The 2007 movie is a mess, a good one.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Peter Palmer

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.

http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=59264

http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=62286

http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=24834

http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=19213

"looks like it was ripped right off the pages," etc., etc..

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?

Hah. More than not, I think. And 1 issue of Vol. 4. I really tried to get a letter printed for TMNTA (Archie) but they never would. Pretty sure I sent them art, too (no, it wasn't involving severed heads).

Originally Posted by AquaParade

Good points, but I’ll also be fair and say that I, myself, have sort of implied the film heavily captures the feel of Mirage. Especially when you look at Mirage as a whole, not just stories like “RTNY”, “CaW”, etc..

And it is worth noting that Kevin Eastman feels the same. Please don’t take that as me shielding my opinion by using Kevin, but it’s a relevant point. And if anyone is tempted to criticize Kevin’s “cheerleading”, which he is known for, keep in mind, that he is typically pretty honest afterwards. You don’t see Kevin talking up the Platinum Dunes films these days - quite the opposite.

Citing Kevin in this regard isn't much of anything, for the very reason you mention. It's also worth noting that he once said the Platinum Dunes movies possess "the darker edge of the comic books."

http://www.thenational.ae/blogs/scen...-kevin-eastman