Releasing on a limited run of 3,000 copies, printed in black and white on cheap paper, TNMT quickly accrued a reputation on the comic book circuit. What’s not to love about this world in which amphibious boys run amok underground trying the save the day? There was also the beloved April, who assists the turtles on their crime-fighting adventures, and Casey Morgan, variously a journalist and lab assistant, smitten with her. Their arch nemesis: Shredder, a masked leader of a criminal ninja clan called The Foot (a direct riff on the Daredevil ninja clan called The Hand). The eldest and most disciplined Leonardo, the tech whiz Donatello, the super-fast and super-fun Michelangelo, and the hot-headed and beefy Raphael-all trained in martial arts by the mutant rat of a ninja master. TNMT introduced four anthropomorphic turtles into the rapidly expanding world of comic book mutants rampaging through New York.

The original TMNT comic books were created almost 40 years ago, by the independent comic book creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.įirst released in 1984, TNMT was born as a parody of the popular comic book themes of the time-they were “inspired” by tales of vigilante superheroes with a predilection for Eastern martial arts (such as Daredevil), the rising cultural obsession with adolescence evidenced in New Teen Titans, the mutants of the X-Men series and the funny-animal tradition in comic books such as Howard the Duck (who made a fleeting appearance in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie). Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, slated for release on August 2, joins a long line of screen adaptations of the comic-book IP. Two, “permanent teenager” Seth Rogen is producing it. One, it’s an animation which is arguably the form in which the Turtles have had maximum impact on the big screen.

There’s a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie flipping into theatres this year, and for hardcore fans, there are a few things to be excited about. We’re not referring to the girls with shoe obsessions and boyfriend baggage (of Sex and the City), but the pizza-loving boys named after Italian Renaissance artists who wield nun chucks, fling ninja stars, live in sewers and have the chops to save the world. And just like that, New York’s favourite foursome is back in our lives.

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