Nerdy Show Interview: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness with Tom Waltz and Erik Burnham

Posted by NerdyShow on April 12, 2018

When The Nerdy Show Network’s flagship podcast isn’t unloading on the latest geek news and happenings, we’re diving deep into super-specific discussions and interviews.

Mutagen Man, Wyrm, The Pizza Thrower, The Utroms, Cudley the Cowlick… The Ninja Turtles are super weird. Awesomely unusual. IDW TMNT writers Tom Waltz and Erik Burnham are joined by Nerdy Show‘s Cap to celebrate the legacy of Ninja Turtles and the series’ myriad mutations across all continuities. They play with action figures, thumb through old roleplaying books, and sift through the sewer of way cool mutants.

Hear the story of how Donatello’s perceived “death” in the comics upset parents and turned Waltz’s life upside down, the joys of being both a fan AND a creator, and why we’ve never seen the Turtles‘ movies’ Master Tatsu in the comics.

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Our Past TMNT Episodes:

• Our interview with Ninja Turtles‘ film director, Steve Barron
• Our interview with TMNT Adventures‘ Stephen Murphy aka Dean Clarrain
• Our 2014 interview with Kevin Eastman and Mutanimals‘ Paul Allor and Andy Kuhn
• Our 2018 interview with Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, and Ben Bishop

Links:

• IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• TMNT Microseries: Featuring Erik’s Splinter story
• The Secret History of the Foot Clan
• TMNT: Universe – Karai’s Path
• Dimension X
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (originally published by Archie)
• The return of the Image Ninja Turtles
• Jim Lawson’s Saurinoid – inspiration for Dr. Dinosaur
• Dinosaurs for Hire
• Usagi Yojimbo
• The Space Usagi pilot
• Concept art for The Mighty MutanIMALS animated series
• Dan Slott’s Year of the Turtle
• North Carolina Comicon
• Jazzy’s Mario Paint animation
• Lightning Dogs: The Official Paw’dcast