Vol. 1 #1 Remix!
 

Yep! The fan made remake of the original classic first issue is now ready to be seen! Those of you who followed the thread in the fan works section know all about this, but for those of you who didn't, I'll fill you in. Each page is drawn by a member here (in some cases 2 pages per person), and they were given some creative liberties regarding the appearance of the characters. For instance, some chose to use the OT look, others stuck to the Mirage style, while many just did their own interpretation of the green teens.

All & all, this project was made for the community to come together and work on something as a group. Plus, it's a gift to the great Eastman & Laird who are the very reason many of us are into illustration/art!

With Krang's permission to post it here, I bring you the Vol. 1 #1 remix!

http://www.mutantooze.org/TMNT-Volum...erOneRemix.pdf

Many thanks to everyone who participated, you all did great! I'll give an extra special shoutout to Master Splinter for not only laying this puppy out, and lettering it, but also hosting it on his great website, www.mutantooze.org. Points to Cartoonistaaron for a stunning cover as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBBqOTd5qzE



EDIT: Wow, Nelson's p.39 cracks me up. It emulates the OT style so well with those puffy, smiling turtle faces yet is strategically positioned at a point in the story where you least expect such light-hearted sentiments. Well done, Nelson, well done.

fantastic, this was awesome

Yea!! Now...I guess I ought to read it. :P

Guys and gals, this is truly a fantastic product. Amazing job! Page 30 might be my fav...

Wow, this came out amazing! Everyone done a brilliant job! Its ace seeing everyone's different styles from page to page, knowing what's going to happen but not knowing how its going to look was great, for me.

Oh, and I actually let out a rather loud "HA!" on page 37. That flying eyeball!! Totally unexpected, totally fantastic.

We all done a brilliant job, Master Splinter's lettering and layouts are great, and thanks a bunch for getting this together, Powder!

Hate to be a wet blanket, but I noticed a boo-boo.
Leonardo's line on pages 2-3 "He's wrong, we're not wearing costumes!" is missing.

Very cool, I really liked the 2 page spread with the turtles fighting the foot. I liked all the different styles people brought to the table nice work =)

Finally!!

Thanks, man! I did it on purpose. Glad you noticed it!

This is so cool, I've read it twice already. It's very interesting to see the different styles, specially when they clash hard. Here we have Winters' chalky style, discordiatookie's action figure theatre, Andrew's real life backgrounds... and I don't know if this will sound bad, but I lol'ed at Tokka's page.

Really liked the colors on 23 and 24...

Oh and I'm also a fan of the flying eyeball!

Also: pages 28-29 and 33 are just jaw-dropping.

Too many good things to count. Thanks, everybody!

Nice work. I loved it.

My page turned out better than I expected!

Awesome project, guys! You did really hard work in there =)

Hell, yes this is awesome, so erm Whats next :D.

Reading this was awesome. It was pretty cool seeing different styles to the turtles

That is so awesome! I love how this turned out!

Everyone did an awesome job on the comic.

-ms

Am I the only one seeing a blank page between Splinter getting ready to tell the origin, and the beginning of the flashback?

EDIT: My name's spelled wrong in the credits Q_Q

This was awesome !! going through different styles while ready sure was interesting :D

Page 22, I couldn't help but chuckle at "We comment in mid-air".

"Hey, you're a Turtle?!"
"Hey, you're dead! Stabby stab!"

That was epic, hilarious and all-around jawesome.

I think my three favorite pages were 13 (the classical Japanese style was genius), 33 (the toy-photo thing took me completely by surprise) and 38 (the juxtaposition of the Mirage content with the perfectly replicated Archie style was jarringly awesome).

Sadly, I have to confess I had no idea this project was going on since I don't frequent the Fanworks forum. This was a kick ass surprise, today.

Loved it.

This is really frikkin' cool, gang!

Glad to finally see this thing all wrapped up! Everyone did a great job!

So cool! So many awesome pages, I don't know which ones I like the most. My favorite pages are 23, 24, 28 and 36.

Any errors mentioned will be corrected this weekend. Thanks for pointing them out!

-ms

Great work to all of you this is fantastic.:) If we ever do this again i will def be having a go.

Nice work, guys. This is pretty rad.

This is awesome. Totally flew under my radar, or would've participated! (maybe next time) Page 28 was my favorite but there were many awesome pages!

All I can say is...

WOW! What an honor!

http://peterlairdstmntblog.blogspot....e-by-fans.html

Pat yourselves on the back, dudes!

Wow, that's brilliant! I see what Peter laird means about numbered pages, in the PDF the double page spread on the rooftop is classed as one page, but in the credits its classed as two. A little confusing if you don't know its a doubler. Mayhap numbers in the corners? So neat he took time to read it, well chuffed! Oh, and if we did want our real names published also, I don't mind. Especially for those awesome artists out there who want the promotion..

Oh, and Master Splinter, just wanted to say that you did a neat job on lettering my page! Nothing was obscured and the sound effects matched really well with the action.

And thanks for the coupla folks who commented on my page also - it was the toy photograph one. Really meant a lot to me! :D

Congratulations everyone! This is an extreme honor, to have PL do an official review/critique of your work! I hope he does the same for the voice-over, as I'll definitely be sending it his way...:D

I agree with some of his comments - in specific, the fact that Shredder's eye ball popping out was over the top, and that the names in the credits should have been actual names. I know we all know eachother by forum names, but hell, you guys have real names. Mine's Matthew. Hey.

Oh, Peter. Still a bit of a prick, I see. (That eyeball popping out was the highlight of the book!)

I think that's a matter of opinion. I personally think the eyeball popping was way over the top.

Thanks for the comment, Spengler! It means a lot to me that you said that (I did page 29- page 28 in the one with the evil flying eyeball of evil).

And the fact that Laird saw our work is amazing! I agree with some of his points: the fact that not all the pages are numbered, the lack of real-life names, and the fact that it looks and reads too similar to the real thing... maybe we had too many restrictions.

What I do NOT agree with is with his dislike of the flying eyeball. As Ecto Jedi said, it is one of the highlights of the book. AND also something new, that differs from the source material.

If there's going to be a new, corrected version, I propose to consider Laird suggestions. Specially the page numbering: because right now, by including the cover in the page count, as well as the occasional merging of two pages, the Acrobat Reader page counts ends up being different from the actual one used in the credits.

I can add page numbers... I still have all of the files... I can even add our real names if ya'll want...

-ms

That is cool that Peter Laird talked about it!

Eyeball popping out is "over the top"?

Nah... This is over the top...

-ms

Man, that movie was BAD....


The eyeball might be over the top, but it's not of place. I mean, this is a "remix" of issue one... which had the Shredder being blown up, and showed us his rests splattered on the street...

In regards to the eyeball, I thought it was hilarious. I didn't interpret it as something done with the intention of being taken at face value as "OMG so kewl!" but a tongue in cheek piece of ultra violent meant to catch you by surprise and make you laugh.

And laugh I did.

In case anyone is as lame as me and likes saving things... I took a screenshot of PL's blog mention the remix comic... Just incase it ever goes down I got proof PL reviewed our comic...

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/4...omicscreen.jpg

-ms