So You Want To Read TMNT Comics

So You Want to Read TMNT Comics? – Part 6: Mutant Miscellany (1984-present)

By Elias Rosner | Aug 17, 2023 | Columns

Start here if you’re really, really, really interested in the most random ephemera from the Turtles’ history and international publications.

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So You Want to Read TMNT Comics? – Part 5: Change is IDW (2011-present)

By Elias Rosner | Aug 15, 2023 | Columns

Start here if you’re looking to get into current “TMNT” comics while being 100% caught up on all the backstory. For anyone who wants to read a LOT of comics but not read a ton of “TMNT” comics. It’s also for the lapsed fan who wants to see any and all of the previous eras remixed and redone.

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So You Want to Read TMNT Comics? – Part 4: Heroes in a Tie-In (1988-1995; 2003; 2011-present)

By Elias Rosner | Aug 11, 2023 | Columns

Start here if you want to experience the sensation that shook the nation and rocketed the series to the stratosphere and (re)live the glory days of the Turtles’ time on the airwaves, or at least read the comics that spun out of that show and told a pretty compelling narrative along the way.

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So You Want to Read TMNT Comics? – Part 3: Return to Mirage (2001-2014)

By Elias Rosner | Aug 10, 2023 | Columns

Start here if you’re looking to see a more mature (i.e. older) set of turtles than the originals from co-creator Laird and long, long time Turtles creators Lawson & Talbot.

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So You Want to Read TMNT Comics? – Part 2: Image Revolution (1995-1999; 2018)

By Elias Rosner | Aug 9, 2023 | Columns

Start here if: you HATE stories that lack MUSCLES and TEETH and GUNS and SICK ROBOTS and GOOOORRREEEEEE. EXTREEEEMMMMMEEEEEEE.

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So You Want to Read TMNT Comics? – Part 1: The Mirage Years (1984-1995; Volumes 1 & 2)

By Elias Rosner | Aug 8, 2023 | Columns

Start here if you want to see where it all began, don’t mind a steep quality curve, and are OK with a long middle full of some of the weirdest, most varied comics “TMNT” has to offer.

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So You Want to Read TMNT Comics? – Prologue

By Elias Rosner | Aug 7, 2023 | Columns

Picture this. You, or your kid, or your parent, or your friend, has just watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. Now you need a reading order because there’s nothing that goes together better than reading orders and comics. Except maybe pizza and cowabunga.

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