Are You 'Over It' Regarding Mask Color?
 

Has any one let go of how they first felt about the mask matter in the IDW book? Have you moved on?

I know I have!

Yes. I moved on instantly.

I liked the all red bandanas.

But this is fine too.

Did we have a choice? Yeah, it sucks but yes, we move on.

I was over it the day #5 came out, only fuss out of me was due to the debate we were having in that one thread.

Define "over it". I still wish they had red masks. I'm not gonna write IDW or bitch about it in issue reviews, though.

I can't believe people have a strong opinion one way or another.

I couldn't care either way. Red or Colored, it's all the same to me. I never had any qualms about it.

But seriously, how can anyone care SO much about a bandana color? It's a COMIC...

I think the big issue was the bait and switch. We saw red bandanas from the start and then suddenly "Here are you're colored masks, my sons." It seemed a bit off. That and many fans see the comics as Turtles in their purest form...and in that pure form the Turtles wear all red.

I wonder if IDW is really gonna run with the all-red bandanas cover for #9 since they are still colored that way in the latest preview at the end of issue #8.

Well, I guess that makes sense. But for people to worked up either way is just silly. I like the red bandanas, but colored is fine, too. I don't pay attention to colors of bandanas when I'm reading a story.

It never bothered me in the first place.

Sounds like you've moved on like I have.

never made a difference for me

Hm. Were you, like, absent from the boards for like the past... entire duration of the IDW series? It's OK if you were, of course. I only ask because it's the only possible conclusion I can arrive at for you to be arriving at such a statement in the here and now.

I'm going to not comment on that for reasons of it being... ridiculous, on many levels. Number one, comic book discussions on message boards... eh, you know what, never mind. It's just not worth the energy.

Anyway, honest thoughts:

I'm beginning to see that all-red masks would not suit or befit the direction they appear to be going in (if things are to be rather quasi-Fred Wolf centric, I'd just as soon the "all-red TMNT" continue to be confined to the source material). That said, while I can appreciate the IDW team "honoring the roots" with the initial red-bandannaing, I think the reasoning for going rainbow is pretty sketchy and dodgy at best and would have preferred not to have been baited-and-switched.

Also, it seems that the "all red" still leads by some 60%:
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/sho...=multi-colored

And oh, since we're on the subject, I posted something in that thread that I noticed didn't see a lot of response. Let me repost here for sh**s and giggles:

#5 hits, at the end of which we see them getting the rainbow bandannas. And then...

... the book loses about a thousand readers.

I thought the general idea from a lot of the pro-rainbow bandanna people was that it would boost sales?

What do #7's sales numbers look like, smarty-pants? :P

Rank 107 for 2/12: TMNT #7 -- 18,769 copies

So one issue later with the continued rainbow bandannas, it lost 4 more readers. In theory.

Another way to look at it is it climbed up 2 ranks from 102 to 100. And then... fell down to 107. <shrugs>

But if it gained 2 ranks by losing 1000 readers, doesn't that mean that everyone lost readers?

some like their Batman all back, some black and gray and other prefer the gray and blue costume.

I have a preference, it's the red masks, but it's not bugging me to the point where I'm standing on the roof top screaming "TOOOOOM WAAAAALTZ!" shaking my fists in the air. Or ranting on the net, which ever makes more sense :P

In the end, this isn't the Mirage comics, and as long as the stories are good, the art is top notch and coloring is solid. I be a happy camper.

And I'll take this Hamato Yoshi/Splinter of the Fred Wolf Hamato Yoshi/Splinter anytime ;)

Didn't really bother me in the first place.