![]() ![]() Once the audience has suspended disbelief enough to accept anthropomorphic turtles and their rodent sensei, alien worlds and dimension-hopping aren't a stretch. Eastman and Laird realized quickly that the absurdity of the premise opened their world to an endless variety of stories. This leaves the creators in a position of creating a series that's more serious, but not too serious, and distinct from the now uncool '80s Turtles, but not too distinct, since that version was the accepted interpretation of the characters to the average person. Turning to the earliest comics might not have been the most obvious way to go, but it was ultimately the right choice.Īs much as those early issues are remembered for the collector frenzy surrounding them, it's important to remember just how solid these stories actually are. Also, so much of the early appeal of Mirage's Turtles resided in the creators playing off comics industry fads of the day, a context that would've been utterly foreign to a kid in the early 2000s looking to graduate from Digimon. Not to mention, the more friendly, mass-merchandised Turtles had flamed out spectacularly by the mid-1990s. There wasn't a lot of evidence the public wanted a more comics-accurate Turtles, given that the mainstream version of the team featured such a radically different tone. The development of the series' early episodes is interesting, if only when viewed in the context of the times. Amusingly, when April asks the Turtles about their past in the comic, the story cuts away for a panel to plug the book's opening issue. Here, April is far more incredulous about the existence of the Turtles in a break from the story it's adapted, where she accepted the Turtles within a page or so. This sequence is one of the classics of Turtles lore, and it was adapted in both the 1980s cartoon and also the first movie. ![]() Some of his notes might seem arbitrary, but others - like when he advises the producers to have April physically pursue the Mousers instead of following them in a car - show just how insightful he is in the arena of visual storytelling.Ĭontinuing its adaptation of the second issue of the original comic, the story opens with April returning to consciousness and realizing that she's been rescued by four humanoid turtles and their aging rat mentor. If you're curious about the development of the episodes, Turtles co-creator Peter Laird has documented his notes on the various stages of the scripts on his blog. ![]()
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