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Vincent, The “Fifth” Turtle
Waaaay back in 2004, there was a contest on...some website? to design a fifth Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Since the Turtles are all named after renaissance painters, I decided to…
Atomic Monsoon Season 2 Episode 5: TMNT 1990
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4VgClQLjyzXQRZS06PVmhg It's the 35th Anniversary of the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Live-Action film! And Stephanie had never seen the movie before, but Andy's seen it countless times. What did…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 Artwork
These images were from the official Mirage Studios website back when the 2003 TMNT animated series was just starting out. I downloaded everything and have been holding onto all of…
Posted inGraphic Design Television
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 Custom 7mm DVD Case Inserts
After making custom 7mm DVD slim case inserts for the original 1987 series, when I bought the complete 2003 TMNT cartoon, I figured I should do the same for the…
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Bonus Inktober Doodles: Elf and Slash
A couple of ink doodles I did between tasks at work this week: a pretty elf girl, and Slash, the Evil Turtle from Dimension X.
Posted inMovies Television
Where to start watching TMNT?
With Mutant Mayhem in theaters bringing new fans in and lapsed fans back to the franchise, I thought it would be nice to put together a relatively quick guide to…
Posted inToys
What does the new “Donatello as Spock” toy mean?
In 1994, the Ninja Turtles engine was starting to lose steam. The original animated series debuted in December of 1987, and the original Playmates toy line had been running since…
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Finally! The complete Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 cartoon is coming to DVD
In 2003, the Ninja Turtles got their second animated series. Produced by 4Kids Entertainment, this series ran on weekend mornings on Fox’s Fox Box block. As someone who was the…
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Childhood Heroes
From around 2005 or so? Something I did for fun in one of my college illustration classes, probably to practice inking. I ended up coloring it in photoshop, and adding…
Posted inComics
Where to Start Reading Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Comics?
I recently came across a post of a Ninja Turtles fan asking where to get started with the comics -- They had been a fan of the cartoons and movies,…
Posted inToys
Custom TMNT Shredder ReAction figures
The TMNT ReAction line by Super7 is interesting. The whole ReAction Figure conceit is that it's supposed to emulate action figures from the early 1980s, specifically Kenner's Star Wars line,…
Posted inToys
Custom TMNT Video Game Foot Soldier Custom ReAction Figures
In many of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video games based on the 1987 cartoon series, the generic enemies the Turtles fight over and over again are multicolored Foot Soldier…
Posted inVideo games
Art Appreciation: Konami Video Game covers by Tom DuBois
Video Game-playing children of the 80s and 90s know the work of Tom DuBois, even if they don't know that they know it. DuBois was one of the regular artists…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Avengers
After getting a Captain America Ninja Turtle sketch cover by Kevin Eastman in 2010 I thought, hey, what if there was an entire TEAM of Teenage Mutant Ninja Avengers? So…
Top 40 at 40: 1982-1991
I’m turning 40 this month! To help deal with celebrate that, I’ve built a playlist containing 40 of my favorite songs, each one representing a year in my life. I…