Leo'Jet Ski Fuel'nardoFor real, Campbell TMNT has such great, cozy vibes. It's nice when this goofy ass franchise feels like it was written by an actual human being.
Ready for things to get more painful than any Raph and Leo spat?
A) Some of the background mutants, like the hippo, dog man and the rabbit-mum and bear(?)-child are background characters in the first issue, dining at the tables while Raph and Al talk.
B) Love how Mushroom's all normal when she's darting inside and immediately turns demonic in the presence of stew.
Seriously, the Weasels have a surprisingly consistent amount of personality for characters that've been on less than twenty pages worth of story so far. Zink being a hellbeast trying to take Jen's head off, Zana just eatin' and eatin' and eatin', Mushroom having the foresight to grab some cans.
Also, that's Alopex, their future mum, hurling bowls at them.
Mushroom is my favourite and I feel sorry for the lift she's been born into and the two idiot sisters she's been saddled with.
Huh. Noticed this after finishing dinner and an episode of Benson, went back to check. Yeah, the Weasels do have little ear tags. Wonder if that means they might've been lab animals before being mutated, like the TMNT and Splinter in this continuity.
The following is one of the most heartbreaking sequences in Campbell's run so I'm gonna cushion things a little by pointing out that Mikey wears a custom Superman hoodie, and he's not wearing it back to front, he made sure to sow the S on the back so it'd be on his shell and it's so good, you guys.
Every night I go to bed vowing this thread'll become more concise with less page by page screencaps, and every second of every day Sophie Campbell's stupidly gorgeous art makes a liar out of me.
Would love to hear TMNT 2012 composer Sebastian Evans score Campbell's writing, especially the sort of tune he might use for the Weasel's popping up like this.
They make friends and it's great! Not coincidentally, the four standard Turtles aren't present. Do wonder about that, given how everything shakes out.
Also this issue's been a good showing for Sally. She's worried about her place in the new status quo, but she's constantly acted practically even under stress, like stopping Jen charging in and possibly ruining the kids' budding friendship. Foreshadowing!~
You're a two faced, self righteous piece of shit Old Hob and I hate you for it.
You ready to see why Sally, despite being sadly side-lined as this run goes on, becomes one of my favourite non-Al IDW characters?
There's a comic by Christopher Cantwell and Luca Casalanguida about the JFK assassination called "Regarding the Matter of Oswalt's Body". Buncha outsiders with espionage experience, criminal records and shady pasts are blackmailed by a US government agency for a simple mission: extract Lee Harvey Oswalt after he's shot JFK, dump a lookalike so the feds have a corpse, and smuggle the read Oswalt out of Dallis.
It's great, you should read it.
It's relevance to this thread is that the fourth issue is the cast being subjected to an almost full 22 pages length monologue from Oswalt about what a world changing fucking big shot he is, and that's what I think of when reading Hob talk about Mutant Town.
TLDR: Fuck Old Hob.
Issue #104, the cover of which makes ya think Sophie Campbell probably understood exactly the kinds of audience for her storytelling.
It's cold and there's nothing good on TV, just like Mutant Town, EEEEEEHHHHYYYYY, let's go.
Sally keeps kicking Hob's ass, very here for that.
A) Love how Campbell keeps the Weasels constantly distinct through expressions, posture and body language.
B) I empathise with Koya here, since if -I- had to live through the first hundred issues of this series I'd be done with fighting, too.
Part of why not-asshole fans slowly lost enthusiasm for this period of the comic, I think, is because it does put more of an emphasis on family and emotion. Often fighting really doesn't have much of a point or accomplish anything.
Like these panels. The gang's first victory, as Mutant Towners, their own entities separate from the original four, rescuing the next generation of mutants from the petty mistakes of the original, and Hob fucking off for a while. What's not to like?
We've reached the Adopted Lost Urchins stage of the comic. Also, Jennika's a big Lita Ford fan.
Love how constantly Campbell keeps up a character's body language.
There he is! I like Donnie's upcoming role, Mutant Town's handyman.
Cannot get over Raph's fucking Dave Lister looking fits.
For real, though. I recall enough about the first 100 issues to know Raph's thing was helping Alopex break away from Shredder and start healing, and I'm glad that roles reversed a little with their relationship.
(For real though, Raph's fucking clothes, he looks like he should be calling Leo a smeg head, it's amazing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJEr1M7p3M&ab_channel=Audio-Video-Retro
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 - Message From Splinter
Wasn't sure about including these panels, but what the hell, I like Raph and Jenny's dynamic. The bros fighting is old hat and Raph does need someone who understands him well enough not to put up with his crap. The older sibling dynamic you can't really give him and Leo.
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I've spent a lot of time in Northampton, it's a great city. very progressive, thriving queer community.