New mini "TMNT: Dimension X"

[AlZarkovski]

Full covers art:

Spoiler:

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by AlZarkovski

Full covers art:

Spoiler:

http://s019.radikal.ru/i632/1705/49/d45922e1e326.jpg

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God, the bottom part of Leo's shell looks so weird from that angle. It looks like his legs come out straight from the plastron, how does he have any articulation at the hips? Otherwise it's all lovely and detailed, it's just that part really sticks out.

Also what's with the flower guy? Does anyone recognise him?

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

I never liked Archie TMNT, but all these callbacks and revamps have me grinning in spite of myself.

[TurtleWA]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Leatherhead was only in Stump Asteroid once early on in issue 7, after that he came back to Earth and joined the Mutanimals.

I had to briefly look up what issue was in my head. It was #13 I think. Leatherhead referenced how he was 'born to fight.' That's why I made the comment in my previous post. It was the issue that went into more of Leatherhead's origin story surrounding why MarryBones/Cherubae turned him in the first place.

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

I never liked Archie TMNT, but all these callbacks and revamps have me grinning in spite of myself.

As a fellow Archie hater (I don't like writing that I am that, it's too strong of a word for what I feel about it. "Archie Disappointee"?) I have to agree. Archie might just have been a superficially superior version of the Fred Wolf cartoon, but it's pretty fun to see the attention in this homage.

[CyberCubed]

The Stump Asteroid stuff was never the highlight of Archie (it was only focused on in 2 issues overall, issue 7 and then 36 or so), but it's fun for a one-off setting.

The best Archie storylines focused on Malinga, Armaggon and the Future Turtles, Null and the Four Horseman storyline, and Verminator X as well as the Midnight Sun arc with the Warrior Dragon.

[funatic]

Originally Posted by funatic

Does anybody remember that dog mutant's name on the cover?

Originally Posted by neatoman

It's Cryin' Houn'.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Cryin' Hound and Ace Duck were both part of Stump's wrestling arena in Archie.

ha! sorry my question was tongue in cheek... his whole gimmick was repeating his name over and over. I wonder if that'll translate to his IDW counterpart.

[MikeandRaph87]

Leatherhead did not come back with the Turtles. It was when Leatherhead was recruited to help the TMNT stop Shredder and Krang once and for all and Malinga stood in the way. So Trapp came as well but Wingnut and Screwloose were not with Stump Asteroid which was screwy with continuity.Leatherhead returned to Earth after that.

[AlZarkovski]

Issue #5:

Devin Grayson (w) • Craig Rousseau (a&c) • Nick Pitarra (c) • Kevin Eastman (c)

The Turtles travel to the strangest planet of them all... one where all organisms function in perfect harmony... except for a group of new mutants who could destabilize the ecosystem of the whole planet -- mutants who aren't the TMNT!

Variant cover by Kevin Eastman!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

[MikeandRaph87]

Originally Posted by AlZarkovski

Issue #5:

Devin Grayson (w) • Craig Rousseau (a&c) • Nick Pitarra (c) • Kevin Eastman (c)

The Turtles travel to the strangest planet of them all... one where all organisms function in perfect harmony... except for a group of new mutants who could destabilize the ecosystem of the whole planet -- mutants who aren't the TMNT!

Variant cover by Kevin Eastman!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Devin Grayson? That is the woman who had Nightwing raped! As much as I have faith in and love IDW I can only react one way when I see her credit. The one bright side is its not Bruce Jones.

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by MikeandRaph87

Devine Grayson? That is the woman who had Nightwing raped! As much as I have faith in and love IDW I can only react one way when I see her credit. The one bright side is its not Bruce Jones.

http://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/f...6/49721376.jpg

Yup, her... Dick Grayson a.k.a Robin the Boy Wonder, a character originally created to lighten up the mood, star/co-star of about ten TV shows, four theatrical movies, over a dozen direct to video movies and countless comics, is a rape victim in a story written by her...

Spoiler:

https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net...20091130082328

I'm sure we won't have to deal with Leonardo being forced to be part of an alien breeding experiment or anything but yeah, it's written by someone who wrote about one of the most well known superheroes of all time getting raped.

[ChosenOne]

Originally Posted by AlZarkovski

Issue #5:

Devin Grayson (w) • Craig Rousseau (a&c) • Nick Pitarra (c) • Kevin Eastman (c)

The Turtles travel to the strangest planet of them all... one where all organisms function in perfect harmony... except for a group of new mutants who could destabilize the ecosystem of the whole planet -- mutants who aren't the TMNT!

Variant cover by Kevin Eastman!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Don't know about everyone else, but my first thought was "Punk Frogs!", we know they're coming and all...

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by ChosenOne

Don't know about everyone else, but my first thought was "Punk Frogs!", we know they're coming and all...

Spoiler:

https://twitter.com/mooncalfe1/statu...975872/photo/1

[ChosenOne]

Wait, what?! Is this official? Is this even real?!

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Damn, I love the way she drew those two!

[AlZarkovski]

Originally Posted by ChosenOne

Wait, what?! Is this official? Is this even real?!

Yes. From here. But I think this art from TMNTU, not "Dimension X".

[ChosenOne]

Originally Posted by AlZarkovski

Yes. From here. But I think this art from TMNTU, not "Dimension X".

Thank you. I think so too, probably from Karai's Path? I mean, she and her mutant entourage will likely face some opposition in that story, right?

All I can say is... *stands up and claps, shaking head, tears of joy running down face* Holy f***, IDW. Ho-ly f***.

[ProphetofGanja]

Maybe after Karai's trials and tribulations in Japan she decides the Foot Clan needs more mutants

[ChosenOne]

Originally Posted by ProphetofGanja

Maybe after Karai's trials and tribulations in Japan she decides the Foot Clan needs more mutants

Possible, possible. But ideally she should come to the realization that what she really needs is to better train and motivate the ones she already has. Koya, Bludgeon and Ocho could make for an even more formidable fighting force than the Turtles if they were as coordinated. Instead, replacing Ocho with Bebop & Rocksteady (who are nigh-unstoppable), all four of them were soundly defeated and humiliated during the Gauntlet.

Better to fight smarter than to fight harder, or with more fodder on your side.

Then again, if she were capable of such a level of insight, she would've realized way back when that Saki and Kitsune were almost the downfall of the Foot in Feudal Japan, not its high point, and would've been far more reluctant to bring them both back to life. So who knows how that girl thinks, really.

[Utrommaniac]

Yeah, I think that makes more sense for Karai's Path.

As for the other one...methinks they might be going for something like the Space Turtle storyline from the OT. With their peaceful civilization and...gold photosynthesis...(what even was that???). The mutants could very well be the plant things on the cover.
And since this IS a "peaceful planet" that would probably not have known better to potentially support said mutant plants...



(Incidentally, in the original Roger Corman film in all its weirdness, "Audrey Junior" was in fact a mutant hybrid instead of an alien like Audrey II was. Seymour had grown it from a bulb found by a Japanese gardener "in plantation next to a cranberry farm." A joke which only could have worked in 1960, since cranberry crops were tainted the herbicide aminotriazole in 1959, causing cranberry sales to tank. Not sure how that would have caused a bulbing plant to grow into a talking, thinking, hypnotizing man-eating mutant, but hey it's Roger Corman.)

It makes perfect sense in my head that mutant plants would be destabilizing to the environment of that world.