Imagine the shadowed backstreets of nineteen eighties New York. Amid flickering neon and rising steam, something impossible emerges from the murk: a giant, bipedal rat, master of kung-fu. This was the genesis of Splinter, a creation born not from whimsy, but from a radical act of imagination. When Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird conceived the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in nineteen eighty-three,...
