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**”Turtles Forever” Theater Screening Confirmed**

Thanks to Rosie ::” The rumored theater screening of “Turtles Forever,” reported yesterday, has now been confirmed.

A 4Kids employee on The Technodrome fan forums gave the report a thumbs up, and forum member tone-master21 found this link:

Date: Thursday October 29, 2009; 7:00 pm
Cost: $10
Type: Film

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the 1980s meet the Turtles of the 21st Century in a dimension-hopping, action-packed, knee-slapping movie extravaganza! When the gigantic, evil, and terrifying Technodrome (a giant mobile battle station from the original 1988 TMNT animated series) suddenly appears in our world, carrying with it the original 1988 series Ninja Turtles, our world’s Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo find themselves with a huge mystery to solve and four crazy Turtles to babysit! Can the Turtles of the past and the Turtles of the present stop annoying each other long enough to stop all of time and space from unraveling?

It’s a ninja tag-team extraordinaire across multiple dimensions, full of twists, turns and more Ninja Turtles than you have ever seen anywhere before. It is a must-see special event for the millions of Turtles fans everywhere and the perfect 25th anniversary celebration for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

The feature will be followed by a rare look behind the scenes with Ninja Turtles co-creator Peter Laird, created exclusively for this very special event. Learn how the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came to be – their Secret Origin. Through rare original comic book art, archival pictures and all-new interviews, Pete tells how he and co-creator Kevin Eastman came up with this crazy idea in the first place as well as highlights over the past 25 years of the biggest Turtle moments of all time.

Better start checking your local listings!”

***Turtles Forever at Mipcom***

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–>> Yeh the pic sucks, but so’s my camera.. and it’s 5 in the mornin’ ..

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TMNT T.V.’s Cyber Sovereign ,The Cyber Shredder from BACK TO THE SEWER is revealed as an alternate Shredder guise .. in Smash-up .. ::

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What do you have to do to get access to the big bad of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe? Simple, just select the Bonus Content option from the main menu screen and enter in the code below:

Up, Down, Right, Up, Down, Right, Left, Up, Right, Down

If you input this code correctly a sound will play. Shredder will then be visible in the Bonus Content list and you will also get access to an alternate Cyber Shredder skin!” — Kimi

–>> The great gang and my pals at GGM heads-up our Round-up ..with **SMASH – UP !!

TMNT Smash-Up Out Now

Mike-Sama ::

TMNT Smash-Up is out now for the Nintendo Wii and Playstation 2. I recommend the Wii version because of the online play.

Two new videos have been released showcasing Vs Computer Game Play and Mission Mode Game Play.

TMNT Smash-Up Mission Mode Game Play

TMNT Smash-Up Vs Computer Game Play

Stay Tuned for my full review of the game next week, and an exclusive interview.

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New TMNT Smash-Up Game Play and Character List

- Unfortunately there was an error in our “Future Tense” trade paperback where the art for page 65 was repeated on page 66. You can download the correct art for page 66 here.

- BigShinyRobot.com recently reviewed the Volume 1 collection of TMNT – check it out here.

- Electric Playground posted a video interview with Kevin Eastman. Check it out here.

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” Hey, look what I found this weekend! This is a blast from my checkered past, a 20-year-old monster movie design for a movie that was never made.
Back in early August, TMNT fan, Myrant reader and artist in his own right tOkKa wrote my old Mirage Studios friend Ryan Brown, asking about one of the many snapping turtle monster designs I’ve posted on Myrant this year.
Ryan recalled, “My memory is sketchy about this but… The proposed film Steve mentions was by my friend Jon Killough (Skinned Alive, 1990; Robot Ninja, 1989; The Dead Next Door, 1989)…”

Ryan continued, “I was asked by Jon to create a mutant leech monster for the never-produced flick and I mentioned to Jon that I might be able to get Steve Bissette to design for the film.”
Ryan indeed got a design sketch or two from me — and it’s the best of ‘em I’ve put on sale here today.
Ryan adds, “Jon had worked on The Dead Next Door (1989) and was proceeding with new film projects with his friend J.R. Bookwalter. In mid-1985 Sam Raimi put up some money for Jon’s 19-year-old friend J.R. Bookwalter to film The Dead Next Door. Bookwalter shot the film in Akron, Ohio during the summer of 1986 with area residents playing zombies. Fangoria wrote about the film in the March, 1987 issue. Jon was involved heavily with this film.”

But Maggot Man was never made, to the best of Ryan’s and my knowledge.
Thanks to tOkKa’s email, though, I got to thinking about that project and just this past Sunday turned up this wormboy. Thanks, tOkKa and Ryan, for reminding me of that which was long forgotten!
Just to be clear, my Maggot Man sketch is what’s for sale here; I’ve included a scan from the photocopy I kept of Ryan’s sketch for historical purposes only (I am not selling Ryan’s artwork, folks).
This uber-rare Maggot Man sketch is huge — the original measures 14″ x 22″, drawn with black pen and marker, some pencil underdrawing is visible; it’s on 2-ply board that is slightly discolored with age around the edges with a very minor 1/4″ tear at the bottom, center. This is vintage work, and goes for $135 plus shipping — first to email me at msbissette@yahoo.com can forever gaze upon this maggot, man.
Per usual, first Myrant price is forever the best price — in a day or two, I’ll be taking this off its Myrant debut slot and moving it to the sketchstore archives and Comic Art Fans Gallery at a higher price.

**2009 sketches and much vintage art can be snapped up 24 hours a day in the Sketch Store section (click this link), which offers a monstrous menagerie of still-for-sale Bissette sketches — Swamp Thing, Godzilla, Tyrant, Constantine, Vermonsters and many published original art rarities — for your pleasure.

***All 2009 sketches, sold and unsold, are archived in the Sketch Gallery, free viewing at all times, enjoy the show. “– SRB

Maggot Man created by Jon Killough and Ryan Brown, 1989; Ryan Brown’s Maggot Man artwork ©1989, 2009 Ryan Brown; my Maggot Man artwork and design ©1989, 2009 Stephen R. Bissette, all rights reserved.

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“Krang, the exiled warlord from Dimension X from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series is now available over at 4Kids.tv!

Krang will be making his first appearance since the original series in the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie “Turtles Forever“!

Grab him here* – and make sure to do it soon as he will cost 4Kids Rewards Points after a week.  Find out how to get 10,000 4Kids Rewards Points free for visiting Cubeecraft after the jump!

*If you cannot see him the the Ninja Turtles section you may have to log into the site.

Go to 4Kids.tv and create an account.  Then go to http://www.4kids.tv/show/tmnt and type the word “technodrome” while on the page.  This will give you 10,000 4Kids Rewards Points FREE!  There is no place to enter the code, simply have the page open in your browser and type.

BONUS! Enter this code on a TUESDAY and get double the points!  That’s 20,000 Reward Points!” —   **Chris B.

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” UGGHHHH .. BURRRRP!!** ..SAKI, It should be noted that Tokka is a miserable mutant and failure .. his intellect makes him inaudible, intolerable and inept and an absolutely worthless addition to the Foot Clan. BLORP !! ~** !! He provides absolutely NO means of downloading anything viable or alternately. He could hardly handle one kilowatt of the Technodrome’s magnificent technological power let alone download a bologna sandwich !!

Uggh , BLAAWWRRRRFFF .. ~~~** disgusting !! !! BRRAAAP – -

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“Since the announcement of Sideshow Collectibles acquisition of the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ license, fans of the heroes in a half-shell have been chomping at the bit to see who would be the first turtle in our new line of collectibles! We are very happy to spill the beans that it is none other than Donatello! **Click on the link below to see a totally rad preview of this skilled fighter! And remember to be back here next week for your chance to pick-up this tubular turtle through Pre-Order!”

(( ..thanks to ウサギの帽子の !! ~t ))

–>> Referenced late late last month in **Mike-sama’s post on GGM, here is the Nintendo Power preview of Ubisoft’s upcoming DS game TMNT : Arcade Attack.

It appears to be a typo that the game is listed for Wii.

Note : This is the only portion of the magazine i will scan in to share.

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Clipped from an article regarding this historic event from Scott McCloud ::

Drawn group shot of the Summit participants from Reinventing Comics.

“The Creator’s Bill of Rights was written in November 1988 for a two day “Summit” of comic book artists held in Northampton, Massachusetts. The meeting had been suggested by Cerebus creator Dave Sim and hosted by local heroes Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, creators of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Summit was a follow-up to a July meeting in Toronto which produced a “Creative Manifesto.” Some of us found the Manifesto a bit scattered, so I wrote a rough draft of a proposed replacement. That replacement, “A Bill of Rights for Comics Creators” was accepted quickly at Sim’s suggestion. The rest of that day was a non-stop argument about the document’s wording.

The Bill never generated much noise in the industry and I wouldn’t want to exaggerate its influence, but it provides an interesting snapshot of our attitudes at the time, and of the climate that was fueling self-publishers, progressive business people, and artists trying to reinvent the comics industry. A few years later, several top-selling Marvel artists would break from the pack and form a new company called Image, shifting the debate from rights and principles to clout and competition, but both developments would share a common premise, still relevant today: that comics creators already have the right to control their art if they want it; all they have to do is not sign it away.

I was invited in large part because I knew Laird and others through an APA I’d created called The Frying Pan. At my suggestion, Beanworld creator and “Nexus of all Comic Book Realities” Larry Marder was invited too. Larry flew out from Chicago to our place in Arlington, Massachusetts shortly before the meeting. I had the rough draft of the Bill ready but not typed yet. I vividly remember hammering it out on my old manual typewriter as Larry read my notes back to me, right before we rushed out the door to catch a succession of buses and trains to Northampton.

While waiting for the bus in Springfield, we found a copy shop and photocopied my hastily typed hand-out. It was also on that trip that I showed Larry my notes for a comic book about comics that I had been working on for a few years.

After the first day of debates, everyone stumbled out of the Hotel Northhampton into the cold New England air to walk the five or so blocks to dinner. I remember Larry and I lagged behind a little. I had argued with Dave Sim about every imaginable issue that day as if my life depended on it, but walking to dinner, it all seemed pretty distant already. Larry and I talked more about my notes for the comic book about comics. I asked him if he thought those ideas would mean a lot more in the long run than anything I could accomplish in Northampton. He said yeah, they probably would.

When those notes became **Understanding Comics it was Kevin Eastman’s money that paid me to finish it – money he and Peter had earned because they refused to give away their creation the way so many artists had before them.” — ***Scott McCloud

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This is an   important piece of  Mirage Studios/ TMNT history  and  may prove useful to any and all those thinking of entering into comics or are already stumbling / succeeding their  way through the sequential art fields. Kevin and Peter were high backers of this at the time.

** IGN’S ARCADE ATTACK PREVIEW – Click’it **

..thanks go to TMNT 25 !!