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View Poll Results: Have you read the Archie series? | |||
Yes, I've read most/all of it and still own the series | 40 | 67.80% | |
I read it as a kid, but don't remember most of it | 6 | 10.17% | |
I only read a handful of issues here and there | 5 | 8.47% | |
I've never read any of it | 8 | 13.56% | |
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12-13-2011, 08:43 PM | #41 | |
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It only seems a bit odd now, because we're re-reading them now in a time period where the old show is long over and Shredder/Krang/Bebop/Rocksteady are no longer shoved down our throats every new Turtle story. |
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12-13-2011, 08:47 PM | #42 |
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You can extrapolate that Bebop and Rocksteady stole this flying car from the Neutrinos, which would be more reference than those characters get in TMNTA after the original miniseries' cartoon adaptation appearance. Looking at the Caveman back-up from TMNT Meets Archie again, I can see how it could be mistaken for one of the TMNT Magazine comics. The tone's just a little too simple, but you still want to run out and buy the Foot Cruiser. |
12-14-2011, 08:04 AM | #43 | |
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12-14-2011, 12:38 PM | #44 |
Overlord
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Hopefully IDW starts collecting the Archie series as they said they want to. Here's hoping the Mirage collections sell well so they branch out into Archie.
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12-23-2011, 06:40 PM | #45 |
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Not every TMNT version needs the TMNT kicking the butt of Shredder, Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady in almost every episode.
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12-23-2011, 07:42 PM | #46 |
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How many others of you learned to read with this amazing series? Too bad it never got completed with Forever War. Armaggon was the break out character of the series that never got picked up with exception of the SNES fighter game.
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12-25-2011, 02:33 PM | #47 |
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so as I mentioned earlier here I never got the chance to read the archie series, but after your oppinions and friendly advice for me I kept an eye open for them every once and a while...and here I found a superb video showcasing all the covers of the series, so if you like me have never read or gotten it in your hands just check out htis video here...I think the covers look fantastic and alone from them I really get the urge to find out more, to get them and read them...and then reread them...
so here ya go... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOIjp...eature=related |
12-25-2011, 06:50 PM | #48 |
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Best of all is that the cover artist for much of TMNT Adventures was the same as the interior artist (Chris Allan). So it won't be a case where the cover looks great and the interior art looks terrible; the art inside the book is as superb as the covers.
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12-25-2011, 06:53 PM | #49 |
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I remember a few issues where one of the turtles as covered in some black stuff.Like he dipped himself in ink.
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12-25-2011, 07:03 PM | #50 |
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It's a jumpsuit, not ink. Black garb taken from the turtles' stint at Intergalactic Wrestling...
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12-25-2011, 10:07 PM | #51 | |
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One of my favorite aspects of TMNT is April learning martial arts. I also find it kind of amusing that toward the end of the series she looked a lot like Ariel from The Little Mermaid. The constant environmentalism does seem very 90's, but I can overlook it because I know that's how I learned about the environment. If kids are going to rot their brains with comics and cartoons, might as well throw a few educational things in there, because if the Turtles care about it, then it becomes cool. |
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12-26-2011, 10:17 AM | #52 |
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I really wish they would re-release this comic series bc i really want to read it and really bummed bc ive only heard good things about the series
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12-26-2011, 08:13 PM | #53 |
Overlord
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Peter Laird and Jim Lawson did a number of covers too.
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05-03-2018, 09:33 AM | #54 |
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Never read most TMNT comics, but there’s something about this series that makes it stand out for me. I read a few issues here and there of TMNT Adventures in the 90s as a kid when they were reprinted in the UK TMNT comic. Was glad to find out that IDW started reprinting the series in volumes recently. Just read volume 3 and thought it got really good towards the end with the story “The Lost World” which I had already read before.
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05-03-2018, 01:20 PM | #55 |
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No. I'm currently reading the ongoing IDW comics.
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05-05-2018, 06:37 AM | #56 |
Foot Elite
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Read some issues as a kid as part of the 'Hero Turtles' comic. Don't remember much from it although I see that IDW's reprints don't seem as colourful for some reason. Could be wrong on that of course.
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05-28-2018, 10:28 PM | #57 |
Stone Warrior
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I grew up on TMNTA, and frankly, looking back it had a fairly meaningful impact on me as a thinker. Those earlier to mid-run issues exposing American kids to environmental issues and Asian cultures actually had an impact on me, and I can recognize that as an adult. What's more, TMNTA did a great job of growing up with its audience; you get to the Future Shark Trilogy, and suddenly the book grows up... except looking back, it was gradually growing up even before that.
TMNTA remains one of my favorite iterations of the Turtles--I grin whenever IDW pulls from that well with the Mutanimals, Null, Maligna, etc.--and I think it's sad we never got a proper conclusion to that branch of the mythos. |
05-29-2018, 08:49 PM | #58 |
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I read a few issues and I own "Future Tense." It is a little less effective out of context but it made me crave more. I imagine it did shape the popular perception of the TMNT we saw as kids and how they would grow up.
Question, did Mikey get much character development in the series, or did he always stay kind of stupid? Besides the Blind Sight thing, which seemed minimal. |
05-29-2018, 09:40 PM | #59 |
Overlord
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Mikey was never stupid in Archie. He starts off similar to his original cartoon personality but then he just acts "normal" I guess. He doesn't even say Cowabunga much.
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