>NEW Look at Raphael, Michelangelo, April and Splinter from the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Naruto crossover comicIssue 1 of the 4-issue comic miniseries will release on November 13
goddamn, the turtles ninja symbol is a toilet...
>>144635341I guess April being black is the new standard.Everything else is too underwhelming to comment on.
Sorry bros but she is hot. Cool art and designs for the boys and splinter too.
>>144635341Why the fucking masks?Mind you, they seem to fit. I'm just not sure why they'd be wearing masks. It's not like the green skin and two toes leave people thinking they're human.>people are going to bitch about black April againEh, she looks cute. Would fug.
>April's a nog again Already tired of this.
>>144635341Why the masks for the turtles?...Overall the design look decent.
...she is a redhead, so I guess it's par for the course
>>144635391
So these are canonically just kind of Naruto OCs that are inspired by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Not from New York, alternate history designed to suit Naruto's setting etc.
>>144635430What were you expecting? >Whoa! We just fell into another interdimensional portal into another famous IP!
>>144635341>Black April
>>144635422So secret identities idgi?
>>144635341>Nigprildropped
>>144635341Dropped
>>144635391>>144635422>>144635475Think of this as the equivalent of their trench coats and fedoras.
>>144635430>>144635450TMNT keeps having crossovers with IDW, so not sure why Transformers or G.I.Joe or Ghostbusters would be any different.It's also not the first time that TMNT would've been shoved down a warphole and dumped into medieval Japan.
Black April is an instant NOPEIt's getting easier and easier to drop this shit the more I do it.The biggest mistake anyone can make is care to hold on.
>nigger Aprilno thanks, I’ll pass
>>144635475ANBU in Naruto are like ninja spec-ops. They use masks to remain anonymous for their missions, which are usually way more dangerous than the regular ninja missions, so the Turtles having the masks are supposed to represent them being the "elite" spec ops ninjas of their "village", I guess? I don't think we see other villages' ANBU, so we don't know if the masks are standard or if it's just a Konoha thing.
>>144635341>Black AprilSo if it isn't a "Turtles fall into a void/summoned into the Naruto-verse thing", does that mean the "village" they're from is by the Cloud village?
>>144635341Looks good to me. I'm not a fan of the masks but I guess that's a Naruto thing, going by >>144635422. I don't know much about Naruto but it's okay for a crossover story element. Aside from that the designs are solid. Splinter looks great. I don't mind black April at all as long as they don't make her an ugly goblin again. This version is actually cute so I'm cool with it.
>>144635357https://youtu.be/iXDML04bIBo?si=HQremEoj4jm-v_NUHow can someone be more fucked than Chris-Chan?
>>144635359I think it's supposed to be an apple, because New York is the Big Apple, but no one told them that only the Leaf village is a spiral and every other village is not.
>>144635341Can't wait for Hinata to be turned black.
>>144635341>artist and writer are western>Another black AprilLook like shit.>>144635366>>144635391>>144635422I think Raph should wear oni mask.
>>144635341April O'N
>>144635729I read Naruto and I wished ANBUs acted like the CIA for the Hokage and did illegal acts. Instead, Danzo gets blamed for the black ops stuff while Naruto is focusing on getting Sasuke. The Akatsuki, Sand Village are the closest people will get.
>>144635430>>144635450>>144635602Clearly, this is another repeat of IDW G.I.Joe disaster. IDW milk the TMNT franchise because they're still losing boatloads of money.
>>144635341These designs are tight
>>144635341By far the best black April design until now, but to be honest I lost interest the moment viacom or whoever is in charge started to make this a recurrent thing.Is worse knowing this is an official Crossover with naruto, and it feels like they blew it already, it feels like I'm already know what to expect from this crossover with IDW.I'm just glad Sega is very Strict with his rules depicting sonic, his world and secondary cast, so the sonic comic is almost safe with this kind of issue with western writers.
>>144635450>>144635602>>144636977Are you all seriously upset because they didn't go for the laziest route for doing a crossover and have the turtles just go into a portal to Naruto land? Make sure you never play any of the Super Robpt War games that don't use dimensional shit to justify the crossover
>>144636977IDW is gambling on Jason Aaron being able to take the tattered scraps of their several hundred issues of TMNT comics and turn it into a story that will sell 300k+ copiesper issue every month and firmly seat IDW as the 3rd biggest and most successful comic publisher in America.... It will be a miracle if any of the new relaunch issues are moving more than 50k by the end of the year.
>>144635450That is usually the protocol yes
>>144635341Why make this thread again with the exact same image when the other thread isn’t even close to the bump limit?
>>144637366Zoomers don't check the catalog before they make threads. Prepare to see exactly the same posts too.
>>144636968>I wished ANBUs acted like the CIA for the Hokage and did illegal actThey do? The Leaf might be the hero's village but they still do fucked up shit.
>>144637163For now, only IDW FW TMNT comic are still worth it. Even for TLR series, it quickly become a dumpster fire. They killed Mikey and replaced him with a new mary sue. The new generation ninja turtles has x-men superpower.
>>144636977To be fair, stuff like Last Ronin are what keeps the lights on at IDW
>>144637244But how long this can last? Maybe only first or second issues.
>>144637889Don't forget that they're also telepathic with each other and they are all masters of all 4 of the original turtles' weapons.
>>144638362The first 4 issues of Aaron's takeover are all pretty high profile because they're bringing in 4 different big name artists to each do one-off issues about where each of the 4 Turtles are at the end of the 150 issues+side stories+mini-series+events+crossovers continuity and how that leads into the new storyline where they all seemingly get back together and then go do ninja vigilante stuff again.Issue #1 is supposed to be dropping today, I think. It was supposed to be out weeks ago, in typical IDW fashion.
>>14463724450K would be extremely good for IDW. The first issue of the IDW TMNT ongoing back in 2011 had an estimated 34000 orders and subsequent issues were usually less than 20K orders
>>144639415After the first 4 are out, which are the most overhyped, it will be November. By 2025, they'll be below 50k per issue, and dwindling faster with each subsequent issue.
>anbu maskSo they're going to job. Also is it just required now that all red heads are black? At least this isn't that ugly design from MM
>this thread again
>>144635729Why the fuck didn't we get an ANBU spinoff? Why's all the cool shit always happening in the background?
>>144635341Why does she have Cheetos for hair?
>>144637178I'm more bumnrd that it doesn't seem to be a compromise (like in old Super Robot Wars games), it seems like the TMNT half of the crossover is bending over backwards to fit into the Naruto shaped hole instead of them meeting somewhere in the middle, like the He-man TMNT crossover, which has both sides taking inspiration from each other.
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>>144636918April O' Narqueeshialana
Hopefully it's just the mutants and ninjas, aliens and dinosaurs wouldn't fit naruto
>>144635470>>144635721>>144635644>>144635737>>144635754>>144636904>ctrl+f “black”>12 results I’ve noticed once a character becomes race swapped, the pressure online becomes too great to “undo it”. Same thing with Catwoman, although that had Eartha Kitt as something detractors could always point to. There’s a good chance April will just always be black from now on.Online reactions don’t translate to financial advice in theory, but unfortunately that’s how entertainment moguls see it because silent majorities can’t be measured tangibly.
>>144640104Paramount seems to be schizo on this. April was white in the Fortnite skin pack and that wasn't an explicit "remember the '80s?" push.
>>144640239Hmm, that’s weird.
>>144640239She's white in pretty much everything except Rise and Mutant Mayhem and both of those were not as well received as the PR agents would have you believe. Making her black in this is a misguided attempt to lend credibility to the lie that she was always meant to be black.
>>144640069Anon I...
>>144640672Wtf is this
>>144641140Boruto has time travel
>>144641209... well at least it doesn't have aliens
>>144641250nobody tell him about the otsutsuki.
>>144635360>I guess April being black is the new standard.Once a character has been turned black, making them white again would be Racist™
>>144641416But that already happened in Fortnite.
>>144635360I thought April was black originally and was whitewashed for the cartoon?
>>144641250Well...
>>144640104>There’s a good chance April will just always be black from now on.And that's why modern comics are fucking garbage not worth spending money and time on. You can just backtrack and say whatever bullshit you want like "ummm guys she was always black" and destroy your own characters. What's next? Casey is trans? What a fucking joke, seriously.She was disgusting negro in the new cartoons- fine. No one watches this shit. And now in comics too? Literally redhead erasure.
>>144641492Maybe open the actual book if you're too lazy to spend 5 seconds on Google or Youtube.If anyone was whitewashed for the cartoon, it was Baxter. And he was black again in 2k3 and IDW and stuff. April was always white before that trashy cartoon came out
>Upside Down Pedophile SpiralYou can't make this shit up
>>144641580Oddly, Baxter was white again for the Power Rangers crossover.So going back isn't a problem, it seems.
>>144641631Huh. I didn't know that. It's kinda weird if you ask me, maybe it was '87 ver?
>>144641654It was, the PR crossover used alot of 87 stuff.
>>144641654It was The Turtles side in the Power Rangers crossover was a weird mish mash of incarnatoinsYou had Karai, Bebop & Rocksteady, Krang name-dropping the Utrom, and there was even a page where Billy asks Splinter if he was a human or rat originally only to get a non-answer
>>144641396>>144641542Naruto actually brought aliens into the sequel series?
