I started this storytime before, but /co/ said to wait until Usagi Yojimbo was over so we're starting over now that it is. Let us read every TMNT comic ever made. This is going to be a long one. This is the reading order I am using.<https://eliasrwrites.ghost.io/tag/so-you-want-to-read-tmnt/>
It's crazy that this shit took off the way it did.
>>153628847Timing is everything.
>>153629002Really enjoyed this issue. Thanks OP, somehow this is the first time i check out the og comics
>>153629391Just wait, some genuinely fantastic comics are ahead.
>>153628600TMNT has come a long way since the time two guys made a Daredevil/X-Men parody out of a random idea they had late one night.
>>153628773RESPECTTHE SAI
ooh you're even doing fugitoid. alright, I'll keep an eye out, good luck anon, this will be what, some 30 threads at least?
>>153630403wait no, you didn't specify Mirage. Are you planning on doing EVERYthing? Archie, Image, IDW? Because if so good god man, we're gonna be here months from now lmao
>>153630403It should be around 100 threads.>>153630419Yes, EVERYTHING!
>>153628800I forgot how ridiculous the premise was.
>>153628817a shameful display.
>>153628808The interesting accidental worldbuilding implications caused by these two American nerd teens in the mid 80s not knowing the difference between Japanese and Chinese names
HOLY SHIT the art in this is PHENOMENAL.
>>153628836Hi, Daredevil.
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>>153630443A truly grueling endeavour. Goodspeed you! Anonymous!
>>153630864Thanks for these annotations. It is cool getting this insight.
>>153628600Oh shit for realI never cared for the turtles before. I've been aware of them but I just never really clicked with the media I guess thisll be a good chance to give the original comics a try. Thanks OP
>>153630443>It should be around 100 threads.I was interested, but fuck this.
>>153629060>April was black in the original comics!!!
>>153629822Looks like Raph learned the way of the FUCKING ROCK
>>153629060ENTER
>>153629128ass
>>153630443Godspeed, Turtleanon.
>>153629164Not the World Trade Center!
>>153632037Well at least read the Mirage ones
>>153630497The Fugitioid will always be one of my favorite TMNT side characters.
>>153630582Honeycutt's right. There's no way the Federation would have honored those bogus treaties.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT66ouLLhDo
>>153632110If she's not White, she's at least Asian. I didn't realize how crazy this April is black narrative was until I saw these pages.
>>153633125IIRC she's mixed white and asian? I don't recall right now. She does get a perm, but people forget that's just something women of any race got in the 80s; and IIRC there are a couple stories that colour her as black, but that's clearly just someone in production getting mixed by the hairdo
bump
>>153633151Well, also, a large section of Mirage is non-canon, so creators kind of come in and out doing as they please.
>>153633151Her parents are revealed to be white, but then they also reveal that April was created with a magic pencil, so she's not even really human, technically. But if they wanted to make her mixed race, they really didn't put any effort into that when they had the repeated chance to.
>it's actually a well drawn and written comicI wasn't expecting this.
>>153630443That's way too much, I guess you plan on doing this one time to say you didThat's fine as long as you know engagement is gonna dip severely for the bulk of it
>>153633898>That's way too muchIs it, though?
Reading bump.
Fuck IDW
>>153634731Wait, THAT is how they got to 300? I thought it was 300 at IDW with all the miniseries and whatnot.
>>153628843Splinter's the giant rat, so he makes all of the rules.
>>153628988>Hmm... It seems that the Shredder...>...Has been shredded!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uW47jWLMiY
>>153630443>100 threadsUsagi with all the spin-offs was ~320 issues and the storytime was 51 threads long. How many TMNT issued are there?
>>153628600>crossovers with : Cerebus, Batman, x files , power rangers , Naruto >still no crossover with Marvel comicsThey basically have Daredevil’s origin tied into theirsPlus they are mutants (x men)Plus they are young wisecracking New Yorkers (spiderman)Plus Casey Jones could meet the punisher Just do a crossover already !
>>153628600>urban legends getting a reprint >the River trilogy getting a reprintTMNT bros 2026 is our year
>>153635413Wait River is getting a reprint?
>>153635344They didn't maximize threads.
>>153629092>900,000 dollaridoosOh wow, you could buy a whole hamburger with that!
>>153634731>>153634823I don't think that's even remotely accurate, because IDW includes a few dozen mini-series, crossovers, TMNT Universe, Armageddon game's additional comics, and shit like Mutant Nation, Nightwatcher, Jennika's comics, and some comics I'm sure I'm forgetting.https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/IDW_ChronologyUnless I copy-pasted shit wrong, IDW's comics alone account for 380 issues alone.
>>153634731did IDW change their logo? D? DD? ID? I n W?
>>153636538It is ONLY counting the main series and nothing else. It is the dumbest counting ever.>>153636582A long time ago.
>>153636603Which is especially dumb because IDW TMNT's story makes no sense without a lot of those crossovers and Universe especially. Armageddon Game doesn't even really happen if you don't count it as a main story issue, either.
>>153628817Nagi never appeared in any adaptation and most of his characteristics were passed down to Saki
>>153634731Archie btfo
>>153636651The more I think about the counting the angrier I'm getting. We could probably be at TMNT #1000 at this point if we counted everything.
Sons of the Silent Age when?
Which version of issue 8 you using? Gonna do the guest era?>>153635784Maybe. They're still hashing it out with Veitch.
>>153636707Does Last Ronin count as an adaptation?
>>153638296Next Tuesday, if I did my math right.>>153638544>Which version of issue 8 you using? Gonna do the guest era?I wasn't aware of this. Added the Cerberus free version in the appropriate place.
>>153638596No.
>>153639370Oh. Cuz he's in that.
Thanks.
>>153628763Love how the first movie directly referenced this.
>>153628600thank you for holding off on this, trying to read this alongside UY everyday was a losing battle
>>153635784Supposedly but I haven't seen an official release date yet
>>153630443>>153631258>>153632037>>153632283>>153633898>>153635344course its worth remembering that we're talking about multiple TMNT continuities, I imagine if he was doing Mirage only(with or without the Image run) it'd be a lot shorter
>>153628945>"You have to fight all my students first, and THEN when you're tired and beat up, I will fight you!"Keeping cheater's traditions alive
>>153632110>blackHalf-black. Eastman's GF at the time was half-black, and he drew April to look very much like her for a good part of the run. She was pretty.
>>15363635480s dollars. A McDonald's plain burger was like 10 cents.
>>153629693Hey, it's everyone's favorite lunatic, Casey Jones!
>>153630264I think the first story's more like Daredevil crossed with Frank Miller's Ronin, and I don't see a whole lot of X-Men influence in the book at all.
>>153645287Them being mutants and teenagers is a dual homage to The New Mutants. And Leo and Raph are copies of Cyclops and Wolverine.
>>153630423>going to the market with your cute alien gf hangin' off your arm>buying a cool robot to be your house servantGIWTWM
>>153628600I tried to read this a couple years ago but I just couldn't divorce it from the cartoon
>>153633125Her being asian was only a thing during the early concept stage, by the time Peter created the sketches, her being white was pretty much settled on.>>153644535Kevin did pretty much admit that she was only named after her, and didn't start looking exactly like her until a couple of issues later.https://youtube.com/watch?v=ChAkxUJzSQE
>>153630607>six boobsIMAGINE
>>153635373>Plus they are mutants (x men)They're explicitly not X-men style mutants, they were created by contact with the ooze, which makes them Mutates in Marvel terminology
>>153645315>copies of Cyclops and WolverineThose character archetypes weren't invented by Cyclops and Wolverine
When's the next thread?
>>153646001True, but they took alot of other things from Marvel, so it makes sense.
>>153629008Man... I keep forgetting how Dave Sim was hailed in comics before he destroyed his own career...
>>153630607>>153645733triple paizurimaybe more
>>153646060In the absence of an actual quote from Peter or Kevin, I don't buy it's a direct influence
>>153646048I overslept. I'll make it after I eat.
NEW THREAD>>153647432>>153647432>>153647432
>>153630186Interesting how the Fugitoid wasn't mesnt to be part of TMNT originally.
>>153628808Tang Shen a cute.
