Ask a Question: IDW's TMNT Editor Thread

[Bobby Curnow]

Originally Posted by Ninjinister

Probably not anything anybody in this thread so far can answer, but I figured I'd give it a shot: what were each of the Arkham inmates mutated into (there's been some disagreement amongst us on a few) and what was the logic behind each?

From James' script:

"PENGUIN – Obviously, a big PENGUIN

SCARECROW - CROW

MR. FREEZE – POLAR BEAR

RIDDLER - RACCOON

POISON IVY – PRAYING MANTIS

MAD HATTER – A BROWN RABBIT (Flipping him to the MARCH HARE)

BANE - ELEPHANT

VENTRILOQUIST - PARROT (Scarface is still the same puppet)

TWO-FACE - BABOON

JOKER – SNAKE
"

I believe Harley is meant to be a hyena, but your guess is as good as mine. She's not in the script, but was instead an art addition after the fact, as she was on the #5 cover, and the DC folks didn't want to give a bait and switch considering she has a large following.

I can't speak as the motivation behind the animal choices, that's a question for James Tynion!

[Bobby Curnow]

Originally Posted by neatoman

Have the Turtles and/or the Fugitoid removed vital components of the Technodrome? They wouldn't leave a thing like that fully operational right?

I would imagine that that is something Fugitoid has been doing in his down time when he can, though he's just one guy and not a whole lot of time has passed between Attack on Technodrome and Leatherhead... maybe a month or so. I would also imagine some degree of low-level terraforming would need to be continuously be underway, to keep earth atmosphere from diluting the new Utrom-safe environment.

So, in my head, it has been or will be down-graded as an immediate threat, but could be spun back up again to full power with a bit of time in the wrong hands. The obvious real-world parallel being the nuclear bomb capabilities of places like North Korea or Iran.

[ChosenOne]

Originally Posted by Bobby Curnow

From James' script:

Spoiler:

"PENGUIN – Obviously, a big PENGUIN

SCARECROW - CROW

MR. FREEZE – POLAR BEAR

RIDDLER - RACCOON

POISON IVY – PRAYING MANTIS

MAD HATTER – A BROWN RABBIT (Flipping him to the MARCH HARE)

BANE - ELEPHANT

VENTRILOQUIST - PARROT (Scarface is still the same puppet)

TWO-FACE - BABOON

JOKER – SNAKE
"

I believe Harley is meant to be a hyena, but your guess is as good as mine. She's not in the script, but was instead an art addition after the fact, as she was on the #5 cover, and the DC folks didn't want to give a bait and switch considering she has a large following.

I can't speak as the motivation behind the animal choices, that's a question for James Tynion!

Thank you, this is very interesting stuff!

I guess I was right when I said Riddler was a raccoon, but then again I also mistook Ventriloquist for a cockatoo when a parrot makes much more sense. As for Harley being a hyena, it totally fits, except for the white fur. Even the "whitest" species of hyena, the striped hyena, has a black snout...

Oh, and Penguin is definitely a rockhopper or macaroni, well, penguin.

[CyberCubed]

I definitely have to say I enjoyed the finale of the Batman crossover and wouldn't mind a sequel. I also like how the last issue said, "The end...for now." If DC wants to do more please say yes! I'd love to see them do more with the Batman universe or even meet other DC superheroes like Superman, etc.

[Ninjinister]

I knew Riddler had to have been a raccoon and not a fox. He looked too much like Sly Cooper for him to not to have been a raccoon.

[Utrommaniac]

I've been struggling with trying go figure out the Dimension X air situation, mostly regarding the Neutrinos.

Utroms clearly need air that is much thinner than what present-day Earth has, probably something like 10-13% oxygen levels 470 million years ago. It could be argued that Utroms would need more oxygen, except that Earth life could do just fine, if not better, with more oxygen, at 35% as in the Carboniferous period. We'd just have to put up with more fires and huge insects, but otherwise, be more energetic. Our 23% oxygen doesn't do Utroms well at all, and 35% would probably mean instant death.

I would assume Neutrino has oxygen levels similar to Earth's, otherwise the turtles and Rock Soldiers wouldn't be able to breathe there.

So why are the Neutrinos able to breathe in multiple different atmospheres while others cannot?

[Mayhem]

It's actually more like 21% oxygen on Earth, but what's a couple of percent...

It could also be that Utrominium has a lower gravity/atmospheric pressure compared to Earth, and obviously the Utroms are used to that. They can survive with a lower O2 concentration compared to people on Earth (a bit like when you are at 10,000 ft) but it's sufficiently low that no amount of acclimatising will help, eventually you'll die of hypoxia.

Or the atmosphere of Utrominium is not a nitrogen/oxygen mixture, and whatever replaces nitrogen as the major component upsets the partial pressure balance of the combined, especially when you are trying to breath the mixture and have it dissipate the oxygen through your blood system via way of your lungs and tissues.

So there's a few reasons at least. And who says Neutrinos have lungs like ours?

[neatoman]

So here's a hypothetical, if Nickelodeon were to approach you guys (that is to say the creative team behind the IDW TMNT material) about making a TV show, do you think you'd make it an adaptation of the storyline in the comics or would you make something different?

[Bobby Curnow]

Originally Posted by Utrommaniac

I've been struggling with trying go figure out the Dimension X air situation, mostly regarding the Neutrinos.

Utroms clearly need air that is much thinner than what present-day Earth has, probably something like 10-13% oxygen levels 470 million years ago. It could be argued that Utroms would need more oxygen, except that Earth life could do just fine, if not better, with more oxygen, at 35% as in the Carboniferous period. We'd just have to put up with more fires and huge insects, but otherwise, be more energetic. Our 23% oxygen doesn't do Utroms well at all, and 35% would probably mean instant death.

I would assume Neutrino has oxygen levels similar to Earth's, otherwise the turtles and Rock Soldiers wouldn't be able to breathe there.

So why are the Neutrinos able to breathe in multiple different atmospheres while others cannot?

I don't believe we've shown them be able to breathe anywhere that's not similar to earth atmosphere. But anyway, maybe that's just something their species can do. I'd like to pretend like we think of all aspects of these things, but the honest answer is that we don't!

[Bobby Curnow]

Originally Posted by neatoman

So here's a hypothetical, if Nickelodeon were to approach you guys (that is to say the creative team behind the IDW TMNT material) about making a TV show, do you think you'd make it an adaptation of the storyline in the comics or would you make something different?

Huh, that's an interesting question. I have no clue! Probably something different, but incorporating some of our elements. I'd want to bring along Hob and some other characters that are "ours".

[John Pannozzi]

Paul Castiglia told me that he still owns the character Headrush from TMNT Adventures Special #9 (he just made a cameo in War of the Independents #4), so please get his permission when you get to collecting that issue.

[Bobby Curnow]

I don't have anything to do with the reprints or rights/approval acquisition.

[psychturtle]

Did you or Waltz ever go back and read some of Frank Miller's daredevil run? I was just curious if that served as a reference as it seems to be some similarities in the Leo microseries as well as issues 35-39, 42-46.

[Bobby Curnow]

I read most of it well over a decade ago, can't speak for Tom. I don't think there was anything intentional, but obviously that run casts a long shadow on comics in general, and TMNT specifically.

[playmate]

Cowabunga Mr Curnow
May you please confirm if the ‘Carmelo Anthony Special’ One-Shot will be included in a future ‘Amazing Adventures’ trade? Thanks in advance.

[Ninjinister]

Probably another question for James but if you have the ability to speak of it, I'd like to know: Why is The Creeper on the cover to Batman/TMNT #5? That version (Jack Ryder) is insane, but not criminally so, and is generally considered a hero. The current Creeper is an oni and probably not fit for inclusion to Arkham.

I know it's just a cover but it's still weird.

Also I don't recognize the two characters in the far back behind the main group of that cover.

[neatoman]

A few pretty simple questions here, so I'm sorry if they've been asked before:

1. Who are your favourite original characters for IDW's TMNT?
2. Will the Savate ever come back in some form?
3. Is Leatherhead an outright villain or will his role be more ambigious?
4. Are Renet and Simultaneous native to the Battle Nexus?
5. Any artists/writers that haven't been on a TMNT book that you would like to work with?

[Kingoji]

I know he doesn't come back to comics often, but ever considered asking EJ Su to do an issue at some point? Recently saw some of his for-fun TMNT sketches and think he could really blow people away (Much as he did on his single issue of Godzilla).

[Bobby Curnow]

Originally Posted by playmate

Cowabunga Mr Curnow
May you please confirm if the ‘Carmelo Anthony Special’ One-Shot will be included in a future ‘Amazing Adventures’ trade? Thanks in advance.

I don't know! That's a good question that I have no idea to.

[Bobby Curnow]

Originally Posted by Ninjinister

Probably another question for James but if you have the ability to speak of it, I'd like to know: Why is The Creeper on the cover to Batman/TMNT #5? That version (Jack Ryder) is insane, but not criminally so, and is generally considered a hero. The current Creeper is an oni and probably not fit for inclusion to Arkham.

I know it's just a cover but it's still weird.

Also I don't recognize the two characters in the far back behind the main group of that cover.

Ha, I feel like I know Batman fairly well, but I'm not familiar with that character at all. Don't know, but my guess would be because Freddie is a fan of the character. (James doesn't have anything to do with the covers)