May 2023 Solicitations
 

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ARMAGEDDON GAME 8 (of 8 )



Tom Waltz (w) • Vincenzo Federici (a/ca)

Apocalypse Now! The pawns have fallen! The rooks have hunkered down. The knights continue to rally! All the while the Rat King has looked on in glee as Oruku Saki, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and even his allies, the Trio of Terror, have played their parts. But now, as true chaos becomes manifest, the regent of rodents is faced with the full results of his machinations. The Pantheon will play! Whether chaos reigns or order wins the day, what comes next will forever change the world of the TMNT. Don't miss the epic conclusion of The Armageddon Game!

FC • 48 pages • $5.99 • Available May 24th, 2023.


TMNT USAGI YOJIMBO WHEREWHEN #2



Stan Sakai (w/a/ca)

Sent back in time to feudal Japan, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles immediately face a fight for their lives against Yukichi and Jotaro! Mistaking the Turtles for the violent kappa terrorizing a nearby village, the long-eared samurai descend upon the Turtles with swords brandished. Can the TMNT convince Usagi's allies to aid in their mission to stop Dr. WhereWhen from changing the future? Or will the larger threat prevail while Lord Noriyuki's forces march into the final battle with the Dark Lord Hikiji?

FC • 36 pages • $4.99 • Available May 3rd, 2023.


TMNT USAGI YOJIMBO WHEREWHEN #3



Stan Sakai (w/a/ca)

Ambush! The TMNT, Usagi, and Lord Noriyuki's forces have been set upon by the deadly Mogura Ninja clan! With Dr. WhereWhen's location still unknown and a conflict with Lord Hikiji on the horizon, the Turtles and their new allies will need to work together to reach their next battles. No matter what it may cost them!

FC • 36 pages • $4.99 • Available May 24th, 2023.


TMNT ANNUAL 2023



Michael Walsh (w/ca) • Vlad Legostaev (a)

The Ninja Turtles take to the streets for a simple patrol, but what they find will rock their shells! Realities collide in this oversized special issue where the Turtles come face to face with a threatening force from the future! Can the brothers band together to take down this mysterious foe?

FC • 48 pages • $6.99 • Available May 31st, 2023.


TMNT THE LAST RONIN - THE LOST YEARS - THE LOST DAY



Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz (w) • Ben Bishop (ca/a)

A special one-shot set in the Ronin-verse! After the Last Ronin defeated Oroku Hiroto, Master of the Foot Clan, New York City was free for the first time in more than a decade. But along with the newfound freedom comes a dangerous power vacuum waiting to be filled, and without a common enemy in the Foot Clan, various factions are vying to take control. Longtime resistance leader April O'Neil finds herself and her loved ones-including four small mutant turtles she and her daughter, Casey Marie Jones, are raising and training together-once again caught up in the battle for the soul of the city. When April takes the young mutant turtles with her on a supply run into the city, they become lost and must find their way back to the sewer lair or risk becoming collateral damage in the newest power struggle overtaking the streets. Old memories mix with new realities as April and her four small charges race to get back home before it's too late. This title will be standard trim size, not the oversized format of The Last Ronin series.

FC • 52 pages • $7.99 • Available May 24th, 2023.


TMNT VS STREET FIGHTER #1 (OF 5)



Paul Allor (w) • Ariel Medel (ca/a)

When a prestigious martial arts tournament invites fighters to travel to Atlantic City and test their skills, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles jump at the chance to compete. But a big stage means big competition, and the world famous STREET FIGHTERS have shown up in force to prove the mettle of their PSYCHO POWERED fighting forms.
As if that's not enough of a challenge, there are rumors of competitors disappearing and the identity of the contest's benefactors is shrouded in mystery.
Don't miss the matchups of your favorite fighters as the half-shell heroes face the likes of Ryu, Guile, Chun-Li, and more.
TMNT Vs. Street Fighter kicks off a five-issue fight card of fury starting this May!

FC • 36 pages • $3.99 • Available May 24th, 2023.


TMNT SATURDAY MORNING ADV CONTINUED #1



Erik Burnham (w) • Tim Lattie (a/ca)

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Saturday Morning Adventures continue in our first multipart adventure! After an accidental encounter with an unknown element in the sewers of the city, the Rat King finds his ability to control the hearts and minds of rodents is waning. But in its place, he finds the ability to control reptile life, which will totally make things harder for the heroes in a half shell! Grab a bowl of cereal and be there for part one of "The Turtle King!"

FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Available May 31st, 2023.

Thanks for sharing.

The TLR line certainly veered somewhere new but I’m in on it for now.

There's also a sequel series in the works that's been teased by Kevin Eastman.

So many TURTLEZ BOOKZ

Uh... Is the main ongoing taking a break in May?

My money's on Armaggon for the Annual's mystery baddie.

I haven't seen any info for #140 yet so maybe? Although I thought you had seen something last month as per your comment in the April thread:

But I'm guessing that was a typo or something?

Yep. Idiot old me mistook #139 for #140. I'm very sorry for the misunderstanding.

The month off is unexpected. Campbell will be returning after, I assume?

Yep, she's mentioned on twitter that the next arc will feature Venus to some degree.

With all the talk of founding a new clan, maybe this is when Bob is brought in. And hopefully Armaggon isn't a one-and-done in the Annual (assuming he/it is indeed in it) and can continue to menace Venus through her connection to Donnie.

I'm glad the Armaggedon game stuff will be over soon, hopefully it has a proper conclusion with Rat King being defeated instead of him just getting away again. It's time to wrap up the Patheon arc for good.

I'm still skeptical of this comic's ability to maintain any sort of interesting story after wrapping up the Pantheon. If you thought the quality took a nosedive post #100, imagine how it will be once the main thing that's been driving the plot has been wrapped up. The Pantheon are highest up on the villain list. There's just nowhere to go but down, and deal with few loose ends. I'm worried it'll be like every good show that finished out its story and then got renewed for 2 more seasons.

I guess we'll see, but Rat King especially has been drawn out way too long. I swear if this arc ends with Rat King just giggling/laughing saying "the game will continue for another day!" like he did at the end of City at War with no closure, I'm going to shake my head and give up. Rat King has essentially been retreading himself for the last 50+ issues and it's going nowhere. He needs to be done away with in some form.

Besides that it does seem like the whole Utrom/Triceraton arc is going to be wrapped up. I assume both Krang and Ch'rell will either die or be imprisoned, and the remaining Utroms and Triceratons will finally make peace with each other and find separate alien planets to live on.

Better to let the pantheon storyline end now instead of dragging it on any further

I’m looking forward to seeing the new turtles drawn in the gritty style of the Escorza brothers. Pretty sure that’s what we will see in TLR2.

Oh believe me, I agree. I want an ending for this plotline as much as anyone, and would be pissed if they copped out and gave it anything other than a definitive conclusion. I'm just thinking that the comic in general would start to drag on once the Pantheon is over and done with. I'd rather the Pantheon be the end of it, and then maybe have some epilogue issues to give us the slow-down and emotional wrap-up before putting the comic to bed for good. But it seems the intention is to keep it going for antother 10 years, and I'm just not sure it can do that without taking a serious dive in quality and dragging on forever. I'd rather they just end it on a high note and be done.

I mean... there's always Lord Dregg or the Dragon Lord. I guess we really can't have Shredder return to being evil without ruining his entire redemption arc.

Maybe they can finally create a new villain to really shake things up. Someone completely new would be awesome because now we'd be going into unfamiliar territory. We wouldn't be able to predict things based on what we've seen before in previous comics, cartoons or movies.

Hell, maybe make one of the mutants be a human that developed a strong sense of self-loathing since he/she/it is a mutant that leads to them betraying the others, side with the new villain and blow up Mutant Town. Someone that literally lost everything in life due to becoming a 'monster'. Job, wife, kids, everything, forced to live among other 'monsters', some of them even being animals that mutated instead of the other way around. Maybe with the promise of being able to be a human again is so strong that this person is willing to sacrifice an entire town just for what this new bad guy is offering. Make it just 'phase one' of this new guy's plan to wipe out all mutants or whatever.

They could turn Null into a main villain finally rather than keeping her on the sidelines since her introduction over 6+ years ago now. They've done next to nothing with her.

Rat King, Krang/Ch'rell definitely need conclusions. Karai and Old Hob are likely becoming full fledged allies at this point, and the only other wild card is Baxter.

We've now got the 'A' cover for the annual and it's very interesting.

No idea what the story behind that cover but it's an absolutely brilliant concept imo. Great way to homage the original cover. It's effective.

So it's not Armaggon... Huh.

What cover is it an homage of? If it's a Mirage one, I've only read the first few issues as just couldn't get into it.

Looks like the main IDWverse in for some Last Ronin mixed with a little Cable.

The original TMNT #1 cover, only with the brothers all KO'd.

Huh, guess I just couldn't see it. That cover I am familiar with and it was also replicated with last year's FCBD issue.

I'm wondering if it's the future-Don from the recent issues on the new cover.

Well let’s hope what happens to the tmnt we get new original characters and other obsurce ones from movies,tv shows,toys,and games. Hopping dragon lord,commander mozar,lord dregg,and kava asa are apart of this.

I think this turtle is the future-Raph because he has a lot of scar on his face.

I like this. Hob is just a hypocritical bastard and he's gotten away with it too many times. The story really needs this kind of character to destroy his self righteous ideals.

I noticed Splinter is on a cover for the Street Fighter crossover, should we take that as a sign that the series is non-canon or that Splinter will come back to life?

Do you mean this one?



I'm not entirely sure but a couple of other things I've noticed are that it seems to be part of a multi-cover image (pretty sure that hand near the top is Dhalsim) and almost all of the characters shown are 'good-guys' (or at least lean that way) except for Leatherhead whose fate after Armageddon Game is still in question and Rocksteady who has never been on the TMNT's side - unless this comes about from Karai's current arrangement in the Alliance issues.

Either way this opens up a lot of questions.

I'm pretty sure this is non-canon and the cover is just capitalizing on TMNT character's that are easily identifiable and visually appealing

Interesting, Waltz seems to be hinting on his Twitter account at some connection between the climax of Armageddon Game and the first Ghostbusters crossover... Whether said connection is Chi-You himself or his fate, or something else entirely, is anyone's guess.

I'm guessing Rat King gets sealed away to defeat him similar to Chi-you? Since he's immortal it's the only way to get rid of the character.

What worrying is that now the turtles have to rely on others to defeat the main villains, or these villains accidentally killed themselves like disney villains.

Over the year the turtles have gain more training and experience and fight hordes of thugs, foot ninjas or aliens. They also build dojo and become teachers. But somehow, some frogs or low-tier mercenaries can kick their ass. Meanwhile, Karai can easily defeat the gang of four.

Don't forget, Karai also easily took down Bebop and Rocksteady. Twice. The Turtles just look embarrassing at this point.

I wish Tom would repeat his post here. Most of us miss it on Twitter.

It's interesting that Chi-Yu has remained in Limbo all of these years. It would seem like the best resolution for Rat King to finish off this long running thread.

I just love that the turtles are STILL not allowed to actually kill anyone, and yet the weasles, who are suppposed to be literal CHILDREN, are allowed to explicitly plan out a murder, then maul the guy and slit his throat, fully on-page.

The only thing worse than "no kill rule" is making ninja turtles incompetent.

I have always wondered what "Chi-Yu" means, its origin - does anyone of you know?

I know that he was derived from Ancient Chinese folklore. However, I took a deep dive into Wiki and it seems like the character of Chi-Tu was given a TMNT flavor to fit into its overarching plot otherwise it's taken from Chinese folklore.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiy...ythical%20king.

I guess if Chi-Yu had a twin, he'd be called Chi-Mi.