Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-995426-20150117005852/@comment-995426-20150119030723

If you're right, then even if it is an easter egg, the writers may not even be allowed to confirm it.

Anyway, now I'm asking Tigerfog about the Splinter clone reference, which seemed like more than a mere coincidence. Peter Laird wrote Mirage V4 #32, and though I doubt he's stupid enough to risk getting sued, he also pretty much is Mirage Studios these days, which a much smaller entity than it used to be. The irony is that V4 #32 (published on PL's blogspot in 2014) probably had fewer readers than MNT Gaiden chapter 18 (published on a dedicated website in 2007).