The Never Ending TMNT Fan Comic!

[Tigerfog]

Whoo! Tight! Nice one, Ryo! I love the panel divided in three! Hehe, Baxter's got it bad. I don't know if Hun even cares about that mad scientist.
Don't worry, I won't do the next one since so many people have been waiting for their turn.

[cqb101]

Awesome page Ryo!

[Orochi Chimera]

Nice art Ryo.

[Spitfire]

That was killer Ryo! Love your style its really cool

[kyabetsu]

So.... who's got dibs on the next page? it's 9pm on July the 1st. if no one posts before 11pm... i'm gonna assume the next page is MINE. ...


and it will be up by 11pm on July the 2nd. giving me my "24hrs".


--All-purpose cultural cat-girl kya-kya-nuku-nuku robo-chan, signing out.


EDIT: it's 11:05 pm on July the 1st. by 11pm on July the 2nd, i'll post the next page.

[chibi max]

wow cool pic guys keep it up

[kyabetsu]

My Submission:



Yup. That's right, guys. It was all one of those "SPLINTER SEES THE FUTURE" things. The fight scene wasn't making too much sense... from street level... to leo in crashing in the lair... to casey from nowhere... to Leo from ABOVE... then Hun out of nowhere. It's all COOL, KICK-@SS sh1t, but it was awful disjointed. I didn't wanna throw any of it out... i think it'd be great to keep it all and have it unfold in a way that makes sense. So. Splinter can see bits and pieces of the terrible fate that awaits them!

1. Leo down for the count!
2. Baxter's Brain-stem chokes Donatello!
3. Casey's impaled on a sai!! is it RAPH"S? He's certainly shocked by it!
4. Casey's also leaking those worm things... is he shredder's zombie slave?
5. Hell, SHREDDER'S leaking worm things... is he SOME ONE ELSE"S zombie slave?
6. April plummets to her DOOM!

how much is metaphor? how much is fact? how much can be avoided or averted? What is fated?! WHAT MUST HAPPEN?!

aaaaaa! it's too much!

somebody else's turn. NEXT!!

oh. and if the picture above doesn't have enough detail... i've got a link below to the site with the picture at FULL size. Unfortunately the site that DOESN"T re-size things doesn't allow direct linking. so... uh. go here for the HIGH-RESOLUTION version.

http://www.deviantart.com/view/8565676/

[Tigerfog]

Wow, that's very... abstract and colorful!
I know it's normal that Splinter can forsee what'll happen, but IMO (and I really mentioned 'IMO') this creates a kind of restriction for the next few artists in a topic such as this one, even if the prediction might be false.
I'd like to see how people handle this, though!

[kyabetsu]

not to make a mountain of a molehill, Tfog...

but nothing about my page CHANGED the restrictions that were already placed on the plot. Leo near death? Hun with April as Hostage? Shredder made of worms? all that was happening anyways...

If anything, by making it appear fragmented and surreal, i've given the people after me a far wider range of options in their plot. They can choose WHEN and WHY these things happen... as well as to what extent.

i'm not upset or anything that you feel i've limited things... i'm just a little dissappointed, that's all. I thought i was accomplishing the opposite of what you apparently see.

my bad, i guess.

[dcs745]

Kya - I know I told you this in IM, but I want everyone to know - that's awesome!

I love it.

I was also getting rather confused by too much happening too quickly in this comic.

I think this is a VERY interesting development and I look forward to seeing what people do with it. lol

[Tigerfog]

Originally Posted by kyabetsu

not to make a mountain of a molehill, Tfog...

but nothing about my page CHANGED the restrictions that were already placed on the plot. Leo near death? Hun with April as Hostage? Shredder made of worms? all that was happening anyways...

If anything, by making it appear fragmented and surreal, i've given the people after me a far wider range of options in their plot. They can choose WHEN and WHY these things happen... as well as to what extent.

i'm not upset or anything that you feel i've limited things... i'm just a little dissappointed, that's all. I thought i was accomplishing the opposite of what you apparently see.

my bad, i guess.

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend, Kya. I think your drawing is cool, but it's just its contents that disturbs me a little bit.

It's just that some of those predictions are themselves a restriction. Sure, about Leo, Hun and Shredder, it's understandable and it did happen, but why is there an image of a burnt turtle, Hun pushing April from the building and Casey with his eye stabbed by Raph's sai? I had the feeling that you prepared a little too much the plot in advance for the next artists. Then again, perhaps this will give a better structure to the story, who knows?

[Brodie]

I call next.

A note for the next artists; the last page is all what ifs. It doesn't mean it will happen, so please, feel free to develope the story in the way you see is fit. Not to bring down your post, kyabetsu, but it basicly seems that it has the story fixed to go a certain way for the next few pages. That's why I encourage people to continue the story with their own ideas rather than follow what has been dictated. I have to agree with Tigerfog that some of the "future" outcomes you have planned for the characters is a little too odd. I can understand that you're trying to come up with interesting plot twists to put the story on an unexpected track, but the story is still in it's early stage for something like that to be necsessary. Also, Casey being made of worms is just too strange...and being stabbed in the eye???
Also, I can't really see how Baxter's brain can some how leap off the ground and strangle Donatello (unless he's some kind of flying, super brain..., which, again, is too wierd).

Sorry for seeming nit-picky, Your post is pretty cool; it's just, well, kinda a disturbance in the story continuety. In any case, I very much apreciate the effort, and your drawing was awesome.

[Spitfire]

Maybe Rat King could Poison Splinter's tea and its making him see weird things

[chibi max]

yea why not, then you can maybe let splinter atack the TMNT, because he seems then as Shredder en his foot

[kyabetsu]

Originally Posted by Ryo

A note for the next artists; the last page is all what ifs. It doesn't mean it will happen, so please, feel free to develope the story in the way you see is fit. Not to bring down your post, kyabetsu, but it basicly seems that it has the story fixed to go a certain way for the next few pages. That's why I encourage people to continue the story with their own ideas rather than follow what has been dictated. I have to agree with Tigerfog that some of the "future" outcomes you have planned for the characters is a little too odd. I can understand that you're trying to come up with interesting plot twists to put the story on an unexpected track, but the story is still in it's early stage for something like that to be necsessary. Also, Casey being made of worms is just too strange...and being stabbed in the eye???
Also, I can't really see how Baxter's brain can some how leap off the ground and strangle Donatello (unless he's some kind of flying, super brain..., which, again, is too wierd).

Sorry for seeming nit-picky, Your post is pretty cool; it's just, well, kinda a disturbance in the story continuety. In any case, I very much apreciate the effort, and your drawing was awesome.

thank you for the drawing compliments.


...but forgive me for feeling the need to pursue this...

you've basically just equated my drawing with Jarrah's attempt to bring Venus into your story. I followed the rules, and I've put together something you weren't expecting. If you're going to disagree with ideas at random, ryo? why do you have this set up as a group effort? and has anyone heard of METAPHOR? SYMBOLISM? DREAM INTERPRETATION?

SUGGESTIONS that prove i didnt' block ANYONE into a plot....

-casey of worms
has he been infected by whatever's going on with shredder? has he un-witttingly being used by shredder (the worms being a sign of shredder's evil not PHYSICALLY, but as the vision's way of saying Casey may not be fully trusted?)... Casey's cool and all, but he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. If any of the turtles' allies could be tricked into doing something foolish to betray them... by showing where they LIVE... by bringing them to attack what would turn out to be an AMBUSH... No, Casey would never INTENTIONALLY betray the turtles, but if he's being manipulated... physically or just being TRICKED... you've got some possibilities there.

if that's not your bag? eh. it's just that shredder's intruded into Casey's life, marking Casey as an enemy of shredder....

and so on! there's 5,000,000 things you can take away from that!

-the sai in the mask's eye?

did you catch that i didn't say it was RAPH"S sai? for crying out loud! Casey fights NINJAS how often?! it's a wonder he doesn't have katana-amputated STUMPS for 4 limbs by now.

hell, that doesn't even mean that he's been stabbed IN THE EYE... it could indicate ANY injury.

it could indicate (again) some kind of betrayal, intentional or otherwise.

it could mean that casey's RAGE (symbolized by the sai?) has BLINDED him yet again, thus making it easier for him to be manipulated....

again! i dont see how i've limited anyone.

-Donatello being strangled by the brain-stem...

this one probably IS symbolic... who's baxter's NUMBER ONE science RIVAL? huh? could it be DON? hmmm... it would appear that in the context of Don vs. Baxter, don APPEARS to be loosing.

OR you could be a LITERALIST... and say that YES the brainstem IS choking Don... but who's HOLDING it? b/c you're right, baxter can't DO that... So who's the hidden hand behind the brain? is he LITERALLY choking donatello with baxter there? or is it again symbolic?

-the "burnt figure" ... ?
that's just a silhouette. Leo's on the ground. not burnt. but again, take that as you will...


look. i can appreciate that you guys weren't looking for a post like this. I can appreciate that you prefer action scenes. I can even deal with the fact that you may choose to disgard or just PRETEND to accept my page and go on with whatever you actually WANT to do anyways as if i'd never posted at all.

...but maybe you should warn folks before they try to join your game that they can only draw what you want, Ryo.

[Meira-Bates]

And yanno I'm not really a part of the drome anymore.... I quit, but Kya told me to come and read this comic early on yesterday. Frankly I have to agree with Kya, now that I come to see her entry here and read all of this O.o. Brodie tries to add a little comedy...it was nothing overly bad...new toon DOES have comedy... -.- He got some remark in return.

Kya, when basicaly SAYING that none of it might happen (did you read THIS part "how much is metaphor? how much is fact? how much can be avoided or averted? What is fated?! WHAT MUST HAPPEN?!) she gets pegged with restricting things. Hell the what must happen COULD have just been Shredder with his arm cut off cause that ALREADY happened. -.- And really I thought that it was a perfect addition to a fanboy-afied plot...but I shouldn't even be adding my two cents here...so I'll shut up now, but this just got under my skin and really I'm glad that I waited to read and debate upon rejoining this place just for this. ...Thank you so much for reminding me why I left this place in favor of some other TMNT fan joint.

Yeah seems stupid to post after I've left but I couldn't help it. I'll go back to just poping on the drome when linked here from elsewhere now, buh bye.

[Brodie]

I'll be going a by Kya's entry. Kinda.



Like she said, her page could mean stuff, the thing with Casey's eye impaled, it doesn't mean that he's gonna get stabbed, it could mean that his anger gets the best of him, he goes loco. And April does go over the side. No biggy.

And the thing with Donny, that could be something that follows the story line of mirage very closely, where DOnny keeps Baxter, and its something so dark and scary inside Donny that he does this... So, that's what I think it means.

I'm very sorry, kyabetsu. I feel very foolish, ignorant and blind to your post. You're all absolutly right;
I took it too seriously. This fan comic is supposed to be for fun, and I, the one who started it have been restricting everyones creativity.
That was really stupid, selfish and shameful of me. Please do continue to contribute. I'll be more open minded in the future.

[Kali]

Originally Posted by Ryo

I'm very sorry, kyabetsu. I feel very foolish, ignorant and blind to your post. You're all absolutly right;
I took it too seriously. This fan comic is supposed to be for fun, and I, the one who started it have been restricting everyones creativity.
That was really stupid, selfish and shameful of me. Please do continue to contribute. I'll be more open minded in the future.

Aww, why'd you have to apologize? I had a big rant-lecture prepared and ready to go! But I'm glad that's settled.

I was worried for a minute that I'd have to turn my back on this project...