Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151023223507/@comment-995426-20151027050233

Yes, it's a comic book. But Amazing Adventures has been split off from the TV show's continuity, so the TV show and the comic book no longer share mutual canon. That means, Splinter is not necessarily going to die in the comic. In fact, they gave him more character development by introducing Tetsumi Onamota, a character who was a childhood friend to Hamato Yoshi and Oroku Saki, but then became an enemy to both. It's a complex enmity, because Yoshi still cares about Tetsumi, knowing he was once a good person.