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TMNT: The Light Novels
Aug. 7th, 2014 05:13 pm Since no one asked for a TMNT reboot but we got one anyway, I wanted to share a little story about being a young Turtles fan.
I watched the "classic" series with my Dad and we both loved it, and so I didn't have any problem getting my hands on the spin-off paperback books. These were slim little volumes with primary-colored covers and a few illustrations. Kiddie stuff, right?
WRONG.
I was quite scandalized when I came across Donatello uttering "damn" in the one about diving for the lost civilization of Atlantis. Remember, this was the Clinton era and bad words were still, you know, BAD. But the books were just overall very weird. The Atlantis one started off by mentioning that the research ship was at the latitude of Madeira, like that meant anything to most 'Merican kiddies. The mystery artifact, a cannon, got ID'd by its caliber size and was determined to be wreckage from a WWII battleship-- the Bismarck itself, if memory serves. And Donatello used cuss words. These were serious little mystery/adventure books, except instead of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys you got April O'Neill and mutant turtles. And I don't think the contemporary run of Nancy Drew books was as concrete in its details as the Madeira-and-Bismarck stuff.
I have no idea what the target audience even was for those books.
Then again I have no idea what the target audience is for the new movie.
Gimme a break.
I watched the "classic" series with my Dad and we both loved it, and so I didn't have any problem getting my hands on the spin-off paperback books. These were slim little volumes with primary-colored covers and a few illustrations. Kiddie stuff, right?
WRONG.
I was quite scandalized when I came across Donatello uttering "damn" in the one about diving for the lost civilization of Atlantis. Remember, this was the Clinton era and bad words were still, you know, BAD. But the books were just overall very weird. The Atlantis one started off by mentioning that the research ship was at the latitude of Madeira, like that meant anything to most 'Merican kiddies. The mystery artifact, a cannon, got ID'd by its caliber size and was determined to be wreckage from a WWII battleship-- the Bismarck itself, if memory serves. And Donatello used cuss words. These were serious little mystery/adventure books, except instead of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys you got April O'Neill and mutant turtles. And I don't think the contemporary run of Nancy Drew books was as concrete in its details as the Madeira-and-Bismarck stuff.
I have no idea what the target audience even was for those books.
Then again I have no idea what the target audience is for the new movie.
Gimme a break.
