Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26516813-20190711012913/@comment-26516813-20190719023540

Gilgameshkun wrote: Well, I can say with a high degree of confidence that Jennika is not Venus de Milo&mdash;full stop. Jennika is not a reboot, not a reimagining, but a new original character. There's no real comparison between the two characters other than both being teenage girl mutant ninja turtles, so I think it's important for people to throw away any and all assumptions they have going into this if their only real frame of reference is Venus de Milo. It seems Viacom has indeed taken a position forbidding Venus de Milo from being rebooted as a character, which in practice puts them on the same page as previous franchise owner Peter Laird who famously loathed Venus de Milo. And Viacom has gone further, even forbidding new teenage girl mutant ninja turtles being named after art topics, to put as much distance from Venus de Milo as possible. Sophie Campbell's otherwise respectably-written yellow-clad sister turtle, Artemisia (Artie for short, named after an Italian Baroque period woman artist), was also officially rejected for this reason, though she is still one of the main characters in Sophie's unofficial webcomic Secrets of the Ooze. That said, it's clear that TMNT #95 has drawn an abrupt intense interest in what kind of character Jennika is, and who she could become in the future. I think it would help to improve her article, Jennika, with details, and especially expand Jennika/Gallery with more scenes illustrating who she has been as a character. I'll have to go back and flip through issues to find good candidates for a pictoral record of her. Most of her issues have also been fully transcribed in text on the wiki, and there's also What is Ninja? which is simultaneously a lecture by Splinter about what ninja truly are, and a pictoral telling of Jenny's past before joining the Foot Clan. This is gonna be tough to convince the media to keep Jennika. It's tough to make a good female turtle for their approval.

What's worse it yellow being April's signature. What are they gonna do? Change it? Maybe April go lime green instead.