- John Hansen
- April 19, 2014
Mirage resurrects ‘Tales of the TMNT’ with Vol. 2 Issues 1-18 (2004-05)
For the editors at Mirage Comics, it was both a blessing and a curse that most of their readership got hooked on TMNT through the
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- John Hansen
- April 12, 2014
‘TMNT’ Vol. 4 Issues 14-19 (2004) explore each Turtle
Volume 2 starts with each of the Turtles finding his own place to live, but they soon come back together again and mostly work as
- John Hansen
- April 10, 2014
‘TMNT’ deals with loss in Vol. 4 Issues 8-13 (2003)
Peter Laird’s decision to have “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Volume 4 unfold at a leisurely pace, reflecting real life rather than an action movie, frustrated a lot
- John Hansen
- April 7, 2014
Laird returns to ‘TMNT’ for Vol. 4 Issues 1-7 (2001-02)
Around the turn of the century, Peter Laird bought out Kevin Eastman’s share of the “TMNT” empire and soon got his second wind of interest
- John Hansen
- April 7, 2014
A rundown of ‘TMNT’s’ special issues and crossovers (1985-2007)
In previous “TMNT” flashback posts, I delved into the short stories, the one-issue micro series and the two Casey Jones series as sources for more
- John Hansen
- March 29, 2014
A rundown of uncollected ‘TMNT’ short stories (1986-2005)
If you’ve already read the shorts in “Shell Shock,” “Turtle Soup” and Michael Dooney’s “Challenges” but you’d also like to track down the uncollected or
- John Hansen
- March 23, 2014
‘TMNT’ explores short form in ‘Turtle Soup’ (1987-92), ‘Challenges’ (1991)
“Shell Shock” (1989), which I reviewed in my last post, is the most significant collection of TMNT shorts from Mirage “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Volume 1, as
- John Hansen
- March 16, 2014
‘Shell Shock’ (1989) a treasure trove of ‘TMNT’ shorts
During the formative years of the TMNT in the late 1980s, Mirage often reprinted issues when demand warranted it. And those reprints often included what
- John Hansen
- March 5, 2014
‘City at War’ (1992-93) is ‘TMNT’s’ grand epic
It’s not fair to assume that the creator of something is also the best at telling stories about that something. Not all of the elite
- John Hansen
- March 4, 2014
Excitement returns in ‘TMNT’ Issues 41-49 (1991-92)
It wasn’t just Eastman & Laird’s return to writing duties on Issue 48 of Mirage “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Volume 1 that got the series back on