Instead of fixing dinner....

Anyway, for SOME reason I got this idea while reading something totally unrelated regarding the NECA stuff-- primarily about the fear among the collectors-- and I mean SERIOUS TOY COLLECTORS-- that the Mousers would not be that articulate.

Don't ask me how this came from that, I've still not figured it out.

R.I.P. Robert Asprin

http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=47897&cat=14

Off-Turtle-Topic

Skeeve and Aahz are lost to me forever now.

Robert Asprin died the other day. I found out while at usagiyojimbo.com, and it floored me.

Robert A. was the reason I went to my first-ever San Diego Comic-Con. That was way back in the day (1987 I believe) when it was still at the old convention center, and you could actually buy comics there, and panels were not in rooms that could seat 100,000. He didn't attend, I found out, because his father had had a heart attack. I ended up, however, meeting the likes of Stan Sakai, Sergio Aragones, Larry Marder, Joshua Quagmire, Donna Barr, Barb Rausch...

The NEXT year he was able to attend, and I got to speak with him between panels one on one with NO crowds or "security people" or such that surround authors like him nowadays. It was the coolest thing in the world.

I loved the Myth Series, as well as the first few Phule stories, and was sad when he had stopped writing for a time. I knew little of his problems. I had a bit of trouble reading the co-authored stories, but I was glad to see that he'd started writing again (and now I understand the reason for having a co-author).

He was supposed to be attending a convention when he died.

Gad, it's been a smidge over 20 years since I first met him.

:(

*goes to find copy of "Myth Directions", arguably the best of the series*

Committment!

I MUST make more effort to post in this blog! So much is going on...

Got my NECA turtles finally... Seriously, I'm having too much fun with them!


Anyway, by now you will have seen that 4kids.tv/show/tmnt/blog has begun posting "secret" as well as "final" designs for the new season.

These (apart from Donatello) are the same ones that Steven Murphy-- from MIRAGE-- got his ass reamed over posting a few months earlier because they were "NOT final"-- which is bull as they're being shown at this so-called "blog" as being the final product.

Leo still looks dumb. Don looks better, but they're still in need of someone buffing down those sharp pointy corners!

The reason I liked the 2k3 series was because of the style and detail and such-- NOW we're back to flat cartoony stuff like Fast Forward.

The only redeeming feature atm is the fact that the entire voice cast is back. Here's hoping it all goes well.

Back to the Sewers...

http://www.4kids.tv/show/tmnt/blog

Yet these sewers have never looked so damn Clean and shiny and Bright!!!


I am going to have even more of a problem adjusting to the new style of THIS incarnation than I did to the Fast Forward stuff-- but at least IT tried to keep some of the visuals consistent with the 2K3 series.


Ah well.