#Baby ninja turtles eatond pizza series

Produced two sequels, one in 2017 seeing Batman and Robin travel to the Turtles' world and another in 2019 seeing Krang create a Merged Reality. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2015-2016): A Crossover between Batman and the IDW version of the Turtles.The IDW Comics (2011-): The first new incarnation of the Turtles following the purchase by Nickelodeon and published by IDW Publishing, it features elements from all previous incarnations before it, as well as heavily revised origins for the familiar characters.Unlike Adventures this comic proved to be incredibly short-lived as it was abruptly cancelled seven issues in. The Dreamwave Comics (2003): The second cartoon had its own spinoff comic, published by Dreamwave Productions.

#Baby ninja turtles eatond pizza series

The series was abruptly cancelled with issue #23 with the plot unresolved, but almost 20 years later as part of their projects to republish vintage turtle comics, IDW, the current publisher of TMNT comics (see below) began a color reprint series titled TMNT: Urban Legends that brought back the original creative team to produce three more issues to conclude the series. Mostly remembered for mutilating three out of the four turtles, and for a plot featuring a three-way struggle for leadership of the Foot involving Raphael, who had taken on the Shredder identity after finding his armor Pimiko, the original Shredder's daughter and Lady Shredder, a ninja of unknown origin dressed in the familiar armor. 3 (1996-1999): Published by Image Comics, this series was the official continuation of the Mirage continuity, until it was subsequently ignored by Peter Laird upon the publication of Volume 4. This incarnation of the turtles is generally regarded favorably, with a notable contingent of fans clamoring for inclusion of its characters into future incarnations. While it initially limited itself to adapting some of the cartoon stories, it eventually evolved into something as different from the cartoon as the cartoon was from the original comic book. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (1988/1989-1995/1996): Shortly into its run, the first cartoon spawned its own comic book, published by Archie Comics.This incarnation comprises Volumes 1, 2, and 4 of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book, two volumes of Tales of the TMNT, and a multitude of one-shots and mini-series. These are notable for its semi-real time storytelling (stories written after 2001 featured the turtles in their thirties) its lack of a consistent Rogues Gallery and alternating between 'throw-everything-at-the-wall-to-see-what-sticks' and 'heavily focused' approaches to storytelling. The Mirage Comics (1984-1993, 2001-2010): Stories featuring the original incarnation of the turtles.The major incarnations of the franchise are as follows: The show became one of the most popular animated series of all time, which in turn led to movies, games, and every type of merchandise under the sun, turning TMNT into one of the biggest cash cow franchises of the mid-eighties/early nineties and one of the most iconic brands in pop culture. But the Turtles finally broke from Cult Classic status to mainstream success when an action figure deal was struck with Playmates Toys, and an animated series was created to accompany the toyline. The series became so popular in the indie comics scene that it spawned a bunch of imitators and branched out into merchandising with T-shirts, figurines and the like. The paradox of supposedly slow and cumbersome creatures being such stealthy, deadly warriors proved irresistible.Ī surprise hit (credited to the bizarre name), later stories applied a Fantasy Kitchen Sink approach, with time travel, robots, and aliens introduced within the first ten issues. mixed with just a little of the other most popular thing on the shelves - teenage mutants.Īspiring comic creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, founders of 'Mirage Studios' (so named because it didn't actually exist yet), came up with the concept one night after work, sketching their increasingly goofy ideas. The original comic was at first largely an affectionate riff on Frank Millers ninja-tastic reinvention of Daredevil in the 1980s, note A joke maintained through 2012 variant covers that cheekily homage some of Millers most iconic Daredevil poses. In fact, the entire premise is built around the question of what happened to the radioactive canister which gave Matt Murdock (aka Daredevil) his superpowers. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (or TMNT) started as a parody. Indie comic book turned multimedia empire, starring the eponymous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.