Which Turtle lives longest, Jim Lawson, and Tales of the TMNT musings ...

*Rooish* · 12-23-2007, 03:28 PM

So I bought the Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Volume 1 Treasury Edition today. Firstly, the art inside is very very nice, in my opinion. The Turtles are short and rounded and muscular, and the people have normal proportions, and the backgrounds are detailed, and lacking in the squiggly lines Jim Lawson draws nowadays. I'm very impressed with his old work and confused about WTF happened to his art nowdays. I think it already was pretty screwy -- or at least, the people and Splinter were -- in the first issues of Laird's Volume 4. Then with all the criticism he got, I think the art quickly declined, but now he's getting better again. But it's nowhere near as good as his old style. Even though Lawson drew fast and sketchy-looking art at times in the old Tales, it's just ... so much more realistic than his stuff nowadays. Obviously his straight line work and his human art are the strongest indicators of this.

All the frontispieces (I don't know if that's the right word; I mean the first page of each Tale of the TMNT, when one of the Turtles says, "Let me tell you a story") are drawn in Lawson's new (2007) style, so I assume the old frontispieces, if they existed, were replaced. Does anyone have the original Tales of the TMNT, before they were collected in this updated edition? Did the frontispieces tell the same story when combined together, about Don using some computer to hang out with his family and revisit his past? Did the old frontispieces have the same script?

Spoiler:

Does anyone know anything about how and when the TMNT, Casey or April die, and in what order? Because now I'm just more confused than before.

Edit: Sorry, it looks like the "Spinal Tapped" thread and Murphy's blog cover a few of my questions. But still ... I want to know if the other Turtles are dead, and why Raph doesn't age.

12-23-2007, 03:28 PM	#1
Rooish Devil's Advocate Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario Posts: 2,130	Which Turtle lives longest, Jim Lawson, and Tales of the TMNT musings ... So I bought the Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Volume 1 Treasury Edition today. Firstly, the art inside is very very nice, in my opinion. The Turtles are short and rounded and muscular, and the people have normal proportions, and the backgrounds are detailed, and lacking in the squiggly lines Jim Lawson draws nowadays. I'm very impressed with his old work and confused about WTF happened to his art nowdays. I think it already was pretty screwy -- or at least, the people and Splinter were -- in the first issues of Laird's Volume 4. Then with all the criticism he got, I think the art quickly declined, but now he's getting better again. But it's nowhere near as good as his old style. Even though Lawson drew fast and sketchy-looking art at times in the old Tales, it's just ... so much more realistic than his stuff nowadays. Obviously his straight line work and his human art are the strongest indicators of this. All the frontispieces (I don't know if that's the right word; I mean the first page of each Tale of the TMNT, when one of the Turtles says, "Let me tell you a story") are drawn in Lawson's new (2007) style, so I assume the old frontispieces, if they existed, were replaced. Does anyone have the original Tales of the TMNT, before they were collected in this updated edition? Did the frontispieces tell the same story when combined together, about Don using some computer to hang out with his family and revisit his past? Did the old frontispieces have the same script? Spoiler: From what I gather from these new frontispieces, Don is the last one alive. This isn't directly stated, but ... well, I dunno. I'm confused. They're also visiting the gravestone of Casey Jones, and he's ... rising from the dead or something? I can't really follow the storyline. So ... when did the other Turtles die? When they're all hanging out together, Raph looks much younger than the others ... he doesn't have as many wrinkles. Does that mean that he died younger than the others? Is that canonical? Does anyone know anything about how and when the TMNT, Casey or April die, and in what order? Because now I'm just more confused than before. Edit: Sorry, it looks like the "Spinal Tapped" thread and Murphy's blog cover a few of my questions. But still ... I want to know if the other Turtles are dead, and why Raph doesn't age. __________________ Thanks evan2000 for the sig! Last edited by Rooish; 12-23-2007 at 03:39 PM.