Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Discussion

[UltimateVenom]

Awesome! I purchased a bunch of artwork from Frank Fosco earlier this year (about 60 pages from various Savage Dragon back-up stories he produced) and he sent me along a free copy of the trade (and some other cool stuff) with a personalised Leonardo drawing/message in the back. Frank is a cool guy.

Most def! Such a genuine fella. I hope you post some pics sometime of the art - Frank has a very clean style that's always nice to look at.

Along those lines, for those that haven't discovered yet, Kevin Eastman has a deviantart page and posted up some pieces:
http://kevineastman.deviantart.com/

[The Joker]

Nice!

Thanks for the link.

[UltimateVenom]

The latest from the SCDD IDW Panel:

3:39: Ryall then spoke about upcoming TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLE projects. He directed the audience to Tom Waltz who spoke about his involvement with the project. Wood added, "We really were excited to get Kevin Eastman involved with this. We almost just want to publish Eastman's layouts" Waltz joked about working with Eastman and how nervous he was to work with one of the creators of the Ninja Turtles. He remarked, "We are re-introducing the Turtles to the world. He liked everything we had to show him. Kevin and I have one thing in common--we both like the grittier elements of the Turtles. So you'll be seeing a lot of Casey Jones as well as some new characters."
Thursday July 21, 2011

3:39 - 3:41: Several slides were shown of Eastman's layouts of the covers of upcoming TMNT covers. Ryall announced that IDW would be bringing back the TMNT micro-series as well--each one focusing on an individual Turtle.
Thursday July 21, 2011

3:41 -3:42: Wood and Ryall began showing teaser slides of upcoming projects including a slide for INFES2ATION featuring characters from DANGER GIRL, TRANSFORMERS, G.I.JOE and TMNT from January until the summer of 2012.

[UltimateVenom]

Bumpage !!!

[King Suck]

Just bought the SDCC Ashcan from a flipper for pretty cheap. Looked at some of my old issues that i havent broke out in decades recently and it got me all pumped for the new series. Forgot how awesome the turtles were.

[UltimateVenom]

David Petersen tapped to provide a cover for the Raphael micro-series due this November: http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/

[baldyfranz]

Will IDW reprint the Archie comics series?

I think IDW more than likely to reprint all TMNT from all or most of the companies how had TMNT they have do this with transformers and some of the trek

[McFarlane's Green Hulk]

I loved the Archie series. Two things got me into that -- Ken Mitchroney's art and the wrestling outfits!

[Ballistic27]

David Petersen tapped to provide a cover for the Raphael micro-series due this November: http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/

That's one awesome cover. Any news on the creative team behind this series.

[The Adventurer]

Personally I'm haveing a hard time getting excited for the IDW Turtles projects because I was so personally invested with what Peter Laird was doing with the Turtles over at Mirage for the last 10 years. I personally can not FATHOM why anyone would want to sellout their creation to a faceless corporation like Viacom.

Since finding out Eastman will be involved with the IDW series, I'm marginally more interested in the project, to the point where I'm willing to give it a chance. My fear is that now that there is a coporaration with controling ownership, the TMNTs will never change or evolve again.

I am VERY interested in the Original TMNT Comic Deluxe Hard Cover collections though.

[Ballistic27]

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #3

Written by Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman, art by Eastman and Dan Duncan, covers by Duncan, Eastman.

The rebirth of the Ninja Turtles continues! New twists in the Turtles' origin are revealed as Raphael continues his life apart from his brothers and uncovers danger with his new pal Casey Jones. The only result can be some serious street brawlin'! Meanwhile villainous Old Hob has his eyes and ears to the ground and he only has one thought on his mind -- bloody revenge! Will the Turtles be reunited in time to stop his plan, or will they be picked off one by one?

32 pages, $3.99.

[Gryphon]

Where did you see that solicit? Ive been looking for the IDW october solicits.

[Ballistic27]

Where did you see that solicit? Ive been looking for the IDW october solicits.

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stori.../28/idwoct.htm

[UltimateVenom]

Personally I'm haveing a hard time getting excited for the IDW Turtles projects because I was so personally invested with what Peter Laird was doing with the Turtles over at Mirage for the last 10 years. I personally can not FATHOM why anyone would want to sellout their creation to a faceless corporation like Viacom.

I say this without a smartass intonation, but go read Pete's blog to find out his reasons why he sold.

He didn't intend on selling in the beginning, it was mainly Gary Richardson proposing the possibility, then Nick began courting and the ball ran from there.

Peter also goes more in-depth with the psychological implication it brought to him after the sale, and the personal freedoms it gave him.

[UltimateVenom]

That's one awesome cover. Any news on the creative team behind this series.

The Raph one-shot, or the main series?

Tom Waltz - writer/Kevin Eastman co-writer/layouts
Dan Duncan on pencils