October 2019 Solicitations
 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #99

Tom Waltz, Kevin Eastman (w) • Dave Wachter (a & c)

City at War, Part 7. New York City descends into chaos after the unthinkable events of the last issue! Bishop is relentless in his pursuit, and a final showdown between Donatello and Metalhead will prove explosive!

FC • 48 pages • $7.99

Bullet points:
• The penultimate chapter of "City at War"!





Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The IDW Collection, Vol. 10

Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Erik Burnham, Ian Flynn, Bobby Curnow, Matthew K. Manning, and more (w) Cory Smith, Dan Schoening, Dave Wachter, Pablo Tunica, Adam Gorham, and more (a) • Dan Duncan (c)

Turtles... in space! Krang is set to go on trial in Dimension X, but he has hired the cybernetic assassin Hakk-R to eliminate the witnesses set to testify against him. Meanwhile, the Turtles race to different planets in Dimension X to escort the witnesses to safety before Hakk-R gets to them first! Then, an enemy from Master Splinter's past is back and hungry for revenge. To get it, he'll summon the most dangerous foe that the Turtles have ever encountered—the Collectors, shape-shifting demons that can pass through dimensions at will and cannot be stopped once they have been summoned to harvest a soul. To save themselves, the Turtles team up with the Ghostbusters, the only people who have ever faced the Collectors and lived to tell the tale.

Collects Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe issues #19–20, issues #73–75 of the ongoing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, the Dimension X miniseries, and the TMNT/Ghostbusters 2 crossover miniseries.

HC • FC • $49.99 • 384 pages • 7" x 11" • ISBN: 978-1-68405-590-6

Bullet points:
• Available in January 2020.





TMNT: Urban Legends #18

Gary Carlson (w) • Frank Fosco (a & c)

Leonardo gets in over his head when he comes face-to-face with an old foe: King Komodo! Will he escape the encounter unscathed? Will Leatherhead come to his aid? And where are his brothers when he needs 'em?!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
• The entire TMNT Volume 3 run—all 23 issues—reprinted in full color for the first time!
• Culminating in 3 brand-new issues to close out the series!

Can't wait for a FINAL Metalhead/Donatello showdown. :tgrin:

So much for Metalinka. It looks like the silicon soul bit means Metalheads must be destroyed.

It does not say anything about Splinter or Karai in #98 or #99. Not even the Dragon father of the Pantheon. We all assume that the devastation generically describes them. Aside from Splinter's death, what other devastation could there be? I am sure that you can come up with a few.

Why does everyone assume Splinter's going to die, I think he probably end up get trapped somewhere and confront the Rat king similar to Mirage City at War and 2012 Darkest Plight.

Well, we know Splinter ends up imprisoned, though we don't know by whom, so you're not far off the mark.

It's interesting to see that the Turtles will deal with Bishop before taking on Karai, just like they handled Krang before Shredder in the first 50 issues, only this time the circumstances seem a lot more dire and urgent.

Bishop has always been more of a threat than Karai.

Shoulda given Karai the damn orphans. :tlol:

My assumption has always come from the fact that he is Shredder’s guide in shredder in hell.

Same. I always suspected the end of Splinter's reign of the Foot Clan would end with his death. But the whole spirit guide thing doubled my certainty.

The rat is not long for this mortal plane.

Still waiting on the full set of covers to update the first post, but for now I'll just leave this here...

Welcome to the club! :D (Still can't believe I had an actual dream about Donnie blinding Bludgeon with a strobe light like a week before #50 came out...)

Yeah, we're all thinking Metalhead's going to ACTUALLY explode, aren't we?

He should blow up if only to slim down the villain roster after issue 100. I think we know a bit of a clean slate is coming so I think some deaths are expecting. Even if it’s a robot.

Heh.:twink:

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

Also, Metalhead is a d!ck. Can't wait to see him blow up. :tgrin:

Up until a month ago, I believed this strongly as well. While that very well may happen still, in celebration, I guess you could say, of the upcoming #100 I've been rereading the entire series up to this point with me paying much more attention to detail than before. In the Shredder Villain Micro (where the afterlife concepts come from) the Kid mentions to Shredder that time does not pass in a straight line in the afterlife (which makes sense since Shredder fights Japanese warriors from different time periods and even a Confederate soldier in that Micro... when Shredder himself died in the 1600s). So, after reading that, I realized that, while it's possible Splinter will die during this arc, its seemingly equally as possible that Splinter being present in Shredder in Hell means that he dies eventually (obviously) but not necessarily at this point in the story. We will just have to wait and see.

Indeed. Homage seems intentional.

Updated with currently released covers. No cover A for #99 but we already know from SDCC that it depicts Splinter behind bars.

I really hope Splinter doesn't die. I remember thinking he would in issue 50 as well, look how that turned out. But I feel like he has died in almost all the incarnations of the Turtles (TMNT 2k3,Nick TMNT, Movie, Mirage, even Archie)...

So, TMNT Urban Legends is expected to wrap up in June of next year? Not bad!Crazy how fast 2 years pass!

Here's a low res, cropped and color corrected shot of the #99 cover as seen at SDCC:



This issue seems very Splinter-oriented. No wonder it's double sized, if it's meant to be the showdown with Bishop and Metalhead as well.