as IDW Publishing is bringing back that show's somewhat controversial original character Venus de Milo - the first female member of the TMNT. Modern readers are well aware of Jennika, the female ...

As the world is visited once again by the phenomenon that is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ... So here's to Venus de Milo; may you once again get the chance to roam the sewers with Leonardo ...

The stigma around Venus was bad enough that when Image Comics began publishing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 1996 ... who somehow ended up in the back alley clinic of the mysterious Jaspar ...

“Too female” might not be a weakness any more, but there was a time when a female ninja turtle caused a crisis in the sewers ... causing the first TMNT hiatus since its inception.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are mostly known for fighting ... a true villain at first and let the turtles pass along in the sewers when he realized they were not enemies.