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/Previous thread >>153797317
Early today for scheduling issues. Might be early tomorrow as well.>>153802693We have about four more threads for the original Mirage era. After that will be two threads of Image before returning to Mirage.
>>153817412>USAGI!>Hai?
>>153817643man, watercolor fucking rules
>>153817704>this is the people's liberation army the turtles joining the chinese communists was NOT on my bingo card
>>153817840this might have been one of my favorites
>>153818027shut up april
>>153818914One of the best page layouts in comic history.
>>153818844Geez Splinter. What crawled up your ass?
>>153816726That dinosaur guy had an action figure thats apparently one of the rarest TMNT figures ever made
>>153817123>>153817156I know Renet is mostly known for boobs, but she's got nice thighs and ass as well.>>153817164Savanti's got a point here, Chote hasn't completed a task successfully yet.
>>153819016That and Scratch. He recently got a NECA figure too.
>>153819014>I hear about it the time, in factWhoops, typo
>>153817244Chote channeling full Feudal Japan bullshitto here. I wonder if this was published around the same time as Dragon Bellow Conspiracy.
>>153817373Oi, Ronin! You've had your annual storytime, now buzz off before you're cut into mulch!
>>153818651oh shit
>>153819415And so ends the last time Eastman and Laird would ever draw a comic together.
End.
>>153818118Ah jeez it's these bozos again.
>>153818298Ironically stealing and smuggling reptiles is a very lucrative "business" IRL. There's specific laws about having more than one turtle on your person in Southern states.
>>153818393>>153818400Damn, I did not expect those kind of niggas in a 90s American comic book. European, sure. But I thought by then in the US such depictions would be frowned upon.
>>153818466This goes HARD
>>153818718NO CAPES
>>153818844>>153819012he hasn't had his morning coffee
>>153819026surprisingly level headed cop
>>153819394>>153819405really cool >>153819467wait what
>>153821066This is it. From here on they collab on a few covers, but never a whole story.
>>153821242well that sort of sucks. what's the story? did they have a falling out or something?
>>153821291Kinda. A mix of that, general burnout, being too busy running the franchise, and Eastman moving on to other projects before ultimately selling his rights in 2000.
>>153817087Ah, samurai, always a bunch of dicks!
>>153821324I wonder how this will affect the writing and the direction of the series.
>>153817138>Meanwhile, back in the presentThat's not how "meanwhile" works!
>>153821627You wanna know now or wait and read it?
>>153819114This was published in May 1992, and Dragon Bellow Conspiracy started in UY #13, published by Fantagraphics in December of 1988, and the intro a ways back said the author read all of UY (alongside a bunch of other stuff about historical Japan) in the runup to writing this, so yeah, I'd say DBC had some influence on this.
>>153817253>"Sewer? What's a sewer?"Huh, what was the sanitation situation in 1300s Japan?
>>153822070You're lucky my autism senses were tingling and I visited this thread.It is widely assumed that the 12th century marks the beginning of human waste usage in agriculture in Japan. The Heian period (794–1185) witnessed frequent famines, thus officials encouraged farmers to improve farming practices (Adolphson, Kamens & Matsumoto 2007). Improved irrigation, double cropping, and plowing boosted agricultural productivity in the ensuing Kamakura period (1185–1333) (Yamamura 1988), which in turn resulted in a lack of animal manure for crop fertilization.3With time, night soil was becoming more and more important. For example, in Keian ofuregaki, a 1649 proclamation by the Tokugawa shogunate to regulate farm life, it states, ‘Farmers should build the toilet with a roof over near the main house, so that even if it rains night soil will not dilute and waste’ (Heibonsha sekai rekishi jiten henshūbu 1955: 333). This indicates that in the mid-17th century the use of night soil was already ingrained in everyday life and was even promulgated by the shogunate for use in agriculture, thus demonstrating its importance. Because of its value, night soil became a profitable commodity.Cont...
>>153822283In the Edo period (1603–1868), the demand for fertilizer had progressed to the point that farmers began visiting towns to collect night soil for their crops, initially in return for vegetables (Hanley 1987; Tajima 2007). Landlords in Edo, present-day Tokyo, who sold excrement from shared privies in tenement houses could earn an extra 30–40 ryō of annual income—almost twice as much as a normal carpenter earned annually (Ota kuritsu kyōdo hakubutsukan 1997). In Osaka, money for night soil from shared toilets became a standard part of the landlord’s income, and rent was based on the number of tenants—if someone moved out from a tenement house, the rent would rise, as the landlord would have less product to sell. Feces belonged to the house owner, while urine was the property of the tenants (Agi & Ina 1990). Indeed, so large a part did night soil comprise of landlords’ incomes, that the saying emerged, ‘the landlord’s child is brought up on dung’ (ōya no ko wa kuso de sodatsu) (Ibid.: 121). Consequently, the price of fertilizer had risen so much in Osaka that farmers from neighboring areas formed associations to obtain monopsony rights on the purchase of night soil, with fights even erupting over collection rights and prices (Howell 2013; Nakamura 2015; Walthall 1988). By the mid-18th century, night soil was collected by professionals and sold to farmers for silver (Hanley 1987; Nakamura 2015)—it had become so expensive that poorer farmers had difficulty obtaining it in sufficient quantities and incidents of theft began to appear in the records (Hanley 1987).Source: https://www.whp-journals.co.uk/WW/article/view/1044/593part 2: Night Soil Collection System in Premodern Japan.
>>153819463Kudos to Mcfarlene for this.
>>153817936Did they swap weapons? That's gonna cause a great deal of confusion!
>>153818257You know times are hard when crooks are mugging people by threatening to hit them with a pie
>>153819837Sure, but a mother wants to be proud of her sons. "Million dollar bank robbery" proud, not "snatched a turtle from a zoo" proud. That's a Florida-man level caper!
>>153818777>local Mass-holeIE, local Massachusetts asshole? kek, that's pretty good
>>153819364>>153819377>>153819387Moooooorph!
>>153819437>Cheers, buddy -- can't wait until issue #100!I didn't ask for these feels...
>>153821627Well, the series proper basically ends not long after this arc. Continuity proceeds following on from there at Image comics for a bit, then that gets canceled and TMNT Volume 4 ignores all of that run and continues on from City at War with a new storyline, but it's Laird-only at that point and feels very different from the original. And it also ends too soon. Nothing ever recaptures the Eastman/Laird magic, sadly.>>153822283>>153822348Neat! Who knew poop could be so interesting? Besides flies.
Reading bump
>>153826270Remind me of how IDW hyped The Last Ronin as the work of Eastman/Laird, but that was just a concept they provided to IDW, the main writer was always that hacker Tom Waltz.
>>153828136*hackA hacker is very different from a hack. Also "hack" doesn't necessarily mean a bad writer, they're generally competent writers, it really means someone who is able to crank out a lot of serviceable work for hire. They make money for a publisher, but nobody gives them awards for the merit of their prose.
>>153819475Thanks OP
>>153817074Tf is this?
>>153822348>stealing and fighting over literal shitAnd here we thought the fucking rock was peak bullshit.When is Usagi going to cover that part, huh?
>>153831860The fucking rock?
>>153831860I think the rock still wins. "Night soil" has actual practical value behind the high price. Suiseki is just "some guy said this rock was pretty, so now it's valuable enough for me to kill you over it"
>>153832370A few of readers here are mendicant anons wandering the boards between annual Usagi Yojimbo storytimes. With our sorrow we take our memes."A fucking rock" refers to any time a skilled samurai is defeated by a rock to the head."THE fucking rock" refers to specifically to the Usagi chapter about Suiseki. Basically >>153832495
>>153832370muh rock!
>>153832686>>153833853I see. I hope to one day get into Usagi. I keep getting to the same part and get bored.
>>153826270>TMNT: Saturday Morning Adventures will end at #50.That's bad, this series is only one decent IDW TMNT comic.
>>153834267Dang. I'm trying to binge the shows for the first time for when we get to the tie-in comics.
>>153834267>That's bad, this series is only one decent IDW TMNT comic.
>>153834144Which one would that be? Don't say Grasscutter.
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