Topic: TMNT (Read 8125 times)

Thad · « **Reply #80 on:** September 18, 2012, 12:16:45 PM »

Thad · « **Reply #81 on:** September 30, 2012, 09:51:53 AM »

Welp, not bad. A little heavy on the corny jokes, but not as much as TOS or the '03 series from Fast Forward on. The whole "bickering teenagers" thing rings true. Didn't really need an entire scene devoted to the origin story of pizza.

Talking of origin stories, I haven't been following the current comics series but it looks like they're going with its kinda hybrid of the comics Splinter origin and the original cartoon version -- Splinter was originally a human. (Calling it now: Karai is his daughter. Though I'm pretty sure everybody else has also immediately worked that out.)

I liked the designs, overall. Snake is the most Kevin Eastman character design ever.

I think making April closer in age to the Turtles is a sound idea. But if you want to ratchet down the general weirdness of a thirtyish woman spending all her time with 15-year-olds, well, changing her into a 15-year-old human crushing on a 15-year-old mutant turtle is perhaps not the best way of doing that.

Could have sworn that was James Avery as the Kraang, but the credits said Nolan North. Still and all, that's one more TMNT alum -- and indeed one more former Raphael.

Only really had two moments where "BUY THE TOY!" jumped out at me. So that's good. But give it time.

On the whole I think the '03 series set the tone better, but this isn't bad. I may stick around for awhile. See when Casey shows up.

Thad · « **Reply #82 on:** October 09, 2012, 07:56:01 PM »

And now Lewis Black.

You know, I could take or leave the writing on this show, but its cast is fantastic.

Thad · « **Reply #83 on:** October 30, 2012, 11:24:32 PM »

TMNT Annual: not just an entire new TMNT comic drawn by Kevin Eastman, but it's motherfucking Zip-a-Tone.

Sold!

Büge · « **Reply #84 on:** October 31, 2012, 05:42:51 AM »

Wow, I didn't know they even made that stuff anymore.

Thad · « **Reply #85 on:** October 31, 2012, 10:34:09 AM »

They don't. Kevin Eastman bought up the entire remaining supply when the company went bankrupt.

Not joking.

Mongrel · « **Reply #86 on:** October 31, 2012, 01:10:00 PM »

Really? I thought there were still Japanese Manga artists who used the stuff.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #87 on:** October 31, 2012, 01:14:41 PM »

Wikipedia says there are other companies that make/made similar products, and unlike Zip-a-Tone, it doesn't specifically say that they've gone under.

So...maybe?

Mongrel · « **Reply #88 on:** October 31, 2012, 01:23:11 PM »

Yeah, I doubt the Japanese guys are/were actually buying from Zip-A-Tone itself, just some Japanese/Asian analogue.

Thad · « **Reply #89 on:** October 31, 2012, 11:43:39 PM »

Wouldn't be surprised, given the relative health of the black-and-white comics market in Japan versus America.

Not to say America doesn't still have black-and-white comics that are inked by hand -- just not enough to sustain a market for as niche a specialty product as Zip-A-Tone. You either stipple it yourself or use Photoshop.

Thad · « **Reply #90 on:** November 05, 2012, 10:30:40 AM »

That 2012 Annual is a lot of fun!

It's Kevin Eastman doing what Kevin Eastman does best: Raph and Casey go out looking for trouble, and land themselves in the middle of an homage to some of Kevin Eastman's favorite films.

Where Bodycount was an homage to John Woo and suchlike Hong Kong action movies, the 2012 Annual is an homage to the likes of Tarantino and Ritchie -- it involves a half-dozen different factions trying to get their hands on a briefcase, and rapid "five minutes earlier" cuts between them.

It's also got two corrupt cops named Frank Corbin and Richard Miller.

Eastman's art hasn't evolved much, to my eye, since the 1980's. It's a little rough but it's kinetic and fun as hell; this book is a sequence of action setpieces and it never quits moving. And the Zip-A-Tone, perhaps more than anything, makes it feel like 1980's Turtles.

I got a bit of sticker shock at the $9 cover price, but at 60 pages it's the same price-per-page as the standard $3 for 20 pages you get from DC or Marvel -- except those have ads and this doesn't.

Thad · « **Reply #91 on:** February 02, 2013, 03:01:28 PM »

Well, I think Rat King wins, hands-down, as the best reimagined villain on the new cartoon series.

Course, they did that by not only cribbing the design of New Batman Adventures Scarecrow, but even casting the same VA.

Niku · « **Reply #92 on:** February 05, 2013, 08:33:01 AM »

I am having a problem where every time Baxter Stockman shows up, I really wish he was voiced by Weird Al.

Thad · « **Reply #93 on:** February 05, 2013, 01:41:49 PM »

Sims and Wilson have gotten up to TMNT in their comic book movie reviews. They are enthusiastic! Which is good, because it really is a damn fine TMNT movie and one of the best iterations of the property.

I'm kinda looking forward to them being less friendly toward 2 and 3, though.

Thad · « **Reply #94 on:** February 10, 2013, 10:34:03 AM »

"SHE'S IN THE FOOT CLAN!"

That is, at best, the number THREE reason why this is a bad idea.

Thad · « **Reply #95 on:** February 22, 2013, 10:41:57 AM »

Welp, just in case anyone was still thinking the new movie might not be terrible: Megan Fox is playing April.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #96 on:** February 22, 2013, 10:59:31 AM »

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #97 on:** February 22, 2013, 11:19:06 AM »

SHE ALREADY HAS THE COSTUME AND THE NAME

HOW DO YOU FUCK THAT UP?

Thad · « **Reply #98 on:** June 25, 2013, 04:05:34 PM »

And William Fichtner as Shredder.

Here, have some thoughts on TMNT and racebending that I already wrote when talking about Star Trek.

Quote from: Thad on June 08, 2013, 06:59:59 AM

The original TMNT cartoon turned Baxter Stockman into a white guy, presumably because it didn't want the only black guy on the show to be a villain. (Course, the only black guys on the shows were STILL villains, it's just that one of them got turned into a warthog a couple episodes in and his race was never acknowledged again, and the other one was a black guy voicing a Japanese guy who looked like a white guy and spent most of the show hiding his face anyway.)

(There's also a whole sidebar about April's ethnicity and whether or not she was whitewashed; from what I understand, Eastman intended her to be biracial -- and in fact based on his own then-girlfriend, also named April -- and Laird didn't know that.)

Adding: Obviously live-action is not the same thing as animation; I think racebending's generally more acceptable in voice work.

Mothra · « **Reply #99 on:** July 09, 2013, 05:43:14 AM »

Fan comic by Buster Moody and Caleb Goellner. Amazing.

Thad, you will love this. Thanks to Ted for the link.

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