----- Original Message ----- From: "HorseTechie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "TMNT List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Yahoo TMNT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:48 AM Subject: DW TMNT Comic #2 discussion
> Yo! What do y'all think fo this issue? I thought it was very > cleverly portrayed... I picked it up today, so now I'm able to comment too! > > > S > > > p > > > o > > i > > l > > e > > r > > z > > z > > z > > > > I thought Don with the beard and cigar was hilarious. Oh! At first, I totally flew by that panel and didn't notice! lol! For some reason, the heavy beard reminded me of when Snoopy dressed up while playing the World War 1 Flying Ace going in and out of taverns. What was the point of Don looking like that? Was it a portrayal of her father or just plain delirium? > Also loved the other panel where April thwacks Raph's illusion into the > trashcan. Had that Plushie feel to them as well. Okay, now that was great! A talking Plushie that knows right from wrong! Hey, wish my Raph plushie did that! > The way LeSean draws in the > craziness of Baxter was just great. My only gripe was a minor drawing > error. VW bugs don't have a split rear window. Unless that was just > more strangeness from April's dream. ;p I didn't realize that with the car. Then again, I was focusing more on the weirdness of how LeSean draws April's face. Looks a little different from the toon. Far more slanted angles around the eyes, nose and mouth. She was real cute as a little girl, though. Interesting braids! Looked like the one black girl's hair style from "Bebe's Kids." lol. > > It did take me awhile too, to realize the *whole* thing was her > delusional dream, like from the first time she passed out. That makes > much more sense then. I first thought she had a bad case of the "voices > in her head", and then wondered how the hay she had Turtles as one of > her voices if she never really seen them before. ^^ Yeah, I wondered that too at first. My guess is this whole issue is probably what's going through her head after the Turtles took her home and she's asleep on their couch. I mean, how could she know what the TMNT look like in the turtle soup illusion with her mom? It's as if her childhood memories were mixing with her present dream visions. Um, not as if, it was! :D > > Overall, I enjoyed the little twists in the story that Peter David > adds. Especially in how he attempted to give April more of a > background, as well as a way to tie in the old cartoon tv reporter bit. > In all the other Mirage comics I have read, hardly ANYthing is said > about April's past. Other than she had a father who owned an antique > store, and a (step) sister out in LA. > > > ~HT > I liked that, too. This comic is not only based on a loose storyline on the new cartoon, but many other adaptations. I have yet to see a full tie-in universe. When world's collide, so to speak! "Mom?! Dad?! Mini-Me?!? Weird Turtle Guys?! Anybody?" lol. Brinatello
