If TMNT never left the pages of comics, do you think you'd ever discover it? - Page 2

Leonardo Mystic · 04-28-2010, 06:08 PM

I never knew the Turtles were a comic book first before I got back into them six years ago. I first discovered them through the OT and movies. So, no. I don't think I would have known about TMNT until probably the time the internet came along.

Spacebabie · 04-29-2010, 09:58 PM

Probably not until my twenties and that would be from friends who are into comics.

*ToTheNines* · 04-29-2010, 10:04 PM

I bet I would have, as a teenager. Looking back at my life, I was pretty much destined to become a TMNT nut, I'm sure it's happened in most of my alternate time-lines

Lynn · 04-30-2010, 06:17 PM

Probably not. Since I only became interested after watching the cartoon and had never read the comics, I doubt I'd even know who the turtles were.

*Original TMNT Cartoon Fan* · 05-01-2010, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Kiwamu The Kappa

the comic never came to Norway.
So I would probably never know about TMNT until my first experience with the internet and a random turtle search, since turtles are one of my favorites animals.

Mirage, but did Archie come to Norway? It was a big success here in Sweden (together with the UK Hero Turtles comics).

*Candy Kappa* · 05-01-2010, 05:52 AM

Archie came in 92, if i remember correctly think I got most issues that came out .
not sure on it's popularity, at my place I did not see much of it in stores.

but I think the northern European Archie releases are the same issues just translated.

*Original TMNT Cartoon Fan* · 05-02-2010, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Kiwamu The Kappa

Archie came in 92, if i remember correctly think I got most issues that came out .
not sure on it's popularity, at my place I did not see much of it in stores.

but I think the northern European Archie releases are the same issues just translated.

Probably. I also recall watching TMNT on the Norwegian TV 3, but it was also dubbed into Swedish, using the same dub as Sweden.

*Roland* · 05-02-2010, 01:18 PM

Man if that happened i maybe never know about tmnt ever because we don't get tmnt comics (yet) in South Africa.

*Kendamu* · 05-02-2010, 06:22 PM

I would've eventually. I ended up growing up liking comics and, not because of TMNT, started discovering more non-mainstream comics. So, I would've ran across TMNT eventually. How long it would've taken for me to give it a chance would've been something else entirely.

*Andrew NDB* · 05-02-2010, 07:16 PM

This is one of those fundamental "What If?" questions that not many in the "I got into TMNT by watching the old cartoon and those will always be the definitive TMNT to me" crowd are probably going to like the answers to.

My guess: It would have continued as a respectable comic book (never really selling gangbusters but still seeing print to whatever conclusion it led to, sort of like Groo, Cerebus or Savage Dragon) and eventually -- probably around the post X-Men 2000s' boom of movie studios buying up comic book properties' film rights -- it would have gotten a pretty straight-up, gritty comic book movie... and the landscape of the TMNT fandom would be quite different than what it is now.

But yes. Would have discovered it sooner or later.

*discordiatookie* · 05-02-2010, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

This is one of those fundamental "What If?" questions that not many in the "I got into TMNT by watching the old cartoon and those will always be the definitive TMNT to me" crowd are probably going to like the answers to.

My guess: It would have continued as a respectable comic book (never really selling gangbusters but still seeing print to whatever conclusion it led to, sort of like Groo, Cerebus or Savage Dragon) and eventually -- probably around the post X-Men 2000s' boom of movie studios buying up comic book properties' film rights -- it would have gotten a pretty straight-up, gritty comic book movie... and the landscape of the TMNT fandom would be quite different than what it is now.

But yes. Would have discovered it sooner or later.

I like the cut of your jib.

*Kendamu* · 05-02-2010, 08:02 PM

If Andrew's version of how things would've been how things turned out, I said before that it would've taken me some time before I tried reading TMNT. If a movie of it were to have come out that was similar to maybe "The Losers" then I would've certainly checked out the comic after seeing the movie.

Who knows? Maybe we'd have hardback graphic novels in stores nowadays that aren't like $300 a copy due to rarity.

*Koi* · 05-02-2010, 09:36 PM

I would have come across the comics several of times, it was my brother who watched TMNT when he was little and drew pictures for me and the movies that got me into it. So I would of not been a fan today...

jestergoblin · 05-03-2010, 02:56 PM

Yeah, I probably would have. Between growing up down the street of Kevin Eastman's boyhood home, having two different cousins who ran their own comic book stores in the 80s and going to elementary school with one of Kevin Eastman's nephews, it probably would have come up.

After all, they made me read Frank Miller's Daredevil and it was just a parody of that.

*Coola Yagami* · 05-03-2010, 09:17 PM

Sadly no. I wasn't much into comics and the Archie comics back in the day were the only comics I followed religiously. Stuff like Spiderman and Batman I'd pick up occasionally.

Being too underground, my store never sold Mirage TMNT stuff. The only issue I had of City at War is when I randomly wandered into a more underground comic store and picked it up, but they never sold the following issues. So yeah, without any way to even see the comic, I never woulda known these green guys existed.

jaymq · 05-03-2010, 10:08 PM

Possibly, I can't recall who specifically introduced me to ninja turtles, but my aunt and her husband at the time collected comic books and ninja turtles was one of them. I read them even back then. Later on, I got my own collection of comics. Turtles is one of the ones I collect.

Panda Khan · 05-04-2010, 08:22 PM

hmm, i would have probably discovered them by reading a wizard magazine back when the issues actually had a price guide in them.

Doc_ock_4mugen · 05-04-2010, 08:44 PM

Probably not. Which would be a shame. But on the Plus side We would've gotten a badass TMNT movie...

Mutated Turtle · 05-04-2010, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Doc_ock_4mugen

But on the Plus side We would've gotten a badass TMNT movie...

No,that wouldn't happen.

*Koi* · 05-04-2010, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by pipsqueak

No,that wouldn't happen.

Must be my feminine side, but knowing that you are a ten year old and saying people are wrong is just so adorably cute!!! <3

View Poll Results: If TMNT never became anything more than a comic, would you have known about it?
Most likely probably not	30	50.85%
I would probably come across the comic, but I doubt I would have started following it	15	25.42%
If it was only a comic book, I would have still found out about it somehow	14	23.73%
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04-28-2010, 06:08 PM	#21
Leonardo Mystic Stone Warrior Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Georgia Posts: 904	I never knew the Turtles were a comic book first before I got back into them six years ago. I first discovered them through the OT and movies. So, no. I don't think I would have known about TMNT until probably the time the internet came along. __________________

04-29-2010, 09:58 PM	#22
Spacebabie Hench Mutant Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Conroe Texas Posts: 291	Probably not until my twenties and that would be from friends who are into comics. __________________ http://spacebabie.deviantart.com/ http://www.fanfiction.net/~spacebabie http://spacebabie.livejournal.com/

05-01-2010, 05:52 AM	#26
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05-02-2010, 01:18 PM	#28
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04-29-2010, 10:04 PM	#23
ToTheNines Col. Stinkmeaner Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 19,357	I bet I would have, as a teenager. Looking back at my life, I was pretty much destined to become a TMNT nut, I'm sure it's happened in most of my alternate time-lines

04-30-2010, 06:17 PM	#24
Lynn Hench Mutant Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Iowa Posts: 269	Probably not. Since I only became interested after watching the cartoon and had never read the comics, I doubt I'd even know who the turtles were.

05-02-2010, 06:22 PM	#29
Kendamu Sewerhead Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 2,890	I would've eventually. I ended up growing up liking comics and, not because of TMNT, started discovering more non-mainstream comics. So, I would've ran across TMNT eventually. How long it would've taken for me to give it a chance would've been something else entirely.

05-02-2010, 07:16 PM	#30
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,543	This is one of those fundamental "What If?" questions that not many in the "I got into TMNT by watching the old cartoon and those will always be the definitive TMNT to me" crowd are probably going to like the answers to. My guess: It would have continued as a respectable comic book (never really selling gangbusters but still seeing print to whatever conclusion it led to, sort of like Groo, Cerebus or Savage Dragon) and eventually -- probably around the post X-Men 2000s' boom of movie studios buying up comic book properties' film rights -- it would have gotten a pretty straight-up, gritty comic book movie... and the landscape of the TMNT fandom would be quite different than what it is now. But yes. Would have discovered it sooner or later. __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

05-02-2010, 08:02 PM	#32
Kendamu Sewerhead Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 2,890	If Andrew's version of how things would've been how things turned out, I said before that it would've taken me some time before I tried reading TMNT. If a movie of it were to have come out that was similar to maybe "The Losers" then I would've certainly checked out the comic after seeing the movie. Who knows? Maybe we'd have hardback graphic novels in stores nowadays that aren't like $300 a copy due to rarity.

05-02-2010, 09:36 PM	#33
Koi Mad Scientist Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 1,787	I would have come across the comics several of times, it was my brother who watched TMNT when he was little and drew pictures for me and the movies that got me into it. So I would of not been a fan today...

05-03-2010, 02:56 PM	#34
jestergoblin Mad Scientist Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,466	Yeah, I probably would have. Between growing up down the street of Kevin Eastman's boyhood home, having two different cousins who ran their own comic book stores in the 80s and going to elementary school with one of Kevin Eastman's nephews, it probably would have come up. After all, they made me read Frank Miller's Daredevil and it was just a parody of that.

05-03-2010, 09:17 PM	#35
Coola Yagami Overlord Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 15,709	Sadly no. I wasn't much into comics and the Archie comics back in the day were the only comics I followed religiously. Stuff like Spiderman and Batman I'd pick up occasionally. Being too underground, my store never sold Mirage TMNT stuff. The only issue I had of City at War is when I randomly wandered into a more underground comic store and picked it up, but they never sold the following issues. So yeah, without any way to even see the comic, I never woulda known these green guys existed. __________________ "I was down with TMNT once, but then they changed what TMNT was. Now what I was down with is no longer TMNT and what TMNT now is seems weird and scary. And it'll happen to YOU." Check out my blog for Comic Reviews and other things. https://markepicblogofrandomness.blogspot.com/ I also started The AEW Crew, the All Elite Wrestling Fan Club! https://www.facebook.com/groups/637508120044168/

05-03-2010, 10:08 PM	#36
jaymq Hench Mutant Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 435	Possibly, I can't recall who specifically introduced me to ninja turtles, but my aunt and her husband at the time collected comic books and ninja turtles was one of them. I read them even back then. Later on, I got my own collection of comics. Turtles is one of the ones I collect. __________________ Nom

05-04-2010, 08:22 PM	#37
Panda Khan Foot Soldier Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: The Bamboo Grove. Posts: 249	hmm, i would have probably discovered them by reading a wizard magazine back when the issues actually had a price guide in them. __________________ "When It's Time To Party We Will Party Hard."

05-04-2010, 08:44 PM	#38
Doc_ock_4mugen Hench Mutant Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 389	Probably not. Which would be a shame. But on the Plus side We would've gotten a badass TMNT movie... __________________ Mikey might be part of Nick now, but he still loves Miley... I mean Hannah... Stupid Secret Identity!!