TMNT: Saturday Morning Adventures timeline and reading order
 

I know we don’t have many readers here, but what the heck? My FW timeline will be in the spoiler tags (omitting seasons 8-10, of course). Let me know if you have any notes!



1992:

Miniseries #1

[Miniseries #2 takes place during Season 2]

Miniseries #3

Miniseries #4

#1-2 The Turtle King

#3 Voyage to... Turtlantis

#4-5 Swapping Pads

Halloween Special (October)

#6 Shiny and Chrome (November election)

#7 Shreddercon! (December)

1993:

“What About Tomorrow?”

#8 A Far-out Encounter of the Ogg Kind

#9-11 Sword of Eddiku trilogy

April Special (April 1993)

#12-14 The Ogglympics

Usagi Special

The Turtles turn 18

#15-16 Enter the Pantheon

#17-18 Mystery at the Museum

#19 Bullion for You

#20 Genie in a Bauble

#21 Crime Wave

#22 A Strike Most Foul (October - World Series)

#23 Agent of D.U.D.E.

#24 Three Nasty Turtles…

#25-26 Lotus Blossom return

#27-29 Pantheon faceoffs

#30-31 Revenge of the Mutagen Man?!?

#32 Christmas with Casey (December 24th)


1994:

#33-35 Perils of the Pantheon (February: sweeps weeks for network television)

#36 And Now for Something Completely Different

#37 Panda Khan

#38 Here There Be (Purple) Dragons (Late May/Early Summer)

The turtles turn 19

#39 A Wyrm and The Muck

#40 A Mondo Metal Time (late Summer)

#41 It’s Fowl Over

I never understood "hypertime" as a plot device in DC Comics, but I assume something similar works with the TMNT cartoons & tie-in comics.

Yeah, in reality most comics and cartoons operate on “Peanuts time”. I’m just a weirdo and get obsessed with small details so I can make timelines and see how the characters age.

So hopefully the reading order is useful to people, the timeline stuff is just there for my own amusement. Hopefully it’s not too bothersome. I’m definitely willing to remove the year stuff if people aren’t interested.

I’m also looking for ideas if any of the other miniseries issues could take place somewhere else, or is #2 the lone oddball? Also any other opinions on “What About Tomorrow?”. I just threw it in there close to it’s release date.

For a moment there I thought you meant the old Archie mini that preceded the ongoing... Which I guess you could include here considering it's a direct adaptation of TV episodes.

The only continuity note I have for "What About Tomorrow?" is that it is not during the month of September, thanks to the "see you next fall" joke (and I can reasonably assume no other autumn month). So it works where I have it being some time after #7/Christmas of the previous year.

I think I realized this once and forgot, but Miniseries #4 is definitely post-season 7 since it references miniseries #1.

Does anyone have anything from #3/Super Casey that might help place it? April instantly recognizes Casey’s voice, but I can’t remember them ever interacting outside of his Red Sky episode.

April and Casey first worked together (and probably officially met) in Night of the Rogues.

Did she have his number in that one? Or was that “Cyber-Turtles”?

Well, it’s been a while so I had to check, but April apparently contacted both Casey and Zach off screen, so she must have gotten Casey’s contact at some earlier point that wasn’t shown.

That’s a wrap on this one for now. I put the future portions of #41 in spoilers and have a few things to say on it below: