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Hi, this is Bobby Curnow, Chief Turtle Editor

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at IDW Publishing, and you are listening to the

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Geekcast Radio Network. Hey, this is Tom Waltz,

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IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle writer, and

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you have jumped inside the pull bag. You've just

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jumped inside the pull bag. Join TFG1 Mike and

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the rest of the comic crew here at the GCRN as

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they make their great escape into comics. From

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DC, Marvel, and Image to IDW, Boom Studios, and

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Xenoscope, we have everything right here. We

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cover things like Transformers, He -Man, Super

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Heroes, TMNT, and Radiant Black. Yeah, we have

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all that and so much more. It's all inside the

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pull bag here on the Geekcast Radio Network.

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So, without further ado, it's time to talk about

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the comics we're reading right now. Here inside

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the pull bag. How you doing? Hi. Nice night.

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Mm -hmm. Pizza dude's got 30 seconds. Mm -hmm.

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Hi, folks. My name is Michael Alan Blanchard.

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I've been a podcaster for nearly 17 years. As

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of December 8th or 12th, we can't decide which

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date it actually was back in 2008. So December

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2025 will be 17 years for me. I go by TFG1Mike

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on all of my podcast endeavors and everywhere

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online. In 2012, Steve Megatron showed me a picture

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of the new 52DC Comics Batman number 13 cover.

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This is the cover with the Joker with his face

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kind of coming off or going on or we can't really

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tell, but it's this really gruesome face. of

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the New 52 Joker. This was starting the Death

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of the Family story arc by Scott Snyder, Greg

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Capolo, and others, and it got me into comics

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full -time. From October 2012 to March of 2013,

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Steve Megatron and I covered the Death of the

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Family run in the Batman New 52. As I just mentioned,

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after finishing the recording for Batman number

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17 on Geekcast Radio, our flagship podcast, Steve

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basically told me, in bold, all caps, underlined,

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told me that we needed a specific place for comics

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if we were going to continue comics. The first

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thing we needed was a title. Thankfully, after

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many, many failed attempts at thinking on my

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own, because back in 2012 and 2013, we still

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thought on our own. I prefer actual intelligence

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to artificial intelligence. Thank you very much.

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Thankfully, a good friend of Steve's and a good

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friend of mine and a good friend of my co -host,

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who I will introduce at the end of all of this,

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because he will come in much, much later at this

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point. But thankfully. Michael Powers, that good

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old Booth Ninja 81, came up with The Pull Bag.

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And so on March 5th or 6th, we can't decide because

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I don't remember which actual date it actually

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published on in 2013, The Pull Bag was unleashed

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into the podcasting world. Twelve years ago today,

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The Pull Bag went online. Twelve years and 575

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episodes. What a journey. Thank you to everyone.

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Steve Megatron for all of the stuff he has done

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with the editing in the beginning, and then I

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took it over with all of the arts he has ever

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done for this podcast, for coming on and doing

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all of the co -hosting that he's done with me

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for this. Michael Powers for doing some of the

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podcasts that he's done on here, as well as obviously

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coming up with the title. Ryan, The Uneven Flow,

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JT from Saskatoon. the person I will introduce

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later, but I'm going to mention him now, Mr.

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Joe Reed, and so many more, plus all of you lovely

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listeners. Thank you for everything. As far as

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the TPB TMNT coverage, it was January 22, 2014.

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We released TPB Back Issue Classics, IDW, TMNT

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Volume 1. I remember when Joe first told me about

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this, I had a very visceral reaction. You see,

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dear listener, I was a cartoon TMNT kid, not

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a comics TMNT kid. I hated that they all wore

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red bandanas in the books because I was so used

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to the multicolored cartoon awesomeness. Clang?

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Did you say Clang? Obviously, 11 years later,

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since we started the TPB TMNT coverage and released

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45 podcasts covering everything in the main IDW

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series, I've obviously changed my mind and think

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that the IDW continuity is the end -all, be -all

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of emotional TMNT storytelling. We are continuing

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that inside 2025's Mutant March as we finish

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off the original run from Reborn Volume 5, Mystic

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Sister, to Reborn Volume 9, Once and Always.

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And after that, later on in this year, we're

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going to bring it back to Sewer Surf in September.

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when we will start reviewing the Volume 2 IDW

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TMNT coverage when Jason Aaron takes over the

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writing. And, man, we can't wait for that. So

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I'm pretty much almost out of breath here. Joe,

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any thoughts on this history of all of this before

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we get into the Mystic Sister story arc? The

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years you're throwing out there, it's like my

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oldest child was not born when this was happening.

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How old am I now that we've been doing this for

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this long? Well, if I'm 45, you're close to it,

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or maybe a little older. Yep. What? Yeah, so

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I have to do a little bit of math. Let's see.

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45. Yeah, I'll be 45 in a month. Happy early

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birthday. Yeah. Gosh, yeah, and 14 years ago,

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I didn't know what a podcast was. Absolutely.

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Yeah, so, folks, it's been a long journey, and

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we have been trying to get back to it. 2024 was

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a rough year. I didn't do hardly anything with

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this podcast last year. But Volume 5, Reborn

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Volume 5, I should say, collects issues 124 to

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130. The story was done by Sophie Campbell. The

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art was done by Ken Garing for Part 1. Parts

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two to five and seven was Pablo Tunica. Part

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five, Sophie did some stuff. Tony Gregory did

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some stuff in part six. Additional inks was Patrico

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Del Peche, and the colors obviously were done

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by Rhonda Pattison. Rhonda, I owe you a big apology.

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I am so sorry. For 11 years, I have been saying

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Rhonda Pattinson. I have been getting your last

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name wrong for 11 friggin' years, Rhonda. I am

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so sorry. It is Rhonda Pattison. I'm sure she

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gets that all the time. And well, you can you

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can rest assured and comforted that I'd never

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heard you say I never heard it like, you know,

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it always just rolls out of our mouth. So but

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I just make sure that I said it right. I'm sure

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I typed it wrong a couple of times, too. Are

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you related to that vampire guy? Some nut who

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thinks he's Batman. letters done by sean lee

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story consultant kevin eastman and tom waltz

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on this arc and boy what a story oh my god yeah

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oh boy this book i think when the press releases

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came out for this arc like you know it caught

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the internet nerd rooms on fire for a couple

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of days yeah issue 124 specifically Hey folks,

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Editor TFG and Mike here, and I need to put a

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correction here, and this correction will serve

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as a correction for myself anytime I say 124

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for the issue number for the rest of this episode

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of The Pull Bag. Venus did not technically debut

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in 124. Her return was issue 127 of IDW Publishing's

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. That's what the

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press release was for. Issue 127. So this right

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here, is where I initially had stated it in the

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first eight and a half minutes of the podcast.

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So that's where I first noticed it in the editing.

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So, correction made. It was issue 127 when Venus

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returned to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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IDW Publishing comic run. Now, back to the show.

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Because they announced it as Venus is back, baby.

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They threw Venus. Out of all the characters that

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they could have ever brought into IDW, I was

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never expecting Venus. I didn't expect Venus

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either. And I think it comes from just the decency

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to know that there are some characters that don't

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hold up well or didn't get a... Good shake. The

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audience responded badly. And it felt for years

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like one of those rules that you're just not

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going to break. Like you you can't bring Uncle

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Ben back. You can't kill off Alfred. Like there

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are just some rules that you can't break. And

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bringing Venus into the comics felt like one

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of those rules. Peter Laird notoriously hated

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the character in that live action show. I think

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he was sole owner by that point. I think Kevin

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has been kind of indifferent. They both did want

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a fifth turtle at a point, and it was going to

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be Kirby based off Jack Kirby. But gosh, and

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I think about a fifth turtle, too. The first

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time I remember ever seeing that was when in

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one of the Archie turtles, April got mutated.

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It was it was like a summer special. It wasn't

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part of the main continuity. But yeah, they've

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always been trying to do that. And then. They

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did it in the live action series. Next mutation.

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Yep. I still haven't watched all of that. I don't

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even know how many. I don't know. I don't know

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how I need to look into that. I'm not going to

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probably watch it, but I just know that it was

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so polarizing with the fans and with everyone

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else that it's just the interesting takes at

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the time for that were that. with the turtle

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the main turtles they were ninjas from japan

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she was mutated in chinatown and had the kung

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fu chinese background and gotcha was more tied

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to mysticism and magic which was okay interesting

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um but yeah i think there was that well when

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you create a character like that at that time

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in the world and i'm not talking about now with

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right The Mary Sue with the weird accusations

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that people throw out there. But at the time

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they threw that character out there because,

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you know, we need a girl turtle because girls

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don't watch our show. And surely if we put a

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girl in there, the girls will watch our show

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and our toy sales will double. I mean, that was

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obviously why she was put in there. Yeah. And

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what IDW has always done with everything they've

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ever touched is that they've taken characters

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and situations. that are either cheesy or not

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good or uh from a a funny book and they've translated

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them they've updated them and they've put them

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back in the book in a way that makes them cool

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relatable fit naturally and you know it's like

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so these people that are complaining i doubt

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they had ever read any of the idw turtles to

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know with how much love they put these characters

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back into the comic yep Pigeon Pete is a great

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example. Absolutely. Pigeon Pete rocks. And I

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have to apologize to everybody at IGW as well,

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because when I saw the title of the trade, I

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saw the title, and I was like, no. My first thought

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was kitsune. I thought it was going to be a kitsune

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story again. I didn't even look at the cover

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of the trade. I just looked at the title. And

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the cover is basically Venus basically robot

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party. She's basically Pinocchio'd. She's basically

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trussed up. She's basically strung up. But just

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when I hear Mystic Sister, when I hear Mystic

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Anything, the first thing I think of is Pantheon,

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Rat King, Kitsune, all that. But yeah, no. No,

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and IDW always has and always will, with the

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Turtles, do their best to give us unexpected

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awesomeness. It just will. All of the comics

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and movies and books, media of any kind that

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I enjoy most is done by the creators that love

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what they're doing or that love the characters.

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They love the story. There's something about

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it that they love. And with Sophie writing this

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book, Sophie liked Venus. Yeah. And felt maybe.

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Like at the time in the old show, maybe that

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she got done dirty and this was her time to redeem

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the character. And I think she did. And I, I

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don't, you know, Oh, I'm so far behind reading.

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That's a whole other story. I don't know if she

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comes back. I hope she comes back. I hope she

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gets like a complete arc. I'm not that this isn't

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a complete arc, but I hope she gets more arcs.

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Yeah. Cause I'd like to see where that character

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goes. So, folks, what I can tell you right now,

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what's going to happen. Here in Mutant March,

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we are going to finish off the main run, the

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original run. So, Volume 6 is Game Changers,

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Volume 7 is Isolation, Volume 8 is Damage Done,

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and Volume 9 is First, Last, and Always. That

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takes us through Issue 150. And after that, when

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we go to Sewer Surf in September, is when we

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will start the jason aaron run i have read the

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first two issues of that i did too i don't oh

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well i mean you know what it is what it is it's

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i don't know it's fine but it's far enough away

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that yeah no yeah absolutely no no it's fine

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but the thing and and you know us you you know

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this better than anybody else we've been doing

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this for 11 freaking years dude we don't worry

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about spoilers here because we cover it enough

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After the fact that people should, if you haven't

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read it by now, stop listening to this podcast

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at this very moment, not for this episode, but

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like when we get to that specific thing, if you

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haven't read those, stop, go read the issue,

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come back and listen to it. That's the greatest

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thing about podcasts. If you're listening to

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a podcast and we sit here and tell you there

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are going to be spoilers. The first thing you

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should do is, okay, they've told me they're going

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to be spoilers. I shouldn't be upset at that

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podcast because they specifically said there's

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going to be spoilers. What I should do as a responsible

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podcast listener is stop the podcast, go read

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the comic for myself and come back and listen

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to their opinion later. Yeah, we'll still be

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here. Yeah, we'll still be here. We ain't going

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anywhere. Not yet anyway. But the thing of it

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is, is my point is that I read those when they

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first came out and I enjoyed them because. It's

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sort of a 151, 152 thing, but they're kind of

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not. They're still continuing with our characters,

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but it's also still a reset. I think 1, 2, 3,

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and 4, I don't know about 5, but 1, 2, 3, and

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4 feel like a reintroduction of kind of like

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how we had the Micro series. Micro Leo, Micro

00:17:14.210 --> 00:17:17.730
Raph, Micro Mikey, and Micro Donnie originally.

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Like, it's character. It's like a character one

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-shot for those first four issues, I think. I

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think. I could be wrong. I don't remember, folks.

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But I liked what I read. And I don't dislike

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Jason Aaron. I haven't read enough of his stuff.

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But what I read in those first two issues, I

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really dug. So we're going to still have fun

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with Turtles, folks. Mystic Sister, where should

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we begin with this? Because everybody's out in

00:17:46.670 --> 00:17:50.880
Mutant Town. Yeah, this was a hard... As I flipped

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this open to read it, I thought, this is going

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to be a hard one to talk about because there

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aren't any words in it. Yeah. It kind of read

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to me like the Christmas episodes or Christmas

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issues where we just kind of check in on all

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the characters. Yeah, it's a check -in issue.

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But yeah, I forgot when Mystic Shredder, Orokosaki...

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astral planing around keeping everybody safe

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showed up, but we've talked about it. So I needed

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to be reminded that he's there. I like that he's

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there. Without Stranger, I like that he's there.

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When the story goes on for so long, you have

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to be okay to change the status quo of the characters.

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These realistic depictions, these emotional depictions

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of these characters, they've got to grow. It's

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neat to see Orokosaki grow into a different individual.

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Yep, absolutely. I think the only words in this

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entire issue are the words on the missing poster

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for the three little rascals there. Well, Alopex

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goes out looking for them. It's Christmas. They

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know the weasels are missing. Shredder follows

00:19:07.549 --> 00:19:13.210
her. They eventually find Old Hob and... uh the

00:19:13.210 --> 00:19:15.890
the weasels and they're romping around they're

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playing it's christmas there's a christmas tree

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and and shredder's seeing them on the astral

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plane and realizes i don't think alopex finds

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them but uh shredder writes the note and puts

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it on the door of the dojo that the weasels are

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with hob but they are safe and happy signed a

00:19:33.190 --> 00:19:41.069
friend yep yeah i like this and again they're

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they're doing something here that not a lot of

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comics would do. They're telling you a story.

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They're telling you a visual story. You don't,

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like I said, you don't need, like I knew every

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bit of this story. I mean, like I said, you,

00:20:03.650 --> 00:20:06.970
you, you have the, the, the missing poster that

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like you, you don't even have. Mutant Town, 3am,

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and then The Missing Poster. You don't even have

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any of the... What's the word? Exposition. No,

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you don't have the placeholders, the... Oh God,

00:20:33.789 --> 00:20:37.730
my brain is failing me. The location type stuff.

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Yeah. The captions, the K, the caption type stuff.

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You don't even have that. You just had. But you

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can like when we get to the panel where it's

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I think it's Leo. Maybe it's Leo. He's got blue

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slippers where the kid is is giving him the cup

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of coffee or hot chocolate or whatever. You know,

00:21:00.140 --> 00:21:03.000
OK, the kid's giving him a cup of thing and whatever.

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And it's like, here, come, you know. share and

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and do this and do that and it's it's christmas

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and we should all be together and then you got

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you know ghost shredder going around and checking

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in on everybody which is great because he's kind

00:21:18.700 --> 00:21:20.599
of keeping everybody together keeping an eye

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on everybody and it's cool and this issue actually

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reads really fast if you really think about it

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because there are no words whatsoever other than

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it's an advanced technique to read the pictures

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like you can't just look at the pictures and

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not have the story completed for you i think

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it takes a lot of skill yeah to do the pacing

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and to you know make sure that it makes sense

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from panel to panel but i do know people that

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will look at an abstract piece of art not a non

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-objective piece but something that actually

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has things in it that looks weird and they they

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don't read the art piece they they see it as

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just the shapes on the canvas but no if you look

00:22:00.309 --> 00:22:02.710
at that and if you see how the shapes relate

00:22:02.710 --> 00:22:04.569
and how the characters are relating and this

00:22:04.569 --> 00:22:06.609
and how the actions are relating and where they're

00:22:06.609 --> 00:22:09.710
going you can make sense of it without the need

00:22:09.710 --> 00:22:13.210
of words i think that's that's really kind of

00:22:13.210 --> 00:22:16.529
cool yeah you can't you couldn't really do that

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with any of the other talents that it takes to

00:22:20.670 --> 00:22:23.250
do a comic like you can't You can't take away

00:22:23.250 --> 00:22:25.170
the pictures and just have the words because

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then it'd be a novel. And you can't do just the

00:22:29.009 --> 00:22:33.329
colors but not the inking and the words because

00:22:33.329 --> 00:22:38.890
then it'd just be painting. Yep. Sorry, no turtle

00:22:38.890 --> 00:22:45.950
waxing today. Yeah, this 124 is awesome for the

00:22:45.950 --> 00:22:50.690
visual story that it gave us. So we get into

00:22:50.690 --> 00:22:55.349
120. Is that correct? Yeah, 125. We started out

00:22:55.349 --> 00:22:58.410
at Burnout Island months ago. Oh, boy. Which

00:22:58.410 --> 00:23:00.890
I didn't see coming. Yeah, we're going back to

00:23:00.890 --> 00:23:05.289
the past, everybody. How long have you been feeling

00:23:05.289 --> 00:23:10.250
unwell, Commander Zom? Oh, boy. Commander Zom

00:23:10.250 --> 00:23:16.609
is at the baby doctor. Yeah, we didn't... As

00:23:16.609 --> 00:23:18.390
soon as I read that, I'm like, uh -oh, she's

00:23:18.390 --> 00:23:23.119
pregnant. One of the... Krang's later, not Krang,

00:23:23.140 --> 00:23:26.619
let me, Utram. Utram, yep. One of the Utrams

00:23:26.619 --> 00:23:29.420
later, sorry, I was living in 2012 land. One

00:23:29.420 --> 00:23:32.339
of the Utrams later says that the Triceratons

00:23:32.339 --> 00:23:36.099
do not produce sexually or they don't have babies,

00:23:36.180 --> 00:23:39.680
they're clones. They don't have the equipment.

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And so it's kind of a miracle when we find out

00:23:43.059 --> 00:23:49.200
later this issue that she's pregnant. And. Oh,

00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:53.200
I forgot the evil cranky one's name. Uh, Shirell.

00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:57.119
Sure. Yeah. Shirell. He's the shredder in the,

00:23:57.119 --> 00:24:03.220
uh, 2003 series. Uh, later he's saying that these

00:24:03.220 --> 00:24:06.599
dead husks of Triceraton soldiers would be perfect

00:24:06.599 --> 00:24:10.200
to incubate new crank. And so just seeing that

00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:12.880
there's a reproduction issue with both of these,

00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:17.140
uh, species, uh, that are living here on earth,

00:24:17.259 --> 00:24:20.369
they've, they've got, issues with that and uh

00:24:20.369 --> 00:24:23.029
no it's barbaric to use our dead bodies they're

00:24:23.029 --> 00:24:25.069
soldiers we need to burn their bodies but we

00:24:25.069 --> 00:24:27.750
need more baby utroms how else are we going to

00:24:27.750 --> 00:24:31.630
do this so there's a debate there's unrest yes

00:24:31.630 --> 00:24:37.130
there's unrest please forgive the interruption

00:24:37.130 --> 00:24:40.789
sorry doctor what is it the final tests are complete

00:24:40.789 --> 00:24:45.930
and yep you're pregnant you're preggers you're

00:24:45.930 --> 00:24:52.250
preggers We go back to the present day and we're

00:24:52.250 --> 00:24:56.250
in the sewer. We're in somebody's apartment with

00:24:56.250 --> 00:25:00.890
April. And who is that? Oh, God. What's it? Mona.

00:25:01.170 --> 00:25:05.089
I think it's Mona. Yep. And hey, look, it's pepperoni.

00:25:05.450 --> 00:25:12.730
Mayor Stockman. Oh, God. Mayor Stockman. That

00:25:12.730 --> 00:25:16.519
guy. Would have been better if he just flew off,

00:25:16.519 --> 00:25:19.160
buzzed off like the fly he used to be. Yeah,

00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:20.700
I wonder if we're ever going to get him as a

00:25:20.700 --> 00:25:23.279
fly. I don't think we are. I could be wrong,

00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:25.720
but I don't think so. Yeah, we almost got it,

00:25:25.740 --> 00:25:28.980
and I thought it was coming, but it looks like

00:25:28.980 --> 00:25:31.400
the turtles are getting ready to train. They

00:25:31.400 --> 00:25:34.559
must be at the Splinter Dojo. Yep. Training Carmen,

00:25:34.700 --> 00:25:37.900
their first human trainee. Yep. So they're training

00:25:37.900 --> 00:25:47.599
Carmen, and whoa. jennica and what's the alopex

00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:52.440
no not alopex the um sheena sheena sheena sheena

00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:56.440
is off by herself and she goes to frankenstein

00:25:56.440 --> 00:26:01.480
yeah yeah she goes to dr frankenstein so we have

00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:06.799
a new character here dr barlow yeah later admits

00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:10.960
that he is A human turned mouse who has been

00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:13.680
performing surgery on himself to remove his mouse

00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:17.140
like features. And he's been helping other mutants

00:26:17.140 --> 00:26:20.680
of mutant town, both experimenting and working

00:26:20.680 --> 00:26:25.339
to turn them back into humans again. But just

00:26:25.339 --> 00:26:27.660
the way that he's drawn and the way that his

00:26:27.660 --> 00:26:32.019
repairs appear to be done all over the page right

00:26:32.019 --> 00:26:35.420
here from the go. Like he's just a little he's

00:26:35.420 --> 00:26:37.920
out there. He's got different strategies. So

00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:41.160
this book basically turns into, even though his

00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:43.759
name is Dr. Barlow, and even though this book

00:26:43.759 --> 00:26:46.759
is titled Mystic Sister because of things that

00:26:46.759 --> 00:26:50.720
happen later with Venus and certain powers that

00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:55.000
she has, it basically turns into Dr. Frankenstein

00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:59.019
because he is Dr. Like, look at his design. Like,

00:26:59.019 --> 00:27:05.230
seriously? Like, he's... I would rather have

00:27:05.230 --> 00:27:13.390
a mouser operate. The mousers are scary. They're

00:27:13.390 --> 00:27:18.250
scary robot mice. But this guy, like, I'm like,

00:27:18.450 --> 00:27:23.250
oh, boy. I hope the next trade is not this. This

00:27:23.250 --> 00:27:26.589
was like a horror movie the whole time. There

00:27:26.589 --> 00:27:29.210
are some parts that were, like, just a little

00:27:29.210 --> 00:27:33.900
over the edge for me later. Yeah. Every time

00:27:33.900 --> 00:27:43.099
he is on panel, it's like, we are going to horrify

00:27:43.099 --> 00:27:50.640
you no matter what. Casey gets caught by the

00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:55.779
frogs. Oh yeah, he got put out during training.

00:27:55.900 --> 00:28:00.200
He's kind of fallen apart a little bit in this

00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:04.130
arc. He's drinking and a little too violent.

00:28:04.630 --> 00:28:07.410
Yeah, Casey's turned into a little bit of a lost

00:28:07.410 --> 00:28:17.289
soul. Casey is... I hope he gets redeemed. I

00:28:17.289 --> 00:28:19.670
hope there is a saving grace for Casey because

00:28:19.670 --> 00:28:24.970
we do not want to see Casey go the way that his

00:28:24.970 --> 00:28:30.500
old man went. And I even say that... I think

00:28:30.500 --> 00:28:36.839
it's in this trade that they say. He's already

00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:38.960
leading the Purple Dragons. How much more like

00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:45.259
his father does he need to be? All the way. So

00:28:45.259 --> 00:28:54.240
we got Casey versus the Frogs. Which we're not

00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:58.079
mentioning. They're the punk frogs, which this

00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:01.339
particular issue of the singles got rebranded

00:29:01.339 --> 00:29:04.099
Teenage Mutant Ninja Punk Frogs. Did it really?

00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:07.539
Yep. It's Genghis, Attila. And I'm like, wait

00:29:07.539 --> 00:29:09.420
a minute. I had action figures and they were

00:29:09.420 --> 00:29:12.460
in the cartoon. So these are the punk frogs that

00:29:12.460 --> 00:29:17.519
Shredder mutated in the old cartoon. Yep. In

00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:20.319
a manner of speaking, it's their evolution. Yeah.

00:29:20.480 --> 00:29:24.420
Mutant Town gave them not permission, but it

00:29:24.420 --> 00:29:27.259
gave them. space to do a lot of those characters

00:29:27.259 --> 00:29:30.579
that we haven't seen yet absolutely i love that

00:29:30.579 --> 00:29:40.160
it's them um so yeah it's them uh jenny basically

00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:43.859
tells them dojo's closed guys and uh what's his

00:29:43.859 --> 00:29:46.579
name clyde it was that one the one with the weird

00:29:46.579 --> 00:29:48.920
shell he's the one who i saw took bonnie and

00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:51.740
he's talking about donatello i just got it bonnie

00:29:51.740 --> 00:29:54.539
and clyde So there's more than four of the frogs,

00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:57.900
and the frogs that Shredder named were Genghis,

00:29:57.900 --> 00:30:00.579
Attila, you know, the really dirtbag people from

00:30:00.579 --> 00:30:04.599
history, Napoleon. Yep. But now, since there's

00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:06.900
more than four of them, yeah, Bonnie and Clyde.

00:30:06.940 --> 00:30:12.279
Bonnie and Clyde, yep. Yep. Yeah. I didn't even,

00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:15.059
until you said it, I didn't even put it together,

00:30:15.220 --> 00:30:17.500
because Clyde was annoying as hell to me throughout

00:30:17.500 --> 00:30:21.079
this whole trade. He's like, go home, Clyde.

00:30:21.140 --> 00:30:25.009
Yep. Clyde's the one that, well, so the frogs

00:30:25.009 --> 00:30:27.269
bust into the dojo and say, dude, our friend

00:30:27.269 --> 00:30:30.430
Bonnie is missing. And Clyde's, I saw him with

00:30:30.430 --> 00:30:31.950
a turtle. I saw him with a turtle with a metal

00:30:31.950 --> 00:30:34.950
shell. And they think it's Don with his synthetic

00:30:34.950 --> 00:30:38.710
shell. So they show up at the dojo and basically

00:30:38.710 --> 00:30:41.349
just start a fight. Yeah, the fight breaks out.

00:30:41.410 --> 00:30:44.470
Fight breaks out. Fire breaks out. The dojo goes

00:30:44.470 --> 00:30:49.319
up in flames, essentially. uh the whole yeah

00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:51.940
the whole building burns yep oh man and there's

00:30:51.940 --> 00:30:54.200
some there's some neat homages so they've got

00:30:54.200 --> 00:30:56.980
the the fight going on uh the flames are all

00:30:56.980 --> 00:30:59.799
around them yeah and rafael at that point had

00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:01.640
gone out i think to look for casey or to look

00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:05.319
for somebody sheena out there because he's the

00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:08.319
constable that's kind of his job yeah but jennica

00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:10.640
says the line oh we could really use ref right

00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:14.200
about now and like yeah hey but then and then

00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:16.759
the door gets kicked open and in that kind of

00:31:17.569 --> 00:31:21.029
Tatsu arriving with more. Oh, no, it does. It

00:31:21.029 --> 00:31:23.750
is Casey. Casey does show up. Yeah, Casey shows

00:31:23.750 --> 00:31:26.430
up. Yeah. You want to tell me what you're doing

00:31:26.430 --> 00:31:31.170
with my little green pal over there? Oh, hey,

00:31:31.369 --> 00:31:38.369
who's the babe? Wayne Gretzky? On steroids? God,

00:31:38.509 --> 00:31:41.829
that movie lives in my head. I tried to watch

00:31:41.829 --> 00:31:43.809
that with my kid and I'm saying every line like,

00:31:43.910 --> 00:31:48.000
Dad, you got to stop. So sorry. I'll have to

00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:50.319
say this. Are you on Instagram? I don't know

00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:53.240
how much Instagramming you do. Mr. Reed's Hawaiian

00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:58.799
shirt. You and your Hawaiian shirts, Mr. Reed

00:31:58.799 --> 00:32:02.960
Magnum P .I. There's an account on Instagram.

00:32:03.059 --> 00:32:06.259
It's a music account. I forget what the guy's

00:32:06.259 --> 00:32:08.759
name is. I'll have to I'll have to send it to

00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:11.799
you. He's basically this guy who does the dad

00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:15.359
rock thing. And he'll do these videos where it's

00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:18.839
like dad shows up to pick up his kid from a party.

00:32:18.859 --> 00:32:22.440
But the party is playing 90s hits and the dad

00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:25.849
starts jamming out. And he puts little captions

00:32:25.849 --> 00:32:29.369
about the kids saying, oh, dad, please go home.

00:32:29.710 --> 00:32:32.109
Like he's just dropping his kid off at the party.

00:32:32.210 --> 00:32:34.950
But the dad wants to stay. Oh, it's hilarious.

00:32:35.069 --> 00:32:38.769
It's so good. It's hilarious. No, dude, 11 frigging

00:32:38.769 --> 00:32:40.990
years. Look, folks, we've been covering this

00:32:40.990 --> 00:32:43.710
series for 11 frigging years of this podcast.

00:32:44.509 --> 00:32:51.750
And any time they reference it, I swear to God,

00:32:51.849 --> 00:32:55.809
if they pull. Anything from the first or second

00:32:55.809 --> 00:32:59.529
movie. Even the. I swear. If they pull out a

00:32:59.529 --> 00:33:06.089
Burt pizza. Frisbee. Also good. I swear to God.

00:33:06.829 --> 00:33:09.329
We're going to quote it. Because we know it.

00:33:09.789 --> 00:33:15.130
I can't remember what I read last week. Let alone

00:33:15.130 --> 00:33:18.230
what I had for breakfast yesterday. You sit here.

00:33:18.430 --> 00:33:22.730
And you give me. You know. These lines to say.

00:33:23.540 --> 00:33:26.920
especially like as soon as i saw that as soon

00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:30.220
as i like i didn't even zoom i didn't even do

00:33:30.220 --> 00:33:33.599
guided view as soon as i saw the burning page

00:33:33.599 --> 00:33:38.400
i'm like it's it it's second time around yeah

00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:41.359
it's not it's the building is not second time

00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:44.279
around it's their other fort it's their other

00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:46.859
headquarters it's the splinter clan it's what

00:33:46.859 --> 00:33:50.369
it's not the set but it's basically Them homaging

00:33:50.369 --> 00:33:53.329
the second time around. And like you said, Jennica

00:33:53.329 --> 00:33:57.049
says, ah, we could really use Raph right about

00:33:57.049 --> 00:34:00.329
now. Literally, she's line for line. And this

00:34:00.329 --> 00:34:04.750
is why right now, folks, this is why we love

00:34:04.750 --> 00:34:08.670
and have loved and will always love everybody

00:34:08.670 --> 00:34:14.079
at IDW. Because they know what to do, when to

00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:17.280
do it, and when to pull the punches that they're

00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:21.719
pulling. They know when to throw the lines that

00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:25.920
we love. And it's in a moment. Like, normally

00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:28.840
in certain battles or certain fights, it's like,

00:34:28.900 --> 00:34:32.039
okay, punch, punch, kick, kick, whatever. Do

00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:35.300
a quip, do a this, do a that. Oh, he said this,

00:34:35.300 --> 00:34:38.840
or oh, he said that. But, you know, in the middle

00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:42.320
of this battle. If Mikey goes to a phone booth

00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:48.760
and says, yeah, I'd like a large blah, blah,

00:34:48.760 --> 00:34:52.039
blah. Oh, by the way, no anchovies. You put anchovies

00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:55.820
on this thing and you're in big trouble. It's

00:34:55.820 --> 00:34:58.139
going to get us because it's going to pull us

00:34:58.139 --> 00:35:02.840
right back to 1990 and that movie because that

00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:07.079
movie, number one, we grew up on it. Number two,

00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:10.820
it's the best Turtles movie. Uh -huh. Still,

00:35:11.019 --> 00:35:17.679
I wonder what the reader base was for this. Like,

00:35:17.679 --> 00:35:22.519
it has to be men our age. Like, that's got to

00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:25.360
be my primary population of readers. But I do

00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:28.079
wonder how many people are reading that and not

00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:31.239
getting the reference. I mean, some people might

00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:33.099
just miss it because they don't have the movie

00:35:33.099 --> 00:35:35.699
memorized like you or I. But, like, who wasn't

00:35:35.699 --> 00:35:37.780
there in 1990 to read that to get the reference?

00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:40.519
That's still reading this book. Yeah, Oliver

00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:44.579
has read the first trade paperback, but he hasn't

00:35:44.579 --> 00:35:46.760
gone further. Like, dude, you got to keep going.

00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:51.500
I got them all. They're right here. Oliver, your

00:35:51.500 --> 00:35:54.960
father has an entire library of Teenage Mutant

00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:57.579
Ninja Turtles comics in his basement. You can

00:35:57.579 --> 00:36:00.639
read them for free. You don't need to bring them

00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:03.219
back within seven days. They're there all the

00:36:03.219 --> 00:36:07.380
time. Multiple printings of all of them. That's

00:36:07.380 --> 00:36:10.710
right. That's right. But, yeah, he'll read it

00:36:10.710 --> 00:36:13.070
someday, I'm sure. Someday. Let's see, what was

00:36:13.070 --> 00:36:15.630
that old man talking about? What was he? Oh,

00:36:15.670 --> 00:36:18.849
this is good. What do we do? Nothing we can do.

00:36:19.250 --> 00:36:22.550
Can you see? I can't believe Raph wasn't here.

00:36:23.010 --> 00:36:29.369
I can't believe it. And, yeah, we go to a giant

00:36:29.369 --> 00:36:31.789
egg. Commander, it's beginning to, oh, it's the,

00:36:31.949 --> 00:36:35.730
yeah, it's the Triceratops. Speaking of another

00:36:35.730 --> 00:36:39.110
movie from the 90s that I can quote. Line for

00:36:39.110 --> 00:36:44.010
line. Oh, push, push. That's right. I've been

00:36:44.010 --> 00:36:46.730
present for the birth of every living creature

00:36:46.730 --> 00:36:49.309
on this island. I like to be there when they're

00:36:49.309 --> 00:36:56.809
born. Helps them recognize me. That's a good

00:36:56.809 --> 00:37:00.489
gold bloom. No, no, that was that was Attenborough.

00:37:00.690 --> 00:37:04.989
Richard, was that his name? Oh, yeah. It's still

00:37:04.989 --> 00:37:08.659
Jurassic Park. Yeah, it's still Jurassic Park.

00:37:08.900 --> 00:37:11.920
Oh, boy. My Jeff Goldblum has gotten crappy over

00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:13.519
the years. Yeah, as Richard Attenborough. I had

00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:18.059
to type that in to check. Yeah. Yeah, so the

00:37:18.059 --> 00:37:21.860
Triceraton baby is born. But, Colonel, this is

00:37:21.860 --> 00:37:25.320
only one child. Yes, Cleve, but it's nonetheless

00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:27.840
alarming. Oh, yeah, that story they're talking

00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:29.880
about when the slaves outnumber the masters.

00:37:30.510 --> 00:37:33.710
And it is most likely a sign of more to come.

00:37:33.929 --> 00:37:39.449
Her name will be Ciri. Aw, it's a baby Triceratops.

00:37:40.150 --> 00:37:47.590
That's right. Just don't say that too loud, folks.

00:37:47.670 --> 00:37:54.940
Hey, Ciri. I know, right? Wait, if I... And that's

00:37:54.940 --> 00:37:58.920
how we end this issue with them kind of conspiring.

00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:03.260
Cover artist is on 126, because that cover on

00:38:03.260 --> 00:38:06.119
my issue is really nice. Who did that? Which

00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:10.760
one from 126? Pablo Tunica. Yep. I should recognize

00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:15.019
that. Oh, man, the alternate cover on, I don't

00:38:15.019 --> 00:38:18.619
know if you've seen this, but the alternate cover

00:38:18.619 --> 00:38:24.639
by, oh, wow, that's what? That's Eastman? Really?

00:38:25.219 --> 00:38:28.739
It's so crazy to look at anything he illustrates

00:38:28.739 --> 00:38:31.460
that's not Turtles. He's done some Wolverine

00:38:31.460 --> 00:38:35.380
covers, some Daredevil covers. Oh, Kevin? Yeah.

00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:39.820
No, no, no, no. It's always so weird to see him

00:38:39.820 --> 00:38:42.579
drawing anything but the Turtles. You know how

00:38:42.579 --> 00:38:45.960
the trades work. The trades have the alternates

00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:48.019
at the back of the end of the issue. Just send

00:38:48.019 --> 00:38:53.380
it to you on Facebook. But it's the black and

00:38:53.380 --> 00:38:56.980
white, like, I've never seen an Eastman cover

00:38:56.980 --> 00:39:03.059
like that. That's cool as hell. Yeah, that must

00:39:03.059 --> 00:39:04.840
not be. I'm going to have to check that out.

00:39:05.420 --> 00:39:09.760
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was like, who did that? And

00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:11.119
I looked up at the right -hand corner. I'm like,

00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:15.210
ooh, Kevin did that. Very cool. But yeah, Pablo

00:39:15.210 --> 00:39:18.849
Tunica did the one for 126 for the frogs. And

00:39:18.849 --> 00:39:23.050
we start this issue at Burnell Island. It was

00:39:23.050 --> 00:39:25.170
so weird for me to be jumping back and forth

00:39:25.170 --> 00:39:28.469
between this and the turtles story. Like I'm

00:39:28.469 --> 00:39:31.170
waiting for them to tie in and I can't see how

00:39:31.170 --> 00:39:33.750
it's going to tie in. And I think ultimately

00:39:33.750 --> 00:39:40.710
they're setting up the next arc. Should I call

00:39:40.710 --> 00:39:44.289
it jarring? Was this the place for it? I don't

00:39:44.289 --> 00:39:47.230
know, but at least it's interesting. I thought

00:39:47.230 --> 00:39:53.750
because of the way they're setting it up, I thought

00:39:53.750 --> 00:39:57.570
that things were going to go faster. Yeah, yeah,

00:39:57.570 --> 00:39:59.510
yeah. I thought we were going to encounter them

00:39:59.510 --> 00:40:02.269
before the end of the arc or something. Yeah,

00:40:02.289 --> 00:40:06.440
I thought that we were going to... Honestly,

00:40:06.539 --> 00:40:09.079
I thought that we were going to encounter Venus

00:40:09.079 --> 00:40:13.059
in 124. We don't. We only see the beginning of

00:40:13.059 --> 00:40:15.480
Dr. Barlow's stuff. We don't really see Venus

00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:20.760
in 124. We only meet Dr. Barlow in 124. We kind

00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:23.179
of get the mystery of something shady is going

00:40:23.179 --> 00:40:25.559
on with Dr. Barlow because he's a Frankenstein

00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:30.719
doctor. And then we get this Triceraton baby

00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:34.880
stuff with this thing and with the U -troms.

00:40:35.230 --> 00:40:37.289
And everything else. And that's fine. I like

00:40:37.289 --> 00:40:38.769
it. I think it's character building. I think

00:40:38.769 --> 00:40:42.050
it's them juggling the various factions, which

00:40:42.050 --> 00:40:45.530
is fine. I don't find it jarring. Because for

00:40:45.530 --> 00:40:48.809
me, jarring is like if they were jumping back

00:40:48.809 --> 00:40:53.789
and forth in time. Like if this was six months

00:40:53.789 --> 00:40:57.250
ago, six months later, three days ago, four days

00:40:57.250 --> 00:40:59.889
ahead. If they were doing something like that,

00:40:59.969 --> 00:41:01.929
I would really have a problem. But they're not.

00:41:02.730 --> 00:41:06.429
Yeah, it all hasn't come together yet, but they're

00:41:06.429 --> 00:41:13.469
giving us enough of, like, where we kind of end

00:41:13.469 --> 00:41:17.869
this U -Tron thing here where I think it's Shirell.

00:41:18.030 --> 00:41:22.070
First, we must take care of the meddling regenta.

00:41:22.650 --> 00:41:27.409
And you see the doctor have the shock face. And

00:41:27.409 --> 00:41:36.440
then we cut to... Mona? I always forget her name.

00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:41.800
Yes, it's right there. Mona. Well, thanks for

00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:45.099
letting us sleep at your place, Mona. Sure thing.

00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:50.340
What a mess, you guys. So the transition between

00:41:50.340 --> 00:41:53.960
the end of the Uhtram part here going into where

00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:57.320
Mona's place is, I find that easy. I find it

00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:01.539
interesting. And then we get into Dark Casey.

00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:04.699
Yeah, well, so what are we going to do about

00:42:04.699 --> 00:42:06.300
these frogs that came in and burnt the place

00:42:06.300 --> 00:42:09.280
down? Casey goes, revenge. Yeah. And then the

00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:13.340
next panel, Leo goes, yeah, revenge. Which Jenica

00:42:13.340 --> 00:42:15.980
says, dang, Leo, I didn't expect it like that.

00:42:17.460 --> 00:42:20.380
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you come into my house and

00:42:20.380 --> 00:42:24.159
burn it down. I think I understand why. Absolutely.

00:42:26.519 --> 00:42:33.179
So, okay. I know. We all know. Okay. We get it,

00:42:33.199 --> 00:42:35.800
that they're at home, they're not going to have

00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:39.840
their bandanas on, and as long as you see a bandana

00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:42.019
around their neck, I guess, no, technically,

00:42:42.199 --> 00:42:45.800
Alopex doesn't have hers on either. But, like,

00:42:45.820 --> 00:42:48.179
I see Donnie's around his neck. Okay, Donnie

00:42:48.179 --> 00:42:51.440
wears purple. Alopex and Raph are together. Raph

00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:53.639
has his on because he's the constable, and Raph

00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:56.559
has gone from red to black. I don't really like

00:42:56.559 --> 00:42:59.860
that. Yeah, I kept thinking he was Leo sometimes.

00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:05.059
Like Dark Leo from back in the day. Yeah. I kept

00:43:05.059 --> 00:43:09.820
thinking he was frigging Ronan. Oh, yeah. Like,

00:43:09.860 --> 00:43:16.639
it's just overall, it's a small complaint. And

00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:18.619
at the end of the day, it's not going to really

00:43:18.619 --> 00:43:22.300
jar me because of how the conversation goes between

00:43:22.300 --> 00:43:25.059
Leo and Raph, because we know how Leo and Raph

00:43:25.059 --> 00:43:28.139
talk to each other. The only time it got me was

00:43:28.139 --> 00:43:31.400
that the silent issue. Because we didn't have

00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:34.639
the verbal cues, and if you're not... I mean,

00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:37.099
I've gotten to the point where because of Rhonda's

00:43:37.099 --> 00:43:39.920
coloring them so consistently, I can tell which

00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:43.019
character's which just by the green. But nope.

00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:45.659
In that issue, I didn't have enough context.

00:43:46.260 --> 00:43:53.800
Yeah. In this issue, I don't mind... I love the

00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:56.320
coloring. I will always love Rhonda's coloring.

00:43:58.079 --> 00:44:01.840
However, I do have a problem with how Casey is

00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:07.780
drawn. I don't like the way he looks. He just...

00:44:07.780 --> 00:44:12.659
I don't know. He just doesn't look like Casey

00:44:12.659 --> 00:44:17.639
to me. I'm not saying he has to be super slick

00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:21.300
human looking. I know he can look disheveled,

00:44:21.300 --> 00:44:25.300
but it's just the way... I don't know, it just...

00:44:25.579 --> 00:44:29.179
It just doesn't like in the panel where Raph

00:44:29.179 --> 00:44:31.940
said where he and Raph are going at it. Sorry,

00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:35.440
man, but you ain't stealthy at all. You're a

00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:38.280
beat up and you're loose. You're a loose kid.

00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:43.360
And look who's talking. Like, I understand that.

00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:45.980
I forget who's the artist on this, but Pablo

00:44:45.980 --> 00:44:51.119
Tunica. Is it Pablo? OK. It's not that I don't

00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:53.239
like Pablo's art because I love how Pablo draws

00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:57.320
Raph here. I think that's cool. I just don't

00:44:57.320 --> 00:45:00.400
like the way he draws Casey because I understand

00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:02.940
what he's doing. He's trying to show that Casey

00:45:02.940 --> 00:45:08.659
is, like Raph says, beat up and drunk and all

00:45:08.659 --> 00:45:15.460
of that. Casey and Dr. Barlow could almost be

00:45:15.460 --> 00:45:21.039
doppelgangers in this to me. I don't know. It's

00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:24.320
I guess they wanted this part. And even even

00:45:24.320 --> 00:45:27.440
the way the couple panels later here where Alopex

00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:30.719
is kind of yelling where she says, Raph, can

00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:34.219
you not be the constable for like five minutes,

00:45:34.360 --> 00:45:40.019
please? Like, I don't know. It just. I don't

00:45:40.019 --> 00:45:43.719
know. I'm here. Also, I got the sense that this

00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:50.070
arc was rushed or that it was. Again, I think

00:45:50.070 --> 00:45:53.050
we're almost still dealing with pandemic delays

00:45:53.050 --> 00:45:56.230
at this point in the series, or at least recovering

00:45:56.230 --> 00:45:58.530
from them, trying to get the story and artists

00:45:58.530 --> 00:46:01.929
back, kind of working together at the same time.

00:46:02.429 --> 00:46:08.789
And parts of this arc felt rushed, and I wonder

00:46:08.789 --> 00:46:13.269
if anything like that is a result of that rushing.

00:46:13.909 --> 00:46:17.690
And so I can't, I don't think I want to judge

00:46:17.690 --> 00:46:22.059
it. as harshly as, as I would, but you know,

00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:24.940
Hey, I mean, at the end of the day, I'm not trying

00:46:24.940 --> 00:46:27.679
to judge it harshly. I'm just saying that it

00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:31.300
just doesn't, I don't know. It just doesn't,

00:46:31.300 --> 00:46:35.099
it doesn't look like the character. Yeah. And

00:46:35.099 --> 00:46:38.739
I'm trying to see here. They all draw better

00:46:38.739 --> 00:46:44.059
than I do. Okay. Yeah. But like, I'm trying to

00:46:44.059 --> 00:46:46.780
see if I can see the copyright. I can't see the

00:46:46.780 --> 00:46:52.929
copyright. I will. I got that right here. Let's

00:46:52.929 --> 00:46:58.690
see here. Sorry, folks. 2022. No, they were way

00:46:58.690 --> 00:47:02.989
out of the pandemic. It just feels like it because

00:47:02.989 --> 00:47:05.510
Sophie's Ark started during the pandemic. Yeah.

00:47:05.630 --> 00:47:11.829
We had the issues. Mutant Town was... Yeah. I

00:47:11.829 --> 00:47:14.210
don't know, man. It just doesn't... At the end

00:47:14.210 --> 00:47:17.010
of the day, art is art. And this is the choice

00:47:17.010 --> 00:47:20.530
they made. And that's fine. I just don't like

00:47:20.530 --> 00:47:23.409
the choice. I don't like the design and that's

00:47:23.409 --> 00:47:27.050
okay. I still love the story. I still love the

00:47:27.050 --> 00:47:29.150
story that they're telling. I mean, you know,

00:47:29.170 --> 00:47:31.550
it's like how we've always talked about the art,

00:47:31.650 --> 00:47:34.829
how the arts change. Like we love certain artists.

00:47:34.909 --> 00:47:37.510
We were not so big in other artists and that's

00:47:37.510 --> 00:47:41.349
okay. Like I'm not sitting here. Say I'm not

00:47:41.349 --> 00:47:44.750
one of those idiots on the internet. This is

00:47:44.750 --> 00:47:48.949
the worst art ever. I'm going and I'm being facetious

00:47:48.949 --> 00:47:51.989
here, folks. I'm sarcastic. I want to make sure

00:47:51.989 --> 00:47:54.409
people understand I'm being sarcastic. This is

00:47:54.409 --> 00:47:56.829
the worst art ever. I'm going to hunt this artist

00:47:56.829 --> 00:47:59.570
down because they suck and I don't want them

00:47:59.570 --> 00:48:02.349
to ever do art again. No, I'm not saying that

00:48:02.349 --> 00:48:05.110
at all. I'm just saying to me, it's a little

00:48:05.110 --> 00:48:11.090
more horrifying looking like. I miss the way

00:48:11.090 --> 00:48:14.449
that Raph and Alopex, like, I like the romantic

00:48:14.449 --> 00:48:18.269
way that, so stupid, but I like the way, the

00:48:18.269 --> 00:48:20.730
romantic way that Raph and Alopex looked like

00:48:20.730 --> 00:48:23.730
back in Northampton. If that makes any sense.

00:48:24.449 --> 00:48:29.570
Like, I don't know. It is what it is. Like, okay,

00:48:30.030 --> 00:48:35.030
so again, on the same page, it's page 57 of the

00:48:35.030 --> 00:48:37.929
trade, but it's that same page where she says,

00:48:37.969 --> 00:48:40.989
Raph, can you not, uh be the constable for like

00:48:40.989 --> 00:48:44.369
five seconds it's that like second panel to the

00:48:44.369 --> 00:48:47.530
right where she says where he says where she

00:48:47.530 --> 00:48:49.949
says there's a time and a place for everything

00:48:49.949 --> 00:48:53.829
just give it a rest right now it looks like to

00:48:53.829 --> 00:48:57.130
me she's going to bite his head off and i don't

00:48:57.130 --> 00:48:59.969
mean it looks like to me she's going to basically

00:48:59.969 --> 00:49:02.869
rip his eyes out with her teeth like it just

00:49:03.469 --> 00:49:06.590
Yeah, there's some facial proportions that don't

00:49:06.590 --> 00:49:10.230
quite get it. Yeah, it just doesn't, I don't

00:49:10.230 --> 00:49:13.630
know. I think that's where I feel like it's rushed,

00:49:13.769 --> 00:49:16.409
because the cover is beautiful, and there are

00:49:16.409 --> 00:49:18.449
interior panels that are beautiful. There's just

00:49:18.449 --> 00:49:22.969
a page here and there where it looks like it

00:49:22.969 --> 00:49:27.489
just needed to get done. Yep. So we go back to

00:49:27.489 --> 00:49:33.670
the punk frogs and Mikey and Alopex. I don't

00:49:33.670 --> 00:49:38.070
remember where they say it, but Mikey being more

00:49:38.070 --> 00:49:42.150
emotionally aware and sensitive and more of the

00:49:42.150 --> 00:49:44.510
listener than everybody else. He's gotten the

00:49:44.510 --> 00:49:48.710
idea that they need to talk to these frogs. He

00:49:48.710 --> 00:49:51.789
senses something is not right. He doesn't want

00:49:51.789 --> 00:49:53.329
to go in there swinging. He doesn't want to go

00:49:53.329 --> 00:49:57.309
in there with revenge. And somebody in the background

00:49:57.309 --> 00:50:00.889
says, man, I like leader Michelangelo. Yeah,

00:50:00.909 --> 00:50:05.159
there's my growth. yeah but mikey has always

00:50:05.159 --> 00:50:09.780
had that growth yep yep i mean well but i don't

00:50:09.780 --> 00:50:12.360
usually you don't get to hear him be referred

00:50:12.360 --> 00:50:15.079
to or thought of as any kind of leader and so

00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:18.820
that was i'm hoping that we get to see that more

00:50:18.820 --> 00:50:23.619
someday i mean like he him acting as leader yeah

00:50:23.619 --> 00:50:28.800
like he did with the kids saving them yep absolutely

00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:32.639
so we get the We get the frogs versus the turtles.

00:50:34.079 --> 00:50:37.079
We get all that. I like how this looks. I think

00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:39.679
that's cool. Yeah, these are some good pages.

00:50:40.019 --> 00:50:42.780
Yeah, these are very good pages. Very, very,

00:50:42.820 --> 00:50:45.480
very, very cool. We get back to the sewer here.

00:50:45.780 --> 00:50:48.960
We see a Triceraton in the sewer? Because it's

00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:53.079
Dawn and Alopex, and they're looking in on...

00:50:53.079 --> 00:50:56.460
Oh, yeah, they go... They're finding... They

00:50:56.460 --> 00:50:59.980
fell in somewhere. Hard to tell. how they got

00:50:59.980 --> 00:51:01.780
moved around and separated there, but they are

00:51:01.780 --> 00:51:08.300
in Dr. Barlow's area. Yep. Oh, two of Dr. Barlow's

00:51:08.300 --> 00:51:12.699
assistants. It's Dirtbag and Groundshuck. Yep.

00:51:12.739 --> 00:51:14.659
The two action figures that I don't remember

00:51:14.659 --> 00:51:17.940
if they were in a cartoon. Yep. Bingo. We're

00:51:17.940 --> 00:51:20.000
dealing with a real mind here. Yeah, because

00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:25.449
who says it? Raph and Leo. Raph says, we need

00:51:25.449 --> 00:51:27.690
to find Donnie and Alopex. Yeah, then let's get

00:51:27.690 --> 00:51:30.809
the hell out of here. Come back with reinforcements.

00:51:31.530 --> 00:51:36.630
And then we see Alopex. You okay? And then they

00:51:36.630 --> 00:51:45.769
go hunting and they find Dr. Barlow. And, yeah.

00:51:48.750 --> 00:51:55.820
Donnie. I can't say that I have, but we... Are

00:51:55.820 --> 00:51:59.519
you here for a consultation? Oh, my God, no.

00:52:00.780 --> 00:52:04.519
And we go back to the U -Trubs and the Triceratons.

00:52:04.519 --> 00:52:07.880
Maybe if you cleaned your doctor vest shirt.

00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:12.179
Yeah, really. Absolutely. Clean your doctor vest.

00:52:13.800 --> 00:52:18.420
Scrubs. Yeah. Scrubs. There you go. Superman.

00:52:21.039 --> 00:52:23.139
That's all I can remember off the top of my head

00:52:23.139 --> 00:52:25.619
from Scrubs. Da -da, Superman, the theme song.

00:52:26.400 --> 00:52:29.039
I need to watch that show again. That was a good

00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:35.840
show. So, the Triceraton, we basically end with

00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:40.079
the U -Troms and the Triceraton fighting over

00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:43.380
the baby. Jor -El says, what did he say here?

00:52:44.179 --> 00:52:47.119
You aren't going anywhere, Commander. I've had

00:52:47.119 --> 00:52:52.820
it with this. so -called truce that favors your

00:52:52.820 --> 00:52:56.960
people and dooms mine. That's not true, Jor -El.

00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:03.260
Please stand down, Jor -El. And he says, I don't

00:53:03.260 --> 00:53:09.800
believe I take orders from you. And he goes to

00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:13.940
fire. He kills the Triceraton. The baby goes

00:53:13.940 --> 00:53:19.690
up and up and up. As the Triceraton, as Zom,

00:53:19.730 --> 00:53:23.030
goes down and dies. And that's how the issue

00:53:23.030 --> 00:53:29.050
ends. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. I'm glad I wasn't reading

00:53:29.050 --> 00:53:31.349
this monthly, because waiting 30 days for that

00:53:31.349 --> 00:53:34.650
would have been a killer. I'm hoping I get back

00:53:34.650 --> 00:53:36.090
to the point where I can read these in the car

00:53:36.090 --> 00:53:41.530
again. Oh, God. You and your car. No. Wait for

00:53:41.530 --> 00:53:43.309
the trade, folks. Wait for the trade. Read the

00:53:43.309 --> 00:53:49.730
whole story all at once. So we begin the next

00:53:49.730 --> 00:53:58.409
one. Morel, go! And keep Ciri safe. And Morel

00:53:58.409 --> 00:54:03.670
goes. And the Triceratons attack for the herd.

00:54:03.710 --> 00:54:07.769
And we have an all -out battle. And Morel takes

00:54:07.769 --> 00:54:12.650
Ciri under the thing here and takes her away.

00:54:14.990 --> 00:54:21.269
puts her in a Superman -like spaceship. It's

00:54:21.269 --> 00:54:23.469
not a Superman -like spaceship, folks. Actually,

00:54:23.469 --> 00:54:34.170
it's a age -uppinator. Yeah. There's a Superman

00:54:34.170 --> 00:54:37.570
thing in the movies where they have all the biopods

00:54:37.570 --> 00:54:40.610
in there and they do things like that. But yeah,

00:54:40.610 --> 00:54:44.039
it's an age -uppinator. I can't believe I get

00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:46.900
a Doofenshmirtz reference in a Turtles podcast.

00:54:47.880 --> 00:54:53.079
Oh, boy. But basically, yes, it's an age progression

00:54:53.079 --> 00:54:57.860
machine. Growth rate, two years, three years,

00:54:57.940 --> 00:55:03.360
five years. We go back to Dr. Barlow's. Meanwhile,

00:55:03.519 --> 00:55:06.420
in Mutant Town, we got Donnie, Dr. Barlow, and

00:55:06.420 --> 00:55:12.840
Alopex. all of the other turtles and Casey. Dr.

00:55:13.039 --> 00:55:16.760
Barlow wants to tend to Leo's injuries. It's

00:55:16.760 --> 00:55:19.000
for Casey, though. He's human. We don't serve

00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:24.679
your kind here. Yeah. Ding, ding, ding, ding,

00:55:24.679 --> 00:55:27.739
ding. An hour in, folks. We get a Star Wars reference.

00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:32.440
That's right. It's for your kind. That panel

00:55:32.440 --> 00:55:35.519
where he introduces himself. Oh, God. Horror

00:55:35.519 --> 00:55:40.489
movie character? Yeah. He's just... so off -putting.

00:55:40.489 --> 00:55:44.329
I think we're glancing over the fact that Donatello,

00:55:44.449 --> 00:55:48.050
with the synthetic shell and hearing about this

00:55:48.050 --> 00:55:50.550
guy who's performing plastic surgery on mutants,

00:55:50.630 --> 00:55:55.809
is interested in what he's got to say. He doesn't

00:55:55.809 --> 00:55:58.949
seem to be as horrified by the filth everywhere

00:55:58.949 --> 00:56:03.570
and the mutilations that this guy has done to

00:56:03.570 --> 00:56:08.159
himself. Like, oh man, Donnie, are you seriously

00:56:08.159 --> 00:56:12.500
considering this? And how sorry, sore off must

00:56:12.500 --> 00:56:15.340
you be to want that? Yeah, Donnie must really

00:56:15.340 --> 00:56:19.519
be in a lot of pain because, yikes. Yeah, I think

00:56:19.519 --> 00:56:24.440
you're right. It's not that it's bothering him

00:56:24.440 --> 00:56:30.360
from a spiritual point. No, he's experiencing

00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:34.219
pain. He's got this hunk of metal hanging from

00:56:34.219 --> 00:56:37.780
his back. Did not grow there. Yeah, it's not

00:56:37.780 --> 00:56:42.260
natural. Yep. We get a Dr. Barlow says to Donnie,

00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:44.320
I'll be happy to schedule a consultation for

00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:47.659
you to discuss further. I'll be honest, doctor.

00:56:47.800 --> 00:56:51.960
I find this all very grisly, but I am interested

00:56:51.960 --> 00:56:58.579
to hear more. Like you said. Oh, boy. And we

00:56:58.579 --> 00:57:02.619
get an argument between Donnie and who's in the

00:57:02.619 --> 00:57:06.230
red in the red. Is that Leo? yeah okay because

00:57:06.230 --> 00:57:09.630
way to go you know that's like hey come on i

00:57:09.630 --> 00:57:13.469
can't tell it's look for the scarred eye the

00:57:13.469 --> 00:57:17.750
scar that's yeah that's true that confirms it

00:57:17.750 --> 00:57:19.880
i wasn't sure but Yeah, I wasn't sure either

00:57:19.880 --> 00:57:21.719
because I couldn't see the scar over his eye

00:57:21.719 --> 00:57:24.440
because I was looking at where Raph was yelling

00:57:24.440 --> 00:57:27.260
at him, where Raph says, we can't just go into

00:57:27.260 --> 00:57:29.019
sneaking into people's houses without harder

00:57:29.019 --> 00:57:30.840
evidence. I was trying to figure out what the

00:57:30.840 --> 00:57:33.380
argument was because it started with Donnie,

00:57:33.400 --> 00:57:35.760
but I was trying to figure out who was, yeah.

00:57:36.719 --> 00:57:41.820
So they all get into an argument. And then Alopex

00:57:41.820 --> 00:57:49.750
yells at Raph. She says, I don't know about laws

00:57:49.750 --> 00:57:52.389
or regulations or anything about how much more

00:57:52.389 --> 00:57:55.329
do you need. Raph, you and me were both experimenting

00:57:55.329 --> 00:57:58.170
on. You should be breaking down the guy's door.

00:57:58.710 --> 00:58:02.570
LFX, quiet. Don't ever talk about that. Yeah,

00:58:02.590 --> 00:58:05.909
but it's such a sore spot for him. Very sore

00:58:05.909 --> 00:58:09.329
spot. Hey, instead of crashing with Mona again,

00:58:09.489 --> 00:58:12.670
what if we stayed at the old church bunker? Mikey's

00:58:12.670 --> 00:58:14.510
trying to keep it light. I love how they all

00:58:14.510 --> 00:58:17.949
grin after his suggestion. Yeah, I totally forgot

00:58:17.949 --> 00:58:20.570
how much potential this old church had. We could

00:58:20.570 --> 00:58:22.190
even have the new dojo here, make it a community

00:58:22.190 --> 00:58:24.869
center. Like, yeah, that would have been a great

00:58:24.869 --> 00:58:29.050
lair for a TV series. Yes, it would have been.

00:58:30.429 --> 00:58:33.670
Wait, who the hell is he talking to? Who's this?

00:58:34.010 --> 00:58:36.590
Barlow. Who's he talking to on the phone? Oh,

00:58:36.630 --> 00:58:40.969
I think I know. And I don't think they tell you

00:58:40.969 --> 00:58:50.300
yet. But I think it's Null. So my audience, dear

00:58:50.300 --> 00:58:53.360
audience, I've had this weird flashback experience

00:58:53.360 --> 00:58:57.860
reading this. There are pages where I know I

00:58:57.860 --> 00:59:00.599
have never seen before as I reread it for this

00:59:00.599 --> 00:59:03.440
podcast. And then there are pages that I know

00:59:03.440 --> 00:59:05.300
what's happening and I know what's going to happen.

00:59:05.380 --> 00:59:09.159
And I don't know how. But like, I don't know

00:59:09.159 --> 00:59:18.420
how I know that that's null. bad team of ninja

00:59:18.420 --> 00:59:22.780
turtles yeah um and that's why bartle's mentioning

00:59:22.780 --> 00:59:25.420
that he was commissioned to make these turtles

00:59:25.420 --> 00:59:29.159
and he's letting this person know over the phone

00:59:29.159 --> 00:59:32.019
that he's got donatello hooked and that that

00:59:32.019 --> 00:59:35.380
might lead to something and i think alopex saw

00:59:35.380 --> 00:59:39.400
uh failed experiments on turtles earlier that's

00:59:39.400 --> 00:59:42.860
right that's right okay gotcha gotcha uh -huh

00:59:43.400 --> 00:59:46.860
And as this issue progresses, he shows Donnie

00:59:46.860 --> 00:59:52.019
his horrific experiments. Oh, boy. Yeah, so Don

00:59:52.019 --> 00:59:54.599
and Alopex go back, and Alopex is sneaking around

00:59:54.599 --> 01:00:02.139
while Donnie has Dr. Barlow distracted. But Barlow

01:00:02.139 --> 01:00:08.960
shows him red dragon scales from issue 100. The

01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:12.989
whole thing that I... forgot happened. It was,

01:00:13.050 --> 01:00:15.369
oh yeah, there's a giant dragon in New York City.

01:00:16.269 --> 01:00:20.349
So the EPF had cleaned that up, but Barlow says,

01:00:20.409 --> 01:00:22.489
these are a few pieces that I've gotten and they're

01:00:22.489 --> 01:00:25.230
radiating this weird energy that we can't tell

01:00:25.230 --> 01:00:27.849
while that's magic. And meanwhile, the panel

01:00:27.849 --> 01:00:30.730
that did it for me was at the same time Alopex

01:00:30.730 --> 01:00:33.829
is down in the basement finding body parts and

01:00:33.829 --> 01:00:37.969
corpses and dissections. And I was like, oh,

01:00:37.989 --> 01:00:40.610
okay. If that were drawn with any more detail,

01:00:41.870 --> 01:00:45.489
This would have to be a mature section. Yep.

01:00:47.269 --> 01:00:50.230
Yeah, she's running through the basement and

01:00:50.230 --> 01:00:52.809
catching all this stuff and seeing all this stuff.

01:00:53.030 --> 01:01:01.969
And she opens the door. Oh, God. Here she is.

01:01:04.849 --> 01:01:12.719
I call her Venus. What? An interesting take on

01:01:12.719 --> 01:01:14.659
this character now that we've actually seen her.

01:01:15.019 --> 01:01:21.059
Yeah. Like the full panel of her. Oh, my God.

01:01:21.820 --> 01:01:26.000
Yeah, she's for readers that have not looked

01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:29.940
or are relying on us. She's been Frankensteined

01:01:29.940 --> 01:01:34.960
together out of frog parts, it seems. But she's

01:01:34.960 --> 01:01:38.579
got a fake metallic plaster on the belly shell.

01:01:39.099 --> 01:01:41.460
part of the turtle. Her arms and legs are missing,

01:01:41.639 --> 01:01:46.579
her head's been stitched together, and she's

01:01:46.579 --> 01:01:49.000
glowing mystically, so there's more than just

01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:54.300
surgery happening here. Yeah, there's definitely

01:01:54.300 --> 01:01:59.800
more than just surgery happening here. Oh boy,

01:02:00.019 --> 01:02:06.000
so we get to the next issue. Which has a beautiful

01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:09.300
cover. Yep, this is the main cover of the trade.

01:02:10.940 --> 01:02:15.639
Done by Pablo. Suspended. Hanging. Oh, kind of

01:02:15.639 --> 01:02:23.380
like in one of the Infinity War movies. Oh gosh,

01:02:23.639 --> 01:02:30.980
Blue Robot. Played by Karen Gillian. When he's

01:02:30.980 --> 01:02:36.670
got her hanging and dismantled. Nebula. It was

01:02:36.670 --> 01:02:41.849
on the tip of my tongue. So very up that alley.

01:02:42.250 --> 01:02:45.349
Yep, yep. With the dragon scale being lowered

01:02:45.349 --> 01:02:50.050
into her shell. Yep. We begin this one on Burnout

01:02:50.050 --> 01:02:58.150
Island. Siri has been aged to 18 years. Yep.

01:03:01.010 --> 01:03:10.630
And... She's all grown up and you need to command

01:03:10.630 --> 01:03:12.929
one of your people's scout ships and escape.

01:03:13.070 --> 01:03:18.889
I understand. Siri, take this. She hands her

01:03:18.889 --> 01:03:22.789
the thing. She goes to escape. She drops the

01:03:22.789 --> 01:03:31.250
thing. And then they're found by Shirell in his

01:03:31.250 --> 01:03:36.159
murder mech. Yeah. Definitely a murder mech.

01:03:36.500 --> 01:03:40.320
Flashback to Mutant Town, and Alopex is in a

01:03:40.320 --> 01:03:43.000
battle for her life with... Gosh, I always got

01:03:43.000 --> 01:03:45.920
their names mixed up. Groundchuck? Dirtbag. Dirtbag

01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:51.420
the mole. Yep. And Groundchuck the woodchuck.

01:03:53.079 --> 01:03:55.380
How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck

01:03:55.380 --> 01:03:58.800
could chuck wood? Oh, boy. I can't believe I

01:03:58.800 --> 01:04:01.659
did a woodchuck joke in February, folks. Even

01:04:01.659 --> 01:04:04.619
though you'll hear this in Mutant March. Oh,

01:04:04.639 --> 01:04:10.539
boy. So, yeah. So we get Venus and Dr. Barlow

01:04:10.539 --> 01:04:18.619
and Donatello. And we see her frog limb. And

01:04:18.619 --> 01:04:21.280
we see Donnie kind of attack Dr. Barlow a little

01:04:21.280 --> 01:04:27.719
bit here. Donnie realizes the extent of his horrific

01:04:27.719 --> 01:04:32.599
experiments on dead things. Yes. And this Venus.

01:04:33.150 --> 01:04:36.510
new turtle actually was bonnie the punk frog

01:04:36.510 --> 01:04:39.150
well she was dead when i started operating her

01:04:39.150 --> 01:04:40.909
we just brought her back to life with the dragon

01:04:40.909 --> 01:04:44.730
scale so we definitely are frankensteining this

01:04:44.730 --> 01:04:49.449
together yes very much so that is not cool dr

01:04:49.449 --> 01:04:52.730
barlow that's not cool at all i think i used

01:04:52.730 --> 01:04:55.190
to be bonnie but my memory is fuzzy there's a

01:04:55.190 --> 01:04:58.070
fight that breaks out she has some sort of memory

01:04:58.070 --> 01:05:04.369
and then we get to alopex It's not Jenica, is

01:05:04.369 --> 01:05:08.170
it? No. Sheena. I know it's Sheena. Who's the

01:05:08.170 --> 01:05:10.849
green one? Oh, that's Donnie. He's waking up.

01:05:10.969 --> 01:05:15.369
Oh, it's Donnie. Yeah, okay. Donnie, Alopex,

01:05:15.369 --> 01:05:23.610
and Sheena. Okay. And so Venus is now connecting

01:05:23.610 --> 01:05:27.829
with him telepathically. They now have a telepathic

01:05:27.829 --> 01:05:32.260
connection. and they are going to help each other

01:05:32.260 --> 01:05:36.940
escape. And that's essentially what the next

01:05:36.940 --> 01:05:42.579
few panels are, is Dr. Barlow trying to stop

01:05:42.579 --> 01:05:44.480
that from happening. He's trying to experiment

01:05:44.480 --> 01:05:47.039
on Donnie. She's telling him how to get through

01:05:47.039 --> 01:05:49.579
the experiment and don't let it overpower you.

01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:52.760
Basically, flow within it. Be within it like

01:05:52.760 --> 01:05:56.659
a river. And Donnie goes to the astral plane.

01:05:59.239 --> 01:06:02.460
And Donnie runs into Venus in the astral plane.

01:06:03.320 --> 01:06:09.059
Runs into his dad, Hamato Yoshi. Uh -huh. Yep.

01:06:10.960 --> 01:06:13.000
He's watching all of this happen, but the person

01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:15.619
he's conversing with is still Jennica. She's

01:06:15.619 --> 01:06:19.800
guiding him around. Or Venus, not Jacka. Thank

01:06:19.800 --> 01:06:23.380
you. Oh, my gosh. She's the lady turtle. Oops.

01:06:23.500 --> 01:06:25.960
Yeah, well, now we have two of them. Now there

01:06:25.960 --> 01:06:29.010
are two of them. Oh, and Sophie did these pages.

01:06:29.349 --> 01:06:36.530
Yes, she did. And we get back to the Triceraton

01:06:36.530 --> 01:06:45.309
-Utron fight. See, even I do it. You know, folks,

01:06:45.449 --> 01:06:49.329
when something in 2003 names something and it

01:06:49.329 --> 01:06:51.409
becomes a part of the culture, sometimes you

01:06:51.409 --> 01:06:54.099
just can't forget that. It's hard. And change

01:06:54.099 --> 01:06:57.019
may be constant, but it's difficult sometimes.

01:06:57.840 --> 01:07:01.059
So we get Ciri. She's going to take off in the

01:07:01.059 --> 01:07:03.400
ship, and she eventually does take off in the

01:07:03.400 --> 01:07:07.840
ship. And that's how this one ends. And I'll

01:07:07.840 --> 01:07:11.980
avenge you. Shirelle will pay, I promise. And

01:07:11.980 --> 01:07:15.420
so she's been aged up, but she also can speak

01:07:15.420 --> 01:07:19.260
and has ideas of concepts. So one, I think they

01:07:19.260 --> 01:07:21.949
mentioned earlier that. She was picking up things

01:07:21.949 --> 01:07:25.730
as an infant earlier than they expected her to.

01:07:25.869 --> 01:07:28.590
She was understanding people's people speaking

01:07:28.590 --> 01:07:33.230
even as an infant. And so between the technology

01:07:33.230 --> 01:07:38.570
of that pod and and mystical Triceraton hand

01:07:38.570 --> 01:07:43.409
wavy, she's quite coherent and aware of what's

01:07:43.409 --> 01:07:47.099
going on. Absolutely. Absolutely. And, yeah,

01:07:47.179 --> 01:07:50.159
so we get her taking off, you know, blasting

01:07:50.159 --> 01:07:53.880
off again. At the speed of light. That's right.

01:07:54.039 --> 01:07:59.380
And we get an alternate cover of, it's done by

01:07:59.380 --> 01:08:03.940
Kevin, I think, of Hamato Yoshi and one of his

01:08:03.940 --> 01:08:07.139
sons. So there's that. And then the main cover

01:08:07.139 --> 01:08:10.619
for the next one is the Triceratons and the U

01:08:10.619 --> 01:08:18.680
-Troms done by Pablo. And we start in the day

01:08:18.680 --> 01:08:23.300
of the mutagen bomb. Flashback. Yep, flashback.

01:08:23.439 --> 01:08:27.939
Nuts, what are we going to do until nine? I don't

01:08:27.939 --> 01:08:34.520
know. I don't know. Come on. Oh, this is the

01:08:34.520 --> 01:08:37.720
origin of the frogs. Yep. This is when they were

01:08:37.720 --> 01:08:42.359
human. Okay, okay. They're waiting for a punk

01:08:42.359 --> 01:08:49.720
concert. Yep. And then they became frogs. So

01:08:49.720 --> 01:08:53.380
that's how they became frogs. Raph goes to Casey

01:08:53.380 --> 01:08:55.680
in the present. They have another little debate,

01:08:55.840 --> 01:08:58.500
which this is going to continue on for a few

01:08:58.500 --> 01:09:00.760
panels or it's going to happen in the background

01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:02.800
as we flash forward. But my favorite thing to

01:09:02.800 --> 01:09:05.199
come out of that debate or out of that fight

01:09:05.199 --> 01:09:07.180
is, yes, they're beating the tar out of each

01:09:07.180 --> 01:09:09.140
other and saying really cruel things to each

01:09:09.140 --> 01:09:11.960
other. Like you mentioned earlier, you're ending

01:09:11.960 --> 01:09:14.060
up like your father and that just sends them

01:09:14.060 --> 01:09:15.949
off. But at the end of it. They're friends again.

01:09:16.409 --> 01:09:20.409
Yeah. And Casey's redeemed. Like, that's so very

01:09:20.409 --> 01:09:23.170
Raph and Casey that all it takes is for them

01:09:23.170 --> 01:09:25.529
to beat the snot out of each other. And then

01:09:25.529 --> 01:09:27.550
they're good. Then they're good with each other

01:09:27.550 --> 01:09:30.210
again. They understand. Absolutely. It's kind

01:09:30.210 --> 01:09:34.289
of like that old movie from 1990 with, you know,

01:09:34.310 --> 01:09:39.949
sitting in a truck. You know. What letter are

01:09:39.949 --> 01:09:45.510
we on? Dome head, elf lips, gack face. All right,

01:09:45.510 --> 01:09:50.069
hose brain. What letter are we on? No. Absolutely.

01:09:51.050 --> 01:09:55.750
100%. So, yeah. So we get them fighting. The

01:09:55.750 --> 01:09:59.289
fight is going on. And then we cut back to Dr.

01:09:59.390 --> 01:10:02.930
Barlow's lab. Yep. With him working on Venus

01:10:02.930 --> 01:10:09.130
and her tricerat... Why did I almost say triceraton?

01:10:09.289 --> 01:10:14.520
Her dragon scale infused shell. Oh, boy. Interesting

01:10:14.520 --> 01:10:19.560
connection here, too. He flashes back for a moment

01:10:19.560 --> 01:10:22.840
to some black market stuff, and he finds these

01:10:22.840 --> 01:10:25.600
shell fragments from a mutant that he takes and

01:10:25.600 --> 01:10:29.119
studies and uses the dragon scale to bring back

01:10:29.119 --> 01:10:33.239
to life. And we have a sneaking suspicion that

01:10:33.239 --> 01:10:35.880
might be the fragments from Donatello's shell

01:10:35.880 --> 01:10:43.340
when that was broken in issue 44. 99 .99999999

01:10:43.340 --> 01:10:49.100
% sure that that's what those are. Yep. Yeah,

01:10:49.119 --> 01:10:52.699
there's a chance that it could be another dead

01:10:52.699 --> 01:10:55.640
turtle mutant that we never met, but no. No.

01:10:56.399 --> 01:11:03.340
Until Bobby or... Oh, wait. 575th episode. This

01:11:03.340 --> 01:11:06.100
is the first episode we've been back. Have we

01:11:06.100 --> 01:11:10.619
said... I don't think we've said this. No, I

01:11:10.619 --> 01:11:12.939
don't. It's been an hour and 20 minutes or almost

01:11:12.939 --> 01:11:15.539
an hour and 20 minutes. But congratulations,

01:11:16.020 --> 01:11:19.800
Bobby Kernow, editor in chief, IDW Publishing.

01:11:20.319 --> 01:11:23.699
I wrote him a message on one of the social media

01:11:23.699 --> 01:11:26.079
things saying, all right, you're back, man. That's

01:11:26.079 --> 01:11:30.399
right. That's right. Bobby's back, baby. And

01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:32.739
I said, yeah, you know, he's not going to. I

01:11:32.739 --> 01:11:35.699
made a thing saying like it's it'll be good to

01:11:35.699 --> 01:11:37.520
have you kind of. keeping your eye on the book

01:11:37.520 --> 01:11:40.220
again he's like all right yo i've got a lot of

01:11:40.220 --> 01:11:42.739
um books a lot of different books to watch i

01:11:42.739 --> 01:11:46.520
can't do that but you know i'm sure he's got

01:11:46.520 --> 01:11:48.720
a he's got a soft spot for the turtles and so

01:11:48.720 --> 01:11:52.760
that that's good yeah yeah and honestly the turtles

01:11:52.760 --> 01:11:55.939
are in good hands oh yes they i don't yeah i

01:11:55.939 --> 01:11:58.439
mean i it's only about getting the gang back

01:11:58.439 --> 01:12:02.090
together that i that i say like oh yeah Yeah,

01:12:02.090 --> 01:12:05.510
absolutely. Yeah, 100%. But like the fact that

01:12:05.510 --> 01:12:07.810
he's editor in chief at IDW, that's amazing.

01:12:08.149 --> 01:12:12.130
Yeah, I have over the past year, I've been very

01:12:12.130 --> 01:12:14.750
worried about what IDW has been going through.

01:12:14.810 --> 01:12:19.550
And I have messaged a couple of the artists and

01:12:19.550 --> 01:12:22.439
writers. trying to like piece together what's

01:12:22.439 --> 01:12:25.779
going on and nobody knows which is not good and

01:12:25.779 --> 01:12:28.199
people are leaving and getting moved and getting

01:12:28.199 --> 01:12:31.020
taken off of books and uh it's it's some it's

01:12:31.020 --> 01:12:33.340
some crazy stuff but i'm hoping that with him

01:12:33.340 --> 01:12:35.399
coming back as editor -in -chief that that's

01:12:35.399 --> 01:12:38.720
a step in the right direction yes um because

01:12:38.720 --> 01:12:41.539
that idw has lost a lot of good properties it's

01:12:41.539 --> 01:12:44.439
lost a lot of good books and it's it's still

01:12:44.439 --> 01:12:48.180
the fact uh that that ninja turtles is what's

01:12:48.180 --> 01:12:52.659
keeping the lights on Yep, absolutely. So we

01:12:52.659 --> 01:12:55.500
see more of Dr. Barlow working on the show. We

01:12:55.500 --> 01:13:02.479
get over to the turtles and Carmen and the hippo.

01:13:02.479 --> 01:13:05.159
Who's that? What's the hippos? Oh, you just said

01:13:05.159 --> 01:13:08.420
what their names were. Ratchet and Clank. No,

01:13:08.479 --> 01:13:16.510
that's not right. Dirtbag and Groundchuck. Yeah,

01:13:16.529 --> 01:13:18.409
there you go. Dirtbag and Groundchuck. So we

01:13:18.409 --> 01:13:20.850
got that. We got Raph and Casey finishing up

01:13:20.850 --> 01:13:25.930
their fight. So there's that. So that's done.

01:13:26.170 --> 01:13:29.529
They're friends again. And then enter Grandfather

01:13:29.529 --> 01:13:35.489
Oroku. Oh, yep. So back at the... Donatello is

01:13:35.489 --> 01:13:39.109
trying to astral plane project himself on purpose

01:13:39.109 --> 01:13:44.879
to go get Leo to tell them where he's at. They

01:13:44.879 --> 01:13:48.020
stumble on Orokosaki because I'm sure his life

01:13:48.020 --> 01:13:50.439
force is just shining like a beacon on the astral

01:13:50.439 --> 01:13:53.699
plane right now. Well, OK, so you got to think

01:13:53.699 --> 01:13:56.420
that the turtles, at least Donnie, isn't like

01:13:56.420 --> 01:13:59.279
they're not. They're just learning the astral

01:13:59.279 --> 01:14:03.279
planning stuff still. And Shredder, Orokosaki,

01:14:03.500 --> 01:14:07.960
whatever. He's known this stuff for thousands

01:14:07.960 --> 01:14:12.229
of years. So, I mean, the fact that Donnie ran

01:14:12.229 --> 01:14:17.449
into him first instead of Leo, you know. I think

01:14:17.449 --> 01:14:20.229
they make a, what's it say, you know, my astral

01:14:20.229 --> 01:14:23.289
presence is so strong you were drawn to me. Yep.

01:14:23.750 --> 01:14:25.970
So that was how that happened. They're like,

01:14:26.029 --> 01:14:27.909
hey, Donnie, you're doing the astral projection

01:14:27.909 --> 01:14:30.270
thing. He says he used to have trouble with that

01:14:30.270 --> 01:14:33.770
being the technology mind. But Venus says it's

01:14:33.770 --> 01:14:37.630
all kind of the same thing, just working on a

01:14:37.630 --> 01:14:42.069
different level. Yep. And we get back to Leo

01:14:42.069 --> 01:14:48.409
and he calls the constable Raph. We found them.

01:14:48.829 --> 01:14:56.470
On our way. Raph and Casey and everybody gear

01:14:56.470 --> 01:15:04.210
up. And it's turtles versus frogs. Where are

01:15:04.210 --> 01:15:11.100
Alopex and Donnie? You got them somewhere. no

01:15:11.100 --> 01:15:13.699
you've got it wrong and i think i don't even

01:15:13.699 --> 01:15:16.640
have to remind myself mikey is probably somewhere

01:15:16.640 --> 01:15:18.779
saying no no dudes this is totally not right

01:15:18.779 --> 01:15:24.340
we're you know misunderstanding absolutely that's

01:15:24.340 --> 01:15:27.140
definitely what mikey would be saying and uh

01:15:27.140 --> 01:15:39.480
yeah we um we get that fight we get uh um Sheena,

01:15:39.480 --> 01:15:45.239
Donnie, and Alopex trying to escape. And then

01:15:45.239 --> 01:15:48.279
we get the spaceship crash landing because it

01:15:48.279 --> 01:15:56.359
is Siri. Yeah. And she crash lands to end this

01:15:56.359 --> 01:16:00.680
issue. It crashes right on top of Dr. Barlow's

01:16:00.680 --> 01:16:04.239
surgery. Doctor, what do you call it? Hospital.

01:16:04.340 --> 01:16:08.140
Sure. Because that's where the turtles are, and

01:16:08.140 --> 01:16:15.380
she was homing in on their signatures. Yep. Man,

01:16:15.539 --> 01:16:19.039
this arc has got so much in it, and it is so

01:16:19.039 --> 01:16:25.319
good. The writing is solid as always. Yeah, we've

01:16:25.319 --> 01:16:27.699
already said about certain art choices aren't

01:16:27.699 --> 01:16:30.800
at least my favorite, but overall, it's still

01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:34.810
the turtles we love. It's still the characters

01:16:34.810 --> 01:16:37.850
we really, really enjoy. It's introducing new

01:16:37.850 --> 01:16:41.189
characters for us to enjoy. And making them not

01:16:41.189 --> 01:16:51.729
suck. Yep. Absolutely, absolutely. So we get

01:16:51.729 --> 01:16:59.470
Mikey going after Genghis. Because this is where

01:16:59.470 --> 01:17:03.180
Mikey's like, wait, let's be friends. Why would

01:17:03.180 --> 01:17:05.659
you want to be friends with someone who burned

01:17:05.659 --> 01:17:11.819
down your house? You know who Michelangelo would

01:17:11.819 --> 01:17:15.060
really get along with? Who's that? If we cross

01:17:15.060 --> 01:17:18.899
alternate universes, I think him and Squirrel

01:17:18.899 --> 01:17:22.560
Girl would get along. Yeah, that'd possibly be.

01:17:22.680 --> 01:17:25.100
Because she's all about talking her way out of

01:17:25.100 --> 01:17:29.859
fights and turning villains into friends. In

01:17:29.859 --> 01:17:33.800
that way. I think they'd get along. Totally out

01:17:33.800 --> 01:17:37.060
of left field there. Absolutely. As we get deeper

01:17:37.060 --> 01:17:41.020
into this issue here, we get back to... We get

01:17:41.020 --> 01:17:46.180
Clyde back to the frogs and we see Venus and

01:17:46.180 --> 01:17:51.859
Clyde's like, Bonnie? Leave Bonnie alone, you

01:17:51.859 --> 01:17:58.840
dumb cow. This giant cow thing. mutant thing

01:17:58.840 --> 01:18:03.939
fighting and uh it's sheena leave us alone never

01:18:03.939 --> 01:18:11.859
again leave us oh yeah that was sheena stop yeah

01:18:11.859 --> 01:18:16.239
that was um very very angry sheena this page

01:18:16.239 --> 01:18:18.979
was a bit much for me and i'm i was surprised

01:18:18.979 --> 01:18:22.609
that uh reading this i was surprised that nickelodeon

01:18:22.609 --> 01:18:25.489
didn't stop them from doing this just you know

01:18:25.489 --> 01:18:27.550
between sheena going too far and the frog in

01:18:27.550 --> 01:18:29.689
the next panel yeah i don't know how they got

01:18:29.689 --> 01:18:34.550
this by nickelodeon but they did um but again

01:18:34.550 --> 01:18:41.510
like sheena here leave us alone leave us alone

01:18:41.510 --> 01:18:46.810
like her being this violent is this the most

01:18:46.810 --> 01:18:49.960
violent we've ever seen this book Not really.

01:18:51.340 --> 01:18:56.220
Look what they did to Donnie in issue 44. I mean,

01:18:56.260 --> 01:18:59.319
come on, man. This isn't the worst thing that

01:18:59.319 --> 01:19:01.720
this book has ever done. And I'm not saying this

01:19:01.720 --> 01:19:04.060
book has to be violent or doesn't have to be

01:19:04.060 --> 01:19:06.920
violent. It's definitely more than I expected

01:19:06.920 --> 01:19:11.819
from that character. Oh, yeah. I think they're

01:19:11.819 --> 01:19:15.260
pretty adamant that the turtles are not going

01:19:15.260 --> 01:19:17.869
to be able to kill anybody. like from a mix modian

01:19:17.869 --> 01:19:20.630
standpoint oh absolutely yeah yeah yeah yeah

01:19:20.630 --> 01:19:24.510
they didn't say anything about anybody else let

01:19:24.510 --> 01:19:27.229
them have it sure so Clyde's kind of confused

01:19:27.229 --> 01:19:30.470
with this whole Venus thing and Venus is not

01:19:30.470 --> 01:19:34.590
Bonnie and Bonnie is gone and all that and Clyde's

01:19:34.590 --> 01:19:39.710
kind of sad and he takes her arm away and all

01:19:39.710 --> 01:19:45.520
that And we see a group shot of everybody. We

01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:48.899
see Raph and Casey. And Casey's got his golf

01:19:48.899 --> 01:19:55.539
bag with his instruments. And Jennica's like,

01:19:55.699 --> 01:20:03.500
are you okay? The doctor's house blew up. And

01:20:03.500 --> 01:20:10.420
Sheena says, no, not really. So we have all the,

01:20:10.439 --> 01:20:13.359
again, nice, nice moments between everybody.

01:20:13.659 --> 01:20:17.439
And we have, who is that? Please help, please

01:20:17.439 --> 01:20:22.479
help. Which one? Who is that? Doctor's house

01:20:22.479 --> 01:20:26.659
blew up? Yeah. Mikey's hugging. Mm -hmm, but

01:20:26.659 --> 01:20:29.140
who's that? That's Donnie. That's all bandaged

01:20:29.140 --> 01:20:32.439
up? Yep. Okay, so Donnie is the one that saves,

01:20:32.699 --> 01:20:38.020
okay, so Donnie's the one that saves Siri. So

01:20:38.020 --> 01:20:43.720
thank you. Who are you? Yep, that's us. I'm Michelangelo.

01:20:43.720 --> 01:20:47.720
One thing after another, huh, babe? Yep. Oh,

01:20:47.800 --> 01:20:52.600
boy. So we get that introduction, we get Donnie

01:20:52.600 --> 01:20:56.220
and Raph. Hey, man, you okay? I know you were

01:20:56.220 --> 01:20:59.100
kind of hoping to be friends with that Barlow

01:20:59.100 --> 01:21:03.460
guy. You don't even seem interested in what this

01:21:03.460 --> 01:21:07.670
Triceraton chick's all about. Yeah, he's totally...

01:21:07.670 --> 01:21:15.229
I'm fine. Rips off his bandages. A little heartbroken

01:21:15.229 --> 01:21:17.109
that he couldn't get his shell fixed. I think

01:21:17.109 --> 01:21:21.310
that's actually secondary to the fact that he

01:21:21.310 --> 01:21:25.529
offered Venus a place, a home to stay, and she

01:21:25.529 --> 01:21:28.909
chose to be alone. Yep. Because he was really

01:21:28.909 --> 01:21:30.590
feeling the connection with her that I think

01:21:30.590 --> 01:21:33.810
comes from both going to the astral plane, but

01:21:33.810 --> 01:21:37.430
also the fact that that was... That was probably

01:21:37.430 --> 01:21:39.970
his shell that she was partially grown from.

01:21:40.210 --> 01:21:43.729
So there's more of that to that. And as everybody

01:21:43.729 --> 01:21:46.670
walks away and into the sunset, so to speak,

01:21:46.810 --> 01:21:50.310
Venus comes back and picks up Donnie's bandages

01:21:50.310 --> 01:21:54.350
and then braids them into her iconic braided

01:21:54.350 --> 01:21:58.789
bandana tail that she hangs from her neck. Oh,

01:21:58.850 --> 01:22:02.869
that's cool. Okay. And that's also kind of the

01:22:02.869 --> 01:22:06.739
fun thing about how Little things like that get

01:22:06.739 --> 01:22:09.619
brought out that characters take with them and

01:22:09.619 --> 01:22:12.500
it becomes important, like Slash's black bandana

01:22:12.500 --> 01:22:17.000
being Leo's from Dark Leo arc. And then these

01:22:17.000 --> 01:22:20.279
bandages, which become the symbol tying Donatello

01:22:20.279 --> 01:22:24.659
to Venus, becomes her symbol. Those little things

01:22:24.659 --> 01:22:29.659
have been really cool. Yeah, it has. And it's

01:22:29.659 --> 01:22:33.310
part of what makes these formerly... garbage

01:22:33.310 --> 01:22:35.909
characters into awesome characters for us now

01:22:35.909 --> 01:22:40.189
yep absolutely and then bludgeon comes along

01:22:40.189 --> 01:22:44.350
i didn't see him coming me either clyde returns

01:22:44.350 --> 01:22:49.449
to the frogs bonnie's dead shows the arm poor

01:22:49.449 --> 01:22:56.529
bonnie ew that's her arm show some respect bloody

01:22:56.529 --> 01:23:01.449
mary so she's really gone Yeah, Zayden, she's

01:23:01.449 --> 01:23:04.289
really gone for real. The turtles didn't do it.

01:23:04.289 --> 01:23:06.590
I messed up. It was all a big stupid mistake,

01:23:06.670 --> 01:23:10.489
and I'm sorry, guys. Clyde, you butthead, pull

01:23:10.489 --> 01:23:13.430
yourself together and let's go. That turtle cop

01:23:13.430 --> 01:23:16.789
will be gunning for us. We gotta find a new hideout,

01:23:16.869 --> 01:23:22.750
Attila. Bye, Venus. Yeah, then we're gonna find

01:23:22.750 --> 01:23:26.090
a way out of Mutant Town. And into another story

01:23:26.090 --> 01:23:29.270
arc someday, I hope. Hopefully. I never should

01:23:29.270 --> 01:23:32.229
have let the students come along, April. But

01:23:32.229 --> 01:23:38.010
Sensei... Wanda, not now. That's a very motherly

01:23:38.010 --> 01:23:41.369
way to say that, April. I'm sorry, Father. I

01:23:41.369 --> 01:23:44.270
thought I was ready. I thought we all were. Oh,

01:23:44.350 --> 01:23:50.210
no. Shredder! Not anymore. Guess all that hardware

01:23:50.210 --> 01:23:53.670
is for making coleslaw. It is now. I mean, you

01:23:53.670 --> 01:23:57.149
can retire it. Oh man, they could go into business

01:23:57.149 --> 01:24:01.109
and he could shred all the cheese? Uh -huh. And

01:24:01.109 --> 01:24:05.609
I am just Orokosaki. Fine, what do you want,

01:24:05.670 --> 01:24:08.470
Orokosaki? There is something important we must

01:24:08.470 --> 01:24:12.859
discuss, all of us. I'll tell the others. And

01:24:12.859 --> 01:24:15.779
then we get the EPF. I was not expecting them

01:24:15.779 --> 01:24:19.300
to show up. And Dr. Barlow, my patients, I'm

01:24:19.300 --> 01:24:24.460
so sorry to all of you. Dr. Barlow here, my companions,

01:24:24.880 --> 01:24:30.279
my family home, my research, it's all gone. That's

01:24:30.279 --> 01:24:33.000
a shame. Did you manage to... Talking on the

01:24:33.000 --> 01:24:35.880
radio, I had to read this a couple times, seeing

01:24:35.880 --> 01:24:38.060
the speech balloons not coming from his mouth.

01:24:38.460 --> 01:24:41.319
Yeah. Like, wait, what am I looking? Oh, so yeah,

01:24:41.479 --> 01:24:45.279
Dr. Barlow here, my companions, my family home,

01:24:45.439 --> 01:24:47.460
it's all gone. That's a shame. Did you manage

01:24:47.460 --> 01:24:51.100
to save anything? And he did manage to save a

01:24:51.100 --> 01:24:59.779
blood bag of Donatello's blood. To which this

01:24:59.779 --> 01:25:01.739
person says, bring it to my office immediately

01:25:01.739 --> 01:25:05.479
and we'll discuss it. And the red outline is

01:25:05.479 --> 01:25:09.100
what made me think. oh, wait, it's Null. It's

01:25:09.100 --> 01:25:14.739
that weird skull. Devilhorn lady from the RGX.

01:25:15.079 --> 01:25:23.739
Yep. And I don't know what possessed me to read

01:25:23.739 --> 01:25:28.659
it like this in my head. So it says Don, D -O

01:25:28.659 --> 01:25:31.779
-N, so Don as in Donatello, Donnie, whatever.

01:25:32.119 --> 01:25:38.329
It says Don -1. In my head, I read it like Don

01:25:38.329 --> 01:25:42.270
Juan, like as in Don Juan DeMarco. I'm like,

01:25:42.369 --> 01:25:46.390
oh, God, no. And then I will be there shortly

01:25:46.390 --> 01:25:49.229
to be continued. And then we get the cover gallery.

01:25:50.390 --> 01:25:55.310
Oh, man, this is this trade. It's a little bit

01:25:55.310 --> 01:25:58.109
too much horror for me in it. Yeah. But overall,

01:25:58.529 --> 01:26:02.529
I still really enjoyed it. I'm very interested

01:26:02.529 --> 01:26:05.510
to see where the story goes from here. I like

01:26:05.510 --> 01:26:11.680
the story goes. Okay, well, that wasn't enough.

01:26:13.039 --> 01:26:16.300
Yeah, I think I'll save it for the next one.

01:26:16.880 --> 01:26:22.000
Yeah. I'm looking at a really interesting next

01:26:22.000 --> 01:26:27.479
month page here with the Shredder. Yeah, I see

01:26:27.479 --> 01:26:29.539
on mine they give you the cover of the next issue.

01:26:30.159 --> 01:26:34.460
Oh, yeah. And it's Shredder training with the

01:26:34.460 --> 01:26:36.890
Ninja Turtles. out in the woods which whenever

01:26:36.890 --> 01:26:38.989
i see out in the woods ninjas training i think

01:26:38.989 --> 01:26:42.210
they're up in northampton again and so where

01:26:42.210 --> 01:26:44.390
are we going we're not a mutant town anymore

01:26:44.390 --> 01:26:53.810
i brought marshmallows put those away yes they're

01:26:53.810 --> 01:26:57.229
toasting marshmallows on their their astrobly

01:26:57.229 --> 01:27:00.970
projected flame father there michelangelo put

01:27:00.970 --> 01:27:05.430
those away i am not for toasting That's right,

01:27:05.550 --> 01:27:09.949
that's right. Volume 5, Mystic Sister. Outside

01:27:09.949 --> 01:27:13.850
of my just not really that into the horror part

01:27:13.850 --> 01:27:16.689
of it, I enjoyed it because I love the character

01:27:16.689 --> 01:27:20.850
stuff. I love that they took a character in Bonnie

01:27:20.850 --> 01:27:25.409
and made a story with her and essentially turned

01:27:25.409 --> 01:27:29.359
her into a classic character. That got a redemption

01:27:29.359 --> 01:27:32.720
arc. That got an actual story arc. That wasn't

01:27:32.720 --> 01:27:38.380
just. Oh my god. I hate it when he ruins my dramatic

01:27:38.380 --> 01:27:43.939
moments folks. I really hate it. Sorry. I stepped

01:27:43.939 --> 01:27:50.260
on it. But no. This was a good book. 124 to 130.

01:27:51.020 --> 01:27:54.479
Good story arc. Really really awesome and fun.

01:27:54.960 --> 01:28:02.109
Folks. Volume 6, Game Changers, I... Yeah, we're

01:28:02.109 --> 01:28:04.069
facing an interesting challenge with Volume 6.

01:28:04.670 --> 01:28:07.609
Yes. All right. So I'm looking at the thing here.

01:28:07.829 --> 01:28:11.529
Okay. I think what we're going to do is what

01:28:11.529 --> 01:28:15.609
we always do. Like we did with Casey and April.

01:28:15.850 --> 01:28:20.369
Like we did with Mutanimals. Like we did with

01:28:20.369 --> 01:28:23.989
other miniseries. Like we did with Ghostbusters.

01:28:24.859 --> 01:28:28.659
We are going to cover them, but we're going to

01:28:28.659 --> 01:28:32.500
do their own episode for them. So Armageddon

01:28:32.500 --> 01:28:36.479
Game, which is... Okay, you know more about this

01:28:36.479 --> 01:28:40.560
than I do. Give me the briefest of brief synopsis

01:28:40.560 --> 01:28:44.239
of what Armageddon Game is. Armageddon Game is

01:28:44.239 --> 01:28:49.420
an arc that finally deals with everything the

01:28:49.420 --> 01:28:51.579
Pantheon has been working on since we met them.

01:28:51.600 --> 01:28:55.939
Oh, fuck. Yep. and it involves yeah then it's

01:28:55.939 --> 01:28:57.920
going to be its own issue it's going to be its

01:28:57.920 --> 01:29:00.939
own separate episode by itself here's here's

01:29:00.939 --> 01:29:04.500
the thing and i i need to dig back into it again

01:29:04.500 --> 01:29:10.680
but i almost suspect that they have to be read

01:29:10.680 --> 01:29:12.960
in the order that they were shipped to stores

01:29:12.960 --> 01:29:16.779
that it they they tie together chronologically

01:29:16.779 --> 01:29:19.840
between the series you read you read volume six

01:29:19.840 --> 01:29:22.859
and only volume six I'm going to try to read

01:29:22.859 --> 01:29:27.699
them an issue or two, mixing it in, issue three

01:29:27.699 --> 01:29:32.199
or four, mixing it in, and see if they do need

01:29:32.199 --> 01:29:34.560
to be read chronologically. And if they do, I'll

01:29:34.560 --> 01:29:36.880
say, hey, no, no, dude, we gotta, it's weird.

01:29:37.460 --> 01:29:40.819
But if they can be read independently, I think

01:29:40.819 --> 01:29:42.920
you're right. We should just do them independently,

01:29:43.159 --> 01:29:45.520
like the trade, by trade. There will just be

01:29:45.520 --> 01:29:47.920
weird jumps because, you know, if a big battle

01:29:47.920 --> 01:29:52.020
goes on in Armageddon game three, When we go

01:29:52.020 --> 01:29:54.479
back to read the sequential issue, it's probably

01:29:54.479 --> 01:29:59.100
going to be after that battle. And honestly,

01:29:59.260 --> 01:30:03.079
this is the thing, audience. I struggled reading

01:30:03.079 --> 01:30:06.680
these books as they were coming out because school

01:30:06.680 --> 01:30:09.920
and life and mental health and all of that. But

01:30:09.920 --> 01:30:13.399
when I started to get back into it, I got up

01:30:13.399 --> 01:30:16.659
into Armageddon Game and... My store had a hard

01:30:16.659 --> 01:30:19.060
time pulling some of those other issues because

01:30:19.060 --> 01:30:21.380
while the series was going on, they also then

01:30:21.380 --> 01:30:25.039
drop opening moves, the pre thing. And then there

01:30:25.039 --> 01:30:28.239
was a free comic book day catch up that also

01:30:28.239 --> 01:30:31.739
weaves in there. And I couldn't I couldn't figure

01:30:31.739 --> 01:30:34.220
out what the order was that they hadn't updated

01:30:34.220 --> 01:30:36.359
the continuity list because the series was still

01:30:36.359 --> 01:30:39.800
coming out. So between all of that, it just like

01:30:39.800 --> 01:30:43.460
fouled my taste for the book. Oh, OK. Not that

01:30:43.460 --> 01:30:46.640
it's bad. Right, right, right. It was not a good

01:30:46.640 --> 01:30:48.800
time for me to mentally wrap myself around it.

01:30:49.279 --> 01:30:55.920
Okay, so let me see here. Okay. Question. Yep.

01:30:56.479 --> 01:31:01.619
Yeah? Do you like penicillin on your pizza? Is

01:31:01.619 --> 01:31:10.039
there a way to... Does Armageddon Game have any

01:31:10.039 --> 01:31:20.989
consequence to... Issues 131 to 140. I need to

01:31:20.989 --> 01:31:26.529
reread that. What does the... My thinking is

01:31:26.529 --> 01:31:30.310
we can do an episode for Armageddon Games specifically

01:31:30.310 --> 01:31:36.510
between Volume 8 and Volume 9. So Volume 9 is,

01:31:36.810 --> 01:31:40.010
if I remember correctly, let me look in our messages

01:31:40.010 --> 01:31:42.789
because I don't remember. I'm too old for this

01:31:42.789 --> 01:31:46.710
shit. Yeah, I have the reading list. We should

01:31:46.710 --> 01:31:50.029
put a link to that in show notes or something.

01:31:50.489 --> 01:31:55.390
Oh, I will. Uh, it is the, the, the, yeah, it's

01:31:55.390 --> 01:31:56.550
always in there. You know what you're doing.

01:31:56.609 --> 01:32:00.550
You've done this. Okay. So episode five 78 of

01:32:00.550 --> 01:32:02.970
the pull bag is reborn volume eight damage done,

01:32:03.050 --> 01:32:09.770
which includes annual 2023, 140 to 144. 579 is

01:32:09.770 --> 01:32:12.569
Reborn Volume 9, First, Last, and Always, which

01:32:12.569 --> 01:32:16.590
is 145 to 150. That's the finale. So between

01:32:16.590 --> 01:32:25.470
144 and 145, can we put an episode there in between

01:32:25.470 --> 01:32:30.409
578 and 579? Can I put something there that can

01:32:30.409 --> 01:32:34.689
just be all of Armageddon game? I think that

01:32:34.689 --> 01:32:37.479
might work. okay good that's what i'm doing because

01:32:37.479 --> 01:32:39.939
that's gonna be the easiest friggin thing and

01:32:39.939 --> 01:32:42.079
that way we don't have to worry about weaving

01:32:42.079 --> 01:32:45.819
it into whatever because it's just oh yeah that

01:32:45.819 --> 01:32:48.159
would suck for you for doing if if it's required

01:32:48.159 --> 01:32:50.520
and i can't believe that they would put the trades

01:32:50.520 --> 01:32:52.199
together in a way that would make it required

01:32:52.199 --> 01:32:55.710
where you'd read 20 pages of the trade and then

01:32:55.710 --> 01:32:57.310
have to put it down and pick up another trade

01:32:57.310 --> 01:32:59.989
like no way maybe maybe when it comes out in

01:32:59.989 --> 01:33:02.510
omnibus they would do that but no well yeah when

01:33:02.510 --> 01:33:05.069
they do the omnibus with story order hopefully

01:33:05.069 --> 01:33:07.529
they'll they'll throw it all in together once

01:33:07.529 --> 01:33:11.090
they do the the full big hardcover thing yeah

01:33:11.090 --> 01:33:13.569
anyway folks this has been behind the scenes

01:33:13.569 --> 01:33:16.609
at the pull bag we're gonna enjoy yeah exactly

01:33:16.609 --> 01:33:21.909
this is that's where i would be riveted Podcasting

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Once again, thank you to everyone, anyone who

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Everything anyone has ever done for us here at

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sir, before I close out the first episode of

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Mutant March 2025 with the outro? Yeah, this

01:41:30.659 --> 01:41:36.100
month, a couple of days ago, IDW released Teenage

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Mutant Ninja Turtles The Mirage Years 1993 through

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1995, a collective trade paperback of Mirage

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Volume 2. And over my many years being a Ninja

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Turtle fan, I have been in contact with Jim Lawson,

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one of the original Mirage artists, back and

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01:42:00.229 --> 01:42:03.630
who has now befriended my wife, and they like

01:42:03.630 --> 01:42:05.590
private message each other back and forth. And

01:42:05.590 --> 01:42:08.510
I talked to Jim about my motorcycle sometime.

01:42:08.689 --> 01:42:11.850
He's just this awesome dude. And volume two.

01:42:13.640 --> 01:42:16.119
the Mirage issues that came out from 93 to 95

01:42:16.119 --> 01:42:19.899
were basically all him. It was when Peter and

01:42:19.899 --> 01:42:22.560
Kevin, the licensing was getting big and they

01:42:22.560 --> 01:42:24.659
were off doing their own thing and the book was

01:42:24.659 --> 01:42:27.640
handed off to Jim. And these are his issues.

01:42:27.939 --> 01:42:32.220
He wrote an extraordinary introduction to the

01:42:32.220 --> 01:42:36.100
book. I think that's kind of how IDW pays these

01:42:36.100 --> 01:42:40.359
guys for basically using their content that they

01:42:40.359 --> 01:42:44.000
own. IDW owns it. But, you know, realistically,

01:42:44.140 --> 01:42:46.380
from a creative standpoint, the original creators

01:42:46.380 --> 01:42:48.640
deserve something. And so they pull them back

01:42:48.640 --> 01:42:51.579
in to write the intro and they get a little bit

01:42:51.579 --> 01:42:55.859
of money for that. But at the time that Jim was

01:42:55.859 --> 01:43:00.119
writing that intro, I was posting something in

01:43:00.119 --> 01:43:02.800
a Facebook comment and I started to wax all sentimental

01:43:02.800 --> 01:43:05.739
about the turtles and what they mean and what

01:43:05.739 --> 01:43:08.680
they meant to me. And Jim's wife commented on

01:43:08.680 --> 01:43:10.640
it. Because it was in some Ninja Turtle group

01:43:10.640 --> 01:43:12.760
that they're all a part of. And then I get a

01:43:12.760 --> 01:43:14.920
private message from Jim on Facebook saying,

01:43:15.039 --> 01:43:18.180
dude, I just read that. Can I use this in my

01:43:18.180 --> 01:43:21.119
intro? And me as like the little fanboy is like,

01:43:21.260 --> 01:43:24.619
whatever you want, sir. Yes, please take it.

01:43:24.720 --> 01:43:28.439
And so like, oh, my gosh, it's in the book. And

01:43:28.439 --> 01:43:32.359
so he said it, sent it up, typed it up, wrote

01:43:32.359 --> 01:43:35.000
it up. And then we share Google docked it back

01:43:35.000 --> 01:43:39.310
and forth. And like I. tweaked my words because

01:43:39.310 --> 01:43:42.670
he just copy and pasted it. And, uh, we had a

01:43:42.670 --> 01:43:46.369
little Google editing back and forth and I helped

01:43:46.369 --> 01:43:48.510
him his part and he helped me with mine. And,

01:43:48.510 --> 01:43:52.250
and that's what got sent to the publisher. And

01:43:52.250 --> 01:43:55.810
so like, my name is now a part of Ninja Turtles

01:43:55.810 --> 01:43:58.829
history in the introduction of this, that Jim

01:43:58.829 --> 01:44:02.930
immortalized in that thing. And, uh, I would,

01:44:02.930 --> 01:44:04.890
you know, ordinarily this would be all over.

01:44:05.109 --> 01:44:07.170
I don't know. Realistically, what's the word?

01:44:07.739 --> 01:44:12.000
If I weren't somebody to keep myself contained

01:44:12.000 --> 01:44:15.720
in public, I would have just blasted all of this

01:44:15.720 --> 01:44:17.680
all over my social media saying, I'm in this

01:44:17.680 --> 01:44:20.880
book. I'm history. Instead, I've been containing

01:44:20.880 --> 01:44:23.140
it and just letting it out here in this podcast

01:44:23.140 --> 01:44:26.220
at this moment. That I'm a part of a turtle's

01:44:26.220 --> 01:44:28.479
history now. My name is immortalized. And please

01:44:28.479 --> 01:44:32.159
go buy this book, listeners. Please go out and

01:44:32.159 --> 01:44:35.699
buy this book. Mirage Volume 2. There was really

01:44:35.699 --> 01:44:39.140
weird time for the turtles. But Jim's awesome.

01:44:39.239 --> 01:44:43.840
His art was what the turtles were from 93 to

01:44:43.840 --> 01:44:48.899
the end of the Mirage run. It was all his art.

01:44:49.159 --> 01:44:51.939
He came back to write it eventually. It's interesting.

01:44:52.060 --> 01:44:54.180
It's neat. It was color. It was in color back

01:44:54.180 --> 01:44:56.199
in the day, but definitely please support it

01:44:56.199 --> 01:45:01.119
and read that intro. It's awesome. Yeah, you'll

01:45:01.119 --> 01:45:03.399
have to send me a link to that so I can put it

01:45:03.399 --> 01:45:07.850
in the show notes. Okay. And yes. Shout it out

01:45:07.850 --> 01:45:11.229
across the internet, dude. You deserve to shout

01:45:11.229 --> 01:45:13.750
that out because that's amazing. You know how

01:45:13.750 --> 01:45:16.909
many times I've shouted out issue 55 of IDW?

01:45:17.170 --> 01:45:19.250
We're on the cover, dude. That's my podcast.

01:45:19.430 --> 01:45:22.029
Fucking hell. I've gone up to strangers who have

01:45:22.029 --> 01:45:25.109
no idea who I am. That's my podcast. Can I sign

01:45:25.109 --> 01:45:29.130
your book? Yeah, exactly. Like nine years ago,

01:45:29.229 --> 01:45:32.930
how the hell was it nine years ago that happened?

01:45:33.439 --> 01:45:37.300
If you've ever been any kind of TMNT fan, you

01:45:37.300 --> 01:45:40.720
need to be reading this book. Dash Geekcast Radio

01:45:40.720 --> 01:45:46.859
is on issue 55 of IDW TMNT. Which was Ben Bishop's

01:45:46.859 --> 01:45:51.640
first cover on one of the variants. I brought

01:45:51.640 --> 01:45:54.239
that to him to sign. Did he want me to sign your

01:45:54.239 --> 01:45:57.640
copy? Because that's my podcast. No, he didn't

01:45:57.640 --> 01:46:03.909
want me to sign it. Ben, come on, man. I know,

01:46:03.970 --> 01:46:06.029
right? Come on, Ben. I love you. Come on, Ben.

01:46:06.729 --> 01:46:10.590
Damn, man. I got to figure out how to get Ben

01:46:10.590 --> 01:46:13.069
on the show. We got to get him. We got to have

01:46:13.069 --> 01:46:15.329
him go through the pullback origin questions.

01:46:15.529 --> 01:46:18.869
That would be fun. To have him go through those,

01:46:19.050 --> 01:46:21.109
that would be very, very cool. All right, folks,

01:46:21.289 --> 01:46:26.069
575th episode. We are 25 away from 600. We are

01:46:26.069 --> 01:46:29.869
on the road to 600 and 700. I don't know if we're

01:46:29.869 --> 01:46:33.029
going to get to 700 this year, but I know we

01:46:33.029 --> 01:46:36.270
will definitely be getting to 600 episodes this

01:46:36.270 --> 01:46:39.289
year. We only got 25 to go. I don't know how

01:46:39.289 --> 01:46:42.710
it's going to go. After Mutant March, I know

01:46:42.710 --> 01:46:46.489
we've got Mutant March going on. Dynamite Comics

01:46:46.489 --> 01:46:50.869
has the Silverhawks license. They started a Silverhawks

01:46:50.869 --> 01:46:53.289
book, so my buddy Optimus Solo and I might be

01:46:53.289 --> 01:46:56.630
covering the Silverhawks and Thundercats comics

01:46:56.630 --> 01:46:59.569
that they're doing. So that's maybe what's going

01:46:59.569 --> 01:47:02.189
on. Obviously, Joe and I will be covering Turtles,

01:47:02.210 --> 01:47:05.090
as always. Joe and I will also be getting back

01:47:05.090 --> 01:47:07.310
to Radiant Black at some point. We've got to

01:47:07.310 --> 01:47:10.970
do that, too. That's still going on. They're

01:47:10.970 --> 01:47:15.949
in their rebuild era now. So that's going on,

01:47:16.050 --> 01:47:17.649
but we've got to catch up with that as well.

01:47:18.210 --> 01:47:21.329
So thank you for joining us inside the pull bag.

01:47:21.409 --> 01:47:23.329
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01:47:28.229 --> 01:47:30.430
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01:47:55.319 --> 01:47:58.420
at TFG1 Mike. I think you X'd out of X, didn't

01:47:58.420 --> 01:48:01.880
you? I was never big into it, but I am on blue

01:48:01.880 --> 01:48:03.760
sky. I don't remember what my username is, but

01:48:03.760 --> 01:48:06.500
you can find me on Facebook, um, through the

01:48:06.500 --> 01:48:09.100
geek stuff garage sale. Uh, so facebook .com

01:48:09.100 --> 01:48:12.220
slash geek stuff garage sale. And you could find

01:48:12.220 --> 01:48:15.939
me on Instagram. Uh, I am at Mr. Reed's Hawaiian

01:48:15.939 --> 01:48:18.699
shirt. I think there's some underscores between

01:48:18.699 --> 01:48:21.279
those letters, uh, between the words, but, uh,

01:48:21.479 --> 01:48:24.939
that'll find me. Very cool. Very cool. I will,

01:48:24.939 --> 01:48:27.079
uh, have Joe's links in the show notes folks.

01:48:27.140 --> 01:48:29.369
I'll try to have them in there. Become a fan

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01:48:34.250 --> 01:48:37.250
as well. Join us next time here in Mutant March

01:48:37.250 --> 01:48:39.710
when we will be discussing TMNT Reborn Volume

01:48:39.710 --> 01:48:44.069
6 Game Changers. For now, I am TF2 and Mike with...

01:48:44.069 --> 01:48:46.850
Joe Reed. As always, make your greatest game

01:48:46.850 --> 01:48:48.909
into comics and we will catch you next time.

01:48:49.369 --> 01:48:53.369
What the hell was that? I don't know. Well, that

01:48:53.369 --> 01:48:56.670
was a crime, you cursed scrubbing pukes. And

01:48:56.670 --> 01:49:01.069
this is the penalty. Two minutes for slashing,

01:49:01.210 --> 01:49:04.949
two minutes for hooking, and lest I forget my

01:49:04.949 --> 01:49:07.869
personal favorite, two minutes for a high stick.

01:49:09.989 --> 01:49:12.529
How about a five -minute game misconduct for

01:49:12.529 --> 01:49:16.329
roughing, pal? Hey, bogey, now who died and made

01:49:16.329 --> 01:49:18.310
you a referee? You did your job, now get out

01:49:18.310 --> 01:49:19.869
of here and let me do mine. These JV lowlifes

01:49:19.869 --> 01:49:21.869
need to be taught a lesson. Not like that, they

01:49:21.869 --> 01:49:29.590
don't. Not from you. Well, it looks like you're

01:49:29.590 --> 01:49:31.109
the one who needs to be taught a lesson, pal.

01:49:31.710 --> 01:49:35.130
Class is paying 101. Your instructor's Casey

01:49:35.130 --> 01:49:38.250
Jones. You've just heard the latest episode of

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01:50:12.770 --> 01:50:16.710
comics and unleash the geek in you. Look, I don't

01:50:16.710 --> 01:50:23.069
want to fight you. Well, tough rocks, pal. A

01:50:23.069 --> 01:50:27.250
Jose Canseco bat? Tell me you didn't pay money

01:50:27.250 --> 01:50:32.229
for this. That's it. Just a one sale, pal.