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stretchdude (stretchdude) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-03-22 12:52:00

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char: april o'neil, char: shredder/oroku saki, group: teenage mutant ninja turtles, publisher: archie, title: mighty mutanimals, title: teenage mutant ninja turtles

The Origins of the Mighty Mutanimals!
Someone requested this after I posted the TMNT Adventures Hitler-punch scans. Over the course of the first 20 issues, the Turtles met a number of characters who eventually formed their own team (and short-lived spinoff book), the Mighty Mutanimals. As requested, here are their respective origin stories.

Man Ray: In TMNT Adventures #5, we meet marine biologist Jack Finney.

He spends most of the issue in the shadows, and thwarts Shredder's plot to destroy the Statue of Liberty (on the Fourth of July, no less!) before his big reveal:

Leatherhead: Everybody's favorite gator-man gets a vastly different origin this time around. TMNTA #6 introduces us to Jess Harley, a man from the bayou who steals a myserious crystal from swamp witch Mary Bones, then heads to New York to find a seller, only to drop the crystal down the sewer. He heads down to retrieve it...

Wingnut & Screwloose: In TMNTA #8, the Turtles return from competing in an intergalactic wrestling tournament to find a crazed bat-man and his mosquito sidekick smashing skylights across the city. They finally manage to capture them...

They're smashing skylights 'cause Wingnut thinks Krang's hiding under one of them, y'see.

Mondo Gecko: In TMNTA #18, the Turtles find a teenage metal band practicing in one of Shredder's old hideouts. Their playing causes a power surge that wakes up a bunch of souped-up Foot Soldiers, and the Turtles leap into the fray.

Jagwar & Dreadmon: These two are introduced in TMNTA #14 and #15, respectively, but they don't recount their origins until issue 2 of the "Mighty Mutanimals: Invasion From Space" miniseries:

And there you have it.

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psychop_rex
2009-03-23 01:51 am UTC (link)

I love how Mondo Gecko is all 'well, this sucks. I guess I'm a lizard-man now. Oh well, that's life! Anyway, I look cool!'
Also, Dreadmon has one too many elements in his origin. What was the point of the whole 'my Dad fought apartheid' thing? HE has no thematic connections to Africa - he looks Jamaican, sounds Jamaican, grew up in Jamaica and has a Jamaican accent. Why not just skip the whole African business and just have him be a Jamaican slum kid?
(In any case, the artist clearly knows nothing about what he's drawing. All the big riots over apartheid were in the slums of the big cities - Johannesburg and Capetown and places like that. Those buildings that the people are running from shouldn't be huts, they should be shanties made of sheet metal and plywood and stuff. And even if we accept that they're huts, they shouldn't be THOSE huts - you only get huts on legs like that in wet places with lots of river and rainfall and stuff. South Africa is mostly savannah and scrub country - their huts are on the ground, thank you very much.)

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