I'd take the Turtles in both. Higher durability, strength, and unique anatomy gives them the edge in unarmed combat, and in armed combat their teamwork combined with the previously stated gives them the edge as well. Splinter isn't really necessary.
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And Turtle material is hard to comeby given how expensive the early volumes are now.
They've done the Mirage/Image equivalent of what, say, Daredevil, has done. They're your typical street level vigilantes who beat up street punks, alien Dinosaur Metas, super ninjas, etc. Miller's Daredevil was the mold the turtles were built on and a parody of. If you read their origin story it's actually depicted as a parody of the accident that gave Daredevil his powers as well (radioactive canister falls off speeding truck and strikes kid in the head, causing him to drop his pet turtles in the sewer where the ooze from the canister mutates the turtles).
Since the Turtles aren't from Marvel or DC, are from a universe not overly saturated with Superman-esque characters, and most people only know them for the Saturday morning cartoons, they are viewed with a lot of skepticism. Couple that with the fact that a person having access to scans of them is rare with the price of acquiring them relatively steep, and you wind up with the inevitable "TMNT Vs. Batman", by himself (Smh...), thread, because the Comic version of the Turtles, and abilities of their rogues gallery, are unknown to the majority, and people are already operating from their mainstream biases.
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You hit it on the head there, people should understand that there is more to comics than Marvel/DC. I think you and I should search for people who could help with a TMNT respect thread.
That's a good idea. I know the TPBs of Vol. 1 & 2 run for about $180 each, so if anyone does have the actual originals they may not want to risk devaluing the books in the scanning process. There's gotta be a TMNT portal or fan site or something.
I wonder too. If I remember correctly shortly after this comic they meet the robot Honeycutt and get transported to the Triceraton Homeworlds, where they get put in an arena Gladiator style.
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