Anyone else dislike the original turtle designs?

[ssjup81]

Originally Posted by Jester

You talkin:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BU4xF9kR7n...1600/50-01.jpg
because if so....
http://media.giphy.com/media/MsZ7S2k8UVLr2/giphy.gif

You know, the turtles, Ninjara, etc., suited me just fine, but I hated Splinter's design and April's.

[Wildcat]

Originally Posted by MewMeow

Hey! The Necas are beautiful. Eastman and Laird did amazing jobs. I have a reprint of the first comic, found in the Visual History book, and it looks amazing. And the Fred Wolf TMNT look like cartoons, but the first Eastman/Laird TMNT look quite realistic, in my opinion. Don't hate on them. They're the best design of the TMNT, that, and the 1990 movie TMNT.

I don't hate them. I said that in my post.

The Fred Wolf turtles do look cartoonish but I meant the original comic designs look cartoonish because of their short, droopy stature. That's why I gave the example of Cecil and someone mentioned koopas which is also a good example.

They're not horrible but I just can't take them seriously. At least the OT turtles have a more built-up body style despite having cuter faces.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Commenter 42

I was thinking more along the lines of this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ures_cover.jpg

But both are a pretty derpy!

LIES!!!

To each their own, but I don't even think the interior art looked like that cover.
Ryan Brown never drew interiors for Archie.

[Cryomancer]

I like the E&L turtles because they look properly inhuman and unfriendly. They are short and weird and are usually pupil-less and grimacing. How anyone decided to make a toyline and a cartoon from that I'll never know (well, I imagine they wanted a "gross" line).

They look like they have the features of human and turtle anatomy that would lend themselves best to being ninja, really.

[Slade]

I love them. Favorite designs of the guys. I love Farley's too.

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by Powder

Droopy & cartoonish?

You must be talking about the Fred Wolf series.
http://i60.tinypic.com/e6bymt.png

Hehehe, a bit unfair, but there definitely were some weird drawings in that show.

I like the original comic designs a lot, but I also like the fact that they change over time, and that different artists draw the Turtles in distinctive styles. One my favourite stories when I was a kid was Red Sails in the Sunset, in Turtles Meet Archie. It looks weird at first, but I kinda fell in love with that art.

[hitmonkey]

I love the designs from Mirage issue 1. I've always liked that they were smaller, and proportioned more like Turtles with the beaks and the thin necks/upper arms/upper legs. I do appreciate the more muscular style Pete and Kevin developed over the next few issues, but those first little Popeye the Sailor Man Turtles will always be my favorite.

[Klunk1234]

I like the Neca turtles, they look very though. Also, the Eastman and Laird designs, but I don't like April with that curly black hair, she supposed to be a redhead, but I like her first design in the original comics, the curly hair was her second design. I started to read the Mirage Comics last year.

About the Original series' look, I like them. Well, they were my first introduction to the TMNT world. Peter Laird called them "cutesy" during an interview.

[Cipher]

They're not very good designs, but they're a lot of fun to call back to for how raw they are.

There's a reason even Eastman and Laird moved away from them fairly quickly though. As soon as the series stopped being a full-on pastiche, it made more sense to move toward more expressive designs. Even by #4, they'd started to transition toward the versions we're more familiar with.

City at War and Lawson's early 90s style were great too.

Early '90s Lawson was as good as it ever got, especially with the inking that accompanied it during "City at War."

I'm sure most people will disagree, because it's a pretty off-beat style (and probably a little dated as well), but you know what? It was a pretty off-beat series at that point.