Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4746086-20131112182225/@comment-995426-20160602053418

Was it off-handed? Sorry, didn't mean it that way. This is more of a building long-term grievance about Viacom's handling of the property, of which the way it handles crossovers is only one part.

The IDW comic is okay, and I liked the 2012 TV series for the first two seasons. But the show after that has been just terrible episode after episode, and the Michael Bay movies are so bad I don't have a single TMNT fan friend who doesn't loathe them. Story, plot, drama and stable character development are more important to me in TMNT than one-dimensional caricatures, bland dialogue, and an overemphasis on special effects and childhood nostalgia appeal at the expense of literary value.

Mirage could occasionally do a bad comic, and the 2007 film wasn't the greatest either, but they were at least readable and watchable, and never became consistently bad the way two of Viacom's flagship TMNT franchises have become.