Well I'm in quarantine, just like everybody else is and I had some ideas for a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story. Working on these is actually a lot of work and very fulfilling to do.
Someone on another of your uploads commented that your material is "genuine", and ... yeah, totally. I can't say I'm enamored of it or anything, but every time I spot a new upload it makes me glad to see you pluggin' along and doing something you enjoy.
About page 17: It is customary for Manga to start a new chapter with a page in full color but there's also another reason why I did this.
I want to include one of my favorite tropes of the original series: which is for the Turtles to watch a cartoon series on TV which is a wink to well known Cartoon series.
Space Heroes - Star Trek Super Mecha Force Five - Voltron Crognard - Thundarr (with a good dose of He-Man and Thundercats mixed in) Chris Bradford's 2 Ruff crew - Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos (with a good dose of The A-team added) Space Heroes the next generation - Star Trek the next generation.
So here we have "Gator Tooth Sphere" which is a hybrid between "Dragon Ball" and "Avatar the Last Airbender" and true to form, I included a lot of pun names.
- Prince Oohrahn from planet Youteng. I guess that explains itself: Orangutan. He's basically Vegeta and Prince Zuko combined into one person. But as a joke, he wears Son Goku's colors. Seeing as how Vegeta started out a space pirate who conquered worlds and as a reference to Zuko's scarred face, I gave him an eye patch.
- Mahalo or to use his Youteng name Cachalot Is the combination of Son Goku and Avatar Aang. "Mahalo" is Hawaiian for "Thank you" while "Cachalot" in addition to sounding like "Kakkarot" is a Sperm whale. I had been breaking my head over what to do with Aang's arrow tattoo, since that is a very recognizable part of his look. How would I adapt that? And all of a sudden I had it: I would place twin arrow Tattoos on both sides of his head.
- King Orcinus. Orcinus Orca is the Latin name for a killer whale.