Adventure April
Added 2016-03-09 20:29:33 +0000 UTCIn an alternate universe, IDW lets me write and draw an Adventure April O'Neil series based on her getting into trouble and getting out of jams and calling the Turtles to take out specific bad guys using information she gathered. And there's precedent in the franchise for that!
But I like to liken it to James Bond movies. And every single James Bond movie seems to equate James Bond being captured by the villain as the height of detective work. It seems to work out for him, since they always tell him everything just before they're gonna kill him! I don't think I'd go so dire, but I feel like there'd be a willing market for 80's perilous adventure with an attractive lead.
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I hear you about the license problem, but I meant something different. As much as the Bond-esque spy-stories genre isn't copyrighted and actually it spawned a lot of similar fiction, there isn't a copyright for "scoop-obsessed snoopy reporter getting in trouble". Which means that you can't actually use the character because is licensed, but nothing stops you from making a comic about the kind of character we described getting into different kind of adventures in a '80s world full of crazy stuff (aliens, extradimensional overlords, robots, mutants, mad scientists, giant killer vegetables). Naturally I understand very well that with the "fan-art" factor of using a famous character the internet market would work much better. But I think something modeled on the concept but different could sell anyway. It would sell much much less but it would sell. Just throw in some jumpsuit action sometimes. :P
Wonderverse
2016-05-28 07:20:41 +0000 UTCI'd be delighted if you did an April Adventure comic in the style and tone you descibed, if only to see your style applied to various other characters in the TMNT lore. Archie Comics published 6 April O'neil issues in the 90s. But your Bond-esque idea would be something different and fun!
oldmanwinters
2016-05-28 06:01:41 +0000 UTCIt would be fun but clearly I have no real licence to make an April comic on my own. And a larger the fan project gets, the riskier it becomes to make work out of it. Still I agree that a lot of what you said makes the idea appealing to have her ad a hero, solving problems without much fighting skill but cleverness and guts. Getting caught though, makes for a potentially super fun book!
Psudonym
2016-05-27 22:44:06 +0000 UTCReading the description makes me want that you'd do that kind of comic for real. I would immediately become a patreon. Despite April was used as a damsel-in-distress (which I admit is very appealing for me and many others out there), she was also a well-round and appealing character. Aside from being obviously really sexy in that yellow jumpsuit, she's smart, intelligent, brave and sarcastic. She's also prone to action and she's capable, but without the cliché of having the capable woman good at fighting. She also had a lot of useful skills, like driving as a badass, or driving motorcycles. And she's good at gathering informations. And she's good at using computers, which wasn't a very common skill in the '80s.
Wonderverse
2016-05-27 11:14:37 +0000 UTCI would buy the heck out of this comic... She looks super-cute here! :)
Aidenke
2016-03-10 02:23:03 +0000 UTCI like it. 😊
Rod Uding
2016-03-10 00:06:13 +0000 UTCThat would be excellent. :)
WA Jones
2016-03-09 20:57:19 +0000 UTCSounds like a great idea
maninblack
2016-03-09 20:44:39 +0000 UTC
