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Midnight Lullaby wrote: And my main interest these days is Mutant Ninja Turtles Gaiden. I got into MNT Gaiden a few months ago. Just wow, fantastic comic, although fanmade IMO it should be canon.

This wiki has an increasingly expansive selection of MNT Gaiden articles, and it already hosts all the MNT Gaiden pages (though some are edited for graphic violence, this still being Wikia). You're welcome to contribute to editing. :) There's not enough editors on those pages as there is. Many articles are still stubs.  Please see this journal entry and my extensive notes on MNT Gaiden article editing.

Alas, the issue of TMNT canonicity has never been a simple one. MNT Gaiden is canon&mdash;to itself, since it is now large enough to have its own audience and its own fanart, etc. But even among licensed TMNT works, there have been easily...11(?) separate continuities, each canon to themselves, but not necessarily always canon to each other. Even Mirage TMNT (which MNT Gaiden forks its continuity from) had many licensed entries that were interesting contributions to the story, but were later declared non-canon by Peter Laird's changing personal standards; such as the entire Guest Era, all of Image TMNT Volume 3, etc. So it's not a question of whether MNT Gaiden will be canon to any other continuity (because it really can't be), but more of whether Mirage and/or Viacom ever gives it official acknowledgment or blessing as a major TMNT work. This is decidedly unlikely, because it seems that commercial comics publishing is traditionally extremely reluctant to ever acknowledge fan-made works that weren't submitted directly to them and republished by them (fanart in the letters section, etc.).