User blog comment:Nobrainer56/Your first TMNT/@comment-995426-20160608233302

When I was 8 or 9, I saw some of the 1987 TV series, but it was average cartoon fare for me. I did, however, like the voice actors for Leonardo and Raphael, who turned out to be Cam Clarke and Rob Paulsen respectively. Even when I was younger, I always preferred entertainment and fiction with more inspiration and lasting substance, and most cartoons of the time period were really too vapid to care about for longer than half an hour.

But I really became a TMNT fan when I started reading the Mirage TMNT comics when I was 11 or so. Finally, here was a version of TMNT that had a lot more substance. By the time I reached What Goes Around... ...Comes Around!, Silent Partner and True Stories, I knew this was the kind of TMNT I would love. Years later as I read more Mirage TMNT, I also found I liked Bad Moon Rising (I have my reasons), Blind Faith, Blind Sight, City at War, Darkness Weaves, Day in the Life, Gang Wars, My Hero!, Nobody Does It Better, Professor Obligado, The River, Shanghaied and Swan Song. Stories that gave deeper insights into characters, and made them feel more emotionally real.