“Upon this Leonardo, I will build my family.”

Without shame, I admit that I have followed the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles since their beginning. Yes, this includes their over-sized comics from many, many (has it really been that many already?) years ago. When Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created the characters, they were a parody of Frank Miller’s (The Dark Knight Returns) run on Daredevil. That’s why you have the turtles’ sensei named Splinter (after Stick, Daredevil’s sensei) and why their arch-nemesis, Shredder, leads a group called The Foot (rather than the group of ninjas Daredevil so often fought known as The Hand).

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