Episode 292 Topics Include:
- Game Of Thrones Season 2 (00:01:35 - 00:40:20)
- The Walking Dead 4x11 (00:43:26 - 00:55:11)
- What we've been watching
- What we've been reading
- Saying goodbye to Harold Ramis
- Featured Review: The Station Agent
Running Time: 2 hours, 11 minutes
Episode Songs:
6AM - Fitz And The Tantrums
Get Away - Fitz And The Tantrums
This Podcast May Include Some Explicit Language
...It Also Most Likely Contains Some Spoilers
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thanks for the nice words on my TMNT stuff! :D the farmhouse/Northampton thing is from the old black & white comics, after Leonardo is beaten badly (they changed it to Raph in the movie) and April's antique store burns down, they retreat to Casey's farmhouse (changed to April's family's farm in the movie and the comics i'm drawing). so the Northampton thing is a big TMNT thing, although it doesn't happen in every version because it's typically a more mellow setting and most of the mainstreamier TMNT stuff doesn't really do mellow. the farmhouse is my favorite TMNT thing ever, i love the Turtles in the woods and retreating to lick their wounds after a big event, and i actually suggested it to my editor like maybe 2 years ago and he said he wasn't sure if they'd ever do it because it's too mellow. so i'm really happy they went ahead with it AND that i got to draw it!
ReplyDeleteomg, Jesse, can't believe you don't like Alopex. she's the best, come on!!! D:<
the mask-around-the-neck thing is something old school TMNT artist AC Farley used to do in the 80s and 90s in the old comics, so i ripped it off from him, i always really liked that look. i like the vulnerability it gives the Turtles, and the Northampton stuff is all about vulnerability. i don't know where the bandages/wrappings thing came from, it's just always been a TMNT thing. when in doubt, throw ninja wraps on it, haha. Rian, i did do a bunch of parts where the Turtles DO take off the bandages when they're relaxing, though, like the scene of Michelangelo in the beginning of issue 30, he's totally naked!! i also did a part later in #30 where Raphael is putting bandages ON, and also other parts where the Turtles were in various states of undress, haha. the thing you mention with the lopsided leg bandages, you must be referring to Koya, the falcon mutant, i did that because i wanted to suggest that she's a little unstable (i did a similar thing with the new bandages Alopex wears on her arms in issue 31) or something, i felt like it was a cool visual symbolism, whereas the Turtles and Splinter are all pretty much symmetrical.
my entire comment was too big to fit so here i am again!! okay, so, i'll try to explain the IDW version of the origin, strap yourselves in. XD
ReplyDeleteyou kinda had to be reading the whole series for this to make sense so it's not surprising you guys were confused. so in the IDW comics, Hamato Yoshi, Tang Shen and their 4 sons were humans in feudal-era Japan, who were murdered by Shredder. they reincarnated into the bodies of animals, although at first only Splinter was aware of his past life because of a special serum he was injected with in the science laboratory that Baxter Stockman runs and April used to work at. so then, as animals, they were slimed with the mutagen and all that, and since Splinter still remembered his past life as Hamato Yoshi, he remembered all his ninja skills and began training the Turtles again. and Shredder is the same person from feudal Japan but he made a deal with the witch Kitsune (who's the one who brainwashed Leonardo, i drew her in like one panel in issue 29 i think) who used alien ooze (which is different from mutagen, whew!) to achieve immortality that allowed she and Shredder to survive in stasis until present day. so that's what Splinter meant by the Turtles' mother, because in this version they actually did have a mother when they were human. only Leonardo and somewhat Michelangelo remember their past lives, though, and only in pieces, and more like instincts, like inexplicably knowing how to fight, etc. i don't know if you guys remember my Leonardo issue from 2012, but there were flashbacks in that of Leo having visions of his past life as a human boy and of his mom being killed.
one weird thing about the IDW Turtles, too, is that as mutants in the timeframe of the series, they're only about 2 years old. they were only mutated relatively recently, and in the IDW series animals who get mutated have pretty much immediate human-like intellects and can speak and everything pretty much instantly, unlike in the movie or old comics in which they grew up over a span of years like regular human children.
WHEW. O_o anyway, thanks for reading, you guys!!
Wow. That's...confusing. I'm sure it's just like any other niche of nerd-dom, though. If you're into it and/or passionate about it, it makes complete sense. Thanks for clearing all of that up. The "mother" thing was very confusing.
DeleteDo you know if fans (or if you, as a fan yourself) were hesitant to accept the new origin of the Turtles as reincarnated humans? You hear about people flipping out when the new movie origin is changed to involve aliens, but this change flew right past me (not that I'm surprised) and I don't remember anyone talking about it.
I read that Leonardo one-shot you drew, but really only remember the broad strokes (see: it was one big fight with the foot clan).
By the bye Ross, did you know that Dan Duncan was a classmate of mine at the Kubert School? He was a year behind Joel and I.
the comics are way lower profile than the movie, that's all. i think fan reaction is proportional to how high profile something is, like the new movie makes fans flip out because it's more mainstream and they're afraid of what people will think, while the comics are so niche. it's all only within the TMNT scene so if you weren't already a fan you'd never see anyone talking about the comic.
ReplyDeletemaybe they did somewhere, but i don't remember anyone flipping out over the reincarnation origin. there were fans that didn't like it, of course, but from the reactions i saw, people who didn't like it were more like "i don't really like it but oh well." i don't think i ever saw anyone foaming at the mouth.
that's so weird you went to school with Dan Duncan!! :O