[Andrew NDB]

All of the possibilities I'm hearing, whether it's from human to baby turtle to mutant turtle or soul transfer from human to baby turtle to mutant turtle... all of these sound like they're running the risk of adding an unnecessary layer of convolution to the origin. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it would take some real doing to balance the scales right.

I mean, in a year if someone were to ask, "Hey, what's the origin of the IDW TMNT?" the answer would have to be something like, "They began as human boys and then their souls were transferred into baby turtles and then those baby turtles were caught and used for top secret experiments and then ninjas tried to kidnap them and they were exposed to a mutagen that grew them into full-sized humanoids" -- it seems like a lot of "and thens."