Could Peter's bitterness toward Fred Wolf be about more than just content?

[Jester]

I was reading an interview with Kevin (I know the title says Peter, but hear me out), and he said this:

Originally Posted by Eastman

Then there was Fred Wolf, the animation company, that we worked with, hired by Playmates, a work-for-hire animation studio, that basically said they created everything about the Turtles that made them such a big phenomenon. So they sued for half the royalties that we’d made in the entire history of the property. That was a big suit: millions and millions of dollars to deal with that. I mean, this guy’s deposition had stuff like “He put the Turtles in the sewer.” We put the Turtles in the sewer in issue #1. He put our character April in a jumpsuit. That was issue #2; it was ludicrous!

Could this legal battle have been one of many reasons that the FW series puts a bad taste in Pete's mouth?