New Interview With Rob & Greg
 

http://metro.co.uk/2014/05/18/the-ul...cipes-4732061/

My favourite bit.

But Mona Lisa isn't the female turtle. Venus is the female turtle...

People don't hate Mona Lisa. People hate Venus! -_-

Other than that, cool interview it didn't really tell us anything that we already didn't know but still cool...

Some of us hate Mona Lisa.

I prefer Venus de Milo to Mona Lisa.

LET THE FANWARS BEGIN!

Me too. Plus Mikey doesn't need a love interest. He's perfect the way he is.

Actually when Mona Lisa was first created she was going to be a female Turtle. However Peter Laird put the kibosh on that.

cute interview ^_^ thanx for sharing~

I think its interesting that Jason Biggs was mentioned in the interview if he's fired.

Mona Lisa fans vs Venus De Milo fans is like two homeless guys fighting over a half eaten packet of chips.

Why would anyone hate Mona Lisa? :teek:

Venus is obnoxious and treated like "the hottest **** ever and the others are constantly drooling over her", but Mona is actually quite decent.

Plastron double D's. Mona got sh*t on Venus. :P

No no no. Seriously though. If the show is to be introducing new female characters, mutant or not, Mona or Venus. Don't have them as just girlfriend material, that's just sad.

And honestly, if a female turtle ver resurface to modern TMNT canon, be it Nick show or IDW comic, I really really REALLY hope they don't name her after a work of Renaissance art instead of an Renaissance artist. It just feels like a cheap shot.

what's a good female renassance artist name though? The turtles probably used the 4 more popular/good sounding ones. Notice none of them was named either Vincent or Van Gogh.

Man, podcasts have gotten me spoiled. Here I was hoping for an audio interview, but it's just text.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YD8Na5Mv4o...25-480-330.jpg

More like Angelico. Van Gogh was way after the Renaissance.

I've heard the reason Eastman and Laird chose Renaissance Artist names to begin with, because they don't think of Japanese names that would fit them.

I wouldn't mind Mona Lisa but I can't stand Venus.

how bout we skip the reptiles all together and have Alopex instead! :D

^ Or Angel

Or Pimiko

Or Ninjara

Or Renet

Or Kala (The Neutrino)



Or heck I don't really care, I just want more females. Just make them more than just love interests

I think Renet is a must-have for the Nick series.

Renet would be cool indeed!

But for Mona Lisa, I'd rather have her then Venus deMilo. Venus disturbs the origin of our heroes, Mona does not!

I wouldn't want a furry ass love interest for Raphael tbh.

Boobs should produce milk. Venus' however is just a pair of hollow lumps.. if you rap your knuckles on them it'll sound like a door being knocked.

So Mona it is. :P

you'd rather have a reptile love interest for Raph?? XD

cause that's what Mona Lisa was.

At least they're the same species, reptile I mean.

Eh, Raph already have Casey so no more love interest for him. :P

Well, Vincent Van Gogh didn't live in the renaissance era, since the renaissance was in 12th-17th century. Vincent Van Gogh lived in the mid to late 1800's.

As for Renaissance artists that where women, here's a nice list:

Levina
Mayken
Marietta
Sofonisba
Lavinia
Diana
Plautilla

Or, they could include from the Baroque period that followed after the Renaissance:

Maria
Olimpia
Artemisia
Louise
Sophie

Well, other female names.. there's Georgia O' Keeffe - she's not a Renaissance artist but she painted flower vagina.

I blame College Humor for that joke. :lol:

As for the confusion of "Mona Lisa [the female turtle]", the brackets indicate the author's input and not Cipes, so the author didn't take the time to research exactly who "Mona Lisa" was (a lizard or salamander mutant).

The tone of the "Mikey's love interest" question seems more or less humorous speculation than factual (though I won't be surprised if this does materialize), but in line with Candy Kappa's comment earlier, I certainly hope however this female character is introduced that she is established first before being seen as a love interest.

Other than that, this article doesn't reveal much.

Every time I watch an episode of Next Mutation, I'm going to be thinking of this :lol:

Personally I'd love to see Ninjara, Alopex or some original female mutant characters - but it'd chap my hide if they were only brought in expressly for the purpose of being a love interest.

Also I kind of perceive Nick Mikey as being a bit too young emotionally for the dating game as yet!

I had questions for name origin for "Mona Lisa", why, how she had that name the turtles had different stories and branches of appearances from her or she from them. So if she was given a name Sophonisba it would be wierd (also the question that where she got that name and that the different story branches with the main protagonists) and sould wierd too. I know there was a case where you name a person with other names like "August Joseph Lucifer .... Andrew" with being a child name. Maybe if even an artist name then pick one which will sound as usual, as an every-day name you'd call for another person?
For "Venus de Milo" there was a case of broken statue head in "Ninja turtles: Next Mutation" but before that she was named as Mieh Pieh Chi from Choung I who adpoted her after the mutation and the meaning of that name was "the beautiful turtle of power". I'd agree with the lack of the mutagen so the only place to be mutated was in the sewers as how was written. And then we had Mondo Gecko who was written to be mutated with the main characters - with the yet regular turtles in the way in the original cartoon of 1987 series. He also was raised by a different person and was given a bad influence of behaviour.

Mikey doesn't need a love intrest, give the guy some character development and good moments instead eh?

I don't think Mikey needs a love interest at all because he's fine without one to be honest. Besides I could see him being the type to not really know how to talk to girls properly or be nervous around them if he likes them. But if he were to get a love interest, why not Oyuki from the Archie comics? That would be interesting.

exactly. I've gone through every arc I can think of in this show, and I can find ones involving Donnie (Tims mutation, retro mutagen, April crush and Casey rivalry, metalhead) Leo (Karai/miwa, failing to be a leader, fighting with raph, trying to be like splinter) and raph (spike to slash, rivalry with fish face, Casey as a partner, his typical temper). The only one I can think of for Mikey is leather head, but that's not really Mikey's alone. There's also his slight rivalry with bradford/dog pound/rahzar, but even that isn't played up that much.

Even though Mikey has always been my least favorite turtle, I still want him to get some decent involvement.