Would you want Peter Laird to post here?
 

We've had people like Kevin Munroe, Steve Murphy and several other TMNT artists/writers from the comics appearing on the forums over the past several months.

Would you enjoy a "dialouge" with Peter Laird, on all things considered Volume 4, TMNT: Fast Forward, a possible movie sequal, and everything inbetween?

umm... YEAH!

Yes! As Mikey would say, that would be beyond awesome!:D :)

That would be cool to chat with the creator of our fascination.

Who wouldn't?

I would like to have him post stuff but at the same time I wouldn't.
He get to offended easily and I'd hate myself or some one else to upset the fella.

Is he really that sensitive to criticism?

Not all the time but I'd rather not have some one I respect to some points atleast come here and be flamed by mad fans including myself at times.

I guess I can understand that. Murphy hasn't really come around ever since the novelization got dissed-- or have I just not been seeing him?

No one's been around here since the movie started getting into full swing. Now that the film is out, it'd be a positive madhouse at Mirage, given it is still just a small company (comparatively at least). I can understand why he wouldn't want to post here, or anywhere for that matter. People have said some pretty awful things about him here, and I'm pretty sure there'd be a massive about face of slanderers (I know, "if it's print - it's libel") acting as though they'd never said a word. Alternately, I wouldn't want the possibility of being bombarded with nasty comments by those who aren't happy with the way he's done things in the book. And can you imagine how tiresome answering "When is vol.4 going to continue?" would get? :roll:

nope you're not just missing him he hasn't been around I miss talkin to Murph myself.

i wouldn't

and that's why.

No.

The guy has a very, very thin skin and reacts to constructive criticism with all the tact and elegance of a middle schooler. If his reaction to even the most softly critical fans in the Vol. 4 letters pages is any indication, any sort of discussion with him would end up as follows:

Fan: "I am enjoying Vol. 4 for the most part, but I feel its going a bit slow."

Laird: "If you don't like it, don't read it."

Fan: "The new movie was fun, though I felt the fights were too short."

Laird: "If you don't like it, don't watch it."

Fan: "I really liked the new cartoon, though Fast Forward isn't so great."

Laird: "If you don't like it, don't watch it."


I don't think we'd get much out of him.

I agree that it wouldn't be a good idea for him to post here (although at one point he was reading here).

I do wish he'd post something somewhere, though. Does it strike anyone else as odd that Kevin Eastman has had more to say about the new movie than Peter has, and Peter was deeply involved in the whole process of making the movie?

I would definately like it if Laird posted regular updates on the Official Website or something to that effect. The best/only-good part of the Vol. 4 lettes page was reading the little tidbits of future events and updates Laird would drop here and there.

I think him communicating more with the fandom/public would be great. Him interacting with them? Not so much.

Yeah, I liked when he was posting "Blast from the Past," too.

Indeed, it could be a mixed blessing having him post here. I'd love it, but I'd also hate to get on the bad side of one of the guys who created the guys.

How much does, say George Lucus interact with fans via the net?

although you gotta admit...if this communication turns out to be a major disaster, it would be extremely hilarious.

I don't bite my tongue for nothing either. I'd love to chat with him though. I'm sure if I did talk to him I wouldn't call him a douche bag. Even if he pisses me off sometimes he's still a great artist and I respect that.

What did Kevin Eastman say about the new movie? Link, perhaps?

I bet he looks here, he is just an anonymous lurker...lol
I wouldn't know what say... just thank you for almost 23 years of obsession:D

You can read his blog here and listen to an audio interview here.

yep, almost 18 years

I recall a while ago, everyone on the board used to call stand-alone episodes of the 2k3 cartoon "filler episodes". You know, episodes like "Nano" and "Garbageman" that didn't advance any of the story arcs but were just sorta there.

Well, after a while, Laird made a big deal about it in the Vol. 4 letters page, saying how much he detested people referring to stand-alone episodes as "filler", indicating he did read this board at some time or another.

Whether he still lurks here is anyone's guess, considering how we apparently pissed him off so badly.

we should not get too critical about the episodes....in case, he lurks around here.

Forget that.

We're allowed to have opinions. If Laird can't handle critical opinions on a public forum then that's his problem. I'm not gonna pretend I like everything just in case he lurks here, reads it and cries himself to sleep.

Hahaha If he still lurks here he probably hates my ass then. But f*** him, if he wants to be a little baby about it like Uwe Boll and rip on his fans then he can piss off.

He's nothing without us and he knows it.

Yea, he needs to realize that this is certainly the biggest collection of TMNT loyal on the internet. No one was really trashing the show by calling a few episodes fillers.

Yes, I remember that very clearly. That was one of the first things that clued me in that he was reading. There were a few other things, too.

^ Heh, Peter Laird ranted about statements like that in one of the letters section too.

I forgot which issue it was, but damn, I do miss reading his rants.

What'd he say, specifically?

He used to participate on the Comics Publishers forum on Compuserve about a decade ago, but he wasn't always very congenial. Sometimes one can get into an interesting conversation with him, but be prepared for his bluntness. As if those who have read his letters column didn't know that...

Hmm Probably not. sure, I'd love to talk to the guy and shake the hand of the man that created my all-time favorite characters (and I mean even bigger than Batman and Spiderman IMO, maybe even Son Goku), but the people here would probably lynch him and he'd get to upset he might cancel all TMNT projects. So for the sake of my favorite series... keep him away from the Technodrome...

I would, but I'm afraid if all the PL bashers will quickly chase him away.

What a baby, I'd like to see what he would be like without us fans. Seriously, he puts his comics out late all the time, we put up with it, he changes 2K3, we put up with it, he says stupid ****, we put up with it. We're pretty nice fans. We complain but not as bad as other properties.

PL bashers? So I'm supposed to give him head because he made TMNT? If he does something stupid I have the right to point it out. He doesn't have to listen to me. He could ignore me just as easily. Instead he gets all pissy.

Yeah Personally I think the people who kiss his @ss would just as quickly scare him away.
I'd I'd hardly consider people who dislike what he does but still respect him to be bashers.
Oh and Quite Frankly I'd rather have Kevin Eastman here since he actully likes to talk about the TURTLES and not some crap that has nothing to do with it.

Hmmm.

So, is Peter Laird like, say, J.K. Rowlings? In that they both created some great characters and storylines, but get all mad when the fans start to like a character that the author never intended to be liked?

I also know J.K Rowlings has gone as far as to get fan's fan fiction deleted from the internet, especially this one where a fan wrote a better version of the Half Blood Prince.

It would be interesting, but if Peter Laird can't digest fan's opinions and point of views on his creation, it might not be such a good idea. I love the TMNT, but honestly, everytime I hear another bizarre storyline out of the comics, I cringe and thank my lucky stars that I don't read them, much.

Peter Laird won't try and get anyone's fan fiction's deleted though, cause he steals some of his ideas from it I'm pretty sure.

You know bringing that up is really funny actually...he bashes allot of things like the old toon for being to silly as well as the archie comics but if these things are so bad how come he's ripped off half of the ideas from both of these versions of tmnt and used them in the things he's done.:roll: