What is Peter and Kevins relationship these days?
 

I only ask because as a fan for 28yrs these guy made fame and MONEY!!
When 2k3 series came out and Mirage vol.4 it was all Peter and Kevin was done.
He was tired of TMNT and bought Heavy Metal ( which I love as much as TMNT)
Now 2 years ago Peter sells everything to Nick and now Kevin is drawing and writing TMNT!!! I love it and wish them both the best, but whats their opinion of each other? Will there ever be a crazy Eastman and Laird issue again?
With a new movie and influx of the franchise will we EVER get an Annual or one-shot of the creative team?!?!?

I imagine they are good friends who rifted apart because they wanted different things and had different personalities thus approaches to the TMNT. They did the segment in Turtles Forever together but I think its mainly email correspondance a few times a year and that is it. Kinda like how you were good friends with someone in high school or college but one of you relocated and had different goals and personlaities but always think well of the perosn and drop a "hey, how are you?" on Facebook/email sorta thing. That was what i got from reading things around here and on Peter Laird's blog.

reminds me of this quote.
life at best is bittersweet - Jack Kirby

and often with friendships and partnerships, it has that bittersweet aftertaste, especially after many years of success and working together and growing apart.

If you guys remember that episode with Baxter and Bishop in the future reconciling their friendship. That's what i'd wish to live to see them work on one more special together.

Not as sexual as it was before but laird did agree to pay alimony for the kids.

I know Kevin dedicated the 2012 Annual to Peter "a brother from another mother"

Check out this interview with Kevin Eastman, look for the bold letters question "Have you gotten any feedback from your "TMNT" co-creator Peter Laird about your work on the IDW "TMNT" series?" http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=44272

Seems so long as they're not getting into the creative specifics, they're ok, that's quite mature of them to sidestep that professional issue to stay on good terms with each other. If something that sensetive is in the way, it's best not to let it into the building

But as usual I'm sure fans will continue to ignore the whole message that they're getting along and will ask the same old question for as long as the two don't collaberate on another comic together.

I think it's awesome that they're able to put differences aside and still remain on friendly terms. It makes things better all around when you think about it.

I do wish Laird would get involved with the Turtles but it might get crowded since Eastman and Waltz already do the comics. Laird talks on his blog about just being done with the whole thing, which Eastman said a long time ago too, but now he has his passion back. I would love to see them working together again.

I think it'd be great if Pete would just come back in a general way. Doesn't have to be with Kevin. To have the IDW & Mirage books running side by side would be a dream.

Agreed, but given the critical reception of Volume Four, would it be worth it for Peter to get back in the game?

Per the Mirage/Viacom agreement, P.L. can publish either 12 or 18 issues a year without copyright issues. The remainder of the Mirage crew still working at the time of the Mirage sale can print 2 prints/posters too without issues from Viacom. I think if they wanted to keep going, they would...

But on the other hand, and P.L. please don't take offense, Peter is a few years older than Kevin. Yes we all want him to keep going, but most people start to consider retirement and their golden years when they get to be his age.... Per D. Berger's remarks on the Mirage website: "Peter is decompressing from 25 years of turtles.(paraphrased)"

Me personally, I'm just thankful he still does appearences and autographs/sketches...

Regardless of the broader scope, Vol. 4 is enjoyed by many here. If nothing else it deserves to be finished properly. At any rate I'd mostly just like to see Tales come back to be completely honest.

I'm well aware of that. I'm just expressing my hopes.

I'm with you!

Tales would be nice, they still had a couple of interesting arcs going on.

I liked V4 as well, but I always seemed to get caught up in the negative reception of it by a select few that complained either about the writing or the artwork, and of course the letters pages of the comic were full of angry blokes picking on Peter from everything to the 80s cartoon to his political opinions.

As nice as it would be to see Peter come back to the Turtles, I remember him saying in his blog that he was burned out and wanted to get away from the Turtles for a while. This I can understand because if you keep going at something when you've lost the passion for it, then you get to a point where it's not fun anymore and the work you put into it won't be as good as it was before. That's not to say he may not return to it at some point, but it's completely his choice on whether he wants to come back or not.

I'm glad Eastman's back and wants to keep going, so as long as one of the creators is there overseeing things, I don't think there should be a big problem with Peter not being there. As someone else said, at least he's still doing appearances and the like.

Eastman seem to me to be more of the easy going one of the duo.

Well said. I guess you're right, I would prefer what we have to a half-attempted book just because fans want him doing work.