Thread:Gilgameshkun/@comment-33286111-20190128061658/@comment-995426-20190129073744

I don't know about Sisyphus or Aska. And they didn't reference the Turtles in Seed of Destruction because, at the time, the individual characters were subject to separate copyrights of their creators. Ninjara was still owned by Michael Dooney, who allowed Stephen Murphy and Chris Allen to keep using her. Something similar applied to Mokoshan. And Stephen Murphy was lead writer of the Archie continuity anyway, so he could tie the continuities together without involving more copyrights than he needed to where he needed to&mdash;it kept the project more flexible. But even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was owned by Mirage Studios, which in its roots as an independent comic publisher was far more tolerant and accepting of side projects than large media conglomerates like Viacom. Murphy was a member of Mirage anyway from the late 1990s&mdash;it was actually Mirage staff including Murphy who were handling most of the writing for the Archie comic, with Archie as publisher.