“What, did BeBop and Rocksteady’s agents ask for too much?”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze official movie adaptation
Mirage Studios/Tundra Publishing (1991)
SCREENPLAY: Todd Langen
ADAPTATION: Dean Clarrain
ARTIST/COVER DESIGN: Jim Lawson
COLORIST: Richmond Lewis
COVER PAINTING: Michael Dooney
LETTERER: Mary Kelleher
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLE CREATORS: Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird
Because I reviewed the first movie’s adaptation last week and the second one this week.
To be fair, the Turtles needed to emotionally recover and pull together as a family before they could go back. Also, April and Casey became a couple because they were a couple in the comics, something impossible based on their interpretations in the original cartoon but fixed in the 2003 series.
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Yes, I know Ernie Reyes, Jr was Donatello’s suit actor for the fight scenes in the first movie. I also know he was a martial arts champion as a kid and starred alongside Gil Gerard in The Last Electric Knight, a Disney-produced TV movie for ABC that led to a short lived series called Sidekicks long before the Chuck Norris/Jonathan Brandis theatrical movie of the same name.
I’m combining two chapters again because chapter 18 is so short, only a couple of pages. Last time we got a clue to finding our culprit thanks to remembering past episodes…I mean adventures. Lorrah does seem to know her Star Trek, or at least was really good at research during the pre-internet days. It’s possible her editor caught it and let her know, but she was still smart enough to work it in organically so she wins either way. She may well be a Trekkie, but at least we know she cares about what she’s working on, unlike so many of today’s Hollywood and comic writers, and even a lot of video game companies now.
We have seen her do a good job exploring the characters we know while introducing us to new characters who are important to the mystery. She has shown a strong understanding of them, and anyone coming in new can still follow along as if they were brand new characters on their first adventure as far as the reader knows, even though they may have had adventures in the past. This is how you do an ongoing series. You respect the stories that came before and see them not as an obstacle but a past experience to build upon to show how far the character has gone. Not every series has to be the first year forever.
And so, let’s get back to our investigation as our crew are in the dark–literally, since someone took out the power.
Swamp Thing stopped going to rave parties after that night.
Sludge #1
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (October, 1993)
“You Can Take The Cop Out Of The Sewer…”
WRITER: Steve Gerber
PENCILER: Aaron Lopesti
INKER: Gary Martin
COLORIST: Paul Mounts & Violent Hues (interior)
LETTERER: Patrick Owsley
EDITOR: Chris Ulm
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The only problems I had with Moffat as showrunner were the obsession with River Song and to a lesser extent the Weeping Angels, the love triangle with Rory and Amy (though I do like how that resolved with the Last Centurion), the sex jokes, and the idea that the show should be a “fairytale”. He did eventually get us the best TARDIS design of New Who, dark colors aside. Put Moffat’s 2nd TARDIS design with Davies’ new TARDIS colors and working lighting and you’ve got a great TARDIS interior.
Imagine if it had been 12 FEET!
I hope you all had a happy and safe Easter, even if you don’t celebrate it. For those us who do, I hope this works as an Easter comic.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I’m still setting up my “artputer” at long last.
Coming up this week, another two chapter installment of Chapter By Chapter as I go over Star Trek: The Vulcan Academy Murders. Also, it’s my last Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic and I do have a replacement, which may be the last one. Once that and my Drive Thru Comics library runs out I may end up alternating between what’s remaining from “Yesterday’s” Comic and the BW Article Link. We’ll see how things go.
Have a great week, everyone. Curious to see what I’m going to find to talk about this week, but at least it should be a distraction free one for me. I hope. The last two weeks have been annoying, but necessary.
What’s that, YouTube? You saw me looking for footage from The Neverending Story and want to tell me you have it up free and legal with ads and I can share it with my readers? Nice you finally did something right!
If I didn’t make it clear, The Neverending Story is my favorite movie. It’s not a good adaptation, which is why I don’t balk at a more faithful adaptation given statements I’ve made on this very website over the years, but it speaks to everything I love about stories and the movie version of Bastian is basically me as a kid. Well, not completely. My mom passed away well into my adulthood, my dad has always been caring and as attentive as possible, and my bullies used psychological torture instead of shoving me in a dumpster, but escaping into stories (though I’m more of a sci-fi superhero guy than a fantasy guy) is totally how I dealt with those and why I want to be a storyteller now, balking at how kids entertainment has lost so much steam from when I was a kid in a wake of storytellers who don’t care about kids.
The story has a great soundtrack whether your part of reality had the orchestral or the synth scores, the acting shows that kids can act, and I do like how the world of Fantasia is depicted. For those who celebrate it for being “dark”, that’s not what makes it such a good movie. Instead the story is dark because it needs to be. Yes, it didn’t happen as often in kids stories in entertainment, and points for trusting in their audience, but I once saw someone praise the movie for how dark it is, saying it like five times in one sentence. It was weird.
But enough of me talking. Time to watch this movie, and then I have a bonus couple of videos from the BW archives.
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
BW Media Spotlight 