Peter Laird

‘Last Ronin’ (2020-22) fills in Turtles’ dark future … at least on one timeline

Peter Laird got his “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” stories out of his system in the Aughts, and Kevin Eastman is going through his own phase

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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III’ (1993) and the multiverse that might’ve been

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III” (1993) is correctly the most maligned of the trilogy. In retrospect, the handoff from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop to All

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‘TMNT’ goes wildly off track with Season 5’s ‘lost’ episodes (2008)

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (2003) Seasons 1-4 are “TMNT” done right, and Season 5 (2008) is “TMNT” done so wrong that its biggest upside is

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No Shredder, no problem: ‘TMNT’ Season 4 (2005-06) is a scary smorgasbord

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Season 4 (2005-06, Fox) continues its style of adapting the Mirage comics but tightening the narrative links between street-level villains, outer

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Old friends, new enemies enhance ‘TMNT’ Season 3 (2004-05)

There might not be another franchise that skirts the edge of copyright law quite like “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” which famously started as a “Daredevil”

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What are they doing with Turtles in space?! A look at ‘TMNT’ Season 2 (2003-04)

Although the Mirage comics are great, they are also experimental and stream-of-consciousness in those heady early days, and they mark the first time young writers

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Mirage (almost) comes to our screens: A look at ‘TMNT’ Season 1 (2003)

I owe an apology to “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (2003-09, Fox). It landed at a precise time when I wasn’t into kiddie versions of all-ages

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Lawson joins team for ‘Tales of the TMNT’ Issues 42-53 (2008)

The 2008 batch of “Tales of the TMNT” Volume 2 was defined in two major ways: One, editor Dan Berger began informing readers of where each tale

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‘Tales of the TMNT’ fills in gaps in Issues 31-41 (2007)

Part of the purpose of “Tales of the TMNT” Volume 2 was to go back and fill in all those little story gaps that cropped up in

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April shines in ‘Tales of the TMNT’ Issues 19-30 (2006)

In 2006, Mirage Volume 4 stopped its bimonthly publishing schedule and went to a trickle-out approach, but that same year, “Tales of the TMNT” Volume 2 continued

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