Bro, help- I finished rottmnt completely, I've already touched all of the rise comic dubs I can on yt (since I don't have tumbler, reddit or any other platforms people usually originally post their comics on) and since I'm don't all of that and suffering since rottmnt was never officially canceled but the rise fandom has basically been dead silent for the last year since many have lost all hope for a revival after 5 almost 6 years since the series was officially paused, 3 since the movie and with mutant mayhem out (which I refuse to watch cuz I'm salty) but I'm now watching the 2012 tmnt series because there are several crossover comics with them and there are jokes I now already understand that I didn't before since Rise was the series that got me into tmnt but their bonds in 2012 make me kinda sad ngl, being used to them actually interacting like siblings who genuinely care for eachother and how real siblings interact where it's all organic while the 2012 tmnt from what I see so far they're distant and fight a lot more especially over little things. I also hate how Raph treats Mikey, especially after episode 3 or 4 where he works on controlling his anger to only at the end of the episode turn around and bully his bro again over something stupid.
Did Rise set my expectations for how the turtles interact in other iterations in other series high? Yes. But I'm not the only one who has a bad taste in my mouth after seeing how April is introduced and how Donnie interacts with her in the 2012 version while in Rise they're just besties...
BTW, I will continue the sams books after I finish grieving rottmnt and being pissy at Nickelodeon. (That last part will never change, they took away one of the few things that give me extreme joy. Also help, the rise movie hit me like a TRAIN, imma go find a rottmnt discord server now to cope and then imma write..)
