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digitalsatyr23 · 1 year

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Get to know my OC

This sounded like a really fun one! I got tagged by @gummybugg, so go check out their version of the post here.

RINA! RINA GET IN ‘ERE!!!

An alligator-tailed girl with shaggy brown hair and blue overalls walks her way into the interview room, leaving water where she goes. Given that she’s dripping wet and smells like a bog, it’s likely that she just came by from a swim. She hops up onto the stool provided for her and rests arms between her legs, gripping the top of the stool while kicking her feet back and forth.

“So uh... What’s this about now?”

1. Are you named after anyone?

"I don’t know anybody else named Rina, that’s fer sure! Oh, you must mean my family name! Well o’ course I got the same last name as mah family. It’d be mighty odd if I didn’t!” Rina turns to me and asks, “Did I do that right?” After giving her a thumbs up, she turns back to the interviewer.

2. When was the last time you cried?

“Oh, that’s easy. Yesterday! Had a big ol’ cry. No shame innit.”

3. Do you have kids? Do you have any friends?

“Well yeah, o’ course I got friends! There’s my ma, my pa, Lafayette, Scarlet, Kara, Chloe, uh...” Rina pauses, counting on her webbed fingers. “Eli... I think all my neighbors count... There’s them other gals not from ‘round here too. I think they prefer anonymi... Ana... They like to keep private! So I won’t share their names unless they give me the go ahead.”

4. Do you use sarcasm?

“What’s a sarcasm? Sounds fancy! What can I trade ya for it?” I whisper into Rina’s ear what sarcasm is, and she slaps her knee, chuckling. “Ah gosh dang it, I didn’t know that was a turn o’ phrase! Nah, I don’t use sarcasm! I don’t have a sarcastic bone in my body!”

5. What's the first thing you notice about people?

“Their smell. Human folk are really stanky. Mostly sweat, but sometimes they smell a bit more... Salty? Yeah.” Rina sniffs the air, saying, “and you, Mr. Fancypants interviewer smell like shampoo!”

6. What's your eye color?

“Wha? What kinda question is THAT? Of course I know what my own eye color is...” Rina sneakily reaches into a pocket on her overalls, pulling out a very tiny mirror. She slips it back into her pocket, snickering mischievously. “It’s green!”

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

“My ma doesn’t let me watch them scary movies with the screaming ladies on the covers so I wouldn’t know. Even so, why wouldn’t I pick happy endings? Everybody likes happy endings!”

8. Any special talents?

“Let’s see... I can play the banjo! I’m learning to cook from my ma! And uh...” Rina scratches her head. “Is fixin’ things a talent? One time when I was out on this reeeeeal long roadtrip with my buds - which I can’t name - their car broke down and I managed to fix it! Well sorta. It’s more like I realized what was wrong, so we dragged it around until we found this village with these little people with big ol’ BEARDS and, oh, that’s a bit off topic, ain’t it?”

9. Where were you born?

“In Bebop Bayou of course! That bein’ said, I don’t exactly ‘member where I was when I was born... That was a long time ago, you know?”

10. What are your hobbies?

“Fightin’ things, solvin’ problems, helpin’ Lafayette find treasure, and let’s see... Ooh, I like makin’ friends too! That’s a hobby, ain’t it?”

11. Do you have any pets?

“Oh yeah, I got a big ol’ catfish! I feed ‘em all kinds a junk, and he eats it up, too! O’ course this unsettles Big Pete - he’s a catfish guy in the bayou - so I try not to talk about my pet much ‘round him. You know, I heard a long time ago there weren’t always beastfolk like us in the world, and then we just sorta... Appeared! Wild, ain’t it? I don’t understand much about the history of it an all, but I know somethin’ big happened way back when. Like... Poof!”

12. What sports do you play/have played?

“Is fishin’ a sport? Ha, I’m just messin’ with ya! I’ve played rock toss before with my friends in the past. What, don’t know what rock toss is? It’s where ya throw a big ol’ rock around, and ya run with it, and if you cross a line with it, you get a point! Or somethin’ like that. It’s been a while since I played.”

13. How tall are you?

“I’m less than half the size of my ma and pa. I’m still growin’, though! I tell you what, once I grow up like my folks, why, I’ll be the biggest gator in all the bayou!”

14. Favorite subject in school?

“Haha, that’s funny. Nah, we ain’t got a school ‘round here. We tried to fix up an old burnt one outside the bayou, but that... Did not go well last time.”

15. Dream job?

“Wrestler! No, action movie star! Chef? Professional fisher? No no wait, a wrestler movie star that uses fish and cookin’ to beat up the bad guys in their movies!! Ah, this interview was too easy, chief! You gotta come up with harder questions next time!”

As was promised to Rina prior to the interview, I treat her to “free ice cream”. And by “free”, I mean I pay for it. I don’t mind though. After she gets her treat, she wanders back over to the bayou to gloat about how easy it was to get her free ice cream to her friends, who she is certain will be super jealous of her.

Tagging (This is totally optional, so don’t sweat it): @scarlett-olivier, @space-writes, @helioscenic, @withlovelunette, @minutiaewriter, @aether-wasteland-s, and anyone else that’s interested in doing it!

#thank you for the tag!#writing game #get to know my oc #rina woodshed #bebop bayou #open tag #my writing #my wip

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cage-cat-yt · 2 months

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Some doodles in these trying times

Depressive episode still going, I'm fine rn thankfully tho. I'm especially happy with the last 2 drawings tho cause I finally got some sharpies so I won't have to use pen as the outline ^^ (I'm not a fan of using pen tbh but didn't have any good sharpies for the first page in this notebook 😭) also a band thing went well yesterday, I ate sushi with some besties

Anyway, thanks for reading! Remember to hydrate and self care and I hope you have a good day :)

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acfan120 · 2 years

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I have a ton of characters just because I write a lot, but some of my recent favorite OCs come from my Bebop Bayou series. The main character in that is Rina Woodshed, a young gator girl that can breathe fire by eating hot peppers. I had a ton of fun researching American alligators and Louisiana when trying to flesh her and the location out and now I want to visit the state just so I can do even MORE research. Sometimes I swear OCs are just an excuse for me to learn new things. Also just wanted to say, I've always really liked your characters and their designs. They're simple but very memorable, and I look forward to seeing even more art of them in the future. :)

I wonder how strong her fire would be with a Ghost pepper.

But I can relate with OC's making you learn new things, since I've taken an interest in learning Sign Language because of Tumble.

And thank you! I appreciate that you like my designs so much! I worry that they don't click with people or that they're forgettable.

#ask

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blackfemmecharacterdependency · 4 years

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#black female characters #black female characters masterlist #a-z #C #tags masterlist #blackfemmecharacterdependency #calypso #camille bordey #charlie clotho #charlotte page #princess ciara #cipher #82 tags 10/31 #83 tags 2/7

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thecomicsnexus · 5 years

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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ADVENTURES #10-18 MAY 1990 - MARCH 1991 BY RYAN BROWN, DEAN CLARRAIN, KEN MITCHRONEY, JIM LAWSON, DON SIMPSON, DAN BERGER, MARLENE BECKER, BUZ MCKIM AND BARRY GROSSMAN

SYNOPSIS (FROM COMIC VINE)

As this issue begins, we see Bebop and Rocksteady dumping toxic waste into the sewers, an act that seems to have caused something wicked to happen to a large planarian worm swimming in the tepid waters.

Cut to the sewer hideout of our favorite mutant turtles. Leo and the boys are having a discussion and they seek out Master Splinter’s advice. It seems that the recent events have deeply troubled our heroes and they’ve decided to stop being reactive to Krang’s evil deeds and try to do something proactive to stop him. The Sensei recommends that they start with their best lead to Krang… the Shredder himself!

Raph is dressed once again in the all-black wrestling costume. Splinter inquires why Raphael is wearing a suit so different from his brothers’, and Raph explains that it will help him be stealthy in the dark. Splinter approves of this reasoning, much to Raph’s delight (and Leo’s disgust!)

Meanwhile, in the Shredder’s secret hideout, an exterminator has arrived to get rid of Shredhead’s roach problem. Shredder leaves the man to his work and calls Krang on the vid screen. It seems that the vile little alien has something planned… he’s searching for something… and of course, Shredder wants in on the action!

The exterminator is busy chasing roaches around when he slips in a room full of mutagen and falls into the sewers.

By now, the TMNT have arrived where Shredder’s sub was hidden… except the vessel is now missing. The Turtles decide to head down a tunnel that has lead to Shredder before, and begin their trek… unaware that a hideous giant planarian worm mutant is following them! As the ninjas head down the pipe, they end up running headlong into a giant mutated roachman! It seems that the exterminator got exposed to the mutagen and has been turned into a monster… much like the planarian worm directly in front of him!

The monsters end up battling over who gets to kill the TMNT, and in their fight they break a gas line and a fuse box, causing a deadly combination of free-floating natural gas and electric sparks. The TMNT realize the danger, and quickly huddle together, using their back shells for protection against the impending.

Bebop and Rocksteady, still trapped beneath the Foot vehicle and rubble. Suddenly, Bebop notices an odd smell… followed by a brilliant light… and we see four very alien creatures.

Meanwhile, the TMNT have gotten disoriented from the blast in the previous issue. The lads head down the passageway where the rats are streaming from, as they believe it to be the direction home. As the Turtles walk, the rodents begin swarming around them. Just as the TMNT decide it’s time to whack some rats, a strange being comes into view… a man dressed in tatters who calls himself the Rat King!

Leo answers the Rat King’s questions and the murky monarch tells the TMNT where to find Shredder. The ninjas follow RK’s directions and eventually come to where Bebop and Rocksteady were buried… only to find that they have been removed by a very powerful force. The lads continue along and find evidence of Shredder, until they run into some sort of Super Foot Soldier standing guard in the sewer. The robot is quite deadly and gives the TMNT a run for their money, but Mikey saves the day with two well-thrown shurikens.

The Turtles find an open manhole cover and make their way to the surface. They find themselves in Shredder’s headquarters… but as they close to investigate voices, they are apprehended by 5 strange aliens and held in suspended animation. Bebop, Rocksteady, Shredder and Krang are all reunited and gloat over their victory.

Cut to the Bayou, where we see the old witch Mary Bones watching the whole event through the mysterious crystal ball known as the Turnstone. The woman is disheartened to see Krang here on Earth and wonders how he has gained control over the aliens, who she names as the Sons of Silence. Mary decides that she must depart the Earth, and uses the Turnstone’s powers to revert to her true form. As she disappears into the ether, she states that she will not be leaving alone… and we see the Turtles dematerialize from Krang’s grasp!

Krang announces that the Turnstone and Mary have returned to Dimension X… no doubt with the TMNT in tow. The villains gather their things and head for Dimension X in their spacecraft!

On a rich savanna, we see two rhinos happily grazing on the fertile land. Soon enough we discover that it’s Rocksteady dreaming of a more peaceful place than the spacecraft that he’s currently aboard with Bebop, Shredder, the Sons of Silence and Krang. The villains are traveling to Dimension X to search for Mary Bones, the Turnstone and the Turtles.

Meanwhile, Mary Bones is explaining the scenario to the TMNT in front of a camp fire on the planet Hirobyl. Mary tells the Turtles that her real name is Cherubae, she was merely disguising herself as an old witch while she was living on Earth. Cherubae states that she was once a Warlord in Dimension X, just as Krang was. Eventually a Theocracy took control of Dimension X and banished all Warlords in their goal to seize absolute power. Some of the Warlords were publically executed, sending others (like Mary) into alternate dimensions seeking refuge, while some (like Krang) chose to stay in Dimension X and went into hiding. The Warlords who remained in Dimension X would go on berserker attacks against the Theocracy, destroying entire planets in the wars. Hirobyl is one such planet, a world that Krang himself had heartlessly destroyed while searching for the Turnstone that Mary possesses. The Turnstone is a trans-animating device of great power, capable of giving certain thoughts form.

The Turtles are curious what to do about Krang and Cherubae explains that he’ll find them soon enough - and on cue, as the sun rises, Krang’s ship zooms into their view. Cherubae flies up to meet the craft and transforms Krang’s tracing device into a parrot with the power of the Turnstone. Krang retaliates by firing lasers at his fellow Warlord, which incapacitate the warrior woman. Cherubae drops the Turnstone and it falls to the ground far below.

The TMNT scramble to locate the powerful item while the Sons of Silence surround Cherubae, who hangs suspended in the air. Krang laments that he knew the aliens couldn’t be trusted. Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady board flying machines to search for the Turnstone while Krang decides to call another Warlord for help - an insect-like being named Maligna.

Maligna agrees to speak with Krang, but the warrior queen is not pleased with the brainy alien’s destruction of worlds. Krang requests ten warriors to help him retrieve the Turnstone, for which he will give her the planet Earth. Maligna agrees to the terms.

Meanwhile, Shredder and his two henchmen are searching for the Turnstone on their flying buggies. Shredder tells his underlings that they must find the device before Krang does, as Shredder plans to use its power for his own desires. Fortunately the villains are looking in the wrong direction.

The TMNT are running on the ground, trying to locate the lost orb. The boys find a giant coliseum and spot an incoming airship… which turns out to be Cudley the Cowlick! Cudley explains that Mr.Stump wants to help the Turtles find the Turnstone and will give them some help if they agree to another wrestling match. The TMNT agree to the terms and Cudley spits out the helpers: Wingnut and Screwloose, Leatherhead and a fellow named Trap.

As Cudley flies off, the heroes notice that they’ve been surrounded by Maligna’s insect warriors!

Stump Intergalactic Wrestling is once again broadcasting the Turtles’ battle - only this time it’s a fight to find the Turnstone. The TMNT and their allies (Leatherhead, Trap, Wingnut and Screwloose) are skirmishing with the the insect warriors sent by the creepy alien queen named Maligna.

The Turtles, Leatherhead and Trap aren’t having too much trouble battling the bugs in hand to hand combat, although they’re vastly outnumbered. Wingnut and Screwloose fly off to look for Krang. Leatherhead is eventually grabbed by two bugs and sent flying out of the arena where the battle has been taking place. Wingnut and Screwloose find Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady flying in their hovercars and attack them. On the ground, Trap and the Turtles mop up the rest of the insect warriors and begin to celebrate their victory… just a bit too early, as Krang arrives in his spaceship and begins firing at our heroes.

Meanwhile, Leatherhead recovers from his throw and immediately sees the Turnstone sitting right in front of him. LH decides to think about the woman who turned him into a gator, and Cherubae appears - along with the four Sons of Silence! Leatherhead is surprised to see the aliens as he hadn’t been thinking about them - Cherubae quickly orders him to “unthink” them. LH complies and the Sons of Silence vanish. The gator then asks Cherubae why she transformed him, and she asks him if he’d believe that she knew that Leatherhead would be the only one who could save the day by finding the Turnstone. LH doesn’t believe her, but he hands her the crystal ball and tells her to “make things right.”

Cherubae takes the Turnstone and uses its power to summon Rocksteady, Bebop, Shredder and Krang, who appear before her held immobile inside of a force field. She then uses the device’s vast abilities to destroy all of Stump’s TV cameras… much to the disappointment of the enraptured audience. Finally, Cherubae uses the power of the Turnstone to banish their foes. She sends Bebop and Rocksteady to a jungle world inhabited only by wild animals - a fate the pair seem to truly enjoy. Shredder is sent to a prison on Earth, where he vows vengeance. Krang is sent to Morbus - a toxic waste dumpworld.

Cherubae then makes the Turnstone vanish out of existence, explaining that its power was too great for anyone to wield. The TMNT complain that she could have sent them home before doing that, but Cherubae explains that they’ll be traveling back to Earth with Cudley the Cowlick.

Cudley decides to drop off the TMNT in the tropical rainforest of Brazil, thinking they’ll be of some help.

No sooner has Cudley left than the Turtles are met by a cat man that goes by the name of Jagwar. Friendly greetings are exchanged when a jeep filled with mercenaries suddenly arrives and fires at our heroes. The TMNT and their new ally escape into the jungle and the men leave to tell their partners what they’ve seen.

Jagwar leads the TMNT deep into the southwestern jungle to an ancient temple, a place that the cat man calls home. Jagwar then explains the troubles in his homeland, how some people wish to exploit the rainforest and tear it down to make “a quick buck,” like the mercenaries who had fired at them. He also tells the Turtles that these men assassinated a local union leader recently, a man named Chico Mendes, who was a friend to Jagwar. The mercenaries also kidnapped a reporter who had come to do a story on Chico Mendes, and so Jagwar has vowed to free the newsperson. The TMNT quickly assert that they’ll help Jagwar on his mission.

The five heroes sit down to eat some fruit and Jagwar tells them the lore of his homeland, how the rainforest was both earth and heaven in one. After his tale is finished, the cat man states that it’s time for them to rescue the reporter… who happens to be April O'Neil! The Turtles are astounded by this information, and the group runs through the jungle to save their friend.

Soon enough they find the mercenaries’ camp and quickly defeat the evil men in combat. Once the fight is over, the Turtles and April share a tearful reunion. April notices that Jagwar is also crying, and when she asks him why, the cat man explains that he misses his friend Chico Mendes, and because fifty acres of rainforest is lost every minute.

“April… my friends…” begins Jagwar, “At times I can only cry… because I know not what else to do.”

Meanwhile, back in New York City, we see a skyscraper and hear a phone call to Mr. Null reporting about the problems his organization is facing from “mutant animals.” Null orders the mutants to be followed and scrutinized.

April, the TMNT and Jagwar have spent several weeks rafting down the Pursus and Amazon rivers, living off the land and experiencing an all new and invigorating lifestyle. Jagwar teaches our heroes how to thrive in the jungle and they tell him tales of their adventures, much to the delight of everyone involved.

Eventually the group meets a local tribe known as the Coipacu. They are lead by an elderly woman who holds the title of Paleocha. The woman speaks the “forest language” (something Jagwar is well versed in) and invites our heroes to supper. Jagwar explains that it’s fortunate that the Turtles are turtles, as the Coipacu believe that the world is an island borne on the back of the Great Turtle.

The locals bring the protagonists to a majestic tepui, and lead them through a a cave that reveals an unbelievable world within… populated by not only the Coipacu, but dinosaurs as well!

Later that evening, Jagwar translates the Paleocha’s story about a new creature that has appeared in the tepui - a half man half wolf! Since discovering the wolfman, the tribe has set out a nightly offering of food for him. Jagwar also relates that pirate-miners have discovered this paradise and have begun to kidnap their young men and make them into slaves. The Paleocha seeks the help of the TMNT to stop the pirates and save her people.

Suddenly a howl erupts out of the jungle and everyone spots the wolfman, who has arrived to take his nightly offering. The beast quickly takes his food, noting in English, “That be good stuff, mon” before he zooms back into the jungle.

Later, the TMNT, Jagwar and April head out to investigate the pirate-miners camp at a nearby tepui. The spot hundreds of slaves being forced to dig, and are quickly discovered by an armed guard. Mikey dispatches the man and the heroes attack the pirates. The battle goes well, but Jagwar is surprised by a pirate and held at gunpoint. Before the man can force the Turtles to drop their weapons, something comes screaming out of the jungle at incredible speed and knocks out the villain. The rescuer is the speedy wolfman, who tells Jagwar, “You owe me, mon.” Jagwar cheerfully agrees and the anthropomorphs work together to free the Coipachu slaves.

From a distance, we see a cowboy who calls himself The Kid watching our heroes through binoculars. He notes that the Turtles have been joined by a wolfman and that they’ve wrecked this operation. He also states that Mr. Null is going to be very unhappy with this news. The Kid calls Null and briefs him on what’s happened - Null is upset and tells his henchmen to keep tracking the TMNT to see what motivates them.

The Turtles are welcomed back by the Paleocha and she gives Donatello a gift to thank the Turtles for saving her people. Don is honored to receive the present, which is the leader’s ancient staff. The Paleocha than asks to know more of the wolfman, and he explains that his name is Dreadmon - but at this moment, he’d rather be eating than talking. Mikey backs up Dreadmon on this plan of action.

Later, Don practices with his new staff while the others bask in the beauty of the tepui.

Master Splinter is at home in the sewers of New York City, where he’s attempting to contact the TMNT via astral projection.

Meanwhile, Mr. Null’s henchmen, the cowboy named The Kid, is searching the jungle inside a helicopter, trying to locate the Turtles and their allies. Our heroes manage to escape detection and reach their destination: the Atlantic Ocean. April asks how they’re going to cross the vast sea and the guys get to work building some rafts made from the debris found on the polluted beach (except Mikey, who takes the opportunity to do some surfing).

Once the rubber tube rafts are complete, Jagwar and Dreadmon bring fruit from the jungle so the TMNT and April will have food on their journey. Goodbyes are said and the heroes in a half shell set sail for America.

The group finds an island and decide to do some swimming and investigating. No sooner have the TMNT beached than they’re attacked by a strange submarine that’s equipped with robotic arms, which grabs the Green Team and April and stuffs them into its hull, carrying them off to an underwater headquarters.

Our heroes soon meet up with two other captives, Man Ray (aka Ray Fillet) and his diminutive buddy, a fishy dude from a species called Glublubs. Ray explains that he was swimming with some dolphins who were teahing him how to cope with his new body when he discovered the Glublubs. Unfortunately the fish folk’s coral reef home has been the site for toxic waste dumping. While Ray and the Glublub were viewing the radioactive waste, they both became sick and passed out, eventually waking up as prisoners. The Turtles decide that they’ll have to stop the illegal dumping and hatch a plan to escape. Ray uses his echo-location abilities to determine the thickness of the walls and discovers that the large mirror in the room is thin - which allows the Green Team to cannonball Mikey through the glass and create an escape route.

The TMNT find a group of men on the other side of the glass lead by The Kid - who tells the pirates (known as the Oceanauts) to capture the mutants alive. The Turtles have other ideas, however, and begin to kick Oceanaut butt. Ray runs down The Kid, who fires his pistol - the bullet narrowly misses Man Ray, but strikes the little Glublub in the chest, killing him. The murder enrages Ray, who starts to tear the ship apart. The Turtles try to calm Man Ray, but there’s no stopping him - so they find an access pool that allows them to escape into open water.

Later, Man Ray and the Turtles bury their fallen Glublub friend on the beach, just as a shooting star falls from the sky.

An asteroid is hitting the Earth’s atmosphere - but this is no ordinary meteor, it’s actually a spaceship piloted by two of Maligna’s insect warriors, Skul and Bean. The aliens report to their master, who orders them to find a human that will help them “feed our great hunger.”

Meanwhile, Man Ray has found two humpback whales who were willing to carry April O'Neil and the Turtles back to America, and they arrive at New Orleans. The whales drop the heroes off on a half-sunken ship that has hit a reef offshore. Everyone dives into the sea and begins to swim towards shore when they spot two shrimp boats dropping nets. Ray explains that the nets are supposed to be equipped with a device that will allow sea turtles and other larger animals to escape. April is interested in the process and asks Man Ray to show her how it works, and the former scientist agrees. Ray swims with April on his back up to the nets, but shockingly discovers that these nets do not have the proper extruder devices. This enrages Man Ray and he swims to the surface and demands that the shrimpers pull up their nets. Not surprisingly, the captain of the boat tells Ray to buzz off, but the mutant isn’t happy with this reply and attacks. Unfortunately for the zealous Ray, he is quickly captured in a net and beaten into submission. April swims back to the Turtles to let them know what’s happened.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) are back on board the abandoned ship, where Master Splinter has finally managed to contact them via astral projection. Splinter is pleased to discover his sons are doing well and experiencing so much of the world. As Splinter’s image fades, April arrives with the news.

Later, the Shrimpers pull up their nets expecting to see a rich booty of shrimp, but only find trash and debris. The Turtles appear on the back of a giant turtle, wearing costumes and trying to pass themselves off as vengeful turtle spirits. The act fools one of the crews and they abandon ship, but Cap'n Mossback is unimpressed and fires a harpoon at the turtles. The TMNT dive into the water and climb aboard Mossback’s ship, where a battle ensues. April uses the diversion to free Man Ray, who crashes through the deck and frightens Mossback into falling overboard. To everyone’s surprise, the captain can’t swim and soon sinks beneath the surface of the water. No one is in a hurry to rescue the pirate, but soon the giant turtle that the TMNT had arrived on surfaces, with the captain safely on its back.

Back in New York City, The Kid arrives at Null’s headquarters to report his failure in tracking the Turtles. Null is angry, and introduces Kid to his new business partners… the insect warriors Skul and Bean!

April and the TMNT bid farewell to Man Ray as they board a train that will carry them back to New York City. The heroes arrive safely back in the sewers and as they head for their lair, they hear music. The guys decide to track the tunes and discover that they’re coming from Shredder’s abandoned headquarters. The Turtles wonder what’s up, since Saki is in prison, and they investigate the source of the music. Soon enough the TMNT discover that a local Metal band has set up a practice space in the warehouse. The lead guitarist begins some histrionics that cause a fuse to blow and the room falls into darkness. The TMNT hear something entering the room, and when the lights come back on, they see that the Metalheads have been surrounded by robotic Foot Soldiers!

April and the TMNT spring into action as the Foot assault the group. The band’s leader, Mondo, is punched and sent flying into a stockpile of barrels - filled with Mutagen! Mondo has a pet gecko on his shoulder, so the Mutagen begins to morph him into a gecko-man.

The battle with the Foot continues. A Super Soldier has grabbed Mondo’s girlfriend and carries her off to a rooftop, with Mikey and Mondo in hot pursuit on skateboards. Mondo uses his thrashing abilities to knock the Foot off of the roof and saves his girl, Candace. Unfortunately for the mutant Metalhead, Candy tells him that she doesn’t think she can deal with his new appearance, and the two split up.

The TMNT arrive and assure Mondo that he’s welcome to stay with them. Donatello notices a bunch of meteors zooming around a building that bears a familiar logo. The guys note the weird phenomena and then head back to the sewers, where they find Master Splinter and some fresh pizzas.

REVIEW

Little I knew the first time I read this, that it was all part of the plan to introduce the “Mutanimals”. It all makes much more sense now.

I mentioned before that Barry Grossman seems to paint all eyes as blue. Well, it continues here, but it feels sometimes like the art team wasn’t in the loop with the cartoon version of these characters. In this story, Rocksteady dreams about his time as a Rhino in Africa. And in the end, both him and Bebop are sent to a planet to roam free with other animals. This of course contradicts both, the cartoon and the book itself, as in issue #6 it was mentioned that they used to be humans.

The Rat King is thrown in the mix for no other reason than to make another character debut. You remove him from the story and nothing changes (although, he does tell them where the Shredder is, but because they ended up being trapped I have the feeling, they were always going to end up there).

And as great as the “final conflict” may feel. Cherubae could have prevented all of it by doing what she ended up doing, at the beginning of the story. There was no need of letting things unfold like that, unless of course, she thought the future was already set in stone.

Then we have the trip to Brazil were everybody seems to speak Spanish or English. My feeling here is that they weren’t completely in Brazil. It is mentioned at some point that they are in the border with Colombia, so that could explain why characters and language sound Spanish. The art in that issue, however, is the least good looking of the bunch.

Ray Man becomes Ray Fillet, officially, even if no one calls him by that name. And we have a death. This death was just weird, as the little fella comes with the toy (I would have expected him to stay alive for the book). Some people feel uneasy with the eco-messages in this story. Well, let me tell you something. I read this when I was 10 or 11. And I actually learned things by doing it. Like how to make Turtles not die when fishing for shrimps. And even the circle of life, before the Lion King, in something that I probably didn’t understand back then, but I do now (the book gives perfect examples of how the circle of life works in the rainforests).

Finally, the Mondo Gecko issue felt too rushed, just like most of the issues that introduce a new character.

Overall, these comics left memories in my head. Whenever I remember this run, I remember these issues, plus the final confrontation with Krang that came later. Sure its message about the environment are heavy handed, but it’s not a topic that doesn’t fit the property. In fact, Mirage Studios made a lot of stories around these subjects.

I give this story a score of 7.

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Production Weekly – Issue 1145 – Thursday, May 23 2019 / 141 Listings – 33 Pages 10 DOUBLE ZERO • 12 MIGHTY ORPHANS • ANITA • ARMAGEDDON TIME • ATLANTA 03 • THE BALLAD OF RICHARD JEWELL • THE BANG BANG GIRLS • THE BATMAN • BEFORE THE SPRING • BH90210 • BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC (w/t UGLY BUTLERS) • BLACK WIDOW (w/t BLUE BAYOU) • BLINDSIDED • BLISS • BLITHE SPIRIT • BLONDE • BLOOD FOR DUST • BRAVE THE DARK • BREAKING NEWS IN YUBA COUNTY • BRIARPATCH • CANDYMAN • CELESTIAL BLUE • THE COMEBACK TRAIL • COMING 2 AMERICA • COVERS • COWBOY BEBOP • COWBOYS • CRIMSON BLUES • CROSS THE LINE • CRUELLA (w/t LOCKSTITCH) • THE DARK DIVIDE • DARROW AND DARROW 4 - BURDEN OF PROOF • DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA • DIGGSTOWN 02 • DIRTY JOHN 02 • DOWN UNDER COVER • ENTERPRICE 02 • EUROVISION • FALCON & WINTER SOLDIER • FATHERHOOD (aka TWO KISSES FOR MADDY) • FILTHY RICH • FOUR GOOD DAYS • GHOSTBUSTERS (w/t RUST CITY) • GILDED RAGE • THE GOOD LORD BIRD • GOOD PEOPLE • GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE • THE HATING GAME • THE HEALING POWERS OF DUDE • HILLBILLY ELEGY (w/t IVAN) • HOME • HUBIE HALLOWEEN • I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS • I CARE A LOT • THE INVISIBLE MAN • JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 • JUMP DARLING • JUPITER’S LEGACY (w/t ZEUS) • KEYHOLE GARDEN • A KILLING IN THE WOODS • KUNG FURY 2 • LAIR • LANSKY • LAPHAM RISING • THE LITTLE MERMAID • LIVE FAST DIE LAUGHING • THE LONG WALK • LOUDERMILK 03 • LOVE GETS A ROOM • LOVECRAFT COUNTRY • MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM • MAD ABOUT YOU • MADAM C.J.

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Friday Releases for November 19

Friday is the busiest day of the week for new releases, so we've decided to collect them all in one place. Friday Releases for November 19 include Zeros and Ones, C’mon C’mon, Hellbound, and more.

Zeros and Ones

Zeros and Ones, the new movie from Abel Ferrara, is out today.

Jericho is an American soldier stationed in post-apocalyptic Rome under a pandemic and war-torn lockdown. After witnessing the Vatican blown up into the night sky, he sets out on a mission to uncover and document the truth for the world to see and stop the true terrorists responsible.

C’mon C’mon

C’mon C’mon, the new movie from Mike Mills, is out today.

Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future, from writer-director Mike Mills.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the new movie from Jason Reitman, is out today.

In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, when a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.

King Richard

King Richard, the new movie from Reinaldo Marcus Green, is out today.

King Richard follows the journey of Richard Williams, an undeterred father instrumental in raising two of the most extraordinarily gifted athletes of all time, who will end up changing the sport of tennis forever.

A House On The Bayou

A House On The Bayou, the new movie from Alex McAulay, is out today.

In an effort to reconnect and mend their relationship, Jessica and John Chambers (Angela Sarafyan, Paul Schneider) seek an idyllic getaway with their daughter Anna (Lia McHugh) to a remote mansion in rural Louisiana. When suspiciously friendly neighbors show up for dinner uninvited, the weekend takes a sinister turn as the fragile family bond is tested and dark secrets come to light.

The Feast

The Feast, the new movie from Lee Haven Jones, is out today.

The Feast follows a young woman serving privileged guests at a dinner party in a remote house in rural Wales. The assembled guests do not realize they are about to eat their last supper.

Black Friday

Black Friday, the new movie from Casey Tebo, is out today.

On Thanksgiving night, a group of disgruntled toy store employees begrudgingly arrive for work to open the store at midnight for the busiest shopping day of the year. Meanwhile, an alien parasite crashes to Earth in a meteor. This group of misfits led by store manager Jonathan (Bruce Campbell) and longtime employee Ken (Devon Sawa) soon find them themselves battling against hordes of holiday shoppers who have been turned into monstrous creatures hellbent on a murderous rampage on Black Friday.

Hellbound

Hellbound, the new TV series from Choi Kyu-sok and Yeon Sang-ho, is out today.

Unearthly beings deliver bloody condemnations, sending individuals to hell and giving rise to a religious group founded on the idea of divine justice.

Cowboy Bebop

Cowboy Bebop, the new TV series from André Nemec, is out today.

COWBOY BEBOP is an action-packed space Western about three bounty hunters, aka “cowboys,” all trying to outrun the past. As different as they are deadly, Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) form a scrappy, snarky crew ready to hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals — for the right price. But they can only kick and quip their way out of so many scuffles before their pasts finally catch up with them.

The Wheel Of Time

The Wheel Of Time, the new TV series from Rafe Judkins, is out today.

Set in an epic fantasy world, The Wheel of Time follows Moiraine (Rosamund Pike), a member of the incredibly powerful all-female organization called the Aes Sedai, as she arrives in the small town of Two Rivers. There, she embarks on a dangerous, world-spanning journey with five young villagers, one of whom is prophesied to be the Dragon Reborn… the one who will either save or destroy humanity.

The Great S2

The second season of The Great, the TV series from Tony McNamara, is out today.

In season two of “The Great,” Catherine finally takes the Russian throne for her own—but if she thought coup-ing her husband was difficult, it’s nothing compared to the realities of liberating a country that doesn’t want to be. She’ll battle her court, her team, even her own mother (played by guest star Gillian Anderson) in a bid to bring the Enlightenment to Russia. Meanwhile, she’ll also battle her heart as Peter slowly transitions from a much-hated husband to a prisoner? Ally? Lover? Ultimately, Catherine will learn that to change a country, you must let it change you, that there is a fine line between idealism and delusion, and that becoming “Great” will ask more of her than she could have imagined.

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl, the new games from Nintendo, are out today.

Experience the nostalgic story from Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl in a new adventure.

Battlefield 2042

Battlefield 2042, the new game from Electronic Arts, is out today.

Battlefield 2042 is a first-person shooter that marks the return to the iconic all-out warfare of the franchise. In a near-future world transformed by disorder, adapt and overcome dynamically-changing battlegrounds with the help of your squad and a cutting-edge arsenal.

#Games #Movies #TV #News

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tvrundown USA 2021.11.19

Friday, November 19th:

(exclusive): Good With Wood (DSC+, woodworking competition premiere, all 6 eps), Hellbound (netflix, Korean supernatural mystery mini-series, all 6 eps), Cowboy Bebop (netflix, live-action series premiere, all 10 eps), Blown Away (netflix, glassblowing competition "Christmas" spinoff, all 4 eps), "The Mind, Explained" (netflix, season 2 available, next 5 eps), Harriet the Spy (apple+, animated series premiere, first 5 eps only), "The Line" (apple+, war crimes docuseries premiere, all 4 parts), "Everybody Loves Natti" (amazon, Natti Natasha reality docuseries, all 6 parts), The Great (hulu, historical sitcom, season 2 available, all 10 eps), "Player vs. Player" with Trevor Noah (ROKU, video game sessions, all 8 eps)

(streaming movies, etc.): "King Richard" (HMax, tennis biopic feature premiere), "Extinct" (netflix, animated family film, 85mins), "Dhamaka" (netflix, Hindi journalist thriller, ~105mins), "Love Me Instead" (netflix, Turkish social drama, ~2hrs+), "tick, tick... BOOM!" (netflix, Jonathan Larson musical biopic, ~2hrs), "Procession" (netflix, Catholic abuse survivors documentary, ~2hrs), "Candy Coated Christmas" (DSC+, original movie by Food Network), "Oasis Knebworth 1996" (Para+, concert film doc premiere), "Prisoners of the Ghostland" (amazon|Shudder, horror Western)

(streaming weekly): The Wheel of Time (amazon, series premiere, first 3 eps), "Maradona, Blessed Dream" (amazon, penultimate), ----- Dr. Brain (apple+), The Shrink Next Door (apple+), Dickinson (apple+), Swagger (apple+), Invasion (apple+), Acapulco (apple+), Foundation (apple+, season 1 finale), The Morning Show (apple+, season 2 finale), ----- The Great British Baking Show (netflix, penultimate), Home Sweet Home (Peacock), The Amber Ruffin Show (Peacock, primetime)

(original made-for-TV movies, etc.): "Dancing Through the Snow" (LIFE, 2hrs+), "Nantucket Noel" (HALL, ~2hrs), "Dying for a Good Grade" (LMN, 2hrs), "A House on the Bayou" (EPIX, a Blumhouse horror film), "Dean Martin: King of Cool" (TCM, documentary, 2hrs)

(also new): Teen Titans Go! (TOON, "A Doom Patrol Thanksgiving" special), "Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team" (CMT, season 16 finale), The NYTimes Presents (FX|hulu, "Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson", ~95mins)

(hour 1): S.W.A.T. (CBS, repeat), Penn & Teller: Fool Us (theCW), Shark Tank (ABC), The Wall (NBC), Sydney to the Max (disney) / / Gabby Duran & The Unsittables (disney)

(hour 2): Magnum P.I. (CBS), Nancy Drew (theCW)

(hour 3): Blue Bloods (CBS), Day of the Dead (SyFy), Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, season 19 finale), Tha God's Honest Truth (COM)

(hour 4 - latenight): The Graham Norton Show (BBCAm)

[note: Center Seat: "55 Years of Star Trek" (HIST) moves to Mondays.]

#CowboyBebop #WheelOfTime #HarrietTheSpy #DoomPatrol #television

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In the swamps of Bayou, Jess Harley tired of poverty heads towards the home of a believed witch, Mary Bones. He steals a large crystal orb & heads to New York to sell it.

Overwhelmed by the city, he accidentally bumps into the Turtles, on their way for pizza & drops the orb down a sewer drain. Heading through the subway he finds the orb. But Mary Bones has found him. Terrified, Jess hands back the orb. She explains it's a transdimendional thought transmittor called the Turnstone, & demonstrates its power by turning Jess into a Leatherhead, an alligator man as punishment.

Jess goes after her, pleading to be turned back, but she vanishes & he charges through a wall smashing through it & the floor below.

He lands unconscious in Shredders lair. When he wakes up he tells Shredder, Bebop & Rocksteady his story. Not sure to believe it, Shredder manipulates Jess that Mary Bones also turned the mutants & is in cahoots with the Turtles. Shredder sends all 3 to find the Turtles who are riding the sewers on their cheapskates.

Shredder relays the tale to Krang, who orders him to bring back Leatherhead, as the Turnstone is real & Mary Bones, must be a banished Dimension X Warlord.

The Turtles have discovered an old bridge with a bottomless floor in the sewers. It's then they're attacked by Leatherhead & the mutants. During the fight Raph, tries to reason with Leatherhead. While he doesn't believe him, he gets suspicious when Leo saves Rocksteady from falling over the bridge, only to get punched out.

When Shredder shows up Leatherhead demands the truth. When Shredder says he was using him, Leatherhead freaks out & starts stamping the bridge floor. The Turtles try to reason with him, but his new strength causes the bridge to break in the middle & Leatherhead falls into the abyss.

Shredder & Co. take off & with the Turtles unable to follow, heading in the other direction. It's there they bump onto Mary Bones, who tells them not to mourn & foreshadows the Final Conflict.

She disapears, then Raph is startled by something up ahead.

#teenagemutantheroturtles #tmnt #80stmnt #teenagemutantninjaturtles #archiecomics #kenmitchroney #tmht #heroturtles #tmntcomics #ninjaturtles #90stmnt

#teenage mutant hero turtles #teenage mutant ninja turtles #Ken Mitchroney #Tmnt #hero turtles #Ninja turtles

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Bebop Bayou Trivia

There are several boardwalks that were constructed in the bayou to help with navigation and getting over the wetlands in a hurry. Each respective boardwalk is named after a fallen friend of Eli's as a kind of memorial to them. The list includes the following:

Earl Way

Mary-Greene Path

Robbie's Trail

Roscoe's Walk

Jane Way

The Cole Trail

Bebop Bayou Tag List: @gummybugg (ask to +/- yourself)

#my writing #bebop bayou #bebopbayoutales #worldbuilding

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Silly art (i.d in alt text, sorry some aren't descriptive 😭)

I binge watched Marble Hornets yesterday, was pretty nice. It's really nice outside, and I have a really angsty TLT fanfic idea 😭 tho I'm gonna save it hopefully for when I'm done with chapter 15 and a one shot I'm working on (it's gonna be short and not posted to AO3, but I can share the doc here if anyone wants it!)

Anyway thanks for reading! Remember to hydrate and stay safe! Have a good day

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Composer, songwriter, author, conductor, lecturer and arranger, educated in preparatory school and a student of Leslie Taylor, Lennie Tristano, and Jimmy Hamilton. He authored several magazine articles and wrote a syndicated jazz column. He also conducted several Esquire Magazine jazz polls and produced and directed Esquire Jazz Concerts between 1944 and 1947. He organized the first Carnegie Hall jazz concerts, and the only two jazz concerts at the original Metropolitan Opera House. He was the jazz editor for Playboy Magazine from 1956, and directed the first Playboy jazz festival in 1959. His network radio show "Platterbrains" aired between 1953 and 1958, and he also produced the radio series "Jazz Club, USA". He also served as a consultant to the NBC educational series "The Subject Is Jazz" in 1958., and he composed special material for Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, Frankie Laine, Pearl Bailey and Dinah Shore. Joining ASCAP in 1945, his chief musical collaborators included Andy Razaf, Dory Langdon Previn, Steve Allen, Milton Raskin, Dick Hyman, Langston Hughes and Djalma Ferreira. His popular-song and instrumental compositions include "Mighty Like he Blues", "Jamming the Waltz", "Bebop Waltz", "Bass Reflex", "You Can't Go Home Again", "Signing Off", "Salty Papa Blues", "Dinah's Blues", "Panacea", "Lonesome as he Night is Long", "You're Crying", "Meet Me Halfway", "Get Rich Quick", "Where Were You?", "Love Is a Word for the Blues", Mound Bayou", "A Whole Lot O' Women", "Sounds of Spring", "Man Wanted", "Snafu", "Evil Gal Blues", "Blowtop Blues", "Twelve Tone Blues" and "The Bossa Nova".

Leonard Feather - Biography - IMDb

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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #6-8 NOVEMBER 1989 - FEBRUARY 1990 BY RYAN BROWN, DEAN CLARRAIN, KEN MITCHRONEY, DAVE GARCÍA, JIM LAWSON, DAN BERGER AND BARRY GROSSMAN

SYNOPSIS (FROM TURTLEPEDIA)

Jess Harley in the Deep American South bayou steals what he doesn't know is the Turnstone from Mary Bones, according to rumors a swamp witch. He travels by bus to New York City in an attempt to sell it. Mary Bones tracks him into town, and takes back the Turnstone and uses it to transform Jess Harley into Leatherhead.

Krang is also after the Turnstone, when learning it is on Earth.

The Shredder tricks Leatherhead into believing the turtles work with Mary Bones. Shredder, Bebop, Rocksteady and Leatherhead encounter the turtles at an underground bridge beneath New York City, and Bebop and Rocksteady throw the turtles' motorized skateboards off the bridge.

Shredder eventually reveals that he never intended to honor his end of the deal with Leatherhead, and the turtles fight Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady. Leatherhead, in anger over Shredder lying, begins to stomp on the underground bridge, despite the Turtles' warning. The bridge collapses, and Leatherhead seemingly plummets to his demise...

Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady, now being on the opposite side of the hole, run away. Suddenly a light appears, and Mary Bones shows up, telling the turtles to not mourn Leatherhead, because they will triumph in the final conflict.

Cudley the Cowlick takes the Turtles from Earth to the Stump Asteroid for Stump's and Sling's Intergalactic Wrestling. There, they wrestle Cryin' Houn', and discover Leatherhead wrestling against Ace Duck.

Leatherhead refuses to return home. Cudley takes the turtles back to Earth, first accidentally dropping them off on Earth 100 years into the future where pollution, causing a greenhouse effect and global warming, has melted the polar icecaps, flooding coastal settlements including New York City.

After explaining this is just a possible future, Cudley brings the turtles back to the present, at the same rooftop. Cudley then disappears back into outer space while a storm hits New York City.

Cudley the Cowlick returns the turtles to Earth when suddenly Wingnut and Screwloose appear, throwing stones at skylights. Wingnut and Screwloose go after Krang, who destroyed their home planet of Huanu. Cudley later arrives and says he accidentally opened a portal which Wingnut and Screwloose slipped through. Cudley then takes Wingnut and Screwloose to the Stump Asteroid.

REVIEW

The marketing around the ninja turtles was spectacular. This comic book was plotted by Ryan Brown, who was part of the designers for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toy line (playmates). That is the main reason we see many of those characters in this title. Some of them, I believe, even before their debut in the cartoon. Ace Duck being a very different character than the one that is hinted at in the TV show. What’s even more interesting is the fact that many of these characters made it into canon eventually, proving this run was such as important as the Mirage Studios’ one.

One thing I wasn’t aware of when I was reading this as a kid, was that Stump and Sling were parodies of Donald Trump and B. B. King. Probably because I was still to know who they were. The Trump parody will make into IDW’s canon, in a much darker way (obviously).

These three issues are part of a longer arc, that is part of an even longer arc that takes almost twenty issues to tell. Each issue is still its own story, but those stories sometimes are kind of ok. The Wingnut and Screwloose story in particular didn’t have much to it, it felt mostly as an advertisement for the toys. Likewise, the intergalactic fights issue was resolved in a very easy way, barely an inconvenience. This is probably because there wasn’t much space to tell a story and introduce new characters, and because it was targeted at a younger audience. I have to admit that even if those stories don’t feel like stories, they were pretty effective (and it didn’t push me to find these toys, Leatherhead being the exception as he was already in the cartoon).

Jim Lawson’s issue makes you scratch your head. While his style looks a bit tuned for the cartoon audience, his style is still a bit raw for the title. I remember not liking the issue that much as a kid, but something in my head was telling me that this was how it was supposed to look like. Don’t ask me why, but I was kind of right as he was the main artists in many Turtles’ stories.

I give this story a score of 8.

#archie comics #comics #review #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles adventures #1989 #1990 #modern age #wingnut #screwloose #ace duck #stump #donald trump #leatherhead #cudley

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Production Weekly – Issue 1139 – Thursday, April 11, 2019 / 132 Listings – 29 Pages 24 HOURS IN JUNE • AHS 1984 09 (aka AMERICAN HORROR STORY) • ARMY OF THE DEAD • ATTACKED • BACK TO LYLA • BALLERS 05 • BARELY AFLOAT • BARKSKINS • BIGGER • BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC (w/t UGLY BUTLERS) • BLACK NIGHTSHADE • BLACK WIDOW (w/t BLUE BAYOU) • BLINDFIRE • BOYFRIEND • CANDYMAN • CANNES CONFIDENTIAL • CHARMING THE HEARTS OF MEN (aka LADIES DAY) • THE CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA 03/04 • CHRISTMAS CHALET • CHRONICLES OF A SERIAL KILLER • CINDERELLA • CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG • COMING 2 AMERICA • COMO SOBREVIVIR SOLTERO (HOW TO SURVIVE BEING SINGLE) • THE CONJURING 3 • COWBOY BEBOP • CRUELLA • DARK FORCES • DIARY OF A FEMALE PRESIDENT • A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES 02 • DISPATCHES FROM ELSEWHERE • DITCHED • DOCUMENTARY NOW!

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Fans outside the stadium, the official Jordan-Hare time is...

Two weeks from today we’ll be getting ready for the opener of the 2017 season as Auburn gets ready to meet Georgia Southern. It’s coming quickly, folks. Get ready.

1993 - Auburn 14, Vanderbilt 10

Auburn was in the midst of an undefeated season, but hadn’t really been tested yet. The Tigers were 4-0 heading to Nashville to take on a Commodore team that had won only against Wake Forest. Meanwhile, Auburn hadn’t faced a team with a winning record. That didn’t mean this game wouldn’t be difficult.

The Tigers got up 14-10 as the third quarter ended, but the Commodores were inside the Auburn 10-yard line with roughly thirteen minutes to play. Vandy coach Gerry DiNardo decided to go for it, and the Tiger defense stood tall.

The stop led Auburn to its fifth win of the year, and the Tigers would run the table to go 11-0 in Terry Bowden’s first season.

1958 - Auburn 14, Alabama 8

The Tigers were in the midst of their longest winning streak ever over Alabama -- four games — entering the 1958 season. As defending national champions, Auburn ran out to an 8-0-1 record before the Iron Bowl, with the only blemish coming in a tie against Georgia Tech in Atlanta in the first month of the season.

One year earlier, Auburn had blanked Alabama 40-0 to finish off a perfect year and claim the AP national title, but the Tide had made a big coaching change that offseason, bringing in former player and current Texas A&M coach Bear Bryant.

Alabama was vastly improved, but wouldn’t have quite enough yet to hang with a powerful Auburn team in Bryant’s first year. The Tigers opened up a 14-0 lead and hung on as Bama scored a late touchdown and then couldn’t convert an onside kick.

Auburn finished the year undefeated, but the lone tie and the fact that they didn’t play in a bowl game prevented the Tigers from repeating as national champions. Instead, LSU took the title along with Iowa, as the Bayou Bengals and Billy Cannon finished 10-0 on the year.

14 Years Ago - 2003

If ever there was a year where the expectations blew through the roof, it was 2003. After finishing 2002 on a tear, beating three top ten teams, including Alabama and Penn State, and nearly unseating Georgia as well, Auburn had all the hype in the world.

Jason Campbell had become an efficient quarterback, capable of hitting the big play when necessary, and he was joined in the backfield by two potential All-Americans in Cadillac Williams and Ronnie Brown. Throw in the fact that Auburn had some incredible talent on defense — Karlos Dansby, Dontarrious Thomas, and Carlos Rogers — and it was a perfect recipe for a team destined for greatness.

Leading up to that year, one publication visited the Tiger practice and wrote “they look like an NFL team out there,” while the Sporting News picked Auburn #1 and said that they’d meet Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl for the national championship. I remember talking to my dad and pondering the possibility of going ahead and purchasing tickets for the BCS title game. We all knew Auburn would be in it. There was no doubt.

Except nobody really considered the loss of Bobby Petrino. He’d gone to be the head coach at Louisville, and it would be a loss that no one else on Auburn’s staff could fill. Instead, Tuberville promoted Hugh Nall (offensive line) and Steve Ensminger (quarterbacks) to be co-coordinators and to run Petrino’s offense. Great! Continuity! National championship, here we come.

Auburn opened the year with USC at home in the return game for the Tigers’ trip to LA the previous season. USC had lost Carson Palmer, Troy Polamalu, and a ton of other talent. They’d be starting some kid named Matt Leinart and nobody had any illusions that they’d be competitive on the Plains.

I was there. August 30, 2003. It’s the reason that I’ve been taught not to EVER EXPECT THAT ANYTHING GOOD WILL HAPPEN.

A few months earlier, in May, Auburn’s beloved radio announcer Jim Fyffe had passed away. In his place now was Rod Bramblett, former baseball play-by-play man, and the seemingly easy choice to fill the booth. To honor Fyffe, the mic man got up before the game on the field and said “When Auburn scores the first touchdown of the day, I want this side to yell ‘Touchdown!’ and I want this side to yell ‘Auburn!’”

It was going to be great. My dad and I were on the “Touchdown” side, and we practiced with great gusto before the inevitable rout of the Western visitors. They wouldn’t be able to handle the humidity or the 22 NFL starters that Auburn had in orange and blue.

Auburn’s first snap went backward as Cadillac got stuffed behind the line. Okay, no problem.

Then Jason Campbell’s first pass was tipped and picked off. Seconds later, Matt Leinart’s first college pass attempt went for a touchdown right in front of the students. Something was terribly wrong.

I sat there and watched Auburn struggle on offense as USC bebopped its way right down the field. They only notched 23 points (which would be low for them in coming years), but they would’ve been fine kneeling the ball after their first score. They shut Auburn out 23-0. The car ride back was a daze. We listened to the disbelief on the postgame radio show. None of the players and coaches could fathom what had happened. Auburn’s ranking — gone.

In the days following, we heard that USC had used slants to jam up Auburn’s defensive line. The coaches spoke of it as if it was some secret weapon that the Trojans had invented and employed for the first time ever. As a kid, I wasn’t totally aware that slants were in fact PRETTY COMMON.

The next week, they’d travel to Georgia Tech. This was a sure win... like Chan Gailey and Reggie Ball, whoever that was, could pose a threat to an angry Auburn team.

Well, they did. A 17-3 Yellow Jacket win later, Auburn was 0-2 and had scored three points combined in its first two games. Something was terribly wrong. The awful incompetence was astounding. Auburn couldn’t get out of its own way.

Finally, the Tigers got to play someone that would basically lay down and die. The Tigers scored their first touchdown of the year against Vanderbilt in week three, winning 45-7 and at least getting something right. Then they blasted Western Kentucky 48-3, but I knew it would all come crashing down again when #7 Tennessee visited Jordan-Hare the following Saturday night.

Tennessee boasted Casey Clausen and a slew of athletic receivers, plus a great linebacker corps that would make Auburn’s running attack work much harder to gain yardage.

Despite the 2-2 record, fans showed up in full force on the Plains. A filled Jordan-Hare with Ron Franklin on ESPN’s broadcast made it hard to look away. Over the first few weeks, the Tigers’ run game hadn’t been churning the way it had been, and we found out why Cadillac in particular was having a tough time. He was tentative.

After breaking his leg the year before, he wasn’t totally sure in its sturdiness. After taking a hit against WKU right on the spot where it broke, he regained his confidence and decided to run hard.

Against Tennessee, he ran 36 times for 185 yards and a touchdown as the Tigers got up 28-7 before holding off a furious rally by the Vols. A Carlos Rogers interception sealed the deal in the final minute and the Tigers got the kind of win we expected once the season started.

There was no rest for the weary, however. Auburn had to travel to Fayetteville for an 11 AM game with Tuberville’s personal nemesis, the Arkansas Razorbacks. After routing Texas and beating Alabama, the Hogs were ranked 7th now, making it the Tigers’ second straight game against a team ranked in that spot.

Again, Cadillac ran wild, going for 150 yards and the game’s only touchdown, and Karlos Dansby notched a key sack at the end to finish off the Razorbacks as Auburn won 10-3. Now they were 4-2 and looking like the team we expected.

The next week, sitting at 4-2, Auburn hosted Mississippi State in what would turn out to Jackie Sherrill’s last Starkville squad. This was Cadillac’s true coming-out party at the midpoint of the year.

Cadillac ran for 161 yards and six touchdowns (five in the first half) as Auburn blew out the Bulldogs 45-13. Junior college transfer Brandon Jacobs also rumbled for 182 yards on the day, finally breaking out in his first extended action of the year.

Things were looking good up until the trip to Baton Rouge. Nick Saban’s fourth team at LSU turned out to be pretty salty, but they hadn’t really turned it on to that point yet. They’d beaten Georgia early in the season, but lost to Ron Zook and Florida in a pretty uncompetitive game before Auburn came in.

LSU quarterback Matt Mauck completed a 64-yard touchdown to Devery Henderson just two minutes in, and the rout was on. Two touchdowns later and Auburn trailed 21-0 in the first quarter. Auburn finally got on the board with an Anthony Mix touchdown catch late in the game, but it had been over for a while. Auburn headed back home at 5-3 with a 31-7 loss.

Auburn roughed up Louisiana-Monroe the next week 73-7, and got back in to winning ways before Ole Miss and senior Eli Manning came to visit Jordan-Hare. This was a game that Auburn could definitely win, and may push the season to be deemed a success if they could upset the 20th-ranked Rebels.

The Tigers led 10-7 after one quarter, then trailed 14-10 at halftime before a tipped catch-and-run for 68 yards by Ben Obomanu gave them a 17-14 lead in the third quarter. After Ole Miss tied the game, Auburn kicker Phillip Yost booted a short kick to give the Tigers a 20-17 lead.

Eli Manning drove the Rebels down the field and they scored the go-ahead touchdown with a little over two minutes to play. Down 24-20, Auburn needed something. Again, Obomanu acted the hero, taking a short dump pass and weaving deep into Rebel territory. Auburn found itself at the Ole Miss ten, and a few plays later threw into the endzone.

By God, I won’t even show you the video. You know what happened next. Ben Obomanu, the only reason Auburn was even in position to score, dropped the ball. Campbell hit him right in the numbers, and he inexplicably leapt to try and make the catch. He just sort of swatted the ball into the ground instead and fell to his knees in agony. On the ensuing fourth down play, Auburn tried the same rollout pass, but it was defended much better.

Ole Miss won 24-20. In the postgame interview room, a teary Obomanu came in, still wearing his uniform, and answered every question asked of him. It took real guts to do that, but that loss numbed me like few have since. I remember sitting at dinner after that staring at the menu, blindly replaying the drop in my head.

Next up was a trip to Athens that more resembled the games against USC and LSU earlier in the year. Auburn put up zero fight and lost 26-7. Sitting at 6-5, far from where they’d expected to be at this point, the only thing that could salvage any excitement was a win in the Iron Bowl. We still had a lot to get through first.

We had to get through Jetgate. Auburn officials took booster Bobby Lowder’s private plane to fly to Louisville in an attempt to woo Bobby Petrino to replace Tuberville after the season. To be fair, the expectations set and the season Auburn had warranted a firing. It really did. And the only reason Tuberville got to stay is because the entire thing blew up in Auburn’s face. That news all came out a couple of days after the Iron Bowl, but it was still embarrassing.

Tuberville had managed to save face a bit, in large part, by beating Alabama. How did that happen, you ask? Well, it gave us one of the most famous plays in recent Auburn history.

Auburn won a weird Iron Bowl 28-23, with Cadillac rushing for two scores and in excess of 200 yards. If Auburn had lost that Iron Bowl and finished 6-6 on the year where they were supposed to win the national title, Tuberville would’ve been fired. After the win, he gained a sympathy from Auburn fans because of the administrations back-alley dealing, but a loss to Mike Shula and the 4-7 Tide wouldn’t have gotten him any help.

Jetgate afforded Tuberville another year, at the very least, and he’d make the most of it. After Auburn beat Wisconsin in the Music City Bowl, things looked up for the Tigers as they headed into 2004. With a senior-laden team, it could only get better, right?

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