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Joey Kamikaze · 01-13-2015, 09:38 PM

Ninjara appears from #28 onward.

If you want you can start from #5 without missing much. The first four issues (seven if you count the initial miniseries) are just episode adaptations. #5 is the first original story and #5-13 is the first real arc in the book.

Bitsy83 · 01-14-2015, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Joey Kamikaze

Ninjara appears from #28 onward.

If you want you can start from #5 without missing much. The first four issues (seven if you count the initial miniseries) are just episode adaptations. #5 is the first original story and #5-13 is the first real arc in the book.

Huh...really wish I had posted this question before buying the first volume last night. Apparently, issue 5 isn't until volume 2!

At first, I thought I had the wrong issue when I was reading it and it had that trampy White Snake groupie from the original cartoon. You know, the one who dated Mr. Thompson and hated Turtles, then she dumps the guy because he ate Turtle Soup. ("You ARE a Turtle Lover!") 80s logic; you gotta love it. Still, I might as well read it. It's like a trip down memory lane.

I looked up that issue I mentioned before and it looks like Ninjara is in the series for quite a few issues. I know her last appearance is issue 70 and you said she doesn't show up until #28 (Volume #8, btw). Still, I am curious of what really goes on in this series. I know there are some really weird things here and there (A space cow head being one of them), but then you got stuff like this:

Hearing Rob Paulsen saying that line would give me goosebumps like you wouldn't believe.

I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around a comic based on the goofy cartoon to take such a dark turn. Like I've said, I've bopped around here and there during my research of it and there are some pretty dark moments, like Ninjara being shot, Raph going from smart ass to bad ass (like he was originally). It's just hard to hear the original cast voices coming out of these characters I always affiliated with being goofy and fun loving.

(Which is why I can't wait to get to the original stories!)

Thanks again, Joey! You may have to be my Archie expert for later on.

Usagi Miyamoto · 01-14-2015, 01:00 PM

Most/all of the Archie comic's "dark" stuff is preachy in one form or another(usually relating to environmentalism) so I think that's how they'd get away with most of it - it's true though that it goes to some dark places. I'm pretty hyped for Null (or the "Null group" at least) to pop up in IDW comics.

01-13-2015, 09:38 PM	#1
Joey Kamikaze Stone Warrior Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 694	Ninjara appears from #28 onward. If you want you can start from #5 without missing much. The first four issues (seven if you count the initial miniseries) are just episode adaptations. #5 is the first original story and #5-13 is the first real arc in the book.

01-14-2015, 01:00 PM	#3
Usagi Miyamoto Random Punk Join Date: Dec 2014 Posts: 40	Most/all of the Archie comic's "dark" stuff is preachy in one form or another(usually relating to environmentalism) so I think that's how they'd get away with most of it - it's true though that it goes to some dark places. I'm pretty hyped for Null (or the "Null group" at least) to pop up in IDW comics.