#people need to talk about more tmnt comics other than idw

[lordshroom]

HOLY SHIT WHY ISN'T ANYONE TALKING ABOUT THE TMNT X BATMAN II COMIC????

Okay now that my clickbait title has baited your attention, some context. If you're in the TMNT fandom, you probably know about the Batman X TMNT crossover movie. This movie was based on a six issue comic series that ran before it. It's not a one-to-one adaptation: most notably the TMNT turtles are from the IDW verse and dimension hop to Gotham unlike the movie where they already live in the same world.

The comic then got two sequels: "A Knight in New York" and "Crisis in a Half Shell".

And I like the first comic when I read it a few months back, I prefer the movie but it was still a really good comic run. Recently, I got the two sequels.

Now that I have read them, I am surprised I don't hear more people talk about them. Particularly the second comic, "A Knight in New York." Like, it has some really good Donnie angst. And the internet loves Donnie angst!

Warning: Spoilers/ way too long summary below

Very, very, very, long story kinda short. Donnie is feeling self-conscious about his physical abilities and how much he relies on his tech. He's weaker than his brothers and needs to be saved by them all the time, and it makes him feel useless. Yes, he's a genius, but he still needs his brother's help to carry out his plans. On his own, he's nothing.

But he remembers how cool Batman is, how he's both strong and smart, the perfect package! But in an attempt to talk to him, Donnie and Bane swap places for a week. And it only takes Bane a week to conquer New York City.

When Donnie, Batman, and Robin get back to New York, Donnie's devastated by the destruction he's caused. It only gets worse when Bane beats Splinter into a coma. When the gang gets back to the lair, Donnie suggest they use venom to enhance themselves. Batman and Leo say no, that it's too dangerous and they can't cross that line.

But Donnie doesn't listen. He sneaks out and takes the venom, apologizing to his brothers and says that this is the only way. He hulks out and decimates Bane's Foot's Bases ( because by the way, Bane took over the foot). Donnie's about to kill the very Foot Eliet that mocked him for being weak at the start of the story before Batman and Leo burst in to try to calm him down.

During the fight, Donnie vents about how frustrating it is to be so dependent. But now he's powerful and can do everything on his own. He doesn't need Leo's pity anymore, he doesn't need anyone.

Leo and Batman get through to him by showing him Baxter's modified Venom formula, which Donnie finds an exploit in that they can use to cure it. Leo says their true strength is each other. They work best as a team, and they all need each other.

Of course they beat the baddies and Donnie prove's he's still a ninja even with all his tech, and happy endings all around.

Like, hot damn, what a neat arc that I'm surprised nobody talked about before. I do think overall the sequels are weaker than the original run, but there are some cool elements in there, like this arc.

Also the third run has the Batman and TMNT universes mix in the most fanfiction way possible. Like-

Need I say more?

[teethstitch]

Since you are into TMNT I am curious what’s your opinion on each of the turtles in general since you seem to be into all iterations of them /gen question

ooh fascinating question. unsure if you mean each individual turtle from each gen or just each gen itself but i'll go into both!

so i actually have a tmnt powerpoint i'm working on right now, so i'll lift some stuff but obviously i won't lift it all, ill go in franchise order. shows and comics in order (show specific comics will go in the show sections) and then movies. spoilers for pretty much every single thing i talk about. if you haven't finished a specific iteration just skip the paragraph about it

Mirage

I havent read too much of mirage, though i'm sure its good i find it a bit visually noisy and actually struggle to read it- my vision is fine as far as i know and i don't usually have trouble with other black and white comics but man mirage is hard to read, whenever eastman would draw for idw annuals or issues i'd have a hard time getting through them because even though the style is cool i just can't see anything, so yeah, that for the time being kind of sums up my thoughts on mirage, i think the shredder worm shark is funny as hell though. i suppose the only thing of note i have an opinion on is the april race debate - wherein by one of them she was thought of as white and the other thought of her as non-white (i can't remember which ethnicity), so based on that i've seen people say that means she's white or the other ethnicity but since they're co authors i've just gone with the idea that mirage april is biracial. that's about the only mirage thing i can actually give my two cents on, moving on!

1987

I really like 1987, i haven't watched it all but trust me i'm slogging through it o7. i adore the animation mistakes, the way they give one turtle another turtles lines, and i think the characterisation is pretty solid. sometimes the show can feel tedious to watch personally, which is why i love saturday morning adventures, it's a much more concise, thought out version of the show itself and is a beautiful love letter to the show (they also finally sent usagi home :'D). obviously it went on for way longer than it realistically needed to, a majority of episodes basically mean nothing unless they introduce new characters, its the one piece of the franchise, lots of filler, i still think it's great though. i also love shredders revenge, it was the first tmnt game i've played since joining the fandom and similar to SMA it is a genuinely beautiful love letter to the community and franchise, i'm an avid cross stitcher as well so pixel games make me happy because i can stitch straight from the game sprites, which i've been doing :3. I love how the turtles are characterised, Cam clarke is iconic and i love shredder and krangs dynamic, irma has become the love of my life and much to my dismay i love the neutrinos which sucks because they're only present elsewhere in idw, i'm doubtful but begging Tottmnt to bring them back.

2003

2003 is by far my favourite of the shows, i actually enjoyed fast forward unlike much of the tmnt fandom, i thought it was fun, though sterling was meh to me, i just didn't like him - even though i liked fast forward i can personally admit the show dealt with similar issues to 1987 of just. extending itself. when they were able to focus on plots and do arc episodes was great, but the seasons could have definitely been cut down sometimes because the formula of an episode was beholden to ads, which meant every 5 minutes someone had to say something shocking or nearly die only for it to be dissuaded or continued after the ad break, watching it digitally now with no ad breaks was kind of funny though because i would be up late sometimes and delirious and the 03 singers yelling 'teenage mutant ninja turtles' at me while mikey or other did a cool move entertained me much more than it should have. I really love that the opening scene is recreation of the first scene in the mirage comics, even if i have trouble reading it i think thats cool and fun, i love all the turtles voices and characterisation, i never have any complaints about voice in any iteration but especially not here, they all feel perfect. the fandom is a big part of the joy of 03 for me, but i do still love watching my favourite episodes back from time to time, and like any good 03 fan i can scream about good genes and same as it never was like a banshee, though i do also have a lot of thoughts on other arcs dw. usually i find it easier to pick a favourite turtle iteration to iteration but man is it hard here, they all have their moments, i think the humour and the darkness are played really well (cough except for when leo got stabbed in the shoulder and i had no idea where he got stabbed until he got a scar next episode because there was no blood). I was drawn into the fandom by rise and it will always hold a special place in my heart but 2003 is far and away my favourite iteration. forever sad about the dreamwave comics being cut short and no one picking them up. we deserve more official 03 comics.

IDW

I'm also still reading idw - don't kill me its long and also theres just a lot of turtles stuff to get through, okay? I really have enjoyed it thus far, i jumped for joy when the neutrinos were revealed, i hated chet with a passion and they somehow wormed me back in with the fugitoid reveal, i will say similar to watching 03 digitally and just getting hit with the before ad and after ads cutaways back to back, there's a bit of an annoyance in trying to find and read everything in exact order, because missing a micro/macro or short side story like the secret history of the foot can kind of screw you over, so when someone says they're reading idw its not actually the 150 issues, its well over 200, though i haven't counted specifically. if you read the powerpoint pictures you'll see the artist death match, basically i was just going to pit them against each other by choosing the best design of reoccurring characters and the artist would get the point, there are some great artist who had a hand in this series, i can't deny all of them are talented, but man some of them are just not for me, getting through an arc with a style i don't like is a breath of fresh air, right now my main example of a style i like is Mateus Santolouco - not all the character designs are my favourite but the secret history of the foot clan was gorgeous, especially karai, she's always been one of my favourite characters. i enjoy idw, i think the worst thing i can say about it really is sometimes theres styles i don't like and akin to other comic series it can be stupidly difficult to figure out the exact reading order when you're not there from the beginning.

2012

possibly controversial (definitely, i'm lying to myself), 2012 is probably my least favourite of the franchises shows (no, its not below next mutation, just talking animated main shows). just to explain myself, I do LIKE the show, but of the shows i find its the least in line with my humour, the gross out humour is a little more uncomfortable for me given the 3d style, i can't deny the story is probably the most well done of any of the shows thus far, i do enjoy the story and i think even non relevant episodes to the main storyline do a good job of serving some kind of purpose to character development or giving the viewer a look into the world, it is by no means a bad show, i would never say it is, i do like it, but for myself personally i struggle to sit down and rewatch because of some of the things i pointed out and some other things like the way apritello is written, leorai (shudders), idk why but 2012 splinter just annoys me, i will say the turtles and april are really enjoyable characters, i find most of the characters (karai, casey, some of the minor villains even) pretty engaging, everyone feels really fleshed out and similar to 03 the voice acting is on point, though this iteration isn't my favourite in terms of rewatchability, i audibly cheered when i realised shelldon was greg cipes, when he said booyakasha i was on the floor weeping. 2012 is a show that i would watch on occassion when it was on, its the one i technically grew up with, though i wasn't really into tmnt as a kid, but greg cipes was pretty much my childhood as a big teen titans kid, as well as mae whitman, i was a big tinkerbell kid, so those 2 are a huge highlight of the show for me. my feelings on 2012 are pretty confusing, but i still do like the show, its just if anyone (like you) asked, i would have to say its technically my least favourite, but again, by no means means that its bad, because it isn't, it's just not really as for me as the other shows. the '12 comics i enjoy, i haven't read too many but the batman crossover was sick as hell, style wise the 2012 comics are solid, while i don't think 2012 looks bad as a 3d show i would personally be more drawn to it if it was 2d like the comics, i just prefer 2d.

Rise (2018)

As previously mentioned, like many others rise was my formal introduction as a teen/now adult into the tmnt fandom, for a while it kind of stood out as my favourite before 03 topped it, but still i love it with all my heart and i rewatch episodes frequently. i think the voice casting was on point, i had recently finished ducktales so ben schwartz and josh brener were welcome surprises, kat graham was in perth for a con recently and i was so sad she wasn't scheduled for the melbourne run of that con and was heavily tempted to go just to see her, rise april is definitely my favourite of all aprils, while i think its a fun dynamic when April is an adult and sort of an aunt figure to the turtles, rise april really killed the older sister thing, every episode she's in is a treat, omar miller and brandon smith (am i meant to put middle/second names i have no idea) were stunning choices for raph and mikey, rise raph is so brotherly and silly, he just brings so much heart to raph, Mikey is so much fun in rise, i can get caught up in inflection and the way a line is said and there's a lot of variety with Mikey's lines, its funny and i couldn't ask for better delivery, i think they're all good at it but brandon knocks it out of the park with mikey. So, partially the blame goes to 03 but rise was also what got me into usagi yojimbo, it's kinda funny how the only show without a canon usagi is the one that kinda goes the hardest in adding him into stuff. the format of the show not getting to focus a lot on plot and mostly just being one off episodes obviously isn't ideal, but for what story we got i really enjoyed, i also just liked the one off segments, the majority of them i really liked and found funny, for me this is probably the show that makes me laugh the most out of any of them - while i tend to participate nowadays more with the 03 section of the fandom, i still love rise to my core and still interact with it here and there.

Ronin

As i said before, theres a lot of tmnt to go through, but uh. everyone talks about the last ronin, so i detoured my regular watching and reading to dive into it. I liked it, there are things i would love answers to but i might just need to reread to know because middle of reading my cat threw up and i had to pause to clean it up, so yeah- there are things i'm worried to have possibly misunderstood, like the dissolution of their treaty of sorts, misremembering or misunderstood that part of the story is a possibility but if its not that i'm still desperate to know who actually betrayed who first, what actually did the turtles/foot truce in? i haven't gone into re-evolution or lost years yet, i've been meaning to but occasionally i'll get a new shiny hyperfixation and when i return to turtles i tend to dive right into the shows or long running comics first compared to stuff like ronin. i am very excited for the game and the film, little nervous at the idea the film will be live action but i'm mostly just going to wait and see, no sense hating it before i even know what it looks like.

Mutant mayhem/tales/2023

i know i said movies last but its kind of different since the movie was before the show- so deal with it ig. mutant mayhem is a great movie, emotional, funny, i really like it, and the style translates beautifully into 2d animation for the show, i don't have much to say on the movie itself, i really liked it, i watched it with my mum who really liked it and she can be pretty hot and cold when it comes to movies. Tales is a fun show, i similarly don't have too much to say, i struggle to rewatch things i've watched semi recently because i get burnt out on it quicker, but i'm super excited to watch this iteration continue, i'll miss rise like hell but i think tales shows great promise and i'm looking forward to more of it!

Bayverse

if you're wondering why i skipped the 2007 movie its because i haven't watched it, semi similar to mirage the style is a lot, but not similar in the way that i can actually tell whats going on in 07, i just. don't like the style. bayverse is pretty controversial but i like it enough, i don't really rewatch it because the 3d models freak me out, but i love the fanart people make, i do think the character designs themselves are very good, peoples fanart definitely helps you look at them more clearly as well. I still don't visually get leo's bone necklace placemat thing. splinter in the first movie is too furless and he needs to be shot. the movies themselves i don't find too special but i don't dislike them, i remember watching the second movie because some cousins and i went out with our nan and my younger cousin wanted to watch it so we did. i had very little turtle exposure as a child but out of the shadows was part of it.

Original trilogy

I quite like the original trilogy, it's very campy but i think its a fun watch, similar to mutant mayhem i watched these with my mum, we really only watch the movies together and we had a good time, we both struggle to really take them seriously. we had to pause the first movie for a WHILE to laugh at the bathtub scene, i still laugh about it frequently and remind her of it just as often, 'i'm coming....... tO A DECISION' also was funny, the third movie is there also.

Batman vs tmnt

Holy crossover, batman. i really like this movie, as a tmnt fan and a batman enjoyer this movie is just so good, many have said it before and i will continue to say it. the movie is so full of easter eggs, i'm still trying to figure out if that portrait in the turtle van is of mikey or jennika - everyone is characterised so well, the dynamics between the batfam and the turtles is done amazingly, alfred and mikey as a duo is delightful and as always the voice acting is so good, i would sell my soul to hear kyle mooney and baron vaughn as mikey and donnie again. eric bauza is always fun to see given his history with tmnt, so seeing him actually be a turtle for once was great, i really enjoyed his performance as leo, i still can't believe darren criss is raph. i'm a gleek and a huge starkid fan and i can't hear it but i know its true. its fucking insane. the movies story and pacing is just really good, and is one of the few animated tmnt iterations to actually let people get hurt, have visible injuries and get fully murdered on screen, when i saw that foot ninja DIE die i was fucking pumped, a lot of the other video iterations lack actual tension because yeah shredder wants to murder a guy but this is family programming, so he wont and can't. but you watch people die and suddenly that hologram the foot tried to kill doesn't just feel like a 1987 thing where the one time the villains are able to do real damage its a decoy, it feels like a truly necessary precaution, had batman not done that, someone would have died, no doubt. i've spent an extended period of time analysing the easter eggs in this movie, especially when it comes to the turtle van itself, i LOVE the van design, the fact its an old rv, the call back to 87, the spare tire being an anti-foot symbol, the grafitti saying 'Foot Stinks', the April calendar with a picture of a turtle on it, its all a genuine treat. I love this movie, i think it's the best tmnt film ever, i love rise's film but to me nothing holds a candle to this. rarely do i only ever have one criticism for a movie but the only issue i have with the movie is the fact they clearly imply mr freeze DIED and that mutated batman killed him but they NEVER TOUCH ON IT AGAIN. i need directors commentary, i need a script, i need SOMETHING to tell me what happened. anyways. the fighting is so much fun, i love it, it's delightful to watch a tmnt fight and to be fully dialed in because it feels like a real fight, 03 had some pretty good fight scenes but in essence they were very cartoony in the way they won a lot of the time, i just think the batman vs fights are golden, especially the penguin fight, but again, all of them are really good.

so yeah. i have a lot of tmnt opinions, there's more i could say about each iteration individually, especially the shows, but i'll leave it with a list of my favourite characters and their iterations.

IDW Karai, 2012 and 2003 karai, they mean the world to me, i'm a big karai fan and i think they're great. of course the neutrinos, as little as they appear they mean the world to me. 2003 casey is definitely my favourite casey, second is probably idw casey. Batman Donnie is so much fun, his lack of social awareness is really played up but it feels natural and very donnie and i love the think he does where he moves his head like he's going to hide it in his shell but doesn't so he's just poking out. Rise april has my entire heart, she's the best and i'd die for her. 03 and 24/MM Leo, they're both great. really the entire rise cast has my heart. also the 03 cast but special shout out to 03 splinter he's just very sweet. i have to stop now because i could yell about even more characters forever, so last one i would say Alopex, i think she's a great addition to the franchise and i hope more people adapt her.

in case you weren't wondering because i'll tell you anyways, i do have oc's, i just don't really draw that much or particularly well so i don't post about them, i do write about them but i don't publish it bc i don't think anyone would care much, i don't really dip into oc fic either so.

so yeah. general thoughts on most of the franchise! if you want me to expand on any of the thoughts i shared here i'd be happy to but for now my fingers ache from typing so bye :3

[in3rci4]

LEONARDO'S DIFFERENT VERSION DATING HCS ( PART 2 )

Warning : Yandere hints ¿??????? Idk

IDW comic's Leonardo ( This one might be much vague since i didn't read the next comics after Leonardo's stopped being mind controlled )

Depending on his mood he might be more open about PDA some days ( Special occasions , peace before / after war, etc ), but in general he likes to keep it simple in front of others and let himself go in private

Unless you already know or start training self defense he won't let you go on missions , he would try to convince April to persuade you to stay with her while they do their stuff

Tries to take you beautiful or aesthetic places , but more often than not you two will be interrupted , so to avoid that he started to give you more gifts and spend more quality time inside a safe place

He loves it when you compliment his appearance , but if you compliment his skills and wisdom ? OOF , this man would be all giggly and blushing like a school boy

Denial and silent jealousy , he would not communicate his thoughts and would try himself to stop thinking that way , but it only gets worse . Fortunately , when he's on the edge of exploiting he would try his best to talk with you about it

Even when he's on the foot clan he would still choosing you

He would probably kidnap you and force you marry him and keep obedience and loyalty towards him ( And if he was feeling threatened by certain someone close to you , he wouldn't doubt twice on hurting them bad enough to make them know who you belong to )

After it's all over he would apologize for his actions and spend more time with you than before

Although his jealousy might be transform into more straight to point , being a little sharp with his words but nothing extreme

LEONARDO 2003-2009 ANIMATED SERIE ( I haven't watched it in a long time too lol )

At first he would be shy with PDA , but as times passes by he would start to care and less about what other people has to say

Wich would leads to a shameless romantic Leonardo

The ego bust when you compliment him is insane , he might act all humble but he won't stop smiling proudly for your words

Quality time and service are his main love languages , but gifts with sentimental reasons behind them are also a good part of him too

Rarely gets jealous since he trust you with his heart , but that doesn't stop him from not liking a person at all for trying to hit you ( Worse if they know that they were dating someone )

He would act fake nice to the point it's way too obvious for everyone in the room that he's not content with their presence , and would act clueless if you said anything about it

10000000+ points if you're good with kids and eldest people , makes his heart go brrr for you

DARK CLONE LEONARDO ( TMNT 2003 - 2009 SERIES )

Ok so first to talk about this version I say that if you decide to keep being his friend you have to teach him a lot of stuff ( Maybe I'll add a HC )

Maybe you're a close friend of the turtles , maybe you're Leonardo's partner / ex

The thing is that you were just or more patient with him than his counterpart , making him reflex about his existence , morals , actions , everything

So he decides to stay on Earth and try to be like the other turtles , to give his " brothers " a better life far from their creator

So , after a long time of learning , communicating and spending time with you , he decides to date you so he can be finally your boyfriend ( You told him that mate is weirdly used to call a partner here , he asked why , but you avoided the question flawlessly lol )

That being said , he would be slow with PDA but once he learns all the types of affection , he would SHAMELESSLY french kiss you , talk about how good you were last night , hug you on the air , etc

Even he's more civilized than before , he would steal without care things that he knows you like or need ( Be careful with saying " Oh I wish I had money to buy x thing" he won't think twice on breaking the law if it means he'll get it for you )

Cuddling with him is cool until you wake up first but he don't , and he won't let go even in his sleep ( Might even pull you much closer like if he's trying to absorve you with his body )

Yes , he did learn the sharing importance , but with you ? Hell nah , he growls to anyone who is way too much confident with you , including his brothers , but specially humans and the og turtles ( Leonardo having it worse , he would probably get hurt more than once just for talking with you inconveniently alone )

If you talk with him about his jealousy he would try his best to not push you away , but don't expect it to happen soon or fade away completely

Your loyal servant at lifting heavy weights , helping you get something out of your reach , etc , but if you don't know how to fight or be just as strong as him , good luck on trying to go on a mission / train or put yourself at any danger

[catacamacat]

OMG your art is so good!!

do you have any tips? painting apps sugestion? I'll take ANYTHING!!!

have a nice day (er... night)

Heyy

Thank you so much! Means a lot <3

(Literally a lot, like… you ask me? Me of all people?)

I’ll try my best, pls keep in mind that i’m not a professional or anything, I’m talking about my personal experiences. I hope I didn’t forget anything

(Edit: IM SO SORRY IT’S SO MUCH, I’ve been yapping for the past one and half an hour since 4AM ToT you don’t have to read everything ofc, I still hope that everything makes some sense 🥲)

I’ll put most of it under a cut :)

Painting apps:

I have always used procreate for my digital drawings, but there are many good cheap/ free alternatives.

Since our school uses IPads to work it installed “Sketchbook” on our devices, and even though you can’t use all of the pens without paying there should be more than enough for free (I’ve never used a digital pencil that has been so comfortable to draw with for example)

But my favorite is and will always be procreate

Time:

I’ve been drawing for a bit more than 6 years, and sometimes I’m still very insecure about most of my drawings, I mean that when I look at them I’m just not happy or I think it’s not good enough…

But I always keep in mind how freaking horrible, like for real horrendously bad my drawings were in 4th grade when I started, and then I’m pretty happy with how far I’ve come ^^

Just know that this feeling will probably always be there, no matter if you’re a beginner or a pro, idk it’s just from my perspective, everyone has their own experience.

Inspiration:

For me one of the most important/ helpful things is inspiration. I personally am often very energetic when it comes to drawing something that plopped up in my head, it just brings the fun, you know?

For me my biggest inspiration so far to draw is TMNT. And I mean it, I don’t just say that because I’m hyperfixated to them. Ever since I’ve discovered the turtles far more than a year ago, drawing has been the most fun thing in the world.

For me the turtles are incredibly fun to draw, there are so many possibilities since there are so many different versions of them, and four of them. I don’t think I could ever grow tired of drawing them, and I think nothing has ever improved my art as much as them since they are so much easier and fun to draw than humans (imo)

There was a time period that last until around three weeks ago where I didn’t really was in the tmnt fandom anymore, idk how that happened but I hope it will never happen again. Anyway, I was trying to draw in anime- style or something like that, and as far as I can remember it was really hard and for me not really fun/ felt forced. The turtles always look how they are supposed to look, but humans… nah —~—

What I want to say is that you should also find something that’s fun for you to draw and that fills you with inspiration and energy.

Quantity:

A tip from me: draw every day

(but include breaks when you need it)

Of course it’s not always possible, but since I heard that tip somewhere on YouTube (also a really good way to improve) a couple of years ago, I was never able to forget it. I mean I didn’t do it of course, but somehow it still helped… in a way…yk?

I mean there are always times where you don’t draw, maybe over weeks and even months during art block or other reasons, but the more often you draw, the better you become at it.

(Btw I personally believe it’s impossible to draw every day, for me at least. But i don’t know, that sentence never left my mind and I think there has to be some reason for it)

People:

It can be really helpful to have people you look up to, especially in the beginning, for example was I a really big fan of Skottie Young (still am) and that guy who drew some of the TMNT idw comics (forgot his name rn), and trying to draw somewhat like them for practice really helped me to get better. It also can be good to have people around you that are artists. Can be

And now something somewhat more complicated:

Be careful about the people you are surrounded with, because according to what kind of person you are, they can really, really make you feel shitty about how you draw, or maybe bring you to a point where you don’t feel joy when drawing at all

Here’s what I mean:

For example take me. I don’t know how many people feel this way, but I’m for some unexplainable reason completely “allergic” to criticism. I know it’s not a good thing, but I also know it’s not really my fault.

Every time I’m drawing something, I just want to have fun with it, and for me it’s the most important thing when I draw. And having people around me all the way that have studied drawing, criticizing my work and telling me what’s wrong, maybe even make fun of it it something I really, really can’t live with. Of course it can be a really good thing to take those criticisms, but for me it was/is just annoying, like REALLY annoying.

For a long time I couldn’t really draw anymore when someone of that people was sitting next to me, and there have been quite a few of them. It completely took the joy of drawing away from me, no one should let that happen to them. (Luckily it’s better now)

Idk if that what I intended to say was said… 🤷‍♀️

One last, the most important thing:

Always have fun with and enjoy drawing <3

Good day/night/or whatever 💜💜💜

[popculturebuffet]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 Review: Still Possesses Turtle Power After All These Years

Cowabunga all you happy people! I freaking love the Teenage Ninja Turtles. I grew up with it from Turtles in Time, which was my first video game, to the 2003 cartoon, which I covered the first three episodes of last month, and on to present day as I re-read the idw comics after finally reading the original eastman and laird run of mirage, and impatiently waiting for Shredder’s Revenge to come out after a LONG drout of no good TMNT games. I”m a fan of these heroes four, their dynamic as a family, the endless possiblities that come from it’s long history and ablitlity to go anywhere in any genre, and the wonderful goofy shit that happens when you have a franchise about mutant turtles learning ninjitsu from a rat and fighting a dude covered in knife covered samurai armor. 

So with me finally covering the guys after almost a year last month and with a new movie set to debut at some point this year, I had the bright idea to revisit the FIRST TMNT movie after way too many years of not watching it. This movie is anear and dear to my heart: When I first started getting into the boys big as a kid with the 2003 cartoon, I badly wanted more turtles. But back then it wasn’t nearly as easy to glom onto some more of the sewer shock pizza kings: Streaming sites with all the cartoons on them weren’t all that accesable, dvd’s were expensive for the 87 cartoon, Mirage wasn’t reprinting the comics in any meaningful way and my local comic shop didn’t have any at all and I could only play the SNES when my brother had it set up on occasion like at our Grandma’s farm. 

As you probably guessed though there was one exception: the original 1990 movie, which I got at Walmart for 5 bucks and haven’t let go of since. It was one of my first dvds and is still one of my most precious. Said film hit the spot just right as like my beloved 2003 series, it was a mildly goofy but still fucking cool adaptation that stuck closer to the mirage comics, even more than the 2003 series would, while taking a few queues from the 87 series. This film is as precious to me as the 2003 series and a with a brand new movie coming up, I figured it was the exact right time to dig into this classic: what makes it still good to this day, what’s fun to point and laugh at, and how the heck Jim Henson got involved in this. So join me under the cut as I take a look at my boys first theatrical outing and why I still love watching a turtle. 

No One Wanted To Make This: Before we get into the film itself some background. As usual I struggled a bit, but thankfully found some help in the form of this Hollywood Reporter article.  It’s a fascinating read worth your time, providing an oral history of the film from the people who worked on it. 

The film was the baby of Gary Propper, a surfer dude and road manager for the prop comic Gallagher, aka that guy who used to smash watermelons but now has instead opted to smash what little’s left of his career by being a homophobic douchenozzle. He found an ally in Showtime producer Kim Dawson who’d produced Gallagher’s special. I don’t think there will be more of an 80′s sentence than “Gallagher’s surfer dude agent wanted to make a teenage mutant ninja turtles movie”. Propper was a huge fan of the comics, and with Dawson’s help convinced Laird and Eastman to let them option it to studios. 

It may come as a shock to you but the road agent for a homophobic watermelon man and a producer at a niche cable channel wanting to make a movie based on an underground comic book about masked turtles at a time when the two most recent comic book movies were Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Howard the Duck, did not go well. Every door in Hollywood got slammed in their face, even Fox> Even the eventual backer of the film, Golden Harvest, a hong kong action film studio, took months to convince to actually back the film. 

Things did not get easier from there: The films writer Bobby Herbeck had trouble getting a story agreed on because Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s working relationship had deteroiated horribly from the stress so naturally the two could not agree on a damn thing and argued with each other. Peter Laird  made a tense siutation even worse by constnatly sniping at Herbeck and feeling he was a “Hollywood outsider infringing on his vision and characters”

Granted the script was apparently not great... but Pete still comes off as a pretnetious ass who views his weird indie comic as THE HIGHEST OF HIGH CALLINGS HOW DARE YOU SOIL IT. And continued to be kind of a prick like this throughout the rest of his time with the property. 

Thankfully the film found i’ts voice, vision and director in Steve Barron. Barron was a music video guy who knew the producers and while reluctant, eventually dove into the project rightfully thinking the film would need to be a mix of the mirage comics and 87 cartoon, keeping aprils’ reporter job, the turtles lvoe of pizza and their iconic color coding from the cartoon but adapting several stories from the comics as the backbone of the film. The guys liked barron MUCH better and things ran smoother. 

Barron also brought in one of the film’s biggest selling points and it’s most valuable asset: it’s triumphantly awesome Jim Henson costumes. Barron had worked with good old Jim on the music videos for Labyrinth, and while it took some convincing since the comics were violent as hell and that wasn’t Jim’s style, Barron eventually got him on board. This naturally doubled the budget, but given Henson’s costumes STILL hold up today and look better than the cgi used in the platinum dunes films... it was a good call. And this was brand new tech for jim, having to invent tons of new ideas and mechanisms just to make the things work, and said things still were absolute hell on the actors. Jim later ended up not liking the film for being too violent... which I find hilarious given how many muppets got eaten or blowed up real good on his show but regardless, I thank this legendary and wonderful man as without him this film WOULD NOT have worked. The costumes here look great, feel realistic, and you can’t tell the actors were dubbed much less horribly suffering in those suits. Much like Disney Land. 

The film would get picked up for distribution by New Line, and despite i’ts weird as hell origins and the long shot it had.. the film was a MASSIVE hit at the box office, owing to a combination of Batman 89 the previous year having proved comic book movies can work for audiences, the cartoon’s runaway sucess, and a massive marketing campaign. The film made it’s mark. So now we know how we got here let’s get into the film itself. 

What’s the Story Morning Glory?:

So the story for this one is largely cobbled together from some of the more notable arcs Eastman and Laird did before handing off the book to others full time as the stress of the company and the mounting tension with each other made it near impossible to work together on the book itself. 

To Save time i’m just going through what hte movie takes from the comics plot wise now to save me the trouble later:The movie takes elements from the first issue (The Turtles, Splinter and Shredder’s backstories, Shredder being fully human and the main antagonist, Shredder’s design and the final rooftop showdown that results in Shredder’s death), second and third, (April’s apartment over her dad’s old store and the turtles moving in when their home is ransacked and splinter has gone missing), the rapheal micro series (A tounge in cheek way of cashing in on the Mini-Series craze of the 80s, a one shot by modern standards and something that’s tragically been underused as an idea as only TMNT and MLP have used the idea at IDW, Raph meeting casey and their fight with one another), the return of shredder arc (One of the turtles being ambushed and mobbed by the foot and then thrown though a sky light (Leo in the comic and Raph here), the turtles being horribly outnumbered by them, Casey coming ot the rescue and metting the non-raph turtles for the first time, and them being forced to escape when the place goes up in flames), their exile to northampton (April writing in a journal, casey working on a car with one of the guys and one of hte guys looking over hteir injured brother), and finally, their triumphant return which was very loosely adapted as there are no deformed shredder clones and shredder not being dead yet in this version was not brought back by a colony of super science worms. 

So as for how this all comes together: Our story takes place in New York: A crimewave is high with muggings mysterious. There are a ton of phantom thefts going around and at most people have been seeing teens responsibile. And the police.. are at about this level of useful:

The only person doing something is April O’Neil, played by Judith Hoag. Hoag is easily the standout of the film, giving us a strong, confident woman with a wonderful sense of humor. She honestly might be my faviorite April O Neil, and given we’ve had some great ones with 2003, 2012 and Rise, that’s not something I say lightly. I honestly wish I’d recognized her in more stuff as she was both on Nashville and the mom in the Halloween Town films, and most recently was on the ScFy show the magicians. She’s a talented lady and i’m glad she’s still goin. 

April is a reporter for Channel 3 like the cartoon, though for some weird reason her boss from the cartoon is replaced by Charles Pennigton, played by Jay Patterson, whose currently dealing with his troubled son Danny, played by Micheal Turney. Pennington is horribly useless at both jobs: At work he tries to ease April off calling out Chief Sterns, who refuses to listen to April’s evidence gathered from japanese immigrants that the crimes resemble similar ones in japan in favor of trying to get charles to shut her up. Danny meanwhile is a member of the foot becase his dad thinks shouting out him and talking about him like he’s not there and generally being a dipstick will actually do anything to help him. 

I love the concept for the foot here. In addition to being a Ninja Violence Gang as always, they now recruit new members by finding kids without families or with troubled family lives and giving them a sense of family with the foot, and sweeting the bargin with a giant cave filled with arcade machines, a skate ramp and general late 80′s early 90′s kids goodies. Is it rediculous? Yes. Is it also clever as it gives Shredder an easy army of plausably deniable theives that he can pick the best out of to put in his elite that will be tirelessly loyal to him and him alone? Also yes. 

So April being public about this stuff gets her attacked, which naturally leads to our heroes coming in, first in the shadows and later directly when April wont’ give up on the case and Shredder sends some ninjas to go shut her up.. which he does weirdly as the guy jsut slaps her and tells her to cut it out like he’s on a domestically abusive episode of Full House. Raph saves her, and we get the turtles origin.. though weirdly they cut it in half. We get the ooze portion but Splinter’s past with Saki, Saki’s murder of his master and his master’s partern Tang Shen is left for later in the film and the fact Shredder’s saki is treated as a big twist despite the fact the biggest audience for the film would be kids... and kids would’ve been familiar with the cartoon where the giant brain monster routinely screeches out saki at the shredder. Maybe Barron just thought he was an alcoholic I don’t know. It just would’ve made more sense to have it all at once and let the audeince put it together. 

April becomes good friends with the turtles over a night of frozen pizza and camradrie, but the Splinters return home to find it ransacked, Splinter kidnapped by the foot, and are forced to Stay with april. Charles meanwhile tries to get April to backoff because he made a deal with the police to clear Danny’s record, without TELLING her any of this mind you, but I will save my rage on that little plot point for in a bit as Danny who he drug along sees the turtles and tells the Shredder. 

So we get the return of the shredder arc as Raph goes through a window, our heroes fight valiantly, and Raph’s friend Casey who he met earlier shows up, the two having bonded as all true friends do.. by beating the shit out of each other ending with raph shouting DAMNNNNNNN really big and dramatically into the sky for some reason. The Turtles and friends escape with an injured raph from April’s burning second hand store. She had a second hand store it was poorly established and only there because she had it in the comics. 

Our heroes retreat to a farm April’s grandma owned in Northampton, Massachutes, where Mirage was located at the time the original comics where they were exiled to the place were written and a location that has been a staple of the turtles ever since. The turtles slowly recover, lick their wounds, talk about who hooked up with who on gilligans island etc, before Leo connects with Splinter via meditation, who tells them to come back. Splinter also starts to connect with Danny and convinces him to swtich sides.. or at the very least squat in the boys old home. 

The boys return home, find danny, and prepare, Danny goes back and ends up giving away the Turtles are home.. but the turtles are ready and in an awesome sequence kick the fuck out of the foot squad sent for them with some well prepared steam vents. Casey goes to get splinter since Danny told them and with Danny’s help, finds him, since Danny found out they were gonna kill him. Casey beats up Tatsu, shredder’s right hand man, and they get him out. 

We get our final fight which is awesome up until the climax.. which is splinter casually tripping shredder with nunchucks and thier bloody history being kind of rushed and unsatsifying. Casey crushes shredder with a garbage truck, April gets her job back, more on that in a moment, she and casey hook up, and we end with the fucking awesome song T-U-R-T-L-E Power by partners in cryme. Seriously check it out it’s fucking triumphant. 

The song is just good.. cheesy? Sure but that’s half the fun. It’s the gold standard for movie theme songs for them and stacks up handily with the various animated series themes.. all of which slap. Okay... ALMOST all of which slap. Fast Forwards is aggressively medicore, which is doubly suprising to me since 4kids was REALLY damn good with theme songs. It was one of the three things they were best at along with finding VERY talented voice actors and setting japan based works in america because merica dammit.  

The plot is very solid: It skilfully packed half of eastman and laird’s run on TMNT into 90 mintues while adding things like April’s job at channel 9, the way the foot recurited kids etc. The plot flows well for hte most part and apart from one annoying subplot we’ll get to never has a moment that feel unecessary or dosen’t pay off later. And the stellar plot and fun pacing of it helps boilster the characters that do work... and help paper over the ones that are so thin the’yd fall down a grate...

Our Heroes, Villains and Annoying Middle Aged Guys:

Yeahhhh character is hit and miss here. Some are rather strong, others are the bare basics for the character their adapting and most are just to serve the plot but some work some don’t,  So let’s talk about it starting with our boys:

Raph is the most fleshed out of the turtles, being the main focus of the first 2/3 of the film, and having his anger be part of what SHOULD be a character arc, learning to temper it. And while granted MOST TMNT properties do this, to the point that Rise Raph is so loveable in part because his boisterous bruiser big bro attitude is a refreshing break from the usual grumpus we get. But at the time this hadn’t been done in every version but the 87 cartoon, so exploring it was valid.. but despite saying this should be a thing htey just forget about it and the most plot relevance he gets is going thorugh a window. He dosen’t really get a resolution.. his arc just kind of stops dead for the final half and it’s one of the film’s weaker points, one I only just now noticed on this rewatch. He’s still the most entertaining. 

Leo is the weakest of the turtles. He really lacks a personality here mostly just being leader and while his spirtual side is touched on, it’s  mostly a plot device. He’s just kinda the leader because he was in the comics to the point Partners in Cryme called Raph the leader. His role in getting taken out by the foot was taken by Raph, so he just has.. nothing to do for most of the film other than gripe at raph ocasionally and say orders. He’s probably the worst Leo i’ve seen outside of Next Mutation. I prefice that because after watching Phelous’ review it’s VERY clear those four are the worst versions of the characters, and no personality is still better than either having your team do nothing or yelling at them as your personality. I chalk this up to the Mirage Leo, and the mirage turtles to a poit being kind of bland. Not TERRIBLE characters, especially for the time, but not nearly as fleshed out or individualized as they woudl be in other adpatations, and with most traits LEo DID have, like his badassery flat out gone, he’s just.. nothing here. 

Mikey and Donnie are a double act here with both sharing a brain. Interestingly instead of his normal genius character, Donnie is Mikey’s best friend and the two simply trade jokes and schtick together. The two are interchangable.. but easily the best part of the film and a lot of the most memorable gags and lines, from Ninja Kick the Damn Rabbit! to “Do you like Penicllin on your pizza”, are from them. Thier there almost entirely as comic relief but it works, with both clealry being more modled ont he 87 cartoon turtles, a move that helps lighten the mood in darker moments. Their just genuinely charming and it’s intresting to see such a diffrent version of Donnie, and other incarnations, specifically the 2003 and Rise versions, would retain the sarcastic edge. 

Splinter is splinter. That’s about it, he’s peformed well and the puppet is amazing but he gets kidnapped a half an hour in and outside of influcencing Denny, more on that in a moment, and finishing Shredder he dosen’t do much but spout exposition. He’s not bad or anything, but he’s essentially a rodent shaped plot device. He was also puppeted by Kevin CLash, aka the guy who does Elmo. So there you go. 

April on the other hand.. is truly excellent. This might be my faviorite April. Judith’s april nicely blends the cartoon and mirage versions: She has the cartoons energy and job, but the comics sheer will and casual nature. Judith just oozes personality and her April is just a joy to watch, from her breezy chemistry filled interactions with the guys to her confrntation with Chief Sterns, knowing she’ll get thrown out by the asshole. She’s confident, and even when afraid dosen’t back down to her attackers and even helps out during the sewer ambush. I mean it’s a pot on the head but still it’s neat. She’s easily the best part of the flim and the most fleshed out of the cast. The worst I can say is they kinda shove her store from the comics, Second Time Around, in there for no other reason than it was in the comics: It dosen’t come up until it’s needed for the foot’s assault on her place. But overall.. she’s just fantastic to watch. 

Speaking of fantastic to watch, Elias Koteas is fantastic as Casey. Seriously he’s only second to the 2003 version in my eyes, getting the concept of a testorone filled average guy who decided to just go out and hit people with sports equipment after watching too much A-Team.. I mean that part of it’s not in this version but it’s implied, just right. Like judith, Elias is just really funny to watch and his big scenes, showing up just in time during the foot assault on april’s place and his fight with Tatsu are some of the best parts of the film, the former taken directly from the comics. This version isn’t without problems: His friendship with Raph, his most endearing aspect and one that has been carried throughout eveyr version Casey’s important, with the only exception so far being rise and we have a movie to fix that, is absent here. HE does save the guy, but they don’t really bond or anything. In fact he disappears for about half an hour after his big fight with Raph. But... again he’s just so damn entertaining, down to his JOSEEEEEEEEEEE Conseco bats (There was a two for one sale!).

Shredder is just a LITTLE better than splinter, if only because his actor projects a true aura of menace and I feel this version had some influence on the pants crappingly terrifying 2003 version. And the idea of the foot recurting teenagers like I said is a good one: He gives them home and a cause, they give him plausably deniable backup. And his fight with the boys in the climax is really awesome... the conclusion sucks but otherwise h’es okay. Not the deepest villian, but he has enough presence to be enjoyable.

His right hand man Tatsu, whose been adapted ocasionally since this and reimaigned as Natsu in the IDW comics, a female version, is also fine. He’s your standard grimacing goon but has enough presence to work. 

So that brings us to the penningtons. Charles, april’s boss at the station and his son Danny who’s joined the foot as he feels his dad dosen’t love him. Charles..is about as interesting and likeable as a dog turd and is the worst aspect of the film. No debate there, he just sucks. He sucks so hard he’s classified as a black hole.  The film wants you to see him as a put upon wokring dad whose frustrated with his son’s increased moodiness, skipping school and crminal undertakings and just wants to help him and loves him deep down. The problem is his actor’s delivery instead of concerned.. is just pissed. He just seems pissy and upset about the whole thing and comes off like he’s only mad about Danny doing this because he’s embarassing him and not because you know, it’s bad. When confronting Danny about stealing, he dosen’t consider MAYBE he’s part of a gang or needs help, but just wonders “Why are you stealing when I give you stuff”. Because, Dipshit, sometimes kids do crimes not because they need the stuff but because they WANT to, and because they want to act the fuck out. 

The most he does for the kid is agree to try and get April to back off the police when Cheif Sterns offers to let Danny go and not put him on record in exchange for it. The problem.. is this makes him even MORE unsympathetic. While I do get wanting to help your child, I do and it’s a sucky position... he again should be sympathetic.. but he handles the thing so badly it sucks. He just tells april to ease off, with no reason given, then fires her when she SHOCKINGLY dosen’t give up taking the guy whose refusing to take her hard work seriously or actually solve the crime wave problem to task for his shitty behavior as ANY person facing a shitty, corrput cop would. She just wants to hold him acountable and get him to actually do something. He clearly knows her on a personal level too as he talks about his issues with his son freely with her, something you don’t do with an employee unless their also a friend on some level. 

He could have TOLD april what was going on. She’d be furious at Stern’s naked corrpution and prioritizing shutting her up over actually solving crimes.. and thus put at least some of that energy into shutting him down or finding a way around it, going to the papers or something like that. Even in 1990 pre-internet, there were ways to get around Sterns blackmail and expose him so someone who’d actually do the job could get the job. Instead he just comes off as a selfish coward who rather than try and fight the guy blatantly abusing his power and using Charles own son as  barganing chip, goes along with it because it’s the easier option to simply bow to him instead of TRY and stop this. And it’s not like he’s even going after a beloved public figure or someone who could hide behind his rep: Sterns was blatantly failing a crime wave, April had called him out on his failrues and coverups multiple times. The public was against sterns.. finding out he tried to blackmail the media into shutting up about him would PROBABLY end him... I only say probably not because the public wouldn’t skewer him, but because police tend to escape consequences for blatantly murdering someone on a daily basis and Andrew Cumo is STILl mayor over in new york, the same city this movie takes place, 31 years later, depsite EVERYONE asking him to resign over a long history of sexual harassment and a more recent but still horrible history of hiding death numbers. I don’t doubt people being stupid enough to ignore this or the bilaws with cops being stacked enough for him to get away with it, but just because someone gets away with a crime dosen’t mean you shoudln’t try and go after them in the first place. Fuck. Charles. Pennington. 

Danny on the other hand is FAR more interesting and I think gets way too much flack when it comes to this subplot. Unlike his dad, whose dead weight, Danny is intresting: He provides a POV character for the foot’s MO in the film of taking in wayward teens, and his character arc is pretty engaging, slowly realizing the foot dosen’t care and that hte turtles are the good guys. HIs actor does a great job and while not the biggest presence, he’s not a bad addition to clan hamaoto and I wish other adaptations would find a way to use him. The pull between doing the right thing and his found family is a good struggle. My only real issue with his plot is the moviies flawed aseop about family. It tries to contrast shredder and his using the kids blatnatly with Splinter and Charles really loving their sons. And it works with Splinter and the kids because despite being a tad strict, Splinter clearly loves his sons and works with them to help them. The problem is ENTIRELY with Charles and Danny. As I said Charles love comes off as transasctional: He either thinks he can buy it or just expects it because he shot a bunch of goop into Danny’s mom after two minutes of disapointment. It dosen’t work with them because neither option is good for Danny. His father is neglectful, chooses throwing his jounralistic integrity out the window over talking to his son or his best friend about another way, and abrasive. Danny is no saint, he does do crimes, but it’s clearly a result of a shitty upbringing and the shredder and co actually offeirng him the love he desperatly craves. Danny goes to the foot because his dad is bad at his job but the film never adresses that and just expects Danny to go back to his dad because the plot says so. Danny would HONESTLY be better off with Splinter. No really. Sure he’d have to live in the sewers.. but he did so for a few weeks in the course of the movie. He’s fine down there. Splitner actually cares about him and took an intrest to him and knows how to raise a child. Let him become the fifth turtle. An aseop about family is not a bad thing: Loaded subject that it can be given how many outright abusive families exist, i’m one of the lucky ones who dosen’t have that issue, family is an important thing and can be a source of comfort and support. But this film tells you you should love and respect someone who does not love, respect or value you because he spent a minute in your mom’s vagina and that’s not how family should work and is outright dangerous to kids in an abusive situation. Love the film otherwise but fuck this aseop skyhigh. 

Final thoughts:

Overall though.. the film is bodacious. It’s funny, well paced, has an awesome cast, and outside of a certain bald asswipe... it’s a really good superhero film. Is it the best i’ve seen? Nope. Not even close and character wise most of them are as thin as a wet paper bag covered in ranch dressing. But it’s still a fun as hell with awesome corepgraphy, a killer soundtrack, seriously the soundtrack is damn excellent and only didn’t get it’s own section because I didn’t have enough to say and some of the best effects work i’ve seen in a film in the turtle suits. If you haven’t seen it I urge you to check it out: it’s a breezy 90 minutes, it’s on hbo max and it’s a shell of a time. Will I do the next film? 

We’ll see how this one does like wise and such, but I will be doing the rise film whenever it comes out this year. So look for that and keep possesing turtle power my dudes. If you liked this review subscirbe for more, join my patreon to keep this blog a chugging, comission a review if you have more turtle stuff you want me to cover, and comment on this. What do you think of the movie, what are your thoughts on the review, what can I do better, what other turtle stuff would you like me to cover/ Let me know and i’ll see you at hte next rainbow. 

[thelastraigeki]

How is Venus De Milo sexist?

Yeah, I didn’t think I was going to have to talk about the MOST controversial character in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Hell, I didn’t think that I was going to actually possibly make a post defending her but already... some Jennika fans are throwing Venus under the bus... as if the fandom seemingly hasn’t moved on from her enough as it is. But now that we got Jennika in the IDW comics, seems as if some folks are saying Venus should be permanently erased with the fury of a thousand suns...

And apparently, on a certain Fandom Wikia page... Someone has said that Venus De Milo’s very conception is something relatively sexist because of the way she was designed and the fact that her name comes from a statue depicting a the Goddess Aphrodite, and that the writers of the Next Mutation had created Venus just so she could be oogled and thusly not treated as a real character.

While the final product of the character of Venus De Milo might come off as sexist, I don’t think it was the intention from the creators of The Next Mutation to have her be seen as something propagating sexism or sexist ideals of what a female character should be. Anyway, this is what was said:

“The four are named after artists, famous for what they could do. But she was named after a statue, famous for how she looks. From its conception, the character design was tailored to perpetuate a sexist double standard that treats men as serious characters but treats women as mere objects for men to ogle or possess.”

Now, I haven’t seen much of the Next Mutation but I do know the controversy about Venus De Milo and how she was shoe horned in to be a love interest and everything, but I don’t think she had sexist intentions in mind as far as her designs and even name are concerned.

As far as Venus’ name is concerned-- Yes, she is based off a work of art depicting Aphrodite. A figure in Greek mythology known for her beauty and sexuality-- but what is Aphrodite also representative of? Love, Passion

Venus’ design was flawed and definitely poorly executed but I don't think it was a happenstance of sexism in mind but rather just plain flat out bad choices which weren't thought out very well. I don't think the team at Saban/Fox knew how to pull off the concept of a mutant female very well because no one saw what a mutant Turtle looked like... They tried and well... they failed. Considering her conception which was mandated by Saban/Fox, to where Eastman and Laird kind of had their hands tied to create a female Turtle otherwise the show wasn't gonna get greenlit, well... of course there were gonna be problems.

Not to mention, The Next Mutation is a big reason why Kevin and Peter pretty much parted ways and Kevin sold off his share of the TMNT franchise to Peter, and the franchise as a whole was essentially on ice for five whole years until the 2003 4Kids cartoon had aired.

Venus De Milo was a bad idea... But she didn’t have to be.

Venus can actually be revised, and it was even Sophie Campbell’s expressed hope that she might have been able to introduce Venus into the IDW TMNT continuity but instead... we got Jennika. But back on point... Venus can and could be revised if she was done in the right hands. Case in point, let’s look at Sophie Campbell’s interpretation of the character.

This is Sophie Campbell’s version of Venus De Milo-- while this is not at all a canonical take on the character, I think this might be a suitable revision. Let’s go over the redesign...

Campbell’s obvious take on the character is that the breasts are gone and that the carapace and plastron are larger than the original design. This is a major, major improvement in that Venus shouldn’t really have breast considering that she is a reptile, and thus has no need for mammary glands. She also seems to be sporting a skull-cap which conceals the entire top half of her head and has free flowing flaps rather than the braid style which is also an improvement.

Gone are the Kung-Fu styled shin pads and replaced with worn out bandage wraps which really give her something more in line of the look of the male Turtles. And gone are the fans, and replaced with the more deadly Kusarigama.

So to everyone who thinks that Venus can’t be redeemed... I would have to respectfully disagree and say that she can be and she should’ve been given the second chance. The fact that a lot of people are talking about her, wondering what happened to her since Jennika’s mutation to a Turtle happened. Some people are even saying that she is the real fifth Turtle to them over on Twitter and other social media formats.

But it seems as if Venus won’t get her redemption... Seeing as likely Hasbro/Saban now owns the intellectual rights to the character, and the Next Mutation version of TMNT.

But really... I don’t think Venus’ design or even the choice of name given to her had sexist intentions put into it at all at the very end... But her design and character actions were the result of poor choices made by company executives who clearly had no idea what the fuck they were doing.

Venus De Milo was a bad idea... But she didn’t have to be.

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TMNT 30 Day Challenge Day 25: What Would you like TMNT to Crossover with?

Ooo, this one is fun! I'm one of those people that actually really LOVES crossovers, provided that they are written well. I've seen so many ideas that are excellent but could just use a little fine tuning. My big thing with crossovers is that both (or more) universes  that are crossing over have to be relevant. It shouldn't be a case of "Oh Universe A is the real hero and Universe B is the damsel" I like to see the different sides work together.

So, first off, I will say that I love the idea of a TMNT multiverse where they can crossover with one another. While I did have some complaints with Turtles Forever, I still really enjoyed it! I've had my own ideas about how to resolve my issues with that crossover; namely, that the 80s Verse Turtles were actually hit with that 'Giggle Ray' Krang mentions prior to the adventure beginning due to a mess up by Bebop and Rocksteady which his why they act a bit OOC. I love to cross the 2k3 verse and the 80s verse and the NICK verse is fun too. I admit also to liking mixing in the PD movies with the multiverse. That is the utter joy of having a multiverse!

Outside of the multiverse? I'd love to see TMNT meet Gargoyles. Both of them exist within New York, they all take on the role of protector, though I think the Gargoyles would take a more active role. There are such potential for great interactions with these groups! Donnie and Lexington, Mikey and Broadway, Raphael and Brooklyn, Leonardo and Goliath, Splinter and Hudson.

 I have to say though what intrigues me the most is the turtles interacting with Demona. She has become the way she has because of how her kind was treated, how she was treated and I think for the turtles, who face the same kind of discrimination, it could be a real eye-opener. Might draw some attention to how important it is for them to process some of these emotions all their adventures create! I'm also totally seeing Mikey feeling sorry for Demona, even though she's doing all these horrible things.

Second? Ghostbusters. I know they did a comic book crossover but given I don't really keep up with the IDW comics (though it's on my list of things to catch up on) I am talking more about crossing the animated series. They all deal with the same kind of weird stuff and I can just see them becoming allies after starting with a major misunderstanding about the turtles being some kind of demon. Maybe the Ghostbusters could buffer some of the bad press the turtles get or cover for them when their covers are blown on occasion. Again, I really see some awesome potential with these characters interacting. Honestly, I always saw Mikey as able to get through Peter's rather gruff exterior. Mikey is good at that!

Third? Okay, so I realize this one is a bit odd but you know what? I read a fanfiction on it a while ago and it was freakin' awesome. Dragonball Z. The main reason I love this is because the concept of ki based attacks/techniques is not entirely out of the realm of possibility for the turtles. I think it could be a really neat way for Mikey to come into his own spiritual abilities. I have to say, I've had this idea in my head of Mikey training to go save his family, make use of the DBZ time chamber and come back so utterly in tune with his abilities that it's ridiculous.

The other thing that I admit to loving the idea of is using a young Gohan (Cell Games or younger) and having him interact with the turtles. Here is someone that has been through so much crap and has maintained that sweet outward nature. I just see so much potential for those interactions. It would definitely need to be a universe cross though. If you're interested, the fanfiction I've read is called "Saved by the Saiyan."

Plus, I mean, c'mon, there has never been a more appropriate character to launch the "Turtle Destructive Wave" than the TMNT.

[eddycurrents]

For the week of 25 September 2017

No standout favourite for the week, but I’ll be doing a special round-up on Marvel Legacy #1 before next Wednesday if you’re missing a longer take. Still, there were some very good comics out this week.

Quick Bits:

Diablo House #2 again features some of the best art in comics today from Santipérez. He has a style highly influenced by Bernie Wrightson and it’s just really great to see in this old school Tales from the Crypt style horror comic.

| Published by IDW

DuckTales #1 is a fun all-ages book that introduces comics to the new television show’s animated style. Joe Caramagna pens two stories in this first issue that are highly entertaining, capturing the voices of the Ducks and the mix of adventure and humour of DuckTales very well.

| Published by IDW

Faith & The Future Force #3 continues to throw waves of Valiant’s heroes pulled from time against a seemingly impossible to stop evil robot. As we move towards the conclusion, the tactics that the Timewalker has been using need to change, lest they continue to fail and reality further come undone, and we get the first hint of what’s next.

| Published by Valiant

Generations: The Americas #1 is a different beast compared to the other Generations one-shots. Nick Spencer gives a bit more context as to what’s going on in regards to the heroes disappearing, but still no real explanation. It just seems like a kind of jumbled mess that happens in between the panels of Secret Empire and vaguely hints towards thematic changes in some of the titles throughout the Marvel Legacy promotion.

That said, the story itself from Spencer and Paul Renaud is pretty good.

Generations: The Spiders #1 features some really great artwork from Ramon Pérez, and coloured by Msassyk. It expertly captures the feel and tone of much of the early Ditko Spider-Man work, particularly in relation to Amazing Spider-Man #33. I only wish that the team had have been able to include an action sequence or two, because I suspect that would have been incredible.

| Published by Marvel

The Hard Place #2 is good. Not quite as good as the first issue, but there’s still a lot to like about what Doug Wagner and Nic Rummel are doing here. There’s a nice added wrinkle in who the bank robbers choose as a hostage that ups the ante.

| Published by Image

Hi-Fi Fight Club #2 goes deeper into the mystery of the disappearance of Rosie Riot from Stegosour, the nature of the fight club of the Vinyl Mayhem staff, and the budding relationship between Chris and Maggie. This is a highly entertaining story from Carly Usdin, with some great artwork from Nina Vakueva.

| Published by BOOM! Entertainment / Boom! Box

The Mighty Thor #23 concludes the battle between Thor and War Thor in a satisfyingly epic fashion. The artwork from Valerio Schiti also ratchets up another notch, providing a beautiful display of the conflict and its impact across the Ten Realms, it really is some amazing work. The pieces that Jason Aaron has been putting into play since his first issue of Thor: God of Thunder are falling into place.

| Published by Marvel

Nick Fury #6 concludes what was probably one of Marvel’s most innovative, most visually interesting series in recent years, that unfortunately very few people were reading and much less were talking about. James Robinson, ACO, Hugo Petrus, and Rachelle Rosenberg gave us a series in Nick Fury that was full of crazy ideas, spy thrills, action, humour, and jaw-dropping art. This really should have been a smash hit.

| Published by Marvel

Redneck #6 concludes the first arc in a way you probably won’t expect, but then much about this series is a play on challenging conventions. Donny Cates and Lisandro Estherren have created something here that transcends your traditional vampire stories, delving into something more personal, more rooted in family connections, and a willingness to change and I’m excited to see where that change takes the story.

| Published by Image / Skybound

Revolutionaries #8 concludes the series, closing out the story begun in the first issue, giving an explanation for what happened to Joe Colton before Revolution to explain how he could be both alive now and murdered as a Dire Wraith replacement in that crossover, and acts as a lead-in to First Strike. It’s good work from John Barber, with some great artwork from Fico Ossio and Ron Joseph. It just would have been nice to have been released before the First Strike crossover was almost over.

| Published by IDW

Rockstars #7 goes deeper down the rabbit hole. The artwork from Megan Hutchison seems to get better and better with every issue and it started out great.

| Published by Image

ROM vs. Transformers: Shining Armor #3 is another great issue in this limited series. John Barber and Christos Gage do a wonderful job conveying the cultural differences between the Autobots and Space Knights, dovetailing nicely with the character work that’s currently and previously been developed in the respective ROM and Transformers titles. And, of course, Alex Milne is a master at work here.

| Published by IDW

Rough Riders: Riders on the Storm #6 concludes this second mini-series and sets up for something possibly different for the forthcoming third volume. Adam Glass’ take on a kind of All-American League of Extraordinary Gentlemen from history rather than fiction has always been a good story, but I feel like it’s also delivering some great work consistently from Pat Olliffe. He’s always been an good interesting artist, but I feel like he’s upped his game considerably for this series.

| Published by AfterShock

Spawn #278 continues what it is quite possibly the best story that the series has ever seen. It started out as a fairly straight-forward horror yarn in Japan from the new creative team of Darragh Savage and Jason Shawn Alexander, but this issue opens it up a bit to something weirder. There were hints in the first two parts, but this gives us more layers. Also, the artwork from Alexander is gorgeous. There are some pages where he seems to be channelling Bill Sienkiewicz in page composition and it’s just visually stunning. Great work all around.

| Published by Image

Thanos #11 is the penultimate issue of Jeff Lemire’s run and it’s more or less one giant fight scene between Thanos and Thane. It allows Germán Peralta to really cut loose with the art and, aided by the colours of Rachelle Rosenberg, the book looks great.

| Published by Marvel

War Mother #2 continues to be a great read. The mystery deepens as to what’s taken over The Montana, while Ana gets a renewed urgency to escape when she realizes that her people are marching their way to possible death. Fred Van Lente also introduces another wrinkle in the machinations of Ana’s children that looks interesting.

| Published by Valiant

X-Men Blue #12 concludes the “Toil and Trouble” arc and it’s not bad. Cullen Bunn tells much of this issue through the eyes of Bloodstorm (or a Bloodstorm, because it’s not quite clear that she’s the same one from Mutant X), and it works effectively as a narrative of the tragic monster. This theme is also brought forward in the sub-plot of Ms. Sinister’s machinations with the Ultimate Universe refugees fairly effectively.

| Published by Marvel

X-O Manowar #7 kicks off the “Emperor” story-arc and it’s basically a barn burner. Matt Kindt’s story is suitably epic. All hell has broken out on Gorin and Aric is leading an army against the Emperor, who has pretty much turned against his own people and stood revealed as complicit in many of their deaths at the hands of the Monoliths. Clayton Crain takes over art duties for this arc and it is absolutely beautiful.

| Published by Valiant

Other Highlights: Archie #24, The Beautiful Death #1, Black Magick #8, Black Monday Murders #7, Black Panther #18, Crosswind #4, Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Again #5, First Strike #4, Godshaper #6, I Am Groot #5, The Infinite Loop: Nothing But the Truth #1, Lazarus X+66 #3, Marvel Legacy #1, Micronauts: First Strike #1, The Normals #5, Paklis #5, Pathfinder: Runescars #5, The Punisher #16, Rat Queens Special: Orc Dave, Red Sonja #9, Rick and Morty #30, ROM #13, Saga #47, Southern Bastards #18, Saucer State #4, Spider-Gwen #24, Star Wars: Jedi of the Republic - Mace Windu #2, Turok #2, TMNT #74, Venomverse #4, Victor LaValle’s Destroyer #5

Recommended Collections: Animal Noir, Buzzkill, Colder Omnibus, Hadrian’s Wall, Indestructible Hulk Complete Collection, Old Man Logan - Volume 5: Past Lives, Rock Candy Mountain - Volume 1, Royal City - Volume 1: Next of Kin, Shutter - Volume 5: So Far Beyond

d. emerson eddy may have been born to run, but he is more content with a leisurely stroll nowadays.

[cbilluminati]

Some amazing titles from the Dub this week, and we have your looks at them all. Here’s the IDW Publishing Previews for 3-22-2017.

BATMAN/TMNT Adventures #5

Writer: Matthew K. Manning Artist: Jon Sommariva Cover Artist: Jon Sommariva

The surprising conclusion to the hit all-ages crossover! Surprising alliances are formed and friendships are tested as the villain behind the cross-dimensional chaos is revealed!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

Don’t miss the finale to the series everyone is talking about!

Variant cover by Jeff Matsuda

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Brutal Nature: Concrete Fury #1

Writer: Luciano Saracino Artist: Ariel Olivetti Cover Artist: Ariel Olivetti

In the future, glistening buildings line the city’s skyline. In the future, rich and powerful men wish to exploit power they don’t fully comprehend. In the future, a new warrior emerges… a shapeshifter that will help the people rise against the forces of oppression! Luciano Saracino and Ariel Olivetti return to the savage world of Brutal Nature!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

The beautifully painted story continues, featuring art by comics superstar Ariel Olivetti!

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Dirk Gently: The Salmon of Doubt #6

Writer: Arvind Ethan David Artist: Ilias Kyriazis Cover Artist: Ilias Kyriazis

The Rowdy 3 barge into Dirk and Sally’s lives again, making things particularly difficult for the Holistic Detective. Featuring favorite characters from the original books as well as the cast from the TV series, including Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

The star of two (almost three) beloved Douglas Adams novels!

Written by executive producer of the TV series Arvind Ethan David!

Executive produced by Max Landis (Chronicle and Superman: American Alien), the writer of the BBC America TV series!

Each issue will have a photo cover featuring the cast of the show!

Variant cover by Robert Hack!

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Donald and Mickey: The Persistence of Mickey

Writers: Andrea “Casty” Castellan, Giorgio Cavazzano, Roberto Gagnor, Mau Heymans, William Van Horn, Byron Erickson, Joe Torcivia Artists: Andrea “Casty” Castellan, Giorgio Cavazzano, Roberto Gagnor, Mau Heymans, William Van Horn, Byron Erickson, Joe Torcivia Cover Artist: Giorgio Cavazzano

Hello, Dali! When Walt Disney and famed abstract artist Salvador Dali teamed up in 1946, they birthed a famed cartoon featurette called Destino… that wouldn’t be seen until decades after its inception! How come? Would you believe—Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy invaded Dali’s outrageous world of art, and turned Uncle Walt’s plans even abstract-er than before! Then stick around for more action with Donald, Mickey, and the whole Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories supporting cast! Donald and evil Argus McSwine clash as demolition derby drivers in “Roadhogs,” and as super hot curry chefs in “You Vindaloo, You Lose a Few!” Then, in “Night of the Living Text,” Mickey and Goofy learn they’re really living in a comic book—or are they? Collects Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #733-735.

TPB • FC • $12.99 • 124 pages • 6” x 9” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-833-5

Bullet points:

Mickey and Donald and… Salvador Dali?! Oh my!

Advance solicited for March release!

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Ghostbusters 101 #1

Writer: Erik Burnham Artist: Dan Schoening Cover Artist: Dan Schoening

“Let’s Do The Space-Warp Again!” Before they began investigating the supernatural, most of the original Ghostbusters were teachers… and they’ve decided it’s time they start sharing their knowledge again. But when their first batch of students start poking around the firehouse and accidentally set in motion the merging of two universes (it’s easier than you’d think) Venkman, Stantz, Zeddemore, and Spengler will need all the help they can get to put things right! And who do you think will Answer The Call? (If you guessed Holtzmann, Yates, Tolan, and Gilbert… you get a gold star!) It’s a brand new inter-dimensional meeting of the minds, starting here!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

Straight outta the 2016 film, the Answer the Call Ghostbusters make their comic book debut!  Abby, Patty, Erin and Holtzmann join forces with Winston, Egon, Ray and Venkman for some bombastic ghostbustin’ insanity!

Written and illustrated by the fan-favorite and critically-acclaimed creative team of Erik Burnham, Dan Schoening and Luis Antonio Delgado.

Featuring the first of six-interconnected covers by Schoening and Delgado.

Retailer incentive covers feature photos of the Original and ATF Ghostbusters casts!

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G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #237

Writer: Larry Hama Artist: S L Gallant Cover Artist: S L Gallant

Destro’s plan catches G.I. JOE’s attention, but the Scottish weapon master is determined to get the Real American Heroes off his tail!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Helena Crash #1

Writer: Fabian Rangel, Jr. Artist: Warwick Johnson-Cadwell Cover Artist: Warwick Johnson-Cadwell

From writer Fabian Rangel Jr (Space Riders) and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell (Tank Girl) comes a new pulse pounding, caffeine fueled, sword swinging, machine-gun firing, car crashing sci-fi adventure comic! In a future where coffee is illegal, Helena is a courier, delivering black market goods to anyone who can afford her services. When Rojo, a ruthless crime boss, asks her to assassinate his rival, the alien mobster known as White Demon, Helena finds herself in the middle of a gang war! To survive, Helena must use all of her skills, and seek help from her friends to stay ahead of her enemies!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

Pour yourself a cup of coffee and get ready for HELENA CRASH!

With a variant cover by HEADLOPPER’s ANDREW MACLEAN!

Variant cover by Warwick Johnson-Cadwell!

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Jem: The Misfits #3

Writers: Kelly Thompson, Sophie Campbell Artist: Jenn St. Onge Cover Artist: M. Victoria Robado

OUR SONGS ARE BETTER Part Three! Before Blaze was a Misfit she was their biggest fan, but now that she IS a Misfit it’s not quite what she expected and may be more than she bargained for.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

Learn about Blaze’s life pre-Misfits!

And which Misfit was a country music fan…omg…was it more than one!?

A special variant cover by Sophie Campbell!

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Judge Dredd: Cry of the Werewolf

Writer: John Wagner & Alan Grant Artist: Steve Dillon Cover Artist: Steve Dillon

Re-presenting the classic tale that inspired this month’s Judge Dredd: Deviations! In the full-blooded horror of “Cry of the Werewolf,” Judge Dredd must descend into the Undercity to investigate how a flesh-eating werewolf ended up in Mega-City One and make sure no others make their way to the surface.

B&W • 48 pages • $5.99

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Judge Dredd: Deviations

Writer: John McCrea Artist: John McCrea Cover Artist: John McCrea

In a world where Judge Dredd turned into a werewolf… and stayed that way! The legendary creator of Dogwelder, John McCrea, takes a sideways look at one of the more celebrated Dredd stories, “Cry of the Werewolf” by John Wagner & Alan Grant and the late, great Steve Dillon. Brace yourself for… “Howl of the Wolf!”

FC • 40 pages • $4.99

Bullet points:

Check out the Mash-up variant!

Find out what happens in a world… where Judge Dredd turned into a werewolf—and stayed that way!

Part of IDW’s Deviations five-week event!

Variant cover b Ryan Brown!

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Michael Recycle #1 (of 4)

Writer: Eleanor Wharton Artists: Alexandra Colombo & Thomas Zahler Cover Artist: Alexandra Colombo

Join environmentally conscious kid crusader Michael Recycle as he makes the eco-friendly leap from books to comics! Michael’s green adventures are about to get a whole lot messier when he faces threats to Earth’s environment from all over the globe. In the premiere issue, Michael and Solar Lola team up with Bootleg Peg to stop the polar ice caps from completely melting in “Mission Meltdown”! Can the trio save the residents of the North Pole before it’s too late?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

Young readers who have enjoyed the Michael Recycle books and their eco-friendly messages can now thrill to more adventures in comic-book form!

Children are becoming more and more aware of the environment around them, and Michael’s green tips help them become responsible at an early age.

Alexandra Colombo’s charming art will captivate readers of all ages.

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Michael Wm. Kaluta’s Starstruck: Artist’s Edition HC—SPOTLIGHT

Writer: Elaine Lee Artist: Michael Wm. Kaluta Cover Artist: Michael Wm. Kaluta

Michael Kaluta is one of the most revered and versatile artist’s in comics and illustration. He is frequently recognized as the definitive artist of The Shadow, has been praised for his Lord of the Rings paintings, and illustrated the Metropolis novel. He was also part of the legendary artist’s collective (along with Jeff Jones, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Bernie Wrightson) known simply as THE STUDIO.

But if any project is closest to the artist’s heart it would be Starstruck, an ongoing space-fantasy that began in the pages of Heavy Metal Magazine in 1982, was a Marvel Comics Graphic Novel in 1984, and several series’ of comics from various publishers in the 1980s and ‘90s. Starstruck is still a work in progress and IDW Publishing will release a new series in early 2017, with expanded stories by Lee and Kaluta.

HC • BW • $150.00 • 144 pages • 12” x 17”  • ISBN: 978-1-63140-847-2

Bullet points:

Like all Artist’s Editions, the pages have been scanned from the original art—thus offering the reader the best possible viewing experience of Kaluta’s magnificent artwork.

Advance solicited for February release!

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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #52

Writer: James Asmus Artist: Tony Fleecs Cover Artist: Tony Fleecs

Twilight and friends dive into the secret history of Equestria to find out the origin of the new villain, Shadowlock!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

A look into the past that will hint at the future!

Variant cover by Valentina Pinto!

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Optimus Prime #5

Writer: John Barber Artist: Kei Zama Cover Artist: Kei Zama

NEW CYBERTRON! It’s battleground: Earth once more, as the uneasy peace between Optimus’ forces, the Junkions, and G.I. Joe collapses amidst betrayals and subterfuge. Will Optimus Prime and Pyra Magna be able to put aside their differences—or is war really the only way forward?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

Variant cover by E.J. Su!

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Star Trek/Green Lantern Vol 2 #4

Writer: Mike Johnson Artist: Angel Hernandez Cover Artist: Angel Hernandez

It’s a race between the forces of good and evil! The first to reach the only Power Battery in the universe will control the destiny of all worlds! Can Hal Jordan and the crew of the Enterprise beat Sinestro and his allies to the ultimate prize?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

Following the blockbuster success of last year’s Star Trek/Green Lantern, DC Entertainment and IDW once again bring you the best team-up in the galaxy!

Variant cover by Isaac Goodhart!

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Superman: The Golden Age Newspaper Dailies: 1942-1944

Writers: Jerry Siegel, Whitney Ellsworth Artists: Joe Shuster, Wayne Boring Cover Artist: Pete Poplaski

Our premiere volume of Golden Age Superman dailies includes all strips from February 16, 1942 through October 28, 1944, and features the first appearance of the mischievous Mr. Mxyzptlk, the menace of The Monocle, the nefarious No Name, Miss Dreamface, “King” Jimmy Olsen, and the kidnapping of Santa Claus! More than 800 daily strips that are collected for the first time since their original appearance in newspapers more than 70 years ago!

HC • B&W • $49.99 • 288 pages • 11” x 8.5” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-383-5

Bullet points:

Collected for the first time!

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #68

Writers: Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman Artist: Mateus Santolouco Cover Artist: Mateus Santolouco

“Desperate Measures” Part 2! The Mutanimals have been defeated and the Turtles are next in line! Which mutant will turn on his friends to survive, and which will risk everything to help another?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

Bishop’s gambit kicks into high gear!

Variant cover by Jakub Rebelka!

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Transformers vs G.I. JOE: The Movie Adaptation

Writer: Tom Scioli Artist: Tom Scioli Cover Artist: Tom Scioli

Imagine a world where the greatest comic book crossover of all time inspires a movie adaptation… and that movie adaptation inspires its own comic book! Visionary writer-artist Tom Scioli returns to the weird world of Transformers vs. G.I. Joe and brings an even weirder twist to this new story: what would the comic book adaptation of the movie version of the comic book look like? It’s time to find out in the most epic, scintillating, off-the-wall, exciting comic of 2017!

FC • 40 pages • $4.99

Bullet points:

Tom Scioli’s spectacular vision returns!

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Wynonna Earp Legends: The Earp Sisters #4

Writers: Beau Smith & Melanie Scrofano Artist: Chris Evenhuis Cover Artist: Chris Evenhuis

Wynonna Earp has faced Werewolves, Zombies, Revenants—but she’s never faced a choice this hard: when Waverly comes into her dangerous world, will Wynonna accept her sister’s choices or will Wynonna choose to protect her at all costs, even if it means pushing her away?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

Co-written by Wynonna Earp herself, Melanie Scrofano!

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IDW Publishing Previews for 3-22-2017

Some amazing titles from the Dub this week, and we have your looks at them all. Here’s the IDW Publishing Previews for 3-22-2017.

IDW Publishing Previews for 3-22-2017 Some amazing titles from the Dub this week, and we have your looks at them all. Here's the IDW Publishing Previews for 3-22-2017.

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Some amazing titles from the Dub this week, and we have your looks at them all. Here’s the IDW Publishing Previews for 3-22-2017.

BATMAN/TMNT Adventures #5

Writer: Matthew K. Manning Artist: Jon Sommariva Cover Artist: Jon Sommariva

The surprising conclusion to the hit all-ages crossover! Surprising alliances are formed and friendships are tested as the villain behind the cross-dimensional chaos is revealed!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Don’t miss the finale to the series everyone is talking about!

Variant cover by Jeff Matsuda

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Brutal Nature: Concrete Fury #1

Writer: Luciano Saracino Artist: Ariel Olivetti Cover Artist: Ariel Olivetti

In the future, glistening buildings line the city’s skyline. In the future, rich and powerful men wish to exploit power they don’t fully comprehend. In the future, a new warrior emerges… a shapeshifter that will help the people rise against the forces of oppression! Luciano Saracino and Ariel Olivetti return to the savage world of Brutal Nature!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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The beautifully painted story continues, featuring art by comics superstar Ariel Olivetti!

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Dirk Gently: The Salmon of Doubt #6

Writer: Arvind Ethan David Artist: Ilias Kyriazis Cover Artist: Ilias Kyriazis

The Rowdy 3 barge into Dirk and Sally’s lives again, making things particularly difficult for the Holistic Detective. Featuring favorite characters from the original books as well as the cast from the TV series, including Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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The star of two (almost three) beloved Douglas Adams novels!

Written by executive producer of the TV series Arvind Ethan David!

Executive produced by Max Landis (Chronicle and Superman: American Alien), the writer of the BBC America TV series!

Each issue will have a photo cover featuring the cast of the show!

Variant cover by Robert Hack!

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Donald and Mickey: The Persistence of Mickey

Writers: Andrea “Casty” Castellan, Giorgio Cavazzano, Roberto Gagnor, Mau Heymans, William Van Horn, Byron Erickson, Joe Torcivia Artists: Andrea “Casty” Castellan, Giorgio Cavazzano, Roberto Gagnor, Mau Heymans, William Van Horn, Byron Erickson, Joe Torcivia Cover Artist: Giorgio Cavazzano

Hello, Dali! When Walt Disney and famed abstract artist Salvador Dali teamed up in 1946, they birthed a famed cartoon featurette called Destino… that wouldn’t be seen until decades after its inception! How come? Would you believe—Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy invaded Dali’s outrageous world of art, and turned Uncle Walt’s plans even abstract-er than before! Then stick around for more action with Donald, Mickey, and the whole Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories supporting cast! Donald and evil Argus McSwine clash as demolition derby drivers in “Roadhogs,” and as super hot curry chefs in “You Vindaloo, You Lose a Few!” Then, in “Night of the Living Text,” Mickey and Goofy learn they’re really living in a comic book—or are they? Collects Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #733-735.

TPB • FC • $12.99 • 124 pages • 6” x 9” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-833-5

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Mickey and Donald and… Salvador Dali?! Oh my!

Advance solicited for March release!

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Ghostbusters 101 #1

Writer: Erik Burnham Artist: Dan Schoening Cover Artist: Dan Schoening

“Let’s Do The Space-Warp Again!” Before they began investigating the supernatural, most of the original Ghostbusters were teachers… and they’ve decided it’s time they start sharing their knowledge again. But when their first batch of students start poking around the firehouse and accidentally set in motion the merging of two universes (it’s easier than you’d think) Venkman, Stantz, Zeddemore, and Spengler will need all the help they can get to put things right! And who do you think will Answer The Call? (If you guessed Holtzmann, Yates, Tolan, and Gilbert… you get a gold star!) It’s a brand new inter-dimensional meeting of the minds, starting here!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Straight outta the 2016 film, the Answer the Call Ghostbusters make their comic book debut!  Abby, Patty, Erin and Holtzmann join forces with Winston, Egon, Ray and Venkman for some bombastic ghostbustin’ insanity!

Written and illustrated by the fan-favorite and critically-acclaimed creative team of Erik Burnham, Dan Schoening and Luis Antonio Delgado.

Featuring the first of six-interconnected covers by Schoening and Delgado.

Retailer incentive covers feature photos of the Original and ATF Ghostbusters casts!

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G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #237

Writer: Larry Hama Artist: S L Gallant Cover Artist: S L Gallant

Destro’s plan catches G.I. JOE’s attention, but the Scottish weapon master is determined to get the Real American Heroes off his tail!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Helena Crash #1

Writer: Fabian Rangel, Jr. Artist: Warwick Johnson-Cadwell Cover Artist: Warwick Johnson-Cadwell

From writer Fabian Rangel Jr (Space Riders) and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell (Tank Girl) comes a new pulse pounding, caffeine fueled, sword swinging, machine-gun firing, car crashing sci-fi adventure comic! In a future where coffee is illegal, Helena is a courier, delivering black market goods to anyone who can afford her services. When Rojo, a ruthless crime boss, asks her to assassinate his rival, the alien mobster known as White Demon, Helena finds herself in the middle of a gang war! To survive, Helena must use all of her skills, and seek help from her friends to stay ahead of her enemies!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Pour yourself a cup of coffee and get ready for HELENA CRASH!

With a variant cover by HEADLOPPER’s ANDREW MACLEAN!

Variant cover by Warwick Johnson-Cadwell!

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Jem: The Misfits #3

Writers: Kelly Thompson, Sophie Campbell Artist: Jenn St. Onge Cover Artist: M. Victoria Robado

OUR SONGS ARE BETTER Part Three! Before Blaze was a Misfit she was their biggest fan, but now that she IS a Misfit it’s not quite what she expected and may be more than she bargained for.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Learn about Blaze’s life pre-Misfits!

And which Misfit was a country music fan…omg…was it more than one!?

A special variant cover by Sophie Campbell!

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Judge Dredd: Cry of the Werewolf

Writer: John Wagner & Alan Grant Artist: Steve Dillon Cover Artist: Steve Dillon

Re-presenting the classic tale that inspired this month’s Judge Dredd: Deviations! In the full-blooded horror of “Cry of the Werewolf,” Judge Dredd must descend into the Undercity to investigate how a flesh-eating werewolf ended up in Mega-City One and make sure no others make their way to the surface.

B&W • 48 pages • $5.99

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Judge Dredd: Deviations

Writer: John McCrea Artist: John McCrea Cover Artist: John McCrea

In a world where Judge Dredd turned into a werewolf… and stayed that way! The legendary creator of Dogwelder, John McCrea, takes a sideways look at one of the more celebrated Dredd stories, “Cry of the Werewolf” by John Wagner & Alan Grant and the late, great Steve Dillon. Brace yourself for… “Howl of the Wolf!”

FC • 40 pages • $4.99

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Check out the Mash-up variant!

Find out what happens in a world… where Judge Dredd turned into a werewolf—and stayed that way!

Part of IDW’s Deviations five-week event!

Variant cover b Ryan Brown!

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Michael Recycle #1 (of 4)

Writer: Eleanor Wharton Artists: Alexandra Colombo & Thomas Zahler Cover Artist: Alexandra Colombo

Join environmentally conscious kid crusader Michael Recycle as he makes the eco-friendly leap from books to comics! Michael’s green adventures are about to get a whole lot messier when he faces threats to Earth’s environment from all over the globe. In the premiere issue, Michael and Solar Lola team up with Bootleg Peg to stop the polar ice caps from completely melting in “Mission Meltdown”! Can the trio save the residents of the North Pole before it’s too late?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Young readers who have enjoyed the Michael Recycle books and their eco-friendly messages can now thrill to more adventures in comic-book form!

Children are becoming more and more aware of the environment around them, and Michael’s green tips help them become responsible at an early age.

Alexandra Colombo’s charming art will captivate readers of all ages.

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Michael Wm. Kaluta’s Starstruck: Artist’s Edition HC—SPOTLIGHT

Writer: Elaine Lee Artist: Michael Wm. Kaluta Cover Artist: Michael Wm. Kaluta

Michael Kaluta is one of the most revered and versatile artist’s in comics and illustration. He is frequently recognized as the definitive artist of The Shadow, has been praised for his Lord of the Rings paintings, and illustrated the Metropolis novel. He was also part of the legendary artist’s collective (along with Jeff Jones, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Bernie Wrightson) known simply as THE STUDIO.

But if any project is closest to the artist’s heart it would be Starstruck, an ongoing space-fantasy that began in the pages of Heavy Metal Magazine in 1982, was a Marvel Comics Graphic Novel in 1984, and several series’ of comics from various publishers in the 1980s and ‘90s. Starstruck is still a work in progress and IDW Publishing will release a new series in early 2017, with expanded stories by Lee and Kaluta.

HC • BW • $150.00 • 144 pages • 12” x 17”  • ISBN: 978-1-63140-847-2

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Like all Artist’s Editions, the pages have been scanned from the original art—thus offering the reader the best possible viewing experience of Kaluta’s magnificent artwork.

Advance solicited for February release!

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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #52

Writer: James Asmus Artist: Tony Fleecs Cover Artist: Tony Fleecs

Twilight and friends dive into the secret history of Equestria to find out the origin of the new villain, Shadowlock!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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A look into the past that will hint at the future!

Variant cover by Valentina Pinto!

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Optimus Prime #5

Writer: John Barber Artist: Kei Zama Cover Artist: Kei Zama

NEW CYBERTRON! It’s battleground: Earth once more, as the uneasy peace between Optimus’ forces, the Junkions, and G.I. Joe collapses amidst betrayals and subterfuge. Will Optimus Prime and Pyra Magna be able to put aside their differences—or is war really the only way forward?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Variant cover by E.J. Su!

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Star Trek/Green Lantern Vol 2 #4

Writer: Mike Johnson Artist: Angel Hernandez Cover Artist: Angel Hernandez

It’s a race between the forces of good and evil! The first to reach the only Power Battery in the universe will control the destiny of all worlds! Can Hal Jordan and the crew of the Enterprise beat Sinestro and his allies to the ultimate prize?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Following the blockbuster success of last year’s Star Trek/Green Lantern, DC Entertainment and IDW once again bring you the best team-up in the galaxy!

Variant cover by Isaac Goodhart!

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Superman: The Golden Age Newspaper Dailies: 1942-1944

Writers: Jerry Siegel, Whitney Ellsworth Artists: Joe Shuster, Wayne Boring Cover Artist: Pete Poplaski

Our premiere volume of Golden Age Superman dailies includes all strips from February 16, 1942 through October 28, 1944, and features the first appearance of the mischievous Mr. Mxyzptlk, the menace of The Monocle, the nefarious No Name, Miss Dreamface, “King” Jimmy Olsen, and the kidnapping of Santa Claus! More than 800 daily strips that are collected for the first time since their original appearance in newspapers more than 70 years ago!

HC • B&W • $49.99 • 288 pages • 11” x 8.5” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-383-5

Bullet points:

Collected for the first time!

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #68

Writers: Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman Artist: Mateus Santolouco Cover Artist: Mateus Santolouco

“Desperate Measures” Part 2! The Mutanimals have been defeated and the Turtles are next in line! Which mutant will turn on his friends to survive, and which will risk everything to help another?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

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Bishop’s gambit kicks into high gear!

Variant cover by Jakub Rebelka!

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Transformers vs G.I. JOE: The Movie Adaptation

Writer: Tom Scioli Artist: Tom Scioli Cover Artist: Tom Scioli

Imagine a world where the greatest comic book crossover of all time inspires a movie adaptation… and that movie adaptation inspires its own comic book! Visionary writer-artist Tom Scioli returns to the weird world of Transformers vs. G.I. Joe and brings an even weirder twist to this new story: what would the comic book adaptation of the movie version of the comic book look like? It’s time to find out in the most epic, scintillating, off-the-wall, exciting comic of 2017!

FC • 40 pages • $4.99

Bullet points:

Tom Scioli’s spectacular vision returns!

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Wynonna Earp Legends: The Earp Sisters #4

Writers: Beau Smith & Melanie Scrofano Artist: Chris Evenhuis Cover Artist: Chris Evenhuis

Wynonna Earp has faced Werewolves, Zombies, Revenants—but she’s never faced a choice this hard: when Waverly comes into her dangerous world, will Wynonna accept her sister’s choices or will Wynonna choose to protect her at all costs, even if it means pushing her away?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:

Co-written by Wynonna Earp herself, Melanie Scrofano!

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via IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing Previews for 3-22-2017 Some amazing titles from the Dub this week, and we have your looks at them all. Here's the IDW Publishing Previews for 3-22-2017.