A little while ago, I was approached by big-time TMNT fan Demon-Alukard from turtlemania.ru to participate in a translation for a pretty rare and obscure issue of TMNT. Basically, TMNT issue 8 involved a crossover but also introduced characters that would appear many times later in TMNT. So the issue was important to the story, but they didn’t want to reprint it due to the crossover legalities. So they made an alternate version of the story they could print freely, and kinda…didn’t do much with it. It was only ever printed in Spanish. Opentrain was asked to translate the issue, and Serpentsounds did about half of it and it turned out another translator came forward and finished quickly, so most of his stuff wasn’t really used. But we provided a second look on half the lines, and did a line that the other person forgot to do, so Serpentsounds and I got our name in the book anyway!
If you are interested in getting a copy, you can buy em from Demon-Alukard, but hurry up because there’s only 40 copies printed. You can see the ordering details over on turtlemania.ru.
This is pretty cool for me personally, getting my name into print in an issue of TMNT, even if it isn’t a completely official printing. But the issue art, inks, story, etc are all a legit Mirage studios issue, and Demon-Alukard has a pretty impressive history of working with actual TMNT staff members, check out their Image conclusion issues for example. Cool guy, and I thank him for this opportunity.