Truth. The only color was red: turtles masks & blood.
Eastman & Laird were fucking mad as hell at their competition being a simplistic rabbit comic boppin’ around Sengoku-era Japan, so they whipped up a “catchy” rebuttal in the form of TMNT and went hard. This, of course, made it a bareknuckle pivot into the Saturday morning cartoon version that launched the turtles into the spotlight as cultural icons we know today, but at least E&L weren’t complete tools about Usagi Yojimbo when Sakai reached out to collab/crossover. (The latter is a genuine sweetheart of a man, btw, and legit was simply trying to make history fun for kids.)
As a kid I knew Usagi Yojimbo only from a C64 video game, that was really cool but also really hard. Man I was surprised when he suddenly appeared in the show.
The comic is dark as fuck. Not to mention The Last Ronin storyline.
Truth. The only color was red: turtles masks & blood.
Eastman & Laird were fucking mad as hell at their competition being a simplistic rabbit comic boppin’ around Sengoku-era Japan, so they whipped up a “catchy” rebuttal in the form of TMNT and went hard. This, of course, made it a bareknuckle pivot into the Saturday morning cartoon version that launched the turtles into the spotlight as cultural icons we know today, but at least E&L weren’t complete tools about Usagi Yojimbo when Sakai reached out to collab/crossover. (The latter is a genuine sweetheart of a man, btw, and legit was simply trying to make history fun for kids.)
As a kid I knew Usagi Yojimbo only from a C64 video game, that was really cool but also really hard. Man I was surprised when he suddenly appeared in the show.
Rumor is someone trying to make a Last Ronin live action movie.