IDW multi-colored masks

[Gyt Kaliba]

Almost not wanting to get into this messy of a topic this early on my return to the forums, but eh, I'll weigh in.

Personally, I can go either way. Yes, the original comics had them as all red bandanas. And Andrew makes a great point earlier in the thread (I believe it was one of yours anyway) about how it doesn't make any sense for a ninja clan to have multi-colored bandanas. It's the same kind of illogical-ness as Naruto from his self-titled series being decked out in orange everything - it's not exactly the stealthiest design around.

That said though, I grew up on the multi-colored stuff so I can work with it very easily as well. And if pressed, I'd have to admit, I DO prefer it, simply for ease. Go ahead and make any assumptions on my 'intelligence' that anyone wants, but I have a hard time telling the Turtles apart in some of the old stuff with all-red masks. The black and white doesn't make any skin-shading-differences to help, they don't always have their weapons (and it's mostly in those peace-loving scenes that I have the problem anyway), and even with shading differences it's a lot to ask for some that are less 'hardcore' about the fandom to be able to tell them apart just by that.

So yeah, I personally can go either way and would actually prefer colored masks, and based on what I'm reading there's a plausible enough reason for the switch (unless that was hypothesizing?), so I can totally get behind it.