User blog comment:MeltingMan234/List of Banned Characters in the comic/@comment-5487126-20131224020010

FYI, Archie's troubles with Penders didn't start as recently as many people might think. Penders started copyrighting his works almost five years ago (as of when I'm posting this comment). The removal of all his characters (except, supposedly, for Scourge) was just the culmination of it all.