Mighty Mutanimal Benchwarmers get their moment in the spotlight?

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

Originally Posted by DrSpengler

I hate being negative, but this sounds like a disaster.

In the grand scheme of the comics industry, there aren't a whole lot of Mighty Mutanimals fans out there. Take the number of fans who are willing to buy a Mutanimals comic and then subtract all the fans who won't be interested because the comic lacks every Mutanimals character they recognize.

I just can't fathom it being even a modest seller. I'll buy it, of course, because I like Ryan Brown's work and the concept of the Mutanimals in general (and I'm a competionist consumer whore). But I don't see this appealing at all to the casual fan with fond memories of the Mutanimals or even a lot of the hardcore fans, who won't see it as being the "real" Mutanimals.

Then it probably has roughly the same chance of succeeding as any other indy comic with unknown characters, with possibly slightly more of a chance because there will be a small amount of familiarity with a few fans.

It's probably still going to be a major underdog like anything that isn't a Marvel or DC comic, but I don't think it's going to necessarily fail just because it's loosely based on a TMNT spin off but may not appeal to hardcore fans of that spin off. Who knows, it might have decent success if it gets good buzz.

[CyberCubed]

Sounds to me like it was an idea started on a whim because of responses to his blog. It happened on Murphy's blog too, it honestly seems as if the fans are influencing their decisions on what to do.

This book is going to be nothing like the Mutanimals, its going to star second-tier mutants that nobody heard of, and its without Murphy writing the plots (since he did most of Archie), how good can this be? I agree with the person above, this sounds like a disaster waiting to happen brought on by the fans.

Even on Peter Laird's blog you see people begging him to re-submit the old rejected toy pitches to Playmates again, but unlike the others he's not going to do it because it makes sense not to try again what was turned down once before. Sometimes I wonder if these blogs are more of a curse than a blessing.

[Roseangelo]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

This book is going to be nothing like the Mutanimals, its going to star second-tier mutants that nobody heard of, and its without Murphy writing the plots (since he did most of Archie), how good can this be? I agree with the person above, this sounds like a disaster waiting to happen brought on by the fans.

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think Murphy will be writing it. Whenever Ryan talks about the Mutanimals it's always in the context of "me and Murph." And in respect to this new project he mentioned to me that he had been talking with Murph about it.

The thing about this is that you really need to separate it from TMNT in your brain. This is going to be a little independent comic book and there's not going to be expectations of huge sales. I also don't expect that TMNT fans are their only target audience. As much as it will appeal to TMNT fans, I think they just want to make a good comic book that absolutely anyone could potentially pick up and enjoy.

Oh, and Ryan and Murph have been wanting to resurrect the actual Mutanimals for awhile now, but Mirage owns those characters and doesn't want anything to do with them, so they remain dead.

[***First of Two Latin Kings***]

Is there concept art or action figure prototype pictures out there anywhere that might give us an IDEA who exactly is going to be starring in this series?

[gobo]

Has it been said yet who's publishing this?

[Spitfire]

My question is if this will be sold at regular comic stores.

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Roseangelo

Oh, and Ryan and Murph have been wanting to resurrect the actual Mutanimals for awhile now, but Mirage owns those characters and doesn't want anything to do with them, so they remain dead.

Seriously? Ain't dat always the way? People that own something don't want to use it, but they won't sell them to anyone who wants to do it.....

If the writing is sharp and the artwork also, I will give this a shot. I just hope that Mirage doesn't secretly own those characters as well, or they may have to start over from scratch.

[Zage]

So will this be with Ring Tone & the rest?