Talk:New Comic Day!/@comment-232990-20190505224604/@comment-995426-20190505230049

Instead of thinking of the entire Mirage continuity as one big orderly sequence of stories, think of it as a handful of ordered stories and a cloud of associated sidestories whose placement is flexible within certain constraints. It's not like every writer working on the series maintained one authoritative master sequence, and when I asked Peter Laird questions about sequences of events, he just wasn't able to give many of those answers. With both the Tales of the TMNT stories and the many short stories especially, I don't think they always gave continuity that much deep consideration, with the standard of quality being that a story had to be plausible enough in the general time period. I mean, I think it mostly works, as in if you did enough research you could come up with a rough timeline, but placement for many stories is so fuzzy that it would be better represented as a flowchart than a list.