Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vol. 4 #22
 

The official site of our beloved, shell-back heroes has a preview available for the next TMNT issue, and get this........ this issue has absolutely no Turtles in them. I don't know how this issue will be.

http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/m...me04/22/22.htm.

Haha yet no one believed me when I told them that. It said that in the back of the last issue. Pretty lame if you ask me but I dont care to much since I still have Tales! I wouldnt mind as much if Volume 4 came out more often

I'm quite a bit upset that April's not going to have a "normal" origin. :(

i know it is weird that after all this time where just now finding out that april has maybe an even more weird past than the turtles. i think it should be pretty interesting tho, even tho the turtles arent in it...and yeh as spitfire said, there was a whole page about this in the last issue.

wow I can't wait I really love the cover art..oh wait the comic shops here in los angeles have only been getting the new tales of turtles now for some reason I'm missing the last 4 issues of turtles...totally lame
-Putrescent

Agreed. This whole 'twist' seems highly unneccesary, and I really hope Laird doesn't mess it up.

Personally, I think the whole "April's secret origin" thing is really corny, really unnecessary, and I can't help but have serious doubts that Eastman and Laird had this planned for her allll the way back in the beginning. And if it's something dumb like "April's dad drew her picture and then she was given life with the Kirby Stone or something similar to it", I will be royally pissed off.

And yet I will never, ever stop buying the book b/c I'm such a TMNT mark, so why complain? I'll wait and see where it goes, I just hope it's nothing that requires too great a leap of faith. And, of course, no matter what happens, and even if it is canon, I respectfully choose to ignore these "revelations" regardless of what happens, simply b/c I think it's an unnecessary character complication. But eh.

Yeah, it should be out this wednesday. I've been looking forward to finally knowing what the deal with April is for awhile now, but at the same time I wish she was just an ordinary person. She doesn't need some weird origin story.

I wonder what her real origin might be ...how weird can it get...In some way I would have liked her to just be normal. It was weird enough with all those nanobots inside her

spoiler space, just read it.










shes just a construct of the kirby pencil.. thats why she cant have babies.

(SPOILERS and such)



Her new origin threw me through a loop, that's for sure. It raises certain questions; what of the two other "Aprils" in the dimension Kirby got stuck in? Will April ever fade away? Does April have a soul? etc.

I'll give Laird points for giving her not only a unique origin, but one that actually works with continuity set in an issue over a decade-old. I also have to say that the cockroach bit, while kinda gross (April mating with other cockroaches...yuck), was a welcome change from that "It's a Wonderful Life" scenerio where no one can see or here you but you exist as "ghosts". So kudos for that. And the reasoning behind her taking the name "Nobody" makes much more sense.

Overall, a very solid issue. And Volume 4 hasn't had one of those in a while.

It is an interesting idea, and fairly well done. I am curious now, since I have a hard time seeing where they intend to go with this, other than giving them a reason to revisit the world Kirby created in an attempt to find the other Aprils.

But I was rather put off by the whole roach angle. It just seemed pointless through most of the story. And then when their role did come into play at the very end, it seemed like the whole concept might have just been an easy way for the writer to explain how the crystal disappeared until Kirby. The line about April feeling like she needed to make sure her father didn't create another daughter seemed tacked on. After all, she knows he doesn't create another daughter.

Still, those matters aside, it was a good story. It was certainly the most emotional one I've seen in a TMNT book, including Splinter's death. But it is also rather sad, knowing that they won't be following up on the story in the near future. That is the one thing I dislike about the current TMNT comic, the pacing is quite slow and hindered further by the slow release schedule. This is especially true now that the four Turtles are seperated in their own adventure at the moment. It takes the better part of a year to get back around to each character. By then I've largly forgotten why I cared unless I've reread the issues recently.

I just bought the Issue but haven't read it yet, I went straight to the letters page to see if Laird had mentioned anything about the new movie.
Well according to him a teaser trailer will be shown at the San Diago comic con this year!
Cool!

Kudos for connecting it Kirby's story and explaining why the crystal was there in the first place.

Rasberries for the idea that April's not a real human. Sorry, doesn't do it for me. Volume 4 is getting way too Sci-Fi for my tastes. I really wish Laird would reel it in at some point.

Yes, this most exciting. July 14-17.

I just got the issue this past Wednesday and after reading it, wrote a really good letter to Peter Laird regarding this story! I'm hoping it'll show up in the next issue.