Leading into the highly-anticipated new TMNT film, Mirage has produced five comic books based on the pre-production and back-story notes of director Kevin Munroe. Each comic spotlights one character - Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo and April O'Neil - and follows them into the beginnings of the film.
The first two prequel comics will be available on mobile phones March 22nd (the day before the film hits theatres) from GoComics:
Raphael - Story by Steve Murphy with art by Fernando Pinto. Prequel #1 focuses on Raphael's growing disillusionment with his brothers and sensei, his increasing use of violence and the strange discovery that might provide the solution to his problems. Not to mention lots of kick-butt dark-of-night ninja action! (Sample page below)
Michelangelo - Story by Jake Black with art by Mr. Exes and Ryan Brown. Prequel #2 focuses on Michelangelo's secret identity as the children's entertainer Cowabunga Carl! When a purse-snatcher interrupts Carl's gig at a hockey game, can nunchaku ninja action and Casey Jones be far behind? It's a face-off, and in more ways than one!
More TMNT movie comics will follow on mobile in the weeks to come. The TMNT movie prequel comics will join the GoComics Mobile Comic Book Reader archive, which already features the current Tales of the TMNT series and special Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles issues.
To get TMNT comic books, wallpapers, games and more on your mobile phone, visit www.gocomics.com/TMNT. You can also download an assortment of comic books for your mobile phone at www.gocomics.com/comicbooks.
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Very cool, and I will mention it to my daughter. At 9, she already has her first cell phone, and an abiding interest in all things Ninja Turtle. Particularly in anticipation of the film, this will really get her going. Do you know what the cost is to download? For my own part, I’d like to see more alternative comics from GoComics. They do carry Doonesbury and Opus, and say they will be adding Boondocks soon, but outside of strictly political cartoons, I would be interested in seeing work from underground artists such as Harvey Pekar or Charles Burns. But perhaps that’s just wishful thinking on my part. After all, underground means underground, and one can’t expect underground to suddenly go mainstream. Still, with political cartoons from around the country offered on the site, maybe it isn’t too much to hope that someday . . .
Posted by: Mobile Phones | May 24, 2007 at 02:02 PM
What strikes me, in thinking about the fusion of comics and cell phones is the shift it seems to represent, the big changes such a fusion may represent for our culture in the future. Certainly it’s true that comics have been available on the internet for some time, but getting them from the internet, it seems to me, is vastly different from getting them on a cell. Cells are, obviously, far more portable, and receiving this kind of information on the go turns it into a replacement for the newspaper that the internet never quite represented. Sure you could always access the news online, but you had to log on, never mind sitting down at your computer, booting it up, signing on, navigating to the website. Suddenly, if we can get the news, even the comics, while we’re sitting on the subway, or waiting in the dentist’s office, then the newspaper really does become obsolete. And so too, might some other common products. Why, for instance, not read books with a cell? Obviously there are many possible questions this possibility raises about our future, but the one that comes most to mind is, does this mean then that books and news could increasingly become disposable? What does it do to our notion of information when, once we’ve read it, we delete it and it’s gone forever?
Posted by: Mobile Phones | June 11, 2007 at 10:31 PM
The greatest superhero ever is Batman. I have been a Batman fan for the last 30+ years and even built a web site with every type of Batman collectible out there.
Posted by: Rich Syn | July 16, 2008 at 01:51 AM