Some info on the new APRIL figure
 

This was found on the RTM Buzzboard, regarding the status of the April figure. Looks like we're getting Baxter Stockman's lab assistant, not the Channel 6 reporter:

April's photos should be coming down the pike pretty soon. She has reddish hair that is pulled back, with a two tendrils coming down the sides of her face. She wears a tiny baby-tee that shows off her midrif and mildly baggy pants with big shoes.

Her 'origin' remains true to the comic book. No reporters here folks...


I hope something in her outfit is yellow at least. :)

Woohoo! a Mirage April!

*dies happily*

Although I am a Mirage TMNT fan, I did kind of like April as a pushy news reporter. I just think it would make sense for the TMNT to need such a connection. Besides, with the exception of her first introduction to the guys, her career was hardly mentioned again in the Mirage series. So I wouldn't mind if Peter decided to make her a reporter.

But I must say that overall that I am very pleased with Peter Laird. He is staying true the Mirage comics in almost everyway imaginable (except for the blood of course). This show has all the right characters, stories (from what I've seen), and based on the mini-comic and drawings the right amount of attitude and action. This should be great.

I just hope that Splinter isnt a furry little raisin with a walking stick... :(

I agree. April needs a long-term career evolution like other adults. I wouldn't mind if April worked for Baxter to pay for her schooling to become a reporter. That way it could have April's career evolve over time. I would love to see the lab assistant into an in-yer-face news repoter job, and basically getting experience in the underground scene as fodder for her writing her novel. It would be an easy way to get stories since it involves her getting herself into trouble.

-AJ

I'm pretty happy to have the Mirage April on board. I wonder how Peter plans to use her after she leaves Baxter Stockman... The possibility of her becoming a reporter is there.

Does April ever appear as a reporter in the Mirage series (old or new)?

In the new TV series, April obviously can't be Baxter Stockman's assistant forever, and her job as an antique store clerk will cease to be interesting pretty quickly (and will be terminated if the Foot Clan destroys her store)...

Hmm... Honestly, I don't know if April becomes a reporter in the Mirage series. I only have a handful of Mirage comics, so I can't say for sure.

I agree, though... I hope she has a more interesting job than the owner of an antique store.

I'm not positive, but I think she did become a reporter, just not a TV reporter. The turtles often went on their own adventures and April just wouldn't be in the issues. I think Peter Laird's site has issue summaries, and I think that's where I read she might've been a reporter later in the Mirage series.

But don't quote me on that. :D

I knew it.. they would be looking like what we saw in the CGI movie clips. She looked a bit like that too, with her hair pulled back, wearing a white T with a leather type jacket.

But no.. I don't she was ever a reporter in the comics. Heck... it seemed like she didn't have much of a career/jpb after they went to the farmhouse. What she did was not made very clear. It wasn't until CIty at War you see her looking for a job, which then she becomes a landlord for an aprtment building.

According to this page, the Mirage April was a reporter for a short while around #32, but for most of the time in Eastman and Lairds issues she has worked with computers. During City at war, for example, if I remember it correct.

Oh yeah... Drew's time line. I keep on forgetting about that. (too bad FC won't let me look at it right now. Bleh FC!)

But some of those comics Mirage did with guest artists... and the way they jump the story line around, sometimes it's hard to tell what is for real, and what was just a side swipe the guest artist wanted to do from the original story.

Yeah if the new april is the mirage one im happy...

Nooo! No yellow in her outfit! I like the idea of a Mirage non-yellow jumpsuit April!

"My name is Shreeka. And you're April O'Neil. I thought those tacky jumpsuits went out of style eons ago."

-Shreeka, "Shreeka's Revenge"

I personally always like the toon April, tho I will havta admit the yellow jumpsuit did get old after a while. And I agree that her career DID help the turtles much in their adventures, with all the info she gave them. I remember reading somewhere, I think it may have been the official TMNT site, that the producers of the show perposely made her into a reporter b/c they wanted to give her a job where she became more involved with the TMNT. April's always been an important character in all universes. But from what some of you guys were saying, it doesn't sound like she really was entirely involved in the comics.

As far as her being a reporter in Mirage, I myself haven't read all the old Mirage's either, including City of War. But I know in some of the early ones, she did write in her journal alot. And she wrote well at that! So there's definately a sign that she could go on to becoming a reporter, a journalist, or maybe newspaper editor, etc. Good writing skills leads to good things :)

I don't remember what issue # it was, but there was one where she went as a reporter to Egypt. Ended up being rescued by the guys from a resurrected mummy. She of course ended up in a skimpy outfit. :) It was one of the goofier issues.

I have that one! I thought the Jackal looked kinda like Splinter....

thsi sounds like she's gonna be a diva or something, 2 bad i don't know what diva means... :(
i really mean like some prissy teenage girl or something...

Yeah, I got that impression too. I mean, in most universes she's around her mid- to late- 20's. This figure design makes her sound like a teeny-bopper. Maybe they're trying to appeal to younger girls.