IDW TMNT ongoing thread

Tatoruzu · 2025-02-04T20:06:00+00:00

Doesn't make sense to have a thread for every new release, so here's a thread to discuss ongoing releases for the main series as they come out. So we migh...

Tatoruzu

Gort

I do think TMNT is one of the exceptions. It's because Campbell's run was so bad. And just in general there are way too many characters.

You can think of Spider-Man as the opposite case. People were pissed, and are still pissed, about Spider-Man going "back to basics" which meant severing his family life with MJ.

Gort

Tatoruzu well in all fairness spiderman had been married for like 20 years. spiderman being married WAS the basics after a certain point. i think hed been married for close to half of his entire publishing history when they undid it. even to this day almost every iteration of spiderman is paired with MJ and ultimate spiderman pairs them in a marriage it could be argued that that was a move away from the basics

Tatoruzu

Gotta wonder how much input "Paramount editorial" has

I wonder if Paramount was also responsible for the eventual removal of the "suggested for mature readers" label and the more PG vibe from the comic during the Sophie years:

Gort

thats actually great news. as far as the main book is concerned i feel theyre doing a great job of turning things around. isssue 4 was particularly great.

edit: just read issue 6 this shit is great idk why its not being more celebrated here the art was insane.

Tatoruzu

Gort

the art was insane

Juan is amazing

Tatoruzu

Just finished reading issue #7.

It's the best new TMNT release I've read in years.

Gort

Tatoruzu i went up to get it yesterday but there was some kind of supply chain issue. didnt get savage sword #7 either. had to settle for batman dark patterns and some old savage dragon issues which turned out cool. all in all not a bad trip but im really glad to hear this. also as a donny fan im biased but i feel like the route theyre taking with him is so interesting.

ADistantImage

Gort Is Savage Dragon still any good? I heard Eric Larsen went off the deep end and turned the book into another completely leftarded anti-TROMP sloprag

Tatoruzu

Made a video about my thoughts on the run so far:

Gort

already watching it rn lmao

Stu_Paddasso

Aaron earlier stuff like Wolverine and the X-Men and Astonishing X-Men was great, but it’s hard to tell how much of his latter work was actually him or Marvel’s ridiculous editorial staff. Hopefully at IDW he’ll have the clout to do his own thing.

It’s a wait and see situation.

Tatoruzu

Stu_Paddasso

There's also a question of whether or not he actually liked those characters at Marvel. From what I can tell, he was a true fan of 80s TMNT and indie comics. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt for now.

Gort

Tatoruzu at marvel he would often do whatever he wanted regardless of what it meant for the character in question. as a known name he was pretty much able to do whatever he wanted as far as i could tell. like when he wrote for the avengers he did a story where there were avengers in like 1 million BC or some shit and made she hulk into savage hulk because hulk was dead when he was writing avengers and he wanted a savage hulk. hes made a lot of unpopular decisions. that said hes right about punisher i dont care what anyone says and his conan work was great. his thor was great too. the only original work ive read by him was scalped but that was high quality as well. i really dont think he we have anything to worry about from him on this book.

Gort

ADistantImage i couldnt tell you ive only read the earliest issues ive managed to get ahold of. i fear the same thing is happening to the ice cream man. might change my avatar soon.

Tatoruzu

ADistantImage

Gort

Savage Dragon is still around. There's been some wild uncensored sex scenes thrown into the story over the past few years. And yeah, a lot of political shit. It definitely has an unhinged vibe to it.

Erik Larsen and Savage Dragon is like the left-wing version of Dave Sim and Cerebus LMAO

I haven't taken a deep dive and read every issue like I did with Cerebus, but maybe someday.

CodeXAhex

Lets hope to god the comic dont go to shit after issue 7 i have high hopes for this comics as of now.

Also im thinking about making a thread about leonardo scar of tmnt universe stuff that was explored in his issue marco series of idw tmnt. Imo that's literally the only issue post tranny sophie has done pretty well. Which is kinda comparing a ice cream sundae to a pile of shit lol.

Tatoruzu

CodeXAhex Yeah that issue was pretty good

Tatoruzu

CodeXAhex But I think that was pre-transition if we're thinking of the same issue

helljumper

Just read issue #7 and honestly it's so refreshing to see the main run putting out what's looking like a potentially decent story now. I'm really glad they're just going back to basics this time around for the relaunch

Tatoruzu I think you're confusing the micro series issue from 2012 that Campbell did art on for the macro series issue from 2018 that they did both writing and art on.

CodeXAhex

helljumper i meant the 2018 marco series @Tatoruzu

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