On the flip side...
If it wasn't for the old 1989 cartoon, Eastman & Laird and Mirage studios would not have done as well as they did, or create such a fab fad int he concept of a Ninja Turtle. Those two made the decison to market their comic characters in that way to get the money.
Because of that reason, I'm not so bitter about the cartoon. I can understand their motives to simply succeed, even if it wasn't to cater to the rest of the fans who liked the darker comic books better. But they did their best to make up for that with City at War... until all the wealth and funding ran out. Which then, so did the fad and the other good TMNT times from the early 90's.
Being a fan of all the do for so long, I've also come to appreciate everything Mirage has done. And to also appreciate just how hard it is to market to the general public to keep a quickly tiring concept alive!
*sees people not getting her point anyway, so she sighs and goes on her way*