TMNT’s Kevin Eastman Confirms What’s the Best Version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

When queried about which adaptation most accurately represented Eastman and co-creator Peter Laird’s initial vision for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters, Eastman swiftly pointed to the original live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film from 1990. He appreciated the movie’s loyalty to the “original black and white series that Peter and I created” as a significant factor contributing to his enjoyment of it. Furthermore, he elaborated that the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film was “the perfect storm” due to its skillful combination of the humor and levity from the 1987 animated series with the comics’ “tone, emotional depth, and grit.








