User blog comment:Gilgameshkun/Watched 2K12 season 2 with a group of other people/@comment-28672978-20160613171602/@comment-28672978-20160615061107

Pulp was and still is just creative writing. If it was “just” kitsch (which plenty of Mirage issues are full of, and what exactly is that first issue if not a creative writing experiment?) we’d never have the gotten hard boiled and sci fi genres, and the first Mirage TMNT run cribs plenty from both those stables as it goes along. Because it cribs from everything. Sometimes for serious expression about two groups caught up in a shadow war, sure, but sometimes for yucks, sometimes to pal around with other indy characters, sometimes as a tribute to Jack Kirby and sometimes because you just have to turn Casey into a Rat Fink drawing. But just the fact I can write all that down and it all actually happened at all puts the lie to the idea that first run is all business all the time, with only a few breaks for comedy. It’s everything. And it’s not all inherently adult either until really Shades of Grey. Like pulp, TMNT’s greatest strength is that it can really be anything. It’s an inherently pulpy idea. It can’t draw itself from such vividly different places and not be. I just find it weird you’re super invested in something that’s apparently so at odds with your particular sensibilities.