Tales of the TMNT #40
 

From Murphy's Blog:

http://bp0.blogger.com/_gb-JVVPbQkU/...0/T40cover.jpg

Ok, this looks to be WAY awesome! And look! Raph has the eye patch!

Middle aged??? As in middle aged in human terms or middle aged in reptile terms (IE 100+)??

Either way this will be the 2nd time in a Mirage book that Raph has the eye patch. Why is it he only has one in christmas related ones??? :lol:

Looks like he has a little Asian girl in his arms. Love the bomber jacket he's wearing.

man that pic looks awsome! looks like those could be foot soldiers!

Wow, this is gonna be really, really cool. Plus, silent comics = teh awesomeness. I can't wait to "read" this. But how the heck does Raph lose that dang eye?! I wanna read that story. :( :D

Wearing an eyepatch does not automatically mean that he lost an eye. It could be a temporary eye injury. Or for protection after a surgery. Conversely, he could get an artificial eye if he had lost his original eye.

While all of that is true, it's pretty much accepted fact that Raph loses his eye at some point.

Where is this shown exactly?

I don't believe it was shown in mirage which is odd they really do need to do more future old turtle storys.
And it was shown in the archie future tmnt world.
Raphael is always shown wearing a black eye patch in every future image of him.

Howdy!

That's the 'Tales' comic i currently find myself illustrating!

It also happens to be a very significant story for me on a personal level: this particular future Raph version was featured in the pages of Archie's TMNT Adventures #42...the very first TMNT comic i bought (wish i still had it :( )
Funny thing is, i was was scheduled for minor surgery the very next day so i ended reading it in the HOSPITAL bed (bout 100 times for sure) :D

http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/archie/42/42.htm

http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/archie/42/3.jpg

As for the bomber jacket, that's actually my jacket (no BS) ! It's COTTON, as the environmentally aware me won't wear leather products.

http://bennieswestern.com/shop/image.../FRJ134BLG.jpg

Which reminds me, were old Archie TMNT comics printed on recycled paper and using environmentally friendly inks?

Talk about history (and i wasn't allowed to post the cover illo in my blog ...:ohwell: )!

Diego.

So wait does the story take place in archie comics tmnt world or mirage?
And its beautiful great job on the art!
And thats cool I used to have that jacket as well when I was a teen hehe.
And about archies printing yes you are correct.
I'm sure it wa sonly posted in his blog because he's the big cheese!
And I'm quite sure some one could hook you up with that issue perhaps for some art or something ;)

Thanks for dropping in, Diego! This issue looks to be fantastic!!

Archie #42 is one of my all-time favorite TMNT comics, period. And it totally brought me back into the Archie game after straying for about 15 issues. Inspiration taken from those stories is nothing but a good thing!!

Generally he looses it in explosions. That's what happened in Archie and Image.

Diego:

So this is set in the Archie Future Turtles timeline?! SW33T!!

****, where they ever separate?:lol:

Thanks!

HA! I actually wear it nowadays 8)

Sweetness!

Not at all, Steve rocks! I think it's a Mirage thing...

Oh, i'm sure if Tokka reads this, he'll get the idea :D

Well, Raph does have a temper, and using those frikkin' sais of his to eat his cereal every morning instead of a regular spoon sure didn't help :lol:

Yeah It's been said by Murphy that Peter Dislikes the Archie comics...I don't see how he could though since he as well had a hand in creating allot of the characters as well as cover art.
I know he does and it usually is a mirage thing those basterds! haha j/k
I was thinking more along the lnes of myself Tokka tells me watcha do haha

Raph with an eye patch
 

I'm suprised no one has mentioned that Raph with an eye patch really did start with Mirage in the back up story for Michaelangelo Christmas Special. It's a homage to "A Christmas Carol" and the ghost of Christmas future takes Raph to see his older self that's alone living in a swamp, his mind has degenerated so much he can't even talk.

some one did.

Talbot also did a beautiful painting of Future Mirage Raph where, like in the Mike special, he has the eyepatch and lives on the bayou.

Even Peter Laird himself did a sketch. Think it's in his Blast from the Past archive.

This issue should be fascinating. I've always wondered if we might get some breadcrumbs that might hint what leads Raph to this path.

Just something I thought might be worth noting.... In that backup story from the Mike Micro, Raph sees himself in the future if he continued down the path he was going. I think the point of that whole backup story, though, was to help keep Raph from going down that path to begin with. So while this new story leads us to believe that Raph still has his eye damaged or lost, it is not necessary that Raph goes all primitive and lives in the swamp like that backup story showed. I know this is rather off topic, and I don't know if anyone was really even suggesting that he would still live in the swamp someday, but I thought this was worth noting just as FYI.

I don't think it is necessarily off topic.

And it would ROCK if NinjaTurtles.com would upload the Raphael story from the Michelangelo reprint. That's a rather hard comic to find. Gotta check where the story fits in the canon.

Nah, it's really not hard to find. I found 9 on eBay doing a quick search and NinjaTurtles.com still sells it, too.

Did he really change that much after the events of that story in particular, though?

He may have whos to say we've even seen raph at that point in his life yet with how Mirage is anymore with jumping all over their life time.

By no means am I saying it's set in stone... but unless we're willing to say that the whole bit was just in his head, it reasons to say that's how he'd end up if he doesn't set himself to rights.

Does he do so? Possibly.

Well, that's the point. We don't know. I think it's safe to assume that he did because he didn't want to become that once he had seen it. But we don't know how much he changed, if at all. All I'm saying is that since he has seen the future, he may try not to let that aspect of it happen. From the looks of it, the only aspect of that future that seems set in stone is that he loses an eye or has it damaged.

EDIT: Erm, yeah, I just realized you pretty much said the same thing in your last post....

I have it! One of those things that I randomly picked up when it came out, even though I wasn't following Mirage at the time, just the Archie series...I'm glad I did! If I can manage to get access to a scanner at work I'll scan the little extra Raph story...is it allowed to post it here? If not, I guess I could email it to those who want to read it. It's pretty cool, I always liked it.

Murphy has posted a preview of page 1:

http://bp1.blogger.com/_gb-JVVPbQkU/.../tmnt01web.jpg

Looks mighty fine to me. :D

I really wish they'd use those solid grey tones more often. I prefer those or the crosshatching over the "dot" tones. That's just me, though.

I think this "Silent Knight" will be a two-parter. After all, it's a Christmas Eve issue, Murphy is working on both 40 and 41, and it's set to come out in November.

As far as i know it's a one-shot story only...but i'd love to illustrate as many Tales issues as possible :D

http://viajerojourdan.blogspot.com/2...cowabunga.html

Ugh! That art is beautiful! More More!

SWEET!

Can someone translate the article? I see it mentions Comic-Con at the end... you aren't by chance going to be there, Diego?

I'm suprised I'm beating Roseangelo and Putrescent to this, but Murph has posted an interior page from tales #40 on his blog. And it look fantastic!

http://bp0.blogger.com/_gb-JVVPbQkU/.../tmnt14-15.jpg

Of course, this is when one of them tells me that they already posted about this in the top secret thread.

I just saw it a second ago ;) & it's beautiful.

While I haven't posted about it, I did see it earlier today. :tcool: :tthumbsu:

Inperfect translation to the article in Jourdan's blog. Personal comments are in brackets:

Hmm.. One has to wonder who that wee one is that Raph's protecting from those er futuristic looking foot soldiers. Hmm... if this is supposed to be Future Raph from Archie...then perhaps that's April's great granddaughter?

No, I believe it's just an abandoned child that he finds. He's in Tokyo and the kid is Japanese.

That looks pretty freakin' sweet.

You got that right Rose! Can't spoil any of the plot details though :)

Thanks Big Bad --i'm too lazy to translate such stuff myself :sleep:
And yup, "escorzo" means foreshortening, and the reporter got the toys and merchandising thing wrong, though according to Murph I AM 'on deck' for upcoming licensing illustrations and style-guide work.

As for PET ROBOTS: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097...340_pe_snp_824

:D