Laird buys out Eastman
 

According to the official site Kevin is done with the turtles completely. What will this mean? (dun dun dunnnnnn)

http://the-5th-turtle.blogspot.com/2...l-release.html
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ease-31208.jpg

I didn't believe it until I saw it. WOW! I have absolutely no idea what this means. None wahtsoever.

Let the panicking and speculation commense!!!

I think the only thing it means is that if there was even a remote possibility of Kevin jumping back into TMNT in the distant future that it is completely gone now. I do wonder how this will affect his reprint of Body Count, though. Not that I care that much, but I am curious. Still, it's a shame that he won't have much, if anything, to do with TMNT anymore. I wish the two of them could have kept working together on the turtles this whole time instead of splitting up.

Murphy said it wont affect it at all and kevin is allowed to print a few other things as well.

Wowzer, well this kinda blows the whole kevin taking over after peter steps down/dies idea outta the water. Damn.

What did Mr Eastman have to do with the turtles before this recent development?

Creating the turtles...

:roll:please

The article says in 2000 they started buying his rights. What did Mr Eastman contribute from 2000-now?

The quotes are, by Steve Murphy, from his blog, as follows:

Sounds pretty cool to me!

Also, Murphy said this:

So he's not TOTALLY out of the TMT loop... :D

I was kidding and it's a fact that Kevin drew the first turtle, it's been stated in a number of interviews.
He didn't have anything to do with the turtles, hence the lack of creativity in the land of turtles.

It doesn't mean anything. No matter how close you are to your friends, when you start a business venture with them you don't necessarily want to be financially tied into it for the rest of your life. The biggest effect this will have will be to simplify Kevin's tax filing a little. :p

Man does this blow or what. Even though Kevin hasn't been doing anything with the TMNT for years, he was the one who originally created the turtles, not Peter. It sucks to see something happen like this because I admire his work more than Peter's. It takes away from "Eastman & Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." What will we get now? Just, "Peter Laird's bought-out Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"? I remember reading an article a while back on newsarama.com about Kevin Eastman and his input/creative control on the turtles. It's very interesting to hear what he really thinks about Peter Laird, and in a lot of cases, I believe him.

This is just snippet of the interview. Read the whole story here: http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=127540

Wow that interview makes Pete sound like a dullard.

Given that Kevin hasn't had direct input into the franchise for years now, I don't know this is gonna change a whole lot of anything.

I thought this already happened. Like, years ago. In fact I only came in here to see if someone necroposted.

Jeezum...

You know, I've lived in Dover my entire life. Whenever I mention the ninja turtles, ANYone who's lived here has always been proud to mention, "Hey, you know they were created here?" It's something people in our town are actually proud to talk about...

Seeing this final split up is really sad, but the way the split-up went, as long as each of them are content about this, that's what matters most.... :(

Remember when me and Leo656 made an article about when they broke up?

Good times.

Definitely good times...

*glomp*

I remember reading this article months ago. Any way of knowing exactly how old it is?? :-?

As old as it's dated: August 31, 2007.