Talk:Wanted: Bebop & Rocksteady/@comment-34811886-20180513020306/@comment-995426-20190315200658

The 1987 Turtles didn't deserve justice, or even continued existence&mdash;that cartoon was more of an anti-TMNT compared to the Mirage TMNT and Archie TMNT comics.



Mirage rightly condemned the 1987 series' content and direction, and when it ended, Mirage was right to continue its own comics and help launch the 2003 series. And in giving the 1987 Turtles a reappearance at all, Turtles Forever was right to mock them. The 2012 series was wrong to pay the 1987 Turtles so much deference. The IDW TMNT comic takes a more balanced approach in acknowledging how the 1987 series has influenced TMNT mythology as a varied whole, while at the same time not putting it on a pedestal.