IDW’s Shredder

Funny how things work, you know? Back in the original Mirage series, Shredder was offed in the first issue. Brought back to life later on and killed off once more (permanently) when the original TMNT cartoon was in its third year… with Shredder as a main villain. And yet, here we are on a new comic building up on a character that was essentially a throw-away. Funny how that works.

As far as this rendition of Shredder? Looks like he’s human and not a shell for a Utrom like in the 2003 cartoon (like the cartoon, but hated that version of Shredder). Then again, not much is known at this point, so who knows what the deal is. At the very least, I like the new design. Nice and simple, yet imposing at the same time. Sometimes, it’s the little things that work.

Classic Bite Commentary #107 – March 27th, 2012 (The FINAL Bite Commentary)

There used to be a time on the original DTM Blog when the number of posts hit a new hundred, I’d do this extra special post of stuff, whether it’d be additional plans and updates or a special project. It’s a tradition that’s been lost during the transition from that blog to the Twisted Realms… primarily due to the fact that posts come about more frequently here than there. Don’t believe me? This blog only hit 700 posts close to the beginning of February less than two months ago. As a result, nothing feels special when the moment comes along. And considering the rate at which posts are made, it won’t be long before this blog hits its one-thousandth post… and you can be absolutely sure that I will treat that with great reverence.

In the meantime, I want to use the 800th post to put up an extensive Bite commentary… possibly the last one that I’m ever going to do pending rare circumstances. While I have nothing planned for this event, I would like to take the time to shoot out a couple ideas for possible future projects and plans that I’ve been considering. They may or may not come to fruition and they’re not planned – they’re just ideas I’ve been floating around for some time.

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An Oldie, But Goodie

“The only things that could survive a nuclear holocaust are cockroaches, Twinkies,

 and STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN.”

Emer “Hellsing920” Prevost

while reviewing the Stone Cold Steve Austin comics

Yeah, that’s right. Stone Cold had his OWN comic.

Does John Cena have his own comic?

No, he has to share with others.

In yo’ face, Johnny!

By the way, you know who else got his own comic?

THE ROCK.

Suck it, Johnny.


Random Thought About… Shell Shocked

Interesting dilemma here… the PRiS episode “Shell-Shocked” which featured the TMNT… or rather, the Ninja turtles from the Next Mutation series, are suddenly tossed out of the sewer and are greeted by Astronema, whom none of the Turtles supposedly know about… well, except for Venus, who refers to Astronema as the “princess of evil.” This despite Astronema never introducing herself as such… how could she have know if the Turtles supposedly never heard of Astronema and believe the exploits of the Power Rangers to be make believe.

Let’s not forget that this is PRiS’ fourth episode, which means Astronema isn’t generally well-known to the Earthers… so how the fuck does Venus know about Astronema?!

WTF indeed…

Random Thought About… Tournament Fighters.

Recently popped in TMNT: Tournament Fighters for Super NES… holy crap, is the AI in this game hard. Even on the easiest setting, the CPU’s offense is almost relentless, but that’s not why I’m here. Anyway, a random thought occurred while I was playing Tournament Fighters… where did the character Aska come from?

As I recall, the game is sort of a mishmash of elements from the various TMNT properties. Primarily based on the TMNT cartoon that started in 87, but contains a number of characters from other sources. For example, Shredder’s appearance is based on the original comics rather than the animated series. Also, the final boss of the game is Karai, whose only prominent appearance was in the 13-part “City At War” storyline that brought a close to the original Mirage Studios comic run that would make way for a color series. And then there’s War and Armagon, two characters from the Archie Comics series run.
And then we have this Aska character… apparently an original character that was made for the game… and I’m wondering… why?
Funny thing is that I don’t think Aska has been seen since in any other TMNT (or Konami) property since Tournament Fighters. So I gotta wonder about that… or maybe I don’t.
Anyway, just a random thought.