TMNT Volume 4 #32 Discussion

[Red Robin]

Originally Posted by KM3K

Since I assume you paid through PayPal on the Mirage site, you should get an email when they ship. Mirage is only staffed twice a week these days and they can get behind on orders, especially since I expect there's increased demand from #32. I'd expect it to ship 1-3 weeks after ordering. Check your email (and spam folder) and maybe email Mirage if you don't hear anything in another week.

I will. Thank you for your help.

[TMNachoT]

I ordered mine the last week, they shipped it this week. I tracked it already and it´ll arrive tomorrow!!

[gbhq]

just got mine in the mail though shellback.
they package their books much better than mirage does and it wasn't damaged
during shipping.
Every book i got from mirage has been damaged - i don't understand why they cant respect the books that they sell and at the very least bag and board them.

[liugeaux]

They must have just started packaging them well, the one i got from Shellbacks was bent really badly because it had no protection. It was basically a bag a board in a priority mail envelope.

[discordiatookie]

Originally Posted by Ninjinister

Oh for the love of fart, did anybody actually read what I said? Or the actual #32 issue?

Originally Posted by Tazi

What Ninjinister mean is that it's spelled as MichelangLelo in #32.

There's also a MichelangLEO in the foreword.


The correct spelling is Michelangelo, the older spelling (which has nothing to do with anything here) is Michaelangelo.

Oops, my bad! Feel like a total dick now... When I read it, didn't even notice!

[Cipher]

Got back to my parents' home to receive the Shellback Artworks copy Steve had mailed a few weeks back. Arrived in great condition.

I haven't taken it out of the bag yet, but there looks to be a Turtle head sketch and signature on the cover in silver marker. Can't quite make out whose it is -- Laird?

Anyway, is this present on all the Shellback copies?

[Powder]

I got mine from Shellback & it does indeed have Steve's signature with a turtle head, both drawn in silver sharpie.

[DrSpengler]

Mine's blank.

[Cipher]

Originally Posted by Powder

I got mine from Shellback & it does indeed have Steve's signature with a turtle head, both drawn in silver sharpie.

Ah, Steve's then. I didn't think it quite looked like Laird's, but I couldn't make out the name in the signature and the Turtle head was pretty close.

Pretty cool, I guess.

[CyberCubed]

I'm surprised nobody made the connection that Don's robot body looks like Metalhead. Looking at the cover, that's what a Mirage Metalhead would probably look like.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I'm surprised nobody made the connection that Don's robot body looks like Metalhead. Looking at the cover, that's what a Mirage Metalhead would probably look like.

I'm pretty sure quite a few people said something... 5 or 6 years ago when Don's mecha first appeared.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Ninjinister

I'm pretty sure quite a few people said something... 5 or 6 years ago when Don's mecha first appeared.

Well...that was 5 or 6 years ago. I can't remember every little thing people say on the forums from nearly half a decade ago.

[Shogun26]

Finally got my print today after waiting since may 16th and of course it came creased because they only packed it with a plastic bag around it in a flat box... and she never sent me a tracking #. Had to email them again.
My print # is 244.

**Sending this back and she's sending me a new one**

[Rooish]

Does anyone know when this will be available for download?

[mrmaczaps]

Originally Posted by Rooish

Does anyone know when this will be available for download?

It is already up on Laird's blog.

[Rooish]

Well jeez, thank you very much.

[mrmaczaps]

Originally Posted by Rooish

Well jeez, thank you very much.

You're welcome.

[Rooish]

Wow, did anyone find this issue kind of upsetting? In a gripping, dramatic, well-crafted way...

Spoiler:

Firstly, Mike's been acting crazy for a while. I don't care what the Styracodons did to him--can anyone imagine Mike, or any of the Turtles, being okay with participating in genocide? I mean like when the Styracodon farmers were melted with acid in the last issue?

Also Don and Raph's fight. It struck me as very sad and poignant. Here the Turtles are in their middle age finally having this fight that seems very... well... if this was the main canon version of the Turtles, which I guess it sort of is, it's a kind of game changing moment. Raph tells Don that Don never cared about his thoughts, that Don thinks he's better than everyone... and Don tells Raph that's a moot point and that he's being unreasonable. Wow, real asshole move, Don. I mean Raph barges in on your dead father reconstructed in a stasis tube and you tell him he's being unreasonable? And you don't even lie to reassure your brother--"No Raph I don't think I'm better than you all"? And then Raph tells Don he hates him, and tries to kill him. That's heavy! Jeez, the Don-Raph relationship is pretty charged in Mirage!

Peter Laird, I must say, tends to write Don as a sort of asshole, and tends to centre a lot of drama around him--hell Casey Jones told Don the exact same thing in Shades of Grey, and Don basically told him to stop being upset. Not only that, but PL writes Raph as pretty dumb. And Don's dialogue/monologue is unbelievably annoying.

Was anyone reminded, when they saw Splinter in the tube, of

Spoiler:

MNT Gaiden

? I guess PL probably never read fancomics, but the similarities were striking.

Finally, I was upset about Splinter. I mean if the real Splinter is in the Battle Nexus, he sure didn't seem all that in a hurry to see Leo.

[Cipher]

Mirage Don is an asshole. No question.

But that's what makes him interesting.

[Powder]

I agree with Cipher on this one. He's dark & moody, very different than what pop culture has painted him to be.

Ernest Hemingway — 'Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.'

True to form for the brains of the bunch.