Archie v. Penders Trial Delayed to January 2012

– November 2, 2011

Both Sides with More Time to Prepare

As previously reported, this week was supposed to be the week the civil trial between Archie Comics and former Sonic comic writer Ken Penders started, with the possibility of knowing the outcome later this month.

It turns out that, at the last minute, those plans were delayed. TSSZ has learned through public documents that the judge overseeing the case vacated the previous trial date, and rescheduled it for January 30th. Also of note: the judge scheduled a settlement conference for the morning of December 1st, so there’s a chance the matter could still be resolved before the end of the year–and without much more rancor, at that.

We will continue to keep tabs on the matter.

Unknownlight

Posted November 2, 2011 at 1:13 AM

Google says this site has recently been infested with malware.

You should probably deal with that.

Tristan Oliver

Posted November 2, 2011 at 1:23 AM

Unknownlight: We are clean per Google webmaster tools. I think someone who doesn’t like us tried to report us to Google and bit.ly.

I’m working on it.
-T

Timothy

Posted November 2, 2011 at 1:24 AM

@ Unknown light: no wonder my computer crashed. :/

Posted November 2, 2011 at 2:28 AM

@Tristan: Here’s what you get if you try to access this site on Chrome, just so you know: http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/4605/tssznewsmal.png

Haru

Posted November 2, 2011 at 3:49 AM

Yeah…I have no idea why this is suddenly a “malware attack site” cuz…..yeah….:\

HeatPhoenix

Posted November 2, 2011 at 8:59 AM

Noticed the same thing, just click “this site is not harmfull” or whatever pops up in your respective browser.

Milo the Echidna

Posted November 2, 2011 at 11:19 AM

I almost thought this site was hacked again. I don’t know what for though, since y’all have been pretty good with your Sensitivity policy and all that

The Shadow Emperor

Posted November 2, 2011 at 4:58 PM

Aw, I got so excited for all that drama to unfold. Meh. *marks new date on calendar*

Candy Andy

Posted November 2, 2011 at 11:26 PM

If Penders was smart he would settle.

Posted November 3, 2011 at 4:50 PM

Penders has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning this. Any characters he created for a LICENSED comic are no longer his. I don’t know how the blazes he’s even lasted this long, but Archie (and Sega and EA) are going to blow his pathetic little case away.