Ryan Brown

Old friends, new enemies enhance ‘TMNT’ Season 3 (2004-05)

There might not be another franchise that skirts the edge of copyright law quite like “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” which famously started as a “Daredevil”

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What are they doing with Turtles in space?! A look at ‘TMNT’ Season 2 (2003-04)

Although the Mirage comics are great, they are also experimental and stream-of-consciousness in those heady early days, and they mark the first time young writers

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‘TMNT Adventures’ spins off into ‘Mighty Mutanimals’ (1991)

In the Maligna Saga – comprising the “Mighty Mutanimals” three-issue miniseries and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures” 21 and 22 (May-July 1991) – we continue

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‘TMNT Adventures’ branches off from the cartoon in Issues 5-11 (1989-90)

The early issues of Archie Comics’ “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures” (which would eventually run from 1988-96, paralleling the cartoon’s run) adapt the first seven

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‘Tales of the TMNT’ comes to bittersweet end in Issues 54-70 (2009-10)

“TMNT” long ago taught us that, in the end, life is at best bittersweet, and that’s how I’d describe the last year-and-a-half of “Tales of the

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Lawson joins team for ‘Tales of the TMNT’ Issues 42-53 (2008)

The 2008 batch of “Tales of the TMNT” Volume 2 was defined in two major ways: One, editor Dan Berger began informing readers of where each tale

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‘Tales of the TMNT’ fills in gaps in Issues 31-41 (2007)

Part of the purpose of “Tales of the TMNT” Volume 2 was to go back and fill in all those little story gaps that cropped up in

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April shines in ‘Tales of the TMNT’ Issues 19-30 (2006)

In 2006, Mirage Volume 4 stopped its bimonthly publishing schedule and went to a trickle-out approach, but that same year, “Tales of the TMNT” Volume 2 continued

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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

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‘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

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