TMNT in BR comic Captain Ninja (translation released)
 

Edit: Translation is done! Get it here: http://opentrain.199xchan.org/?p=283

In Brazil there is a character named Captain Ninja, who jumps around from magazine to magazine and comic book to comic book. He used to star in comics in gaming mags, this is (most of) a story featuring the TMNT from one of those magazines. There are at least two pages missing, I believe.

http://puu.sh/5sZ3

http://puu.sh/5sYr
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http://puu.sh/5sYv
http://puu.sh/5sYw
http://puu.sh/5sYA
http://puu.sh/5sYB
http://puu.sh/5sYE

If anyone feels like buying a copy, you can pick up the book this is from, titled "AS AVENTURAS DO CAPITÃO NINJA" for fairly cheap, other than the shipping from Brazil. It's a collected version of Captain Ninjas's 90s game comics, we've previously translated one of them over on the Opentrain blog if you like the character.

We'd like to translate this whole book, especially the TMNT part, but the only scan around has missing/corrupt pages. So if someone does buy a copy, we'd gladly accept some new scan donations. :tgrin:

Anyway, enjoy.

That dude just slugged Krang in the kisser....:P

That's hilarious, Cryomancer! It very much has a classic Konami video game feel to it!

Heh, when Donatello got "killed," Leonardo respawned to take his place. Classic.

What kind of sites sell these? I'm not very familiar with the market on South America TMNT merchandise.

Back when we were scouting some BR comics to pick up while my translator was in Brazil, my other translator sent me this link re: this particular comic.

http://www.estantevirtual.com.br/liv...-Jura-23871759

Couldn't tell you how to use it, or if that's still active, but that's what I got.

This is great. I'm gonna have to find this.

-ms

Show of hands: Who thinks that Shredder looks freakin' awesome!?
*raises hand*

Ah, so was this the first issue in a series? I wonder how many issues of "Graphic Games Adventures with Captain Ninja" were published? It looks hilarious if you are a 90s gaming veteran!

Oy, yeah, I give it my vote of solidarity! Looks like they based him off his appearance in the first NES game, which consequently was inspired by his original Mirage appearance. On second thought, those eyes look like they took him straight outta TMNT #1!

Awesome find, I love the art. Thanks for sharing!

Well, I know at least some of the contents of that book were first printed in the magazine "Gamers", which the first issue of that had the Alien 3 one we did previously. Far as I know, this book contains all of these particular type of Captain Ninja comic, but I can't be sure, yeah. It's got Aliens 3, Jurassic Park, Ecco, TMNT, and several one-page Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter comics.

Interestingly, Captain Ninja himself also has a "90s serious" three part comic series:
http://puu.sh/5t9S

and also other cartoon crossovers, appearances in Roly Playing Game materials, and is even part of a team of BR comic characters called "UFO Team". He gets around like crazy. I think he works with TMNT oddly well, and could work in either a OT or Mirage type setting.

And yeah, Shredder is pretty badass in this. Like April too.

edit: Badass looking. Still gets his ass kicked. Just like TMNT #1!

edit2: brb recoloring stuff from this for the recolor thread

http://puu.sh/5sYE

I just realized that "Mutant Warriors" was an international title for the Tournament Fighters video game series! Yet another Konami reference! Do you think Mikey and Raph might have appeared on the missing page? I'm guessing they must have been "shell-shocked" by Bebop and Rocksteady. :tlol:

This Captain Ninja sounds like someone I want to know.

Awesome stuff.

I smell a review.

If they can get full translations of the series, you better believe it.

http://translate.google.com/translat...%26prmd%3Divns

Scans of Captain Ninja #1-3 in Portuguese available there. I can't read them, but there is a definite Bisley feel to the artwork. This very much needs a scanlation treatment. Would OpenTrain be open to those?

No luck finding a complete version of the Adventures of Captain Ninja one-shot yet, though.

EDIT: higher quality scans of Captain Ninja #1-2 here: http://www.mediafire.com/?v0qcue379ebe0

I've got his miniseries and UFO Team scans, it's just a matter of getting my translator motivated.

And I guess this is probably the source for the scans Cmancer shared:
http://www.mediafire.com/?d0myzm5y2wfeg

Looks like this thread has motivated him after all! Glad I posted this then, haha. Expect Captain Ninja miniseries release from Opentrain...at some point! Today I need to tackle cleaning more Super Turtles though.

Why is he randomly naming Mortal Kombat characters.


Is this s**t licensed?

Probably not.

His backstory in most of the game comics is that his girlfriend is Chun-Li. But he still hits on all the girls he encounters anyway.

I found it for sale:

http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/M...ora-escala-_JM

I just don't know how to buy it :/

I've managed to use google translate on that site to register, log in, and find out how to contact the seller. That's the big step. It was always easy goings after that. (Those I asked always accepted Paypal.)

That's not the issue the turtles appear in though.

Sure it is. Just checked the scan with the pages missing.

My bad, I thought the image in the first post was the cover of the issue.

cool comic. i loved the art. thanks for sharing :)

This took entirely too long to scrounge up, but mentioned it to the right Brazilian tonight and was directed to where it could be found. No more missing pages.


For anyone interested, this was in an archive of ProGames and Gamers magazines in PDF format -
http://www.datacassete.com.br/revist...oGames/57.html http://www.datacassete.com.br/revist...Gamers/57.html

Woah! Seriously awesome find, wilddiverse!

Krang, Mirage Shredder, and... Chris Bradford? Lol, what a combination. Cool stuff, though! Thanks for sharing.

Ooh! I took the images you found, upscaled the to 2000x3000, straightened them and photoshopped them :) Now all we need is a translator

http://www.mediafire.com/?zz3ym8vnul2ckc7

nice edits... I know Cryomancer's group was interested in doing scanlations of some of this material so hopefully he will check in soon.

Thanks for the links dudes, I will look into these and see what we've got to work with. Sadly, both of my pt-BR guys have stopped working with me, so I'll have to find someone else for this most likely. So hopefully eventually, but don't expect anything too soon.

Enscripture, your edits look good, but I don't really get why you felt the need to upscale it myself. Not my preferred way of doing things, anyway. If you have a version at the original scanned resolution with the cleanup that would be nice, but I suppose you upscaled before the cleanup work?

Unfortunately, yeah.

Ah, damn. Did you just do straightening and contrast stuff or did you actually retouch everything manually?

hey, did you guys know there are brazilians in the drome that speak american fairly well? :)
capitao ninja was a parody feature in a gaming magazine, i don't remember in which, i do remember though there was something like it in the us in some gamerspro (or whatever) magazine (please correct me if i'm wrong) so, not licensed, but parody of games, that's why he's mentioning mortal kombat characters and the gaming references :)

hey, i can translate it for you

Wanna become a translator? :D Throw me a PM if you are actually interested.

I need to dig around, but I keep feeling like maybe one of my former guys did actually do a first draft translation for this. Guess I'll go hunting for files tonight and figure it out.

edit: Hmm, maybe not, couldn't find anything. Oh well, I wouldn't want to use their work without their recent consent anyway. grungethemovie, you are totally hired.

I resized it first, then straightened them, then went thought and did each page separately to remove all the creases and fixed parts and deleted the corners so it'd be pure black like the way the original probably looked.

actually, i don't wanna become a translator (don't have much time available)
but i can help with this :)

That was quick, thanks. I'll probably bug you for a few line clarifications and whatnot once I start typesetting. Expect a PM or two.

I'm currently having a bitch of a time getting a proper set of images extracted from the PDF though. My PDF viewer seems to think it's a certain resolution, but all the converters I'm throwing at it either **** up the image or output something lower resolution. Dunno what the hell is going on there. Once I get this figured out I'll try doing my own cleanup job and see how it looks compared to Enscripture's work.

Anyway gimme a day or two and hopefully we'll have a release for everyone to enjoy.

cool!:tsmile:
i love that you guys did the turtles manga, so i'm glad if i can retribute a bit