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Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy
I have to admit, I do prefer the Slash setup if only because it gave us Slash. But I think overall you have a deeper grasp on the character of April O'Neil, Ross! The whole concepts of not being able to relate to humans anymore... I also loved your writing of the O'Neil family in "Northampton."
And KLUNK!!! 
Who knows, maybe someday we can see it published in a later issue of IDW TMNT... |
Tom Waltz wrote Northampton, not me! although i was in charge of all the body language and facial expressions, which is just as important if i do say so myself. ;D
as i recall the final version of the micro that Bobby and i were working on did have a Slash setup but it was more like an after-credits stinger gag and he didn't show up in-panel. i can't quite remember how it went but Bobby had the idea that i think somehow Alopex knew about Slash and she told April about it but it was left a mystery what she'd told April until the very end, and the last line of the issue was April telling the Turtles and Casey "there's a fifth Turtle!" or something like that. we went through so many revisions that a lot of it is kind of jumbled in my head now, unfortunately. i still have the file somewhere, i should take a look at it.
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Originally Posted by ToTheNines
I'm glad Ross is posting in this thread because I was just gonna bring up : A turtle killed a Foot Ninja in Northampton!
We never see the deathblow, but you can see one of the assassin with their eyes x'ed out in one panel, then you only see three of them escaping with Koya.
Did this just sneak past the Nickelodeon people? Or is there a more interesting behind the scenes story?
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haha, the X eyes was just a joke i slipped in because i thought it was funny, i always put in lots of things into the artwork that weren't in the script, but as far as i'm concerned that ninja is totally dead! i actually wish i'd gone with a darker tone in the final Northampton fight and not done things like the X-ed out eyes. sometimes the scene got serious but looking back on it now there were a lot of lighter moments that i wish i'd toned down so the fight would have seemed more desperate and frantic.
anyway, i know the IDW Turtles aren't supposed to kill and there's no way my personal take on it is canon, but in my head they do, at least in the issues i've drawn. when i was doing the Leo micro i didn't draw any gushing blood but i absolutely intended for him to be killing those Foot ninjas. not only slicing them up but there are a couple panels where he throws ninjas off a building to their doom. there's no way they survived some of that stuff. in Northampton, i'll admit i didn't keep track of the number of Foot Assassins, i didn't have a set number that came along with Koya, the script never specified, but i personally intended for a bunch of them to be dead. also because i like the idea that after the fight, the Turtles had to clean up the farm and Beth O'Neil stands off to the side like O_O as she watches the Turtles get rid of all the ninja corpses, haha. April would be standing there checking her Twitter feed, totally inured to all the Foot baloney by that point. XD