#Benny Lee

[olivierdemangeon]

HELIOS (2015) ★★✮☆☆

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Joland Novaj by Benny Lee

[theamazingsallyhogan]

Just to clarify, "Benny Hill" WAS done because of a reviewer (Dan Drazen). Karl Bollers had some public incidents on Sonic fan boards with him as well, mocking him for being a librarian.

That's definitely the way most people retell the story, but looking back I think Dan's reviews were just the straw that broke the camel's back.  It’s just my opinion, but Karl seemed to be frustrated because he'd been tapped for his background on more "serious" books, only to discover that sort of story didn't play well on Sonic. He'd been given some very weird marching orders from editorial, he'd been forced to work on the Sonic Adventures adaptation (which by all accounts was nightmarish for everyone involved), he was having to renew his contract over and over for a book on which he was supposedly the main writer, and to top it off there was this weird librarian badmouthing him.

The Knothole Knews reviews were definitely a part of what made him decide to try and pull a "do-over" on the book as Benny Lee, but looking back on everything that was going on in those days I think it was just a symptom of Archie fundamentally mismanaging the book.  When your lead writer starts asking if he can submit stories pretending to be someone else, there’s something fundamentally messed up with management.

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Cyberpunk, ver. 2.0 by Melissa Li

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Xty Kim (Ahri)

photos by Benny Lee

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Riddle - Smoke Break by Benny Lee Photography (via Facebook)