Magazines writers REALLY need to learn to study thier stuff
 

Hehe figured I'd bring this up here, cause it's so pathetic. I was looking in some video game magazines and read some diffrent articles for the TMNT games coming out. In the magazine for the Xbox they had a small pannle at the bottom that had a pic of April and the Turtles from the comic. They actually said that April had been a capeable black woman in the mirage comics, and they asked them selves how she became a perky red head. X.x

Black? Well she did look like a latino in few issues but not black...

April's nationality in the Mirage comics was never defined. I personally don't care.

But really, it's not the worst error we've seen in an article.

Well it wasn't said, but in issue #2 where she is introduced, BAxter is black and you can clearly see April is not. But like I said, in some gues start issues she looks like a latino but I guess thats just the artits' style.

I'd like to point out that you can be "black" (I am assuming you mean African American) without having that much color, Michael Jackson proves this to the most extreme example...although this mostly happens to people who are half-African American and whatnot. So it is entirely possible that April is "black".

Nope, you can clearly see that she is white. Ig I had a scanner I would post some pictures from issue #2, but I don't.

Exactly what I am saying... :lol:

She looks white, but could still be "black"...

Well then she would be the whitest black person I've ever seen, including Michael Jackson :lol:.

Yeah and she is white on the covers when she's shown on them, very white, lol

Yeah she is.

lol, in this one game magazine I have, GMR, they have an article that says that the comic begat a show, which begat an endless toyline, which begat four live action movies. Then later they spell April's name like "April O'Neal"

lmao, there were only 3 movies and it's April O' Neil!!!

Also by some people based on their perspective, black can mean evil.

Hrmm... though, I had many fans think she was Latino looking as well. forgot what Laird said in response to those rumors...

*wonders if the post can still be found in the NTML archives*

If you have Kevin Eastman's TMNT Artobiography, he states that April was originally meant to be black, but they changed her nationality.

Still she has never been drawb black but she does look like a latino in few guest artist issues.

So you're saying that the thing that made Michael Jackson turn white, happened to April O'Neil aswell?

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Pfffft, she's not Latino or Black. She's Irish. Pale white complection, red hair. She's Irish.

O'neil means of neil which would be an irish name.

Michael Jackson had surgery to become white. It was NOT a disease. I have see the disease on people before, and it turns SOME of their skin white, in little blotches, not ALL of it. Just like his nose and everything else, it was all done by plastic surgery.

Yeah I think he just had some of the disease and he made the rest of his skin white.

Iyh! hallo! me name is Aplil and i vont sum beer! :P

Michael Jackson did not surgically alter his skin, he has vitiligo. Don't you see how he always covers himself up and carries around that umbrella whenever he's in daylight? People seriously need to leave him alone.

In publications, I still see Michelangelo's name spelled "Michealangelo". If I wrote his name like that in my Renaissance art class, my professor would have my hide.

Only because it was spelled Michaelangelo for roughly 15 years, before the correction was finally made. So the Turtle has been Michaelangelo longer then he has ever been Michelangelo. You can't fault people for spelling the TMNT character's name the way it's most familar to them. :)

True.....but I prefer that journalists would learn how to spell it the correct way.

Well im not sure why they had to correct the spelling, it was that way for 17 years. But I'm not against it either.

I've always wondered of my last name, O'Neill, meant "of Neill". I guess it does..hehe...One extra "L" than April mwuaha.

And you can see my last name in my user name. S stands for my first name, T is for my middle name, and oneill is for O'Neill.