Raphael #1- Me, Myself and I

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(8.66 pages out of 26)



Raphael and Michelangelo are sparring in April's basement. Mickey floor his brother, angering Raph.










Raph, comes across Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird mugging a woman.










Casey runs away, leaving Raph to track him down before he kills someone.





Casey runs off again, with Raph chasing him to Central Park.





And so the pair run off into the night to stop the robbery.

Comments

[crinos]

I always liked this fight from the movie.

"CRICKET? Nobody knows how to play Cricket. You have to know what a crumpet is to know how to play cricket."

Honestly I think the weakest version of Casey was from the 87 cartoon, where he only showed up occasionally and was just this really intense Dirty Harry like character. All the other versions made him an actual character and also April's love interest.

[zachbeacon]

I like it when he babysits samurai.

[super_fly]

ok but 87 cartoon Casey Jones is not without his moments of glory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZuQ2sL3IXE

[dcbanacek]

Jim Shooter, editor in chief at the time for Marvel, told Eastman and Laird that the TMNT was "too amateurish". So they self-published a comic (or close enough to it), then you had the cartoons, the movies and the rest is history.

[crinos]

So you mean that we came this close to having the turtles in canon with Daredevil as they were intended.

I wonder if Jim Shooter ever lived down the fact he passed on this literal gold mine.

[bravest_spinja]

It might be fun to rib him for his lack of foresight, but I don't imagine the regret weighs heavily on him. It's quite possible Mark Freedman would never have been able to turn them into the juggernaut they became if they were weighed down with a lot of Marvel Universe baggage, or was locked into the same licensing deals. And by the time they did become a sensation, Shooter was already on his way out, more for office/corporate politics than because Marvel was hurting (the contrary, in fact), so he would have been unlikely to share in any windfall the Turtles would have brought.

[crinos]

That's probably true.

Honestly though I am surprised they never did a proper crossover with Daredevil (I mean they did do Batman).

[zachbeacon]

It really is amazing how quickly Eastman and Laird's art is improving. The first couple issues are ... not great. Here I can feel some of the hits in those fights.