{"id":37450,"date":"2018-05-23T21:11:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T01:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=37450"},"modified":"2022-07-29T05:08:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T09:08:18","slug":"the-homagiest-cover-to-ever-homage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/the-homagiest-cover-to-ever-homage\/","title":{"rendered":"The homagiest cover to ever homage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IDW has just begun publishing <i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Urban Legends<\/i>, a series that reprints the 1996 Image Comuics <i>TMNT<\/i> series in color.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planetawesomecollectibles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Planet Awesome<\/a> has an exclusive variant cover for the first issue, and it is a multi-layered stew of references:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/tmntul.jpg\" title=\"cover comparison\" width=\"445\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>The entire thing is, at a glance, a re-creation of the iconic first issue cover. And most comics would have stopped there, but not this one: each of the boys' poses are their own references to other familiar covers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Michelangelo is doing the <i>Amazing Spider-Man<\/i> #300 jump:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/tmntasm.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Donatello is gesturing like <i>Spawn<\/i> #1:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/tmntsp.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Bridging the gap between his two brothers, Raphael has that <i>Spider-Man<\/i> #1\/<i>Spawn<\/i> #8 crouch:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/tmntsm.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>And Leonardo is turning around like Rick Grimes on the cover of <i>Walking Dead<\/i> #1:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/tmntwd.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>That's a lot more entertaining than just another homage cover.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A stop-motion ad for TMNT toys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/a-stop-motion-ad-for-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-toys\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A stop-motion ad for TMNT toys<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #173\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-173\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #173<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: the Tomb Raider\/TMNT connection (Part 2)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/soon-forget-the-tomb-raider-tmnt-connection-part-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: the Tomb Raider\/TMNT connection (Part 2)<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Vitruvian HACKS 2020 Deluxe Advent Calendar review - Day 7\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/vitruvian-hacks-2020-deluxe-advent-calendar-review-day-7\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vitruvian HACKS 2020 Deluxe Advent Calendar review - Day 7<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - June '14\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/flippin-through-previews-june-14\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - June '14<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDW has just begun publishing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Urban Legends, a series that reprints the 1996 Image Comuics TMNT series in color. Planet Awesome has an exclusive variant cover for the first issue, and it is a multi-layered stew &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/the-homagiest-cover-to-ever-homage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[139,59,28,153],"class_list":["post-37450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-spawn","tag-spider-man","tag-tmnt","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37458,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37450\/revisions\/37458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}