Where are the prequel comics?!?!

[Ecto Jedi]

I wonder what the problem with Donatello was?

[soccerstud652]

4/11 Releases - Looks like we are going to be able to complete our collections!

Movie Adaption
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Movie Prequel #3 Donatello

both available for pre-order or in-store pickup at midtowncomics.com

[bullet]

or not...the donnie one is outta stock already

thanks for the link tho, preordered the movie adaptation.

edit: found that donnie's issue is still available for preorder @ final destination. dunno how long that'll last, though. i got one

[Cascadia]

I will go to my local comic book store...I have a subscription there. I am one of two in a town of 20,000 that collects TMNT comics. I will have no problem getting them. Hopefully they get the Movie comic book. They did not order the Dreamwave TPBs. I might go in town to make sure that they are getting the movie one before I pre-order a copy.

[Daunt]

Originally Posted by ThemanthatwouldbeRaphael

Not everyone is a Jim Lee or a Michael Turner...

I have to call shenanigans here because I think Jim Lee is soooo nothing to write home about. And Michael Turner is smooth sometimes but he's kind of like an anime-esque Jim Lee...or maybe it's the inkers they put on him that bug me. Anyways, replace those names with ones like Adam Hughes and I'll agree with ya. ;)

Originally Posted by ThemanthatwouldbeRaphael

Alex Rose.

Do you mean Alex Ross? Just checking, because Ross IS freaking awesome. :D But I think I'd hate his ninja turtles.

I liked Peter & Kevin's original turtle work and I wish they still did it. Some issues you get great artists and others you get so-so artists. Also it depends on what inker they pair with what penciler. Sometimes inkers can brutalize a page. Other times it's a match made in heaven. :)

Anyways, sorry for the semi-OT post...

[VaughnMichael]

Originally Posted by Ecto Jedi

I wonder what the problem with Donatello was?

Lawson?

[ThemanthatwouldbeRaphael]

Originally Posted by Jon

Another update.

Just checked Diamond's list for this week's releases -- the Donatello Movie Prequel *and* the Movie Adaptation are on it!

Oh kickass. Is it coming out this Wendsday?

[ThemanthatwouldbeRaphael]

Originally Posted by Daunt

I have to call shenanigans here because I think Jim Lee is soooo nothing to write home about. And Michael Turner is smooth sometimes but he's kind of like an anime-esque Jim Lee...or maybe it's the inkers they put on him that bug me. Anyways, replace those names with ones like Adam Hughes and I'll agree with ya.

I know that everyone doesn't like them, But I just used Jim and Michael as examples. I'm not saying they're the best ever.

Do you mean Alex Ross? Just checking, because Ross IS freaking awesome. But I think I'd hate his ninja turtles.

Yeah, thats what I meant Yeah, his Turtles would look damn creepy.

[Jon]

Originally Posted by ThemanthatwouldbeRaphael

Oh kickass. Is it coming out this Wendsday?

Right. That's what I was meaning (they're listed on Diamond's site among this week's releases).

[Tinuvielsdreams]

Well someone is slacking my way cause I haven't gotten my mailing from last week yet

[Cascadia]

I checked with my local comic book store...they are definitely on the invoice. I do not need to pre-order mine.

[Roseangelo]

Originally Posted by Putrescent

Yes, like I said quite a bit of is older art is really nice and fits with the rest of the mirage artists underground style.
One of my least favorite Archie comics was also drawn by him.
But I'm not home to seriously look at my comics so I'd have to look and see if the theory I've come up with about it's not him so much as it is who's style is being inked over his pencils.

I do agree that there's something about the inking combined with Jim's art, but something struck me tonight while I happened to be looking at some City at War pages. Which led to looking through some Volume 4 pages.

If you go to ninjaturtles.com and browse the preview pages for any of the City at War books, look at the highly detailed toning on all of the pages. Then go to Volume 4, Number 1 and look at the toning on those pages. It's actually still very detailed. Then look at book 2, 3, 4, etc... keep going through the entire series. You can see the drastic de-evolution of the tones, to the point where it's virtually non-existant. And, IMO, Jim's art just kinda de-evolves right with it.

[VaughnMichael]

Originally Posted by Roseangelo

I do agree that there's something about the inking combined with Jim's art, but something struck me tonight while I happened to be looking at some City at War pages. Which led to looking through some Volume 4 pages.

If you go to ninjaturtles.com and browse the preview pages for any of the City at War books, look at the highly detailed toning on all of the pages. Then go to Volume 4, Number 1 and look at the toning on those pages. It's actually still very detailed. Then look at book 2, 3, 4, etc... keep going through the entire series. You can see the drastic de-evolution of the tones, to the point where it's virtually non-existant. And, IMO, Jim's art just kinda de-evolves right with it.

Yeah seriously though I'd really like to See Jim's Pencils I do remember him saying before some pleace that he was really trying to draw like some one else it it botherd him it may have been michael dooney I think.
But yeah he says he draw the way he does now because it's all him.
But didn't Dooney ink city at war? I think that could be the huge reason the people faces look the way they do because seriously it looks like Dooney more than lawson.
Look at Eric Talbot's art (some one I really like mind you) his art is very pointy and square like.
I'm pretty sure when vol.4 first started out peter had a bit of a hand in the inking.
I know we've talked about this before and I am no way shape or form trying to make excuses for one artists or trying to bash anyone I'm just trying to make sence out of all of this.
And I think what we're talking seriously is the lack of everything.

[Fledermaus]

Just got my April and Leo prequel comics! Glad to have them, regardless of quality.

As usual in TMNT comics nowadays, the writing was kinda meh... And the art, the designs especially looked very "cheap-charlie." Almost like rush jobs, as though the artists were being paid chicken scratch for their work. Not motivated enough (and/or too short on time) to take full advantage of the b/w medium.

April's was better paced, I think, and the most informative of the two. Leo's could have been more enjoyable were it not SO DAMN SHORT. So much happens in his comic, but it zooms through each scene at 200 mph. Frustrating...

I think I'm gonna redraw the Leonardo movie prequel. B/W first, then color... Glorify the scenes a little, fix the stereotypical "we shall have no place in which to live" dialogue of the slave chidren. Luckily, I'm still in college. Unlike these professional artists and writers, I still have some free time. Plus, I could use the practice.

I hope the Donatello Prequel and the Movie Adaptation are... better. And I hope the artists don't murder me for being so critical.

[Cascadia]

We will find out tomorrow. I have my cash ready to go out to the comic book store.

[VaughnMichael]

Originally Posted by Scientific freak

We will find out tomorrow. I have my cash ready to go out to the comic book store.

hehe me to I'm so ready for some tmnt comics tommrow!

[Roseangelo]

My store better have the April book for me this week, in addition to the new releases...

[Kunoichi_Haruko]

You know what? I'm still waiting for my copy of the Raphael prequel...

[VaughnMichael]

if you guys need help *ahem* I'm willing to help.

[Roseangelo]

I *should* be ok. Although he didn't say so, I know my guy sold my copy to someone else, which pisses me off. He needs to order enough books to cover all of the people who request the damn books.

So hopefully it's a simple issue of ordering another copy.