I love your take on the TMNT characters. Will you be doing Donatello and Michaelangelo as well?

Probably, yeah. My ideas for Leo and Raph were the most distinct, so I did those first. I have ideas for Donny and Mike, but I'm not entirely sure of a good way to visually get all of them across.

Great work. I love his pants, and the informal self-made look of his sai sheath (i'm assuming that's what it is on his thigh). The turtles always seemed to be really well-equipped for folks with no income, especially Donny's machines. Then again, it's amazing what people will throw out.

They _were_ pretty decked out for people who lived in sewers, weren't they? Sort of like all those people standed on islands.
I sometimes feel that way... I live in Alabama and yet, I have an internet connection... doesn't seem very plausable. If I wrote that in a story, no one would believe me.
But yeah, it seemed like the turtles got all their stuff out of people throwing things away... but it seems like they'd spend all their time scavanging if that were the case. Especially in NYC where there are already plenty of other people doing the same thing.

Though in all honesty, I am not entirely sure what it is Raph has on his leg there. Could be a sai sheath, yeah. Might just be some pouch with other equipment. I am not entirely sure, I was just thinking along the lines of SWAT and military personal with belts and pouches and straps and whatnot.

Well, we never really saw what they were up to during their free time until the Foot started increasing in activity at the beginning of the cartoons.

As great as the cartoons were (yes, i liked the new series), i never really got a feeling that they were living in NYC... it could have really been any major metropolitan area, and you wouldn't have known. Granted, I've had the same problem with the X-Men cartoons, but then I've lived in Westchester County for years, less than twenty minutes from where they lived in the comics.

They used to make a big deal about them being in NYC.
There's been so many hands in the TMNT mythos, it's kind of all over the place. I kind of fanficed the hell out of it as a child and these are sort of an extention of that... you know, where I kind of felt the turtles should go from where they were in the show.
My favourite version of TMNT continuity is actually the Archie comics, which is probably the least well known and most mocked version. Haha, it's fucking full of other anthro characters, though, is probably why I like it so much.

With the Mighty Mutanimals? I loved those comics.

Have you seen http://www.obscurezodiac.com/index2.html ? The art is quite good, although the updates are sparse.

They made a big deal out of it in the movies, definitely; but i never really saw anything in the cartoons that actually made it seem like it was New York.

Concerning Xmen... Xmen could take place in a completely different fucking _universe_, not just from where it's supposed to be set, but from Marvel continuity in general. They actually try in Punisher, Spidey, Daredevil, etc, to make it seem like _maybe_ this is happening in NYC and shit and the Xmen seem to happen in another time, space and continuity all together. It's almost like Marvel needs a SuperHeroverse and a Mutantverse. But, meh.

Part of the problem is that Marvel's artists and writers all have had plenty of exposure to NYC, but anything just outside of it is an empty void to them. There's an old Spiderman comic where he chases some crooks into Yonkers, which is portrayed as rural farmlands where he finds them hiding in a barn next to a massive grain silo. Problem is, Yonkers is more urbanized than a lot of parts of Manhattan. People who wind up there think they're already in the city. There are no grain silos, much less more than two acres of open land.

The same problem occurs in the X-Men universe; not only because the authors and artists are disconnected slightly from the other comics, but because they wind up thinking of everything north of the city as something like a separate existence. It's actually a major gripe of people from anywhere else in New York state; people in the city and from other states have a tendency to regard anything north of the boroughs as "Upstate", a void of farmlands and hicks. Now, there's certainly parts of NY that are like that, and if it wasn't for everything south of Orange County we'd be a Red state, but it's still the same state.

That's pretty funny. I am not actually sure where Yonkers is, but I didn't think it was farm.
I'm actually from upstate NY (Binghamton, much further than you are... in all fairness, it does verge on being a void or some sort or another), and everytime I say I'm from NY people ask me questions about the City and how scary it is. I've only actually been to NYC maybe a dozen times, though. Heh.

My brother attends SUNY Binghamton, so i've seen parts of it... it's still a lot more densely populated than many of Marvel's renditions of anything north would make you think.

I've been to the city less times than the number of years i've been alive, even if you cut out the six years i lived in CA; I live less than half an hour from there by car.

It's amazing how much people base their assumptions about a place on a very limited region.

Kinda Hot :)

Wow. XD
Completely not my intention, but if it works for you, I won't complain.
I was actually thinking about this picture (while picking up some turtle toys today) and think I need to go back and either draw another, or colour this one.
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