The 2007 movie is a mess, a good one.

[Peter Palmer]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Over the years I just take annoyance with folks treating TMNT 1990 like it's synonymous with "Mirage: The Movie."

To be fair, I don't think I've ever seen someone make the case that the 1990 movie is a direct adaptation of the Mirage comics. You may be making that leap in your head. The 1990 movie is certainly the darkest of the movies released so far, thus making it inherently closer to the dark tone of the original comics than any other incarnation.

The movie adapts some beats from the original comics, but that's about as close as it gets. It's clearly meant to be a hybrid of the original comics and the 80's cartoon, which makes sense given that those were the only sources to draw from at the time. I'm sure the creators wanted to adapt their own comics but had to lean heavily on the 80's cartoon elements to make it recognizable to the masses.

I just don't see anyone making the case that the 1990 movie is Mirage: The Movie.

As an aside, I recently picked up a complete set of the Image comics and I was flipping through them. You got your fan letters published quite a bit! That's pretty cool. I saw "Andy Modeen" a number of times and I thought that it had to be the same guy, right? Then I saw a picture drawn by Andy with a turtle holding the severed head of his defeated foe and I was like "Yep, that's him!". How many issues are you in?