, wanted to "shake up" the romance in the comic, because it boosts sales. And it did. And another point of contention, it was KARL BOLLERS whom wrote all the stories that made Sally appear like a bitch, including the slap heard round the world.

Ken had very little to do with it.

If anything, Ken kept up Sally's old character after it was butchered in the slap. Reading the boring "Mobius: 25 Years Later" and the bland "Line of Succession", he kept her up as a pretty decent character, barring the changes Karl made during Sonic's space trip

So please, don't assign blame and hate on a person just because of something he tried to do 10 years ago. Heck, in his last chat with Sonic HQ forumers, he said he had plans to bring Sonic and Sally back together as a couple. And did you you he was willing to fight ANYONE who got in his way to include a full paged size picture of Sonic laying a big kiss on Sally in the remake of End Game in Sonic Super Special #6?

If anyone has any counterpoints that I've missed, I'd love to hear 'em. I have to say though, for a site that is against hating someone you don't fully know, I was surprised to find this comment.

Also, please click on this little humurous sketch Penders did for Dan Drazen at a Comic convention 9 years ago:

www.andrews.edu/~drazen/salsurv.gif

[Kamal]

Why was she going to fall to her supposed death in the first place, though? That's the only part of this debacle I've never heard explained.

As for Freddie Garbie, you're talking about the guy who thought it would be a good idea to publish stories about himself in the comic. What could one expect?

[nuckles87]

Aye, true.

It's been weeks since I posted this, as ANYONE going to either defend this point or change what it says on the site?