tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post5495569513816187928..comments2024-03-26T11:24:18.304-07:00Comments on Peter Laird's TMNT blog: Snippets #11: March 2, 1984Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-24306100526120165742014-12-13T15:18:14.709-08:002014-12-13T15:18:14.709-08:00"Reading these money woes, what would you guy..."Reading these money woes, what would you guys have done if Kevin's uncle didn't loan you the money to pay for the book? Would you shelve the TMNT project for years? As you said in a previous entry, its rather amazing fate lined up perfectly for TMNT to actually be published. If things just turned out even slightly different there would be no TMNT comic published and no franchise today. I guess its just one of those things where everything was, "in the right place at the right time" so to speak."<br /><br /><b>I find it a very intriguing question to ponder -- what WOULD have happened if we had not published the first issue of TMNT when we did? Say it took us another six months to save and/or raise the needed dollar amounts… what effect would that have had? It's really hard -- in fact, impossible -- to say. <br /><br />Timing is everything, they say, but that's only partly true. For example, if the first "Star Wars" movie had come out six months later, would its impact have been significantly less? I doubt it… the content of the material was just as strong at either time.<br /><br />There's no doubt in my mind that some things would have been different. But my gut feeling is that it probably would have ended up roughly the same. And regardless of whether Kevin's uncle Quentin stepped up and offered us a loan to get the book printed when we did, it's important to understand that we WERE going to see that thing in print. There was no way we would work that hard on something that we had completely committed to and NOT somehow publish it. <br /><br />I could be completely wrong, of course. If you believe in the "many worlds" hypothesis, in an infinite universe everything that COULD have happened HAS happened or WILL happen at some time, somewhere… and in some corner of the universe there may be a world similar to ours in which those two guys in New Hampshire couldn't convince one of their uncles to put up some money… and they didn't get their wacky comic out until six months later than on THIS world. If we could only observe that other world, we'd know what would have happened… or at least, we'd know ONE possible outcome from those parameters. -- PL</b><br />PLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615918982616632405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225302720400600293.post-74265014611742525402014-12-13T10:22:29.179-08:002014-12-13T10:22:29.179-08:00Reading these money woes, what would you guys have...Reading these money woes, what would you guys have done if Kevin's uncle didn't loan you the money to pay for the book? Would you shelve the TMNT project for years?<br /><br />As you said in a previous entry, its rather amazing fate lined up perfectly for TMNT to actually be published. If things just turned out even slightly different there would be no TMNT comic published and no franchise today. I guess its just one of those things where everything was, "in the right place at the right time" so to speak.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com