Man, not to defend crappy comic writers/artists elsewhere, but let's real talk: those guys have nothing on freaking Ken Penders.
You guys should be glad the guy was confined within the cage of Sonic comics instead of unleashed on comics as a whole.
I mean, such a huge percentage of his "characters" are Knuckles with a hat/beard/whatever. I mean, look at this:
And then there's crap like Tails' uncle freaking Merlin Prower, who is just Tails if he was a wizard:
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And of course the guy can't write worth crap, which is why the Sonic comics universe is (was?) such a janky, awful mess. I mean, we have a comic that ran for YEARS, full of characters that had a ton of stories, and they were all removed recently. And this was met with cheers rather than frustration, which says something about the overall quality of the man's work.
Which of course bears mentioning that this all occurred as a result of Penders suing Archie for the rights to his "original characters." And of course, this was all so he could create a solo series for his crown jewel creation, Lara-Su, the daughter from the future of Knuckles and Julie-su, the girlfriend he made up for Knuckles.
So let me just end this by saying, seriously, be glad you never had to deal with Ken Penders on Catwoman or whatever. And a look at the test render he put up for the "Lara-Su Chronicles:"
Ugh.