Thread:Gilgameshkun/@comment-29720851-20170503182211/@comment-29720851-20170504010341

I knew that trade paperbacks thats mostly what I was asking for thats one of the reasons why I did not want to deal with the Mirage Licencing/Publishing eBay listings! And Kevin seems to like all the incarnations of the shows and Comics including the 2012 show! He also fell in love with a character that Viacom put into the show called "Ice Cream Kitty"! Also if you ever take a look at his office he has all the possible turtle merch so clearly he is a major shellhead and still cares about hist turtles even if he no longer has full control over it like the partners did in the past when they created the comics! And IK you don't care that much about the 2012 series, but it seems season 5 (The final season) may be pretty good cause they add 4 characters fans have wanted for awile I don't know if the comic fans like you are into the idea of seeing the turtles as children! You also stated that MNT Gaiden is not licenced by Viacom, and so long as they are not making any sort of monitary value from the turtle name or characters without express permission from Viacom it is consitered a parody even if they are using the ORIGINAL TMNT name or characters! And I doubt Viacom wanted to make it more like the comics, but then if they made it that dark they would not be able to air the show anywhere on the nickelodeon network! However if the shows are a problem for you make your own so long as your not making money under the name you are protected under US Parody laws! Then you could make them as potentially as dark as you want the only thing you would need at least minor permissions for is if you wanted to use original sound files, however, if you use your own sound and modify the visual media it should be protected under US Parody laws!

Kevin Eastman has stated he wants to work with Liard again in IDW, but IDK why they have not been able to work together yet or even if they wanted to!

I love the shows, but its only fair for this shellhead to know more about the ORIGINAL Mirage TMNT universes! Also if the Comics where as dark as they are why did kids read them one of the voice actors for the current show "Seth Green" who plays Leonardo, grew up with the original Mirage Comics and was a major shellhead since! Even the voice cast ofthe new show including Rob Paulson watch the new show cause they had kids who liked both the original series and/or the new series and they started watching the show themselfs! Sean Astin the voice of Raphael in the current series said he had Donatello pajamas when he was younger, and he said he still had them! So clearly there are people who LOVE ALL TMNT universes and incarnations its just cause the franchise itself is so iconic and each incarnation whether its a comic or show incarnation are all uniqe in their own way anyway! They all may have some core points from the Mirage Comics, but for a franchise that is as big as the TMNT franchise things are going to be moved around not only to fit modern times, but to try to appeal to everybody and to a point IDW would be different from IDW cause it would be trying to meet with the modern times!

And the fact that the franchise has a large divercity as the TMNT franchise is acctually a good thing cause it keeps a franchise alive, it just has to do mostly because of times or opinions, or favorites thats why franchises have fandoms its cause it trys to appeal to ALL groups not just one specified group!