Interview with Adam Behr (Next Mutation)
 

Adam Behr puppeteered Wick and Michelangelo on the Next Mutation.
It turned out a great interview and Adam is a great guy.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~rgret/behr%20interview.html

Seems like NT:TNM was Kevin's baby kinda like the new toon is Peter's. I really wonder if thst was what caused Kevin (it's really sad I misspelled his name, considering it's mine too...:P) to leave the franchise.

What Kevin's said on-record is something to the effect of "I felt we'd taken it as far as we could and the golden days of the franchise won't ever be back, it'll never reach the level it did." Something like that.

---Josh

Which to me is kind of lame. He stayed when it was all fun and money and ditched out when he would actually have to work at it to make it successful again. Now I love Kevin, and both guys had to work their butts off when it was just a comic book to get it where it it today, but it just rubs me the wrong way when he says something like that.

And well, I think the Turtles are pretty darn close to where they were, actually maybe better. Now they're no longer seen as a fad, and have staying power. If they handle the franchise properly, they could be see as icons like Batman or Superman or Spider-man, where they're a household name even if you don't know anything about them.

I dunno about all that. I'm sure Kevin just wanted to move onto something else. He was only 21 or 22 when the Turtles stuff started. He'd always loved Heavy Metal, so he bought the ailing publication. Good for him, he's got a career he loves, and has avoided a sort of stagnancy he would've been uncomfortable with. He and Pete I'm sure would want to take the franchise in different directions now anyway.

Ah that's cool he doing heavy metal. I dunno though, I guess I'm mostly sore because I liked his turtles more.