@northern haste
Ken doesn’t understand that about licensed properties. He thinks the story writer should own everything.
And I stated ironically, some of “his” characters, he didn’t even design, and Ken never gives the artists or other writers that helped him make those characters any credit. (Kinda contradicting Ken’s whole “Hastag: SupportWriters/Artists” mentality…)
Like Scourge the Hedgehog was technically created by artist Patrick Spaziante, and Dr. Finitevus was designed by artist Jonathan Grey. (Grey stated all he was told was to “make a white echidna”) so Ken is basically stealing their credit and characters.
The difference is, Spaz and Grey understand Sega and maybe to a lesser extent Archie own the characters they design for the Sonic comic.