Creed (1994)

Creed is the brainchild of Trent Kaniuga, a young man who began writing, drawing, and publishing the book when he was seventeen years old. Creed is also thirteen-year-old Mark Farley, a young man whose mission is to rid the dream world of evils, and he does all this under the guidance of a talking frog named Cascan Jep. Mark is also aware that he is a comic book character, and he doesn’t care for the fact that he cannot age. You see, comic book heroes don’t age. His friends will one day leave him behind, and he will be forever thirteen. This is intriguing stuff, and the influence of Todd McFarlane (Spawn) on Kaniuga’s work is quite apparent.

Creed / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1996)

The Turtles cross over with Kaniugas popular character Creed, as they did with many indy comics characters in their pre-Nickelodeon heyday. Transported to the realm of the imagination by a dream stone, the Turtles must join forces with teen Mark Farley, aka Creed, to battle an alien adversary named Shrapnel and discover what’s really going on.