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zechs27 (zechs27) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-28 14:30:00

Entry tags:

char: shredder/oroku saki, creator: jim lawson, creator: kevin eastman, creator: peter laird, group: teenage mutant ninja turtles, publisher: mirage, series: martial arts week, title: teenage mutant ninja turtles

Martial Arts Week: Leonardo vs the Foot Clan
If we're going to have a Martial Arts Week, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles just gotta be represented. So I present the Leonardo One Shot (originally published by Mirage) IN GLORIOUS COLOR!!

For those wondering how is this possible? There where four(?) trades released of of the first volume of TMNT all colored. They where published by First Publishing. This was volume four which I found at a comic book shop a few years ago. I couldn't pass up the chance to get this particular chapter. I only saw these four and I could have gotten the rest. But really this one was the only one I desired since it had the Leonardo special and heralded the return of THE rogue of TMNT. *looks at icon*

You'll have to excuse the scans. The trade was HUGE. So it was a pain to scan. But it's so worth it don't you agree? So here it is a colorized version of Leonardo one shot. It starts off with Leonardo out training. When he runs into the Foot Clan who're still harboring a deep grudge against the turtles for slaying their master, the Shredder. I've taken out the talk of Leo via his brothers, Splinter, and April on the bottom of each page and just went straight for the good stuff. The trade has the one shot clocking in at just over thirty pages so nine scans of it. So enough of my rambling:

Unlike another encounter this time the Foot are utterly relentless against Leo. Every break he has or a moment he thinks it's over more Foot Ninja swarm him and the cycle begins all over. They're even determined enough to let this fight spill on the street when Leo tries walking away. As shown with several Shredder Foot Elite (not called this until City at War) ambushing him:

Leo attempts a final stand near a construction site. The Foot Clan appear in full force:

Saki after beating Leo within an inch of his life has his Foot Ninja toss the Turtle into April's apartment via window. Horrified at the sight of their fallen brother the Turtles and Splinter demand to know who did this. Leo before passing out from his wounds horrifingly tells them the man they murdered a year ago is back. And he's pissed as hell.

Utterly awesome. This scene was adapted for the live action movie with Raph subbing for Leo and Tatsu for Shredder. A perfectly flawless adapation of this issue came in the recent 2k3 TMNT series.

For those wanting to see the epic fight Leo has with the Shredder during Return to New York. I scanned it awhile ago and posted it here:

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/461601.html#cutid1

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	raisedbymoogles 2009-08-28 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	This is epically awesome, thank you. It's good to see the source material for the movie. (Though I can't help but laugh at Leo getting a snowball in the puss. Getting a little desperate there, Foot dudes?) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zechs27 2009-08-28 08:25 pm UTC (link)
	I wouldn't call it desperate. More them using their surroundings and baiting Leo whose thinking what's going to be thrown at him is metal and to kill instead being soft and meant to blind him. If you think of it that way the Foot are so more awesome. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	raisedbymoogles 2009-08-28 09:03 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe it is good tactics, but you can't tell me the Foot didn't get a kick out of that. puts quarter in pun jar (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tpsreports 2009-08-28 09:06 pm UTC (link)
	Curses! I actually have the Leo one shot, in B&W but was waiting to post it as a grand finale to MA week with the title when TMNT was Awesome. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zechs27 2009-08-28 11:16 pm UTC (link)
	Sorry about that. I was just glaring at my trade when I was scanning Crimson Empire. Do you get the next part to this? Shredder and the Foot's raid on April's apartment? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	greenmask 2009-08-28 09:15 pm UTC (link)
	Mmmmmm Turtles look great in just about any art style, no? (Reply to this)

	proteus_lives 2009-08-29 02:05 am UTC (link)
	TMNT is never not awesome! I have the "Well, before it was a cartoon, TMNT was a awesome and brutal underground comic." conversation several times a month. (Reply to this)

	zechs27 2009-08-29 02:16 am UTC (link)
	Yeah it surprised me how hardcore when I found vol. 1 of this colored trade in a book store when I was a kid. I was all O_o did they just.. KILL THE SHREDDER?! Not to mention how hardcore Saki was before his life ended. Oh speaking of TMNT... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	crinosg 2009-08-29 02:35 am UTC (link)
	OH SNAP! IS THAT TOKKA AND RAHZAR? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zechs27 2009-08-29 02:39 am UTC (link)
	Yeeeesss, check out the people ontop of the Skyscrapers by the way. ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dejadrew 2009-08-29 05:38 am UTC (link)
	... New!turtles Raphael is going to punch 90s Raph in the face, isn't he. On sight. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-08-29 09:54 am UTC (link)
	Wait - is that an actual ad, or something someone cobbled together in Photoshop out of two separate images? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zechs27 2009-08-29 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	Very much real and an actual ad. It's for the upcoming TMNT mini series/movie Turtles Forever that has the 80s and 2k3 Turtles teaming up against Ch'rell, 80s Shredder, and Krang. With a few surprises. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-08-29 09:21 pm UTC (link)
	Whoa, really? Cool beans! Man, I've got some catching up to do before I can see that one, though... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	caeliluminar 2009-08-29 04:41 am UTC (link)
	I'd kill to be able to draw/pace action like that. (Reply to this)

	lbd_nytetrayn 2009-08-29 05:07 am UTC (link)
	Hey, why is Raphael using Leo's swords? Just kidding. I always wondered where that snowball pic came from; I seem to remember it being used (with different coloring) in an issue of Nintendo Power or something for either the second or third TMNT NES games. --LBD "Nytetrayn" (Reply to this)

psychop_rex
2009-08-29 10:02 am UTC (link)

You know, one of the changes that the first show made to the Turtles that I really thought made sense was giving them different colored masks. I mean, I know that the original stories have it differently, but let's face it - their masks are the only way to distinguish them from one another. Sure, their weapons are different, and of course they have different characters and everything, but to the casual eye, they're pretty much identical. The different colors make sense - you can tell immediately who everyone is. Just to show how strong this identification is, when I saw the first image, even though you'd told me it was Leonardo, even though he's using Leonardo's trademark weapons, even though I'd READ THE DAMN COMIC BEFORE, my mind immediately went 'oh, hey, it's Raphael'.

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