Favorite TMNT Comics

[Michaelangelo]

Hey all,

Being the curious person that I am, I figured I'd put up a topic about the different Series of TMNT Comics to find out which ones people enjoy the most and to see people's comments about the different series.   So this topic is covering all the series of the TMNT comics.

Mirage Volume 1
Mirage Mico Series Raphael, Donatello, Michaelangelo and Leonardo
Mirage Tales of TMNT Volume 1
Archie
Archie Specials
Mirage Volume 2
Image
Mirage Volume 4
Dreamwave
Mirage  Tales of TMNT Volume 2

Each of these series have their own fan following and have done different things with the Turtles.  From Mirage introducing the Turtles, Splinter, Shredder, April and many other well known characters in Volume 1 with great stories like "The River" and "City at War"  to Archie bringing in the Mighty Mutanimals and Ninjara with wonderful future stories, romance (the only area I've seen this work with TMNT) and even a great version of April O'Neil.    Though with so many, the fans vary from forum to forum, web page to web page.  I'm curious here with which of the fan base is strongest.  

So please do answer the poll and feel free to make a post about why you enjoy that series more than the other.  Without bashing any of the other series.

[Michaelangelo]

I picked that I loved all the comics, because I do.  Each comic series has a wonderful story line behind them and differences that make them great.  I'll give an example with each area of why I love all of the series:

Mirage Volume 1:  You get to know the characters, you see where they really came from and the art in it is a lot of fun.  I really enjoy Eastman and Laird's work when they were a team on it.  That will always be missed.
Micro series:  Come on... there's Klunk for ya in the Mikey issue!  And Raph's you meet Casey for the first time!
Tales of TMNT 1:   Wonderful story lines done with the Turtles, with the Rat King... and LeatherHead... and the art drool.
Archie:  Wow the Might Mutanimal, the story line connecting from issue to issue, Ninjara... nuff said...
Archie Specials:  Cool new characters!   Fun seasonal adventures!  More than one story per an issue!
Mirage Volume 2:  Jim's art!  The story with Baxter was interesting.  And the Government stuff!!!  (to bad it was just a dream)
Image:  Great story lines!   Took lots of cool risks with changes just to try new stuff.  Raphael as the Shredder!
Mirage Volume 4:  The stories between each of the guys!   Mikey being a dad!   Splinter... poor Splinter... but the timing with my life was just... awwww hard... and touching....  Fugitoid is in it a lot!
Dreamwave:  The different points of view!  Seeing more of the E&L cops!   Baxter and April's histories from series point of view!  

I do so love all these comics and I read them over and over!   There's just a few of the reasons I enjoy them...  share your reasons for what you choose on the poll please.

[Donatello]

Mirage Volume 1
Mirage Mico Series Raphael, Donatello, Michaelangelo and Leonardo
Mirage Tales of TMNT Volume 1
Dreamwave
Tales of the TMNT Vol. 2

The ones listed above are the ones I really like the most out fot eh rest, just because the stories were good, as was the art.  

[Michaelangelo]

Archie had good stories too     Truthfully back when Archie was coming out, I liked it more than Mirage.  I didn't really start to like MIrage till they were all out and I could read them all in order.

[Mindy]

Sadly, I've only read the Image series~ which I still have, woo!!

And Mikey was a dad?! =D To...?

[Michaelangelo]

 Image is an awesome series!  Heh I don't remember how many times my letters were printed on the TMNT Image letter pages *G*

Mikey's a dad in the new TMNT series out by Mirage right now.   I highly recommend checking them out.  

[Mindy]

Awww, I'm poor! Hehehe, tell me?

[Michaelangelo]

I'm sure topics about the different issues out there will start appearing... not just yet though cause I'm still working on a lot of other posts.  Though I'll like to give a lot of different topics for people to read and go through.   Though I'll never give a full comic away in a post, cause I highly recommend getting the comics.  

[Mindy]

Of course

[Fugitoid]

I really gotta catch up with the current Mirage comics. I'm so behind. Stupid bills.  

[Raphael]

Unlike the tv versions of the Turtles, where I had definite faves/non faves, the comics are a different matter. For much the same reasons listed by others, I like all of them pretty much equally.

However, I would like to give a special note for the Archie series. For a series that was based on the 'kiddified' version of the Turtles, put out by a company known for 'kid friendly' comics, they took a lot of risks with some of their stories. I don't think anyone would have expected the "Blindsight" storyline to come from the same company responsible for the compelling drama of "Will Archie date Betty or Veronica?".

[Michaelangelo]

Heh that's my favorite Archie TMNT issue Raphie!     But I totally agree the series is a lot different than most anything Archie put out (could be, because Mirage artist took over the series at issue 5 *G*).   I am a HUGE fan of the Archie Comics myself, esp with all the deep story lines in it.  Wonderfully put together!!

[Raphael]

I'm not surprised. I think a lot of people that read the Archie series would put that storyline at the top of the list. It was just very well done and more than just a little unexpected. Ok, so one of the Turtles has gotten blinded in an explosion...but to add having him captured and "questioned" by the government...it just made for very exciting reading.

[Michaelangelo]

Yeah, I love the cover with him caught by the Government...  I truely do love that issue!!!   Archies over all did a wonderful job on their story line and keeping it interesting all the time, at a good pace that everyone enjoyed, and wow the things they got away with.   I can't believe how many people never gave it a chance just because it was done by 'archie'  they don't know what they're missing out on!

Anyone who hasn't read these yet, pick them up where ever you can find them and check them out!  They're more than worth reading!!!!    

[TurtleNinja]

"Blindsight" was a really good one, got that around here somewhere. Now that I think of it, I'm only missing just a couple of the Archies, actually, if I recall right. And only a few Mirages, too. I think I'm only missing one of Volume 1. Really should update my list one of these days.

There were a couple of other storylines Archie did that I thought kinda pushed the boundaries of the "family friendly" image, can't recall which off the top of my head.

Actually, they kinda got a bit darker towards the end of the run, in my opinion, where they were first kind of a comic run of the original cartoon, then slowly branched off into their own medium, still a bit goofy, but the last few storylines seemed more serious to me.

I think as far as comics go, I started out with the Archies before I first ran across the Mirage series, towards the end of Volume 2.

To be honest, lol, I was shocked out of my mind when I picked those up. So much more hardcore and realistic, not as goofy, saw more blood, got more cursing, I almost didn't buy any more. I couldn't believe that those were the Turtles in any shape or form.

Guess the collector in me won out and I started buying them for the sake of them being the Turtles, and the more I read, the more I learned that was the original story, it grew on me.