IDW's Secret History of The Foot Clan

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

People keep piping up with, "But it's so nice and so much fun to see all these Fred Wolf things changed into serious and cool things in IDW TMNT!"

I don't dispute that it's probably possible to change (in some cases detrimentally to the character... for example, if they remove Bebop and Rocksteady's stupidity, they cease to be Bebop and Rocksteady because that's their thing... and yet if they don't remove it, why would you want them in your supposedly serious comic?) Fred Wolf elements and alter them so as to make less campy or less inherently kiddy. I don't, it's possible.

But by the same light, is it probably possible for a team that was so inclined to make an ultra-serious, no-nonsense revival version of Grape Ape? Of Marvin the Martian? Of Popeye? Of course. But why would I want to sit down and see that?

I'd rather calories be burned coming up with new ideas and characters than spending so much time and energy trying to reverse engineer goofy ones into not-so-goofy ones.

Because it is fun to see old familiar characters get rebooted and it creates a draw for new readers. I like new ideas too and there will no doubt be plenty of those. I just dont think the ot references are so numerous as to even worry that the writers are out of ideas.