Steve Murphy on "The Forever War" - Page 4

*oldmanwinters* · 11-03-2009, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Jester

Is there any other fandom that has so much promised that never materialized?

Forever War. Scrapped.
TMNT Forever. In limbo...maybe.
Vol. 4. Unfinished.
Tales. Ending Soon.
Trades. No Dice.
Source Book. Nada.

"Life at best is bittersweet."
The mantra of the Mirage Turtles.

*VaughnMichael* · 11-03-2009, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

"Life at best is bittersweet."
The mantra of the Mirage Turtles.

The what now? oh yeah didn't there use to be a comic once?

TristanHuwJones · 11-03-2009, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Jester

Is there any other fandom that has so much promised that never materialized?

Forever War. Scrapped.
TMNT Forever. In limbo...maybe.
Vol. 4. Unfinished.
Tales. Ending Soon.
Trades. No Dice.
Source Book. Nada.

Hey, at least Mirage didn't take money first for any of these, unlike 88mph did with the Ghostbusters book!

I would argue that GB fans have had it way worse off than TMNT fans.

**Jester** · 11-03-2009, 10:16 PM

Touche' Trist.

*Raph's Girl* · 11-03-2009, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by TristanHuwJones

Hey, at least Mirage didn't take money first for any of these, unlike 88mph did with the Ghostbusters book!

I would argue that GB fans have had it way worse off than TMNT fans.

Panel to panel had pre-orders available for the Sourcebook a week or so before it was cancelled.

*oldmanwinters* · 11-03-2009, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by TristanHuwJones

Hey, at least Mirage didn't take money first for any of these, unlike 88mph did with the Ghostbusters book!

I would argue that GB fans have had it way worse off than TMNT fans.

Yeah, I think I agree with that. The popularity of the Ghostbusters is still huge and the only things that have happened with that franchise are "eXtreme Ghostbusters" (probably not what most fans would have preferred), a mini-series that doesn't necessarily capture the tone of the source material (emphasis of edgy violence over clever humor), a recent set of video games, and promises,promises,promises!

Well, at least there is the Complete Series on DVD!

*CyberCubed* · 11-03-2009, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Jester

Forever War. Scrapped.

Murphy's fault entirely, cannot be blamed on Mirage or Nick or Peter Laird.

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TMNT Forever. In limbo...maybe.

This will come out eventually. To think a fully animated DTV would never be released is absurd.

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Vol. 4. Unfinished.

We've been getting 1 issue a year for awhile now. Peter will probably finish it eventually.

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Tales. Ending Soon.

It was going to end anyway. We got 70 issues out of it, so it was a great run.

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Trades. No Dice.
Source Book. Nada.

Yeah this is unfortunate, but what can you do.

*plastroncafe* · 11-03-2009, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by TristanHuwJones

Hey, at least Mirage didn't take money first for any of these, unlike 88mph did with the Ghostbusters book!

I would argue that GB fans have had it way worse off than TMNT fans.

Total threadjack, but this comment totally has me weighing the artistic merits of Bobby Brown and Vanilla Ice.

What if we somehow exchanged Lord Vigo with the Super Shredder...

Okay, sorry. I'll stop now.

*Powder* · 11-03-2009, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

"Life at best is bittersweet."
The mantra of the Mirage Turtles.

I was gonna say that actually. It's honestly sad.

*plastroncafe* · 11-03-2009, 11:22 PM

[QUOTE= Originally Posted by oldmanwinters View Post
"Life at best is bittersweet."
The mantra of the Mirage Turtles.[/QUOTE]

I've been trying to keep with, "Life is good, and life goes on."
But yeah...that line of Kirby's seems to resonate a whole lot louder.
Especially this year.

traf · 11-04-2009, 01:17 AM

Sucks. So far nothing good has come out of the Viacom purchase. I know it's only been a couple of weeks, but everything is bad news lately.

Not a good way for the 25th anniversary to end.

TristanHuwJones · 11-04-2009, 02:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

Panel to panel had pre-orders available for the Sourcebook a week or so before it was cancelled.

Refunds were given. I'm still out of pocket 70 bucks to that scumbag that ran 88mph.

*Powder* · 11-04-2009, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by traf

Sucks. So far nothing good has come out of the Viacom purchase. I know it's only been a couple of weeks, but everything is bad news lately.

Not a good way for the 25th anniversary to end.

Not that it really started on a 'good' note to begin with :/

darthsmozers · 11-04-2009, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Steve has told me that "The Forever War" is officially cancelled.

well this is indeed a real dissapointment.

Buffy · 11-04-2009, 01:13 PM

This was the one thing I was looking forward to. Do'h!

*Cipher* · 11-04-2009, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

"Life at best is bittersweet."
The mantra of the Mirage Turtles.

If Volume 4/the entire series doesn't end on this quote, I will be ... moderately disappointed.

Anyway, I'm not as big a TMNTA fan as some people here (though I like what I've read). To be honest I was always looking foward more to new Mirage issues and trades. But, I do feel for the people who won't get that proper ending they've been waiting for. It does seem like Murphy's heart was never really in it to begin with, though.

*CyberCubed* · 11-04-2009, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Cipher Classic

It does seem like Murphy's heart was never really in it to begin with, though.

This. There was really no excuse this time for Murphy to continue sitting on the project for so long.

He had what...3 years? Didn't they announce back in 2007 that "The Forever War" was greenlit again?

*Master Splinter* · 11-04-2009, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

This. There was really no excuse this time for Murphy to continue sitting on the project for so long.

He had what...3 years? Didn't they announce back in 2007 that "The Forever War" was greenlit again?

I am sorry for being so clueless but I wouldn't mind some insight... I haven't read hardly any of TMNTA so I am just guessing here from what I pick up from the forum...

From what I can tell Archie stopped with TMNTA like 10 years ago or something... And the story was kinda dropped off but in a state where a "Forever War" was going to start... There have been some rumors but nothing released and then there was a greenlight but there were some technical issues and now it is canceled for good...

I apologize for not being up to speed on what's all happening in the comicverse but this strikes me as very interesting and I would like to educate myself a little more on this...

Thanks all knowledgeable ones!!!

-mm

*Ninjinister* · 11-04-2009, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

This. There was really no excuse this time for Murphy to continue sitting on the project for so long.

He had what...3 years? Didn't they announce back in 2007 that "The Forever War" was greenlit again?

You don't know the man. He had many reasons - for one thing, as he publicly admitted on his blog before it went the way of the dinosaur - that he just wasn't into writing TMNT stuff anymore. Furthermore, both he and the illustrator had other things on their plates than just Forever War.

I'm very disappointed it's been canned, but like Mirage Universe, there are very good reasons it took forever to be worked on.

*sdp* · 11-04-2009, 05:05 PM

When I first registered here and asked about archie people told me it was the perfect time since Forever War will come out "soon". That was what nearly five years ago? So it appears this has the same fate as Duke Nukem Forever.

I also think it was entirely Murphy's fault and he deserves to get flack for it, why let the fans think about this for so long and hyping them for all this time?

Anyways I'm not a huge fan of archie and I'm kinda bummed, it would have been nice to see an ending to the series. However I also think most would have ended up being disappointed, it wouldn't have been able to live up to fans dreams. Also the whole fact that the Forever War wasn't the one that was going to be released years ago or anything, it was "forever war" in name only. It would have been a new story not really getting a lost story from back in the day. While a new story would still have been nice to have you were never going to get "the forever war". Also counting he had already lost interest in the turtles by this point even if it had come out it wouldn't have been as great as it could have when he was still "interested" in them.

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