Color Classics Raphael Micro - coloring job
 

Is it just me or did someone make a mistake on coloring Raph on the cover? The top of his shell is clearly defined, but they made the area around his collar bone yellow like the shell and not green as it should be.

Also, shouldn't his belt be tan and not red? I don't know what they were thinking.

I'm no expert so maybe I'm wrong here.


http://media.dcbservice.com/xlarge/JUN120401.jpg

You're right about the neck thing. As for the belt, not sure if it's red or an odd shade of brown.

The yellow neck looks totally weird. Shame! I bet the issue is going to be colored great though, they did a fabulous job with the #1 recolor.

I won't buy it if the final cover looks like that and it's probably too late to change it. It will stick out like a sore thumb to me.

I'm not sure which bugs me more: weird "turtle neck" Raph or Blue "glove" Shredder.

When is this supposed to be out?

These color classics really need some reference material, because the coloring errors are probably getting worse as it goes on.

Yeah, no doubt. The colorist(s) have talent but no idea what they're doing. Not wasting dough on f*ck-ups.

August 29th.

Has anyone tried shooting them an email? I just sent one to hopefully the right people. We'll see if they get back to me.

Overall, Scorpion Studios does some very good work, but they just seem to make a few mistakes here and there that are very unfortunate in how distracting they can be.

I imagine that IDW will have those errors "fixed for the trade", as is their usual MO.

Shredder in a bodysuit in the first issue(both with blue hands and without) and now the collarbone shoulder area being discolored is leaving a bad taste in my mouth for the color classics. They need to fix this before trade re-release. I don't understand why they've had inconsistencies thus far. It's not that hard to figure out based on the tons of reference material out there exactly what color things are supposed to be.

The shredder isn't as bad as this though. At least you had to get a couple of pages in. This is the cover! although, the fact that this is the cover makes it so that maybe we can fix it? I emailed them earlier and they emailed me back saying my email was forwarded on to the editorial/production team for review. Who knows if that means anything though.

Cover's fixed. Your thumb is safe.

:tgrin:

Wow. Serious respect for that one.

Question, in these color reprints the colors are going to be Mirage style right? Or are they going with the color head bands?

Mirage red only. And the pages are looking great -- Tom Smith is doing a fine job coloring these issues.

Thanks for your interest!

Tom W.

Any chance it had to do with an email that was sent? O=)

Thanks. It's interesting to me these books have been color reprinted so many times. They might historically have the most different color reprints on any comic ever. I like that each has it's own style. Looking forward to see more of these. If I like them I hope more come.

Looks like it did. Good work, Juicy.

Horray, Tom!

Glad we do have some quality control over there at IDW Turtle-central!

Any idea if #1 could be reprinted without Shredder having a full covered blue bodysuit? That's really my only gripe so far...

Is it ok to think in my head I now have a tiny tiny tiny piece in turtles history?
That's all I really want :teek:

Tom to the rescue! Thanks man!

Awesome! Glad so see IDW taking the initiative and listening to the fans!

Cowabunga dude! Thanks! :D

Not having bought the Kevin Eastman 25th Anniversary TPB, this was the first time I've ever seen the Raphael Micro in color. The sight of Casey Jones in his Playmates Toys color scheme just forced me to make this an impulse buy, even though I have been avoiding these thus far.

I know the future of this series is in serious doubt due to low sales, but I really would like to see the Michelangelo Micro in color for this Christmas. It could be really beautiful with the Christmas lights, snowfall, and cold nighttime setting.

Oh cripes, considering HOW MUCH snow effects Eastman and Laird put in every panel of that thing, coloring it would be BRUTAL.

I have the TMNT 25th version of Raph #1 and thought they coloring was okay (though Casey's demonic, glowing red eyes seemed a taf much). The fact that Casey's in his Playmates colors kind of makes me want to grab this version, even if I haven't snagged a Color Classics issues since #1.

Much Respect

Indeed.

IDW, if you're listening, I WILL BUY a Michelangelo Color Classics if you release it. I figured that's reward enough for whoever has the task of handling that job.

Ugh, I forgot about the red glowing eyes on Casey. I think I may have seen a scan of that at some point. Here's a preview of the IDW version:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...olor-casey.jpg
Personally, I think the big yellow & red "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" sign behind Casey is a little too meta.

Perhaps a Chet's business would have been more appropriate? What was on the original billboard?

Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That is how the original Bill Board looked.

Ah, I do remember that now! I guess it made sense at the time for E&L to give themselves a little self-promotion since the Raphael Micro wasn't actually part of the TMNT ongoing series in number. Still... it's kinda weird.

I agree that Chet's [Whatever] Store would have been a better idea.

Ah, okay. I just wasn't sure whether it was the logo itself or just the billboard's colour scheme that Winters was commenting on.

Yeah doing it in McDonald's Red and Yellow was probably a bad choice for the 2k12 rerelease. Definitely makes a clever background piece a meta reference. Since those are colours which grab the attention and cause desire.

Damn one class of college marketing!