Thread:Gilgameshkun/@comment-29720851-20170503182211/@comment-995426-20170508071821

Oh, try not to skip ahead in volume 1. You should read the rest of volume 1 before City at War, in order, before reading City at War itself. City at War depends a great deal on layered character development from earlier in volume 1 of the existing seven main characters, and also marks a major turning point in Mirage TMNT storytelling that would influence all later stories.

And don't trip too badly over volume 1's Guest Era, which is mostly non-canon and could vary wildly in style, since the writers of those issues were given free rein to do almost anything they wanted. That page of Splinter watching Speed Racer was from a non-canon Guest Era issue. (The person to ask what is and isn't Mirage TMNT canon used to be Peter Laird, and he still issues opinions about this when asked questions on his blog, but he stresses that now only Viacom has the legal right to decide what is or isn't Mirage canon now, even in stories published decades ago.)