Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

‘TMNT Adventures’ 32-37 and ‘Mighty Mutanimals 1-5 (1992) become ‘the banned issues’

When IDW collected Archie’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures” in the 2010s, it skipped over Issues 32-37 and “Mighty Mutanimals” (Vol. 2) Issues 1-5 (1992).

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Leo wins the battle of Turtle-focused miniseries in ‘Tales of Leonardo: Blind Sight’ (2006)

Not many people cite Leonardo as their favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (including me; I’m a Donatello guy), but when Mirage does a batch of

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‘Last Ronin’ (2020-22) fills in Turtles’ dark future … at least on one timeline

Peter Laird got his “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” stories out of his system in the Aughts, and Kevin Eastman is going through his own phase

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‘Paradox of Chudnovsky’ (2025) takes its time reaching ‘TMNT’ fans

Toward the end of its holding of the “Star Wars” license, Dark Horse Comics released a good chunk of the under-printed stories in a couple

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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III’ (1993) and the multiverse that might’ve been

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III” (1993) is correctly the most maligned of the trilogy. In retrospect, the handoff from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop to All

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‘TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze’ (1991): Was Shredder almost Michael Myers?

It had bothered me that the Turtles seem to be at April’s apartment for months while Shredder and the Foot Clan “simultaneously” regroup in days

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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ (1990) and the art of great dialog

I’ve often heard great family movie screenplays complimented with “Both a child and an adult can like it,” but I don’t usually agree. One exception

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Turtles ‘Fast Forward’ to the 22nd century for ‘TMNT’ Season 6 (2006)

After four strong seasons that adapted most major Mirage issues into a kid-friendlier continuity, the 2003 “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” cartoon took two separate steps

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‘TMNT’ goes wildly off track with Season 5’s ‘lost’ episodes (2008)

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (2003) Seasons 1-4 are “TMNT” done right, and Season 5 (2008) is “TMNT” done so wrong that its biggest upside is

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No Shredder, no problem: ‘TMNT’ Season 4 (2005-06) is a scary smorgasbord

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Season 4 (2005-06, Fox) continues its style of adapting the Mirage comics but tightening the narrative links between street-level villains, outer

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