TMNT Universe #1 Preview & Discussion
 

Released: 31/24/16.
Preview tomorrow.

First 3 pages:

is this from iTunes again? these damn small ass pictures, they might as well not put them out until they get the full size images. oh well. super stoked for TMNTU!

All right! Detective Lewis in the house!

Looks like she's not getting along with Bishop... :tgrin:

Seems like our new scorpion mutant is a girl.

Glad to finally get around to Bishop, though. With all that talk about protecting the Earth, it's almost kind of funny he never seemed to catch on to what Krang was up to...as far as we know, at least.

lmao at Mikey and Donnie's weapon discussion :lol:

Where are these posted??

Those pages are so small, I can't even read the word bubbles. The art looks good so far.

I took these pages here.:D

I can't read it either, and honestly, I don't care. I'll get it in full res tomorrow... in matters such as these, I can be patient.

Paul, this is gonna kick so much shell. I haven't been this excited since... well, Leatherhead. And Bebop and Rocksteady Destroy everything. And Issue #50. And Mikey with the Mutanimals.

Okay, you guys keep knocking it out of the park, but still... SUPER HYPED for Bishop, Baxter, and all this goodness.

The scorpion mutant being a female intrigues me. I've been waiting for Bishop for so long, I just hope he's not a one-note anti-mutant xenophobe (mutophobe?) in the vein of several human antagonists for the X-Men over the years, and actually exhibits other traits and even has the potential to become an unlikely ally to the Turtles further down the line, like in the 2003 cartoon.

I'm sure IDW won't let us down, it's the just the pre-release trepidation speaking. 8)

Considering IDW took the very long route with Old Hob, I'm not worried. He could be considered a one-note simple "revenge" character in the beginning, but he's grown to be, probably, THE standout original character from IDW TMNT.

The standout original character, apart from Alopex, who I personally have seen quite a lot more fanart (and shipping) of? But in terms of character and motivation, yeah, Hob does a bit of a better job of being captivating and rounded. Alopex isn't really all that special to me personally, if only because she's a character type I've seen before. Granted, she and Hob share some traits, but Hob is more interesting with what he does with them.

It certainly seems like Bishop will be similar to his original character, having been abducted by aliens in the 1800's and then returned to an unfamiliar time. It's just a matter of which aliens. Utroms almost work, but my guess is that they went into stasis in the late 1700's (American Revolution-ish time), and Bishop was abducted in 1812 in his original incarnation. But hey...they had to have learned English from somewhere, why not him?

Okay, Deviant-Art shippers SHOULD NOT be taken as experts on standout characters. :tlol:

Exactly my point :P . She may be more popular (because she's a cute fluffy fox with face paint and baggage?), but Hob is more standout because he fits in a little better overall with what is traditionally "darker" TMNT. He's not made to be cutesy shipping material, and doesn't get stuck in such situations either.

...said I while making mountains out of Ma'riell predicting Ch'rell's reaction to Krang being imprisoned...

Alopex is also rather similar to Ninjara from the Archie comics. Having another rogue fox character who starts off as an assassin but then befriends the Turtles and gets romantically interested in Raphael is something we've seen before in the 90's.

Alopex strikes me as the kind of character who would be popular with the same folks who write self insert Sonic fanfic. I have no doubt there is plenty of fan art of her on the net. Hob is the character who will probably appear in future TMNT universes though... he's the Magneto character who was missing from the mythology before IDW.

Yeah there's always one or two stand-out characters created for each universe after Mirage that always become mainstays in future incarnations:

- Krang/Bebop/Rocksteady from Fred Wolf

- Hun and Bishop from 4kids

- Armaggon from Archie


Now from IDW its Old Hob, and I suppose from Nick it'll probably be Tiger Claw and Fishface. I'm betting future incarnations will use these characters too.

While he is not as stand-out as Hob, I really hope that Harold become a mainstay in future incarnations. I think he is my favorite IDW addition to the turtles universe because he allows Donatello to be much more realistic regarding is tech capacity while keeping the science-fiction gadgets possible for them.

I also believe, even if she is from 4kids, that IDW turn Angel into a mainstay. At least, I would be disappointed if she does not show up in future incarnations.

I like Angel and Harold a lot, but so far, I don't really seem them as inevitably breaking out beyond IDW. I still see them as "niche."

I would have said Kitsune too, but then Nick is using Shinigami who is a somewhat similar character. A lot of the other characters IDW uses are already established characters from past universes.