Originally Posted by Roseangelo (Post 659953)

It's not the actual Mutanimals. Mirage holds the rights to those characters and they have no interest at all in doing anything with them. Ryan's comic will be with characters that were rejected for the old action figure line (like he's been showing on the blog in recent weeks).

Originally Posted by Archon_Turtle (Post 659957)

That still sounds pretty boss...Yeah...I said boss...I'm totally bringing that back.

Originally Posted by Goongasnootch (Post 659961)

And Mirage is publishing it?

Originally Posted by Cowabunga Dude!@blogspot

Apologies if I confused everyone but the Mighty Mutanimals are dead and not coming back.

Daniel, I understand how you feel and I feel the same. No new without the old but I do not own the Mutanimals, Mirage Studios does and as far as I know have no plans to revive them. The regular Turtle titles Mirage publishes now have poor sales so a Mutanimals book would fare even worse.

Murph and I have repeatedly tried to get something going with them in the past but have failed.

This is why I've decided to group some of the rejected characters I do own together for a similar style book. Second best yes, but hopefully better than nothing.

The posted artwork is to give you an idea of the style Fernando will be using for the book and is not intended to hype nor confuse.

Originally Posted by DrSpengler (Post 660030)

I hate being negative, but this sounds like a disaster.

In the grand scheme of the comics industry, there aren't a whole lot of Mighty Mutanimals fans out there. Take the number of fans who are willing to buy a Mutanimals comic and then subtract all the fans who won't be interested because the comic lacks every Mutanimals character they recognize.

I just can't fathom it being even a modest seller. I'll buy it, of course, because I like Ryan Brown's work and the concept of the Mutanimals in general (and I'm a competionist consumer whore). But I don't see this appealing at all to the casual fan with fond memories of the Mutanimals or even a lot of the hardcore fans, who won't see it as being the "real" Mutanimals.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed (Post 660102)

It'll likely be a 5-issue mini-series.

Let's see a new comic that uses second tier mutants that nobody heard of, its not connected to anything else, and its not being published by any major company.

How many comics today have talking animals in them?

Originally Posted by gobo (Post 660077)

Way to read between the lines, folks. :P Good job pointing that out, Rose.

Originally Posted by Dragon Turtle (Post 660213)

There are a few comics floating around featuring talking animals or anthropomorphic animal characters, just the ones I could think of include Mouse Guard, Mice Templar, Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, Gold Digger, Usagi Yojimbo, Elephantmen, even Rocket Raccoon has made a comeback at Marvel.

Originally Posted by Jester (Post 660222)

They still print those?

Originally Posted by Roseangelo (Post 659953)

It's not the actual Mutanimals. Mirage holds the rights to those characters and they have no interest at all in doing anything with them. Ryan's comic will be with characters that were rejected for the old action figure line (like he's been showing on the blog in recent weeks).

Originally Posted by The Ninjinister (Post 660229)

Unless I'm temporarily retarded, I'm not seeing anything referring to them being based on the recent figures shown (such as the grasshopper samurai).

Originally Posted by Roseangelo (Post 660234)

No, he didn't mention that in the post, but he told me in an email last week that the comic will be based on rejected action figures (I don't think we've necessarily seen all of the ones he has to pull from). The plot and characters are going to be secret for awhile, though. Boo.

Originally Posted by The Ninjinister (Post 660236)

Ahh. Now how were we supposed to know that, eh? ;P