User blog comment:Ms.HamatoAlexander/Classic TMNT characters in Rise?/@comment-995426-20190331012359/@comment-995426-20190331051507

Not only that, but Shadow was more interesting as a character when she became a teenager herself, especially in her interactions with the older turtles. It's one of the reasons Darkness Weaves is one of my favorite Mirage stories.

None of these more complex character developments are possible unless the characters are allowed to age over multiple decades, rather than kept artificially teenagers forever as most of the TV series have done. And the beauty of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Twentysomething Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Thirtysomething Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "The Mutant Ninja Turtles" is that their acronyms are all "TMNT." :)