Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Spiral Comics)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (sometimes called TMNT) is a comic book series based on the TMNT franchise and published by Spiral Comics.

Main

 * Leonardo/"Leo": The cool headed leader of the team. Leo is a lot like his master Splinter, defaulting to what Splinter would do and say if he's ever not sure how to do something. However, this is also his biggest flaw, as most of the time he doesn't go with what his heart tells him, listening only to what Splinter has told him, even in cases where Slinter is wrong. Leo usually likes to think things out far in advance before he actual does something. His weapons are two katanas.
 * Raphael/"Raph": The opposite of Leo in everyway. He is a hot head, very vain, stubborn and rarely listens to what Splinter says. Raph seems to have a problem with authority in general, as he also doesn't listen to Leo a lot and prefers to do everything his way. In fact, most of the time he out right claims he should be the leader instead. Though Raph's stubborness does come in quite handy sometimes, as no matter what he refuses to fall, even after taking the beating of a life time. His main weapons are twin sai.
 * Donatello/"Don"/"Donnie": A very intelligent individual, Donnie is the sorce of the team's tech weapons and just their technology in general. He is able to hack in to computers, break down firewalls, and is able to turn anything technology based in to a weapon. However, he also has all the negatives that come with being a genius, who has poor social ques, is very messy, and can't tell what someone's emotions are most of the time. His weapon is a bo staff.
 * Michelangelo/"Mikey"/"Mike": The self proclaimed comedian of the team. Mikey loves to tell jokes about everything, his brothers, his friends, his enemies, even just random people and things. He gets on the nerve of a lot of people, mostly Raph, but most of the time his comedic anticts are welcome, as even in the darkest of moments he is able to find light. He is a fan of pizza and is known for yelling "cowabunga!" as a catchphrase. His weapons are nunchucks.
 * Hamato Yoshi/Master Splinter: Splinter is the Turtles' master and adoptive father. He is extremely calm, and is usually seen meditating. It is a running gag in the comic about how old he is, as no one seems to remember, not even himself. However, despite his (supposed) old age, he is very, very good at martial arts. He can defeat all of the Turtles in both a one on one and group fight, and has apparently gone toe to toe with the greatest of martial artists.
 * April O'Neil: April is a reporter for the Channel 5 News. She will do almost anything to get her story, even putting her own life on the line. Because of this, she has gotten herself captured or in quite a bit of trouble a lot of the time, but she still does it because she is obsessed with and driven by finding the truth, refusing to stop even when her boss actually tells her to.

Recurring

 * Casey Jones: A sports based vigilante who wears a hockey mask. He is described by most characters as "the crazy guy" and he lives up to this, as he constantly puts his own life on the line, and yells "Goongala! Goongala!" as his war cry.

Villains

 * Oroku Saki/The Shredder: The Turtles' arch nemesis and the series' main antagonist. Shredder is the extremely deadly leader of The Foot Clan. He is trained in Judo, Taekwondo, Karate, Muay Thai, Jiu-Jitsu, and a made up martial art he created named Dansu No Hi.
 * The Foot Clan: An extremely deadly clan of ninjas.
 * Hun: Leader of the gang known as the Purple Dragons.

Issues

 * 1) "Turtles in Manhattan, Part I": After begging Master Splinter for a bit, Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael are allowed to leave the sewers for a while as long as no one sees them. However, the team decide to save the life of reporter April O'Neil when she's almost killed by a gang known as the Purple Dragons for unknown reasons. She ends up passing out when she sees them, and the Turtles take her to the sewers, where Splinter explains their backstory to her, revealing he was once a human that loved a woman, but he was forced to beat and kill a man who loved her too, as he attempted to kill her when she picked Splinter over him. She and Splinter moved to Manhattan as Splinter refused to commit seppuku. Because of this, The Foot Clan, who Splinter was once a member of, sent the deceased man's brother, Oroku Saki, to kill Splinter. However, instead, Splinter was transformed in to a rat creature and the Turtles where mutated in to human-like animals, and they have been hiding ever since. After hearing this, April is shocked, as she reveals she did a report on the Foot Clan that got a member arrested, shocking the Turtles and Splinter, as now they know the Foot Clan has moved to America.