TurtleBats is TurtleBack, but with yet another slight diversion from the mainline reboots we had planned. You’ll forgive us when you learn what we did instead: one final visit to Batman Beyond, and a mutagen-induced fever dream that is the TMNT anime OVA.

NEW ARC TIME! We’re kicking off a deep dive of two famous franchises, Batman and TMNT, that hit it big in the 80s and 90s, then proceeded to launch new reboots every few years for the rest of time. So how do the reboots stack up? And who is “S. Bonesteel”?

There was a time in our past when the future looked bright. So bright that every TV exec decided to reboot 100-year-old media properties in the distant future of the 21st century. They’re bad, but they did fix a huge issue with the originals: not enough goddamn lasers.