Do you guys want to see the Gang Wars finished or not?

[Ninjinister]

I think it's best to ignore everything I posted in this topic last night. I tend to rant and ramble when I'm really, really tired, like some people do when they're drunk.

[jaymq]

Hey Tristan, are/were Gordon Miller and his partner going to be reoccurring characters in this plot?

Wondering 'cause I write fan fiction (incidentally, nothing you'd be interested in I'm sure ) and am curious if the characters will have more depth put into them or if they're only one-shot characters. I'll be sad if it's the latter.

[staypuftweepel]

So is the point of this thread to get people to begin a word of mouth movement for the completion of Gang Wars? or is this supposed to get people together to work on stories by Tristan in order to build a product that can be used to further pitch the rest of the stories? At times this thread has felt a little like both. Either way I'm definitely interested in both, because I've really enjoyed the arc so far.

If you need help from people to make the art for the book please look at my Turtle art and please consider me. I'd love to get involved in this anyway I possibly could.

My website is http://garyradziak.carbonmade.com

Last year I began working on a turtle comic about Michelangelo. If you look at the top row on my site there is a link to the pages I felt were the best. On the third row there is a link to the entire story so far. It is missing the opening splash page and the last three pages I believe are only works in progress, page 8 lacking black and white coloring, page 9 95% drawn, and 10 and 11 are only early drafts. Pages 2-6 are complete. The story itself was only planned to be half a comic long.

Thanks, Gary

[Archon_Turtle]

Originally Posted by Oroku_CJJ

Tristan can provide more details...we've been talking about the possibility of this on facebook.

I am going to need to put together a team...I think if we can produce the first issue as evidence that we are serious, Mirage might pick it up.

Produce a team for what purpose? Tristan has written it and hes got artists.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Archon_Turtle

Produce a team for what purpose? Tristan has written it and hes got artists.

I think he means someone to put forth printing efforts, like how the Image conclusion started out.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by moosandra

Hey Tristan, are/were Gordon Miller and his partner going to be reoccurring characters in this plot?

Wondering 'cause I write fan fiction (incidentally, nothing you'd be interested in I'm sure ) and am curious if the characters will have more depth put into them or if they're only one-shot characters. I'll be sad if it's the latter.

Considering the fact that he's shown up in more than one issue, I think it's safe to say Miller's not a one-shot character.

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

Originally Posted by Archon_Turtle

Produce a team for what purpose? Tristan has written it and hes got artists.

As far as I know, Tristan DOESN'T have an artist unless Mirage decides to pick this arc back up (not the one I'd like to see work on this series, anyway).

To answer Rose's question, this thread was started to discuss the possibility of pushing for the continuation/conclusion of the THJ story arc. As far as a team is concerned, if we started doing this as a fan project and Mirage and/or Viacom got wind and knew how much interest there was, maybe it would get picked up. I'm not that great of an artist compared to others on this board but I'm not going to pull together a team of people to work on it and not do anything myself.

[jaymq]

Originally Posted by Oroku_CJJ

As far as I know, Tristan DOESN'T have an artist unless Mirage decides to pick this arc back up (not the one I'd like to see work on this series, anyway).

'Cept he already said there's two interested artists.

Originally Posted by TristanHuwJones

I know Andres and Paul would both be keen to come back on board.

Originally Posted by The Ninjinister

Considering the fact that he's shown up in more than one issue, I think it's safe to say Miller's not a one-shot character.

Okay, which issue were they in?

[Billbeaux]

Oh hell yes! I fail to see why this wasn't Mirage's top priority during the latter part of Tales' run. I'd LOVE to see it! Every bit as much as I'd LOVE to see the Image conclusion come to fruition. And, for the cherry on top, I'd LOVE for them not to contradict each other (though I'll happily invoke fridge logic to reconcile them if they do).

I'm behind you 100%, Tristan. Swing for the fences, mate!

[John Pannozzi]

Originally Posted by Billbeaux

Oh hell yes! I fail to see why this wasn't Mirage's top priority during the latter part of Tales' run. I'd LOVE to see it! Every bit as much as I'd LOVE to see the Image conclusion come to fruition. And, for the cherry on top, I'd LOVE for them not to contradict each other (though I'll happily invoke fridge logic to reconcile them if they do).

I'm behind you 100%, Tristan. Swing for the fences, mate!

I agree wholeheartedly.

[Spitfire]

I'd like to see this but I'd like to see "Forever War" finished more. That needs, dare I say deserves, to be finished.

[TristanHuwJones]

Originally Posted by moosandra

Hey Tristan, are/were Gordon Miller and his partner going to be reoccurring characters in this plot?

Wondering 'cause I write fan fiction (incidentally, nothing you'd be interested in I'm sure ) and am curious if the characters will have more depth put into them or if they're only one-shot characters. I'll be sad if it's the latter.

Oh yeah. One of my favorite "never to be" sequences or plot points had Miller or Whitmire's family being targeted and used against them to extract info on the Turtles. Gordon was the one who locked Hun away, and you find out he had a hand in the investigation into Tang Shen and Hamato Yoshi's deaths. Big plans for Miller's son, too.

Whitmire appeared a second time in "Sometimes They Come Back", while Gordon reappeared in "Hun". Both are referenced and appear "off-camera" in "Expose".

Eventually things reach a point where New York is basically under the thumb of a shadow government of sorts. The gang wars and corruption gets so out of hand that the military are brought in, and even that causes more problems than it should, as you find out why there's this absence of superheros during this particular timeframe of the Mirage chronology. Cobra manages to make use of some of the Mousers left over after #61 (but not quite in the way they're intended to be or have been used in the past), the Baron vies for control using the Black Magic drug mentioned in "Hun" and "Burning Man", there's a ******** of supernatural "kung-fu-sploitation" stemming out of the events of "Burning Man", Splinter comes back from NH, undead ninjas, a dragon demon, Bishop gets revealed, Touch and Go were going to be brought in (in a sense), Savanti Romero, the guy that was spying on the Turtles in April's apartment WAY back in Vol. 1, Ross's "Change of Power" was going to get wrapped up (very differently to what was intended though -- kind of how I'd do it, but I'd still double check it with Ross), Murph's trio of Mystics, Karai and something of a new spin on the Shredder legacy. There's heaps of **** here written down -- the nature of the mutagen and its affect on humans, Hun's family, the Puzzorelli family, vampires and vampire slayers, the cabal, the data that Razorback and his men were after... all kinds of ****, all culminating in a pretty epic battle that would've put a pretty solid end to things.

[Venom]

Holy **** dude, that's freaking amazing!!!! I've always known your stories were kick-ass but damn, Trist, that story would be the ultimate Turtle story in the history of Turtle stories!! I love the intricate details to all the different ways things fit together, it makes the overall picture seem more coherent; even the most inane story would have its place.

Awesome dude. Truly epic. C'mon Dark Horse, pick up the Turtles!!!!

[Aztec General]

Originally Posted by TristanHuwJones

Oh yeah. One of my favorite "never to be" sequences or plot points had Miller or Whitmire's family being targeted and used against them to extract info on the Turtles. Gordon was the one who locked Hun away, and you find out he had a hand in the investigation into Tang Shen and Hamato Yoshi's deaths. Big plans for Miller's son, too.

Whitmire appeared a second time in "Sometimes They Come Back", while Gordon reappeared in "Hun". Both are referenced and appear "off-camera" in "Expose".

Eventually things reach a point where New York is basically under the thumb of a shadow government of sorts. The gang wars and corruption gets so out of hand that the military are brought in, and even that causes more problems than it should, as you find out why there's this absence of superheros during this particular timeframe of the Mirage chronology. Cobra manages to make use of some of the Mousers left over after #61 (but not quite in the way they're intended to be or have been used in the past), the Baron vies for control using the Black Magic drug mentioned in "Hun" and "Burning Man", there's a ******** of supernatural "kung-fu-sploitation" stemming out of the events of "Burning Man", Splinter comes back from NH, undead ninjas, a dragon demon, Bishop gets revealed, Touch and Go were going to be brought in (in a sense), Savanti Romero, the guy that was spying on the Turtles in April's apartment WAY back in Vol. 1, Ross's "Change of Power" was going to get wrapped up (very differently to what was intended though -- kind of how I'd do it, but I'd still double check it with Ross), Murph's trio of Mystics, Karai and something of a new spin on the Shredder legacy. There's heaps of **** here written down -- the nature of the mutagen and its affect on humans, Hun's family, the Puzzorelli family, vampires and vampire slayers, the cabal, the data that Razorback and his men were after... all kinds of ****, all culminating in a pretty epic battle that would've put a pretty solid end to things.

Dude! They have to let you finish this story! It's the best way to end the Mirage era.

[jaymq]

Originally Posted by TristanHuwJones

Oh yeah. One of my favorite "never to be" sequences or plot points had Miller or Whitmire's family being targeted and used against them to extract info on the Turtles. Gordon was the one who locked Hun away, and you find out he had a hand in the investigation into Tang Shen and Hamato Yoshi's deaths. Big plans for Miller's son, too.

Whitmire appeared a second time in "Sometimes They Come Back", while Gordon reappeared in "Hun". Both are referenced and appear "off-camera" in "Expose".

Eventually things reach a point where New York is basically under the thumb of a shadow government of sorts. The gang wars and corruption gets so out of hand that the military are brought in, and even that causes more problems than it should, as you find out why there's this absence of superheros during this particular timeframe of the Mirage chronology. Cobra manages to make use of some of the Mousers left over after #61 (but not quite in the way they're intended to be or have been used in the past), the Baron vies for control using the Black Magic drug mentioned in "Hun" and "Burning Man", there's a ******** of supernatural "kung-fu-sploitation" stemming out of the events of "Burning Man", Splinter comes back from NH, undead ninjas, a dragon demon, Bishop gets revealed, Touch and Go were going to be brought in (in a sense), Savanti Romero, the guy that was spying on the Turtles in April's apartment WAY back in Vol. 1, Ross's "Change of Power" was going to get wrapped up (very differently to what was intended though -- kind of how I'd do it, but I'd still double check it with Ross), Murph's trio of Mystics, Karai and something of a new spin on the Shredder legacy. There's heaps of **** here written down -- the nature of the mutagen and its affect on humans, Hun's family, the Puzzorelli family, vampires and vampire slayers, the cabal, the data that Razorback and his men were after... all kinds of ****, all culminating in a pretty epic battle that would've put a pretty solid end to things.

Oh god. ILU >.>

Seriously, I have nothing else. ;_;

Originally Posted by Venom

Awesome dude. Truly epic. C'mon Dark Horse, pick up the Turtles!!!!

YES!

[TristanHuwJones]

HAHA! Thanks guys. The Dark Horse thing won't happen either. They made their play from what I'd heard and it didn't work out. Like I said, I think the only way this could get done properly would be if Pete gave me the go ahead to do it under his 18 issue a year agreement, but I'm pretty sure he's pretty over Turtles so I'm not going to bug him about it. If it happens, it happens.

These aren't the finer details either, these are just big nasty story blasts, the finer details would have me here all weekend

[CyberCubed]

If you read PL's current blog entries it really feels as if he wants to currently distance himself from TMNT as much as possible for the time being.

Unless another company gets the license, I wouldn't expect any TMNT comics for at least a couple years, except the Image conclusion.

[TristanHuwJones]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

If you read PL's current blog entries it really feels as if he wants to currently distance himself from TMNT as much as possible for the time being.

Unless another company gets the license, I wouldn't expect any TMNT comics for at least a couple years, except the Image conclusion.

Even if something did start tomorrow it probably wouldn't hit for at least a year. Gotta write, edit, rewrite, draw, ink, tone, letter, put together, market and publish. Not stufff that ever really happens over night...

[CyberCubed]

So since Mirage is done forever based on PL's blog comments, what is going to happen now?

Any plans? Rumors? A way to finish this story?

This and Volume 4 are the only two long-running plots that *really* need closure, everything else doesn't really need that much closure.

[Andrew NDB]

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