>>153162216
Really I don’t get why #1-4 were the mega-hit they were.
The Marvel comics of the time they were parodying had blood and violence, and there were enough out-there sci-fi comics slowly clogging up the LCS. Though TMNT brought out a lot more.

>>153162216
Sweet! Reading Usagi made me want to read the original Mirage turtles.

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This is the reading order I am using, btw. I guess Multiversity no longer exists.
https://eliasrwrites.ghost.io/tag/so-you-want-to-read-tmnt/

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I find the whole April has always been black narrative funny because here she is introduced with a black man (who is later White in adaptations) and is clearly not black.

>>153162272
Having the right timing is everything.

>>153162547
It’s an (internet) pop-culture line. People don’t care enough to check it and it just sinks into the culture war swamp.

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>>153162578
That's all well and good, however
https://www.target.com/p/neca-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-mirage-comics-april-o-39-neil-7-34-scale-action-figure/-/A-94264529

>>153162275
>>153162278
I remember this speech from the 2003 series and it wasnt until recently I found out it was lifted directly from the comics.

>>153162272
Reading up on it, it seems like a lot of people wanted more manga type comics, the name itself grabs attention on the comic racks, and the low print runs meant sheer word of mouth was the main marketing method and when you have more spirited fans recommending it, it gains enough attention of Mark Freedman who then got them a toy deal that is really what started it all. Kinda weird looking up his name doesn't turn up much but it seems like he is a very key-figure but even he didn't know it. There is some footage of him talking to Eastman and Laird, saying in three years this toyline would be gone and that was the expected life of this IP and that was what he was offering them through working with them. Though I'm not a Turtle guy, I just looked a bit of this up.

>>153162365
It is utter bullshit there hasn't ever been a DD crossover with them. Fuck Marvel.

>>153162849
Man this guy was everywhere in comics in the 80's.

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>>153162597
this shit is hysterical

by the same company

>>153162547
Eastman has muddied the waters so bad people don't even think for themselves anymore

>>153162575
Gonna do an Usagi ENTER here

>>153162275
>I sense his body quivering with tense energy, waiting to be triggered into savage, slashing release!!

Uh. Am I the only one...?

>>153162365
wow, that young man was a real hero. I wonder whatever happened to him. hopefully his eyes weren't injured or anything.