When I was in college, I started collecting lots of comics. Among them were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But I never really "got" the Turtles. Sure, the artwork was good and the stories were okay. But it never really worked for me much. It was supposed to be a parody, right? Only unlike other parodies, TMNT wasn't funny. It was grim. Serious... No offense to Turtle lovers. TMNT is still good - it just wasn't my thing.
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| My copy of TMNT #1, 3rd Edition. Not pictured: The pain and anguish I feel realizing that I shouldn't have sold the rest of my entire 62-issue run of TMNT comics on eBay. |
But the effect on pop culture was undeniable. In the mid-80's, TMNT spawned a multitude of "Mutant Ninja Critter" comics, all of them in black and white and most of which were pretty terrible. It was a golden age of crappy comics.
