--- Leonardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay... so having given it a bit of time, anyone got their issue 8
> and want to talk about it?

Wow.. is that possible?  Hardly anyone here talks about the new comics
anymore.  j/k!
 
> I'm working on a letter to Peter, I figure we need to get more of us
> with letters in the comics again, names we recognize. I saw HT's in
> there. :D

Yep. Finally got off my butt and sent one in.  It is neat to see a lot
of new names.  But then,  wonder how many of those are the real names
of some of the online folks/lurkers here.  ;]
 
> Anyway, here's the Obligatory Spoiler Space:
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> Needless to say, I was psyched by the Cha Ocho (or one possible
> translation: Number 8 Tea??... okaaaaay.... ) and Leo sparring match.
> really want to know what the backstory is on this, and what the big
> grudge is about. 

Tell me about it.  Even the Comic store clerk was asking me about this,
and I admitted us uber TMNT geeks are just as clueless! *lol*

> The return of Mr. Braunze is highly intriguing, makes for lots of
> interesting conjectures, and I am enjoying that there's enough depth
> and history to the comics to savor this kind of thing. The little
> irritation with Splinter...hmm.....

Yah... Nice to see faces from Vol 2 resurface too.  
 
> The letter about 'starting over' and redoing the TMNT from the
> younger days got me a bit fired up, I LOVE the mature TMNT because 
> Peter has not run out of stories to progress forward with. It's more
> fun to see TMNT living up to the challenge of how strong something is
> that it can continue forward. Peter and the rest of the Mirage crew 
> does not have to do what the big comics companies have done to ad 
> nasuem, which is go back to the Origin thing, and update it and 
> tinker with it trying to 'make it better' or 'more exciting'. <yawn>

It seems that is what they are doing with this new comic.  Digging up
loose ends fromt he past and building onto those.  And then making ya
go, hrmm...  ;p

> Heck, if that person wants re-inventing the wheel, that's what almost
> all the comics movies do--start with the origin--and lets face it,
> the new cartoon is doing, too. But with the cartoon I can 'forgive'
it
> because they are really pulling from the source material this time,
> so it has me happily intrigued.

of course.  The TMNT story at this point is a legend, and those really
never seem get old no matter how often it's told.  No?    
 
> Of course, looking ahead the big question thanks to the Planet Racers
> site is, "who's going to die".
> Anyone want to make some guesses?

Yeah... We've been guessing April (at worse), Robyn, or Splinter on the
other forums.  Just gonna have to sit tight and see... *rrrrrr*  :P


~HT

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Because from the start to the end no matter what I pretend
The journey is more important than the end or the start 
And what it meant to me will eventually be 
A memory of the time when I tried so hard

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