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This is no Mirage, it's the TMNT Readthrough Thread

Phantoon

Phantoon

I cuss you bad
I remember being exposed to the original comic due to the Palladium pen and paper RPG (which was pretty great). The tonal shift was a bit of a shock but the art was really striking. I can see how the Turtles became a big hit; it's an insane bunch of concepts which is weirdly cohesive and treated with conviction.
 
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Daikaiju

Daikaiju

Rated Ages 6+
(He, Him)
It's also probably the only franchise where the majority of the fandom is pretty chill about constant reinterpretations, with the exception of the Bay films...
 
Phantoon

Phantoon

I cuss you bad
Probably doesn't hurt that most of the reboots have been pretty high quality, from what I've heard
 
Daikaiju

Daikaiju

Rated Ages 6+
(He, Him)
Oh yeah. Rise isn't my thing but I recognize it's very much in a lot of folks interests. Every generation should have their own TMNT.

Hm. We need to send folks back to the earlier decades to make this possible. Who wants to do the 50's?
 
Torzelbaum

Torzelbaum

????? LV 13 HP 292/ 292
(he, him, his)
So some kind of turtles in time? I doubt that something like that would work at all.

Also would that even be possible? I mean when was America first exposed to the concept of ninjas?
 
Phantoon

Phantoon

I cuss you bad
In the well known historical documentary Samurai Shodown, Galford is an American ninja. So ages, basically
 
Octopus Prime

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
(He/Him)
It will never not baffle me that TMNT became a thing in the first place.

Someone looked at an Daredevil parody in an indie comic, and said “Yes, this one.”
 
Phantoon

Phantoon

I cuss you bad
Ninjas are everywhere. There's probably one under your bed right now

Only le*pards should be more feared
 
Dracula

Dracula

Plastic Vampire
(He/His)
Phantoon said:
I remember being exposed to the original comic due to the Palladium pen and paper RPG (which was pretty great). The tonal shift was a bit of a shock but the art was really striking. I can see how the Turtles became a big hit; it's an insane bunch of concepts which is weirdly cohesive and treated with conviction.
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I only recently discovered the Palladium game last year when I was reading an issue of Dragon Magazine from the 80s! As I understand, the RPG was either the first or among the first licensed tie-ins to the comic, which goes some of the way to explain why it's so strange.

Strangeness.jpg


The "other strangeness" comes into play in that you can apparently design a variety of bizarre mutations for your player character. And this was before the comic/cartoon/toyline even put a lot of emphasis on mutants!
 
Purple

Purple

(She/Her)
"The" followup book you say? As if there was only one? Do you perhaps mean After the Bomb? The very thin splatbook were furries rule over a post-apocalyptic setting?
After_The_Bomb%2C_first_edition%2C_1986.jpg


Or did you mean Transdimensional TMNT, where there's time travel that makes you more human and more psychic in the future and vice versa?
Transdimensional_TMNT.jpeg

... admittedly that's actually a pretty rad cover.

Perhaps one of the collectons of adventures, like the pseudo-AP Truckin' Turtles?
TMNT_Truckin_Turtles.jpg
 
Phantoon

Phantoon

I cuss you bad
It had a great weapons section with the damage ratings and pluses and minuses of the weapons. Thanks to that I know what a kusarigama and a no-dachi is!
 
Dracula

Dracula

Plastic Vampire
(He/His)
If Kid Drac saw that book in a shop, he would have begged for it even if he didn't have a single piece of relevant background knowledge.
 
Torzelbaum

Torzelbaum

????? LV 13 HP 292/ 292
(he, him, his)
I had the base game of the RPG and I think I also had Truckin' Turtles. I don't think I ever played it but it was fun to just read.
 
ghosttaster

ghosttaster

I'm fond of this review quoted on the ...& Other Strangeness Wikipedia page:

"the comics pretend to take themselves very seriously. To reflect this, the style of play is completely deadpan, setting intelligent and deadly animals against a background of urban terrorism, gang warfare, juvenile delinquency and random violence."
 
Pheeel

Pheeel

I really dig the off-brand weirdness of those gamebooks, especially the trucking one. I might look into seeing if there are scans of those online anywhere for future posts.
 
Pheeel

Pheeel

ghosttaster said:
Is there anywhere to read the Mirage volume 4 comics? Doesn't look like these are collected, which is surprising IMO
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I seem to remember part of the deal when Laird sold off the franchise was that he could still continue doing Vol. 4 if he wanted (except he didn't want to, evidently). I guess that means neither IDW or anyone else own the right to reprint those issues, but then Mirage hasn't existed as an entity since 2009 so it's all a bit unclear what the status is, but it would seem that entire run is in publishing limbo.

So yeah, scans or tracking down the original issues might be the only option at present.
 
ghosttaster

ghosttaster

That's a shame! Printing all those Tales of the TMNT books was probably like setting a stack of cash on fire. I had a grip of single issues from Tales volume 2 back in the day and don't remember finding them very interesting.

That said I assume that IDW could publish vol. 4 if they want, but choose not to (on account of the fiery cash situation).

They should have put out Ultimate Collections continuing into Vol. 2 and so on instead of burying those stories in the Color Classics series.
 
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