September 2023 Solicitations
 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #143



(W) Sophie Campbell (A / CA) Gavin Smith

Dr. Barlow holds a member of the Claw Clan hostage! Alopex has run out of options, and she can't take on Barlow alone. Forced to seek the aid of the TMNT, whose friendship she renounced after they forged an alliance with the Shredder, Alopex forms an uneasy truce with the Turtles, one that is put to the test when they must work together to bring Barlow to justice. Meanwhile, Leatherhead gets a new perspective on the consequences of his work enforcing Barlow's plans.

In Shops: Sep 13, 2023
SRP: 3.99

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Saturday Morning Adventures #5



(W) Erik Burnham (A) Dan Schoening (CA) Jack Lawrence

With Donatello and Raphael away, Genghis Frog and Napoleon Bonafrog join Leonardo and Michelangelo in New York City to keep watch for any unexpected evil schemes by the Shredder… instead, they're met with the unexpected return of Baxter Stockman, and he's itching to try out a prototype invention against the Turtles. The Saturday Morning adventures continue with the conclusion to the two-part arc "Swapping Pads"!

In Shops: Sep 27, 2023
SRP: 3.99

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Stranger Things #3



(W) Cameron Chittock (A / CA) Fero Pe

Enter the Upside Down! Leo, Mikey, Will, Lucas, and Dustin enter the Upside Down to learn more about the Demodogs running around NYC. However, as the Turtles enter new territory, they'll find something familiar. And in Baxter Stockman's lab, Eleven must wrestle control of her mind away from the mad scientist. Luckily, she'll have help in this battle of minds from the Turtle with the most mental restraint: Raphael! Wait, what?

In Shops: Sep 20, 2023
SRP: 3.99

Baxter's up next in SMA!

Somehow, it feel like the writers still don't know what to do with Alopex's story development.

So Alopex leaving the Turtles lasts a grand total of 2 issues. LOL.

Every time IDW does one of these, "main characters are drifting apart" stories that they've done like 20 times over by now, they always reunite only a few issues later that it makes the whole thing pointless. I swear, how many times have we seen Alopex go off on her own by now? Or Raphael? Or Casey Jones? Or the Turtles just drift from each other and Splinter?

I feel like IDW has repeated this story 20 times already.

She did started her own clan called "The Claw Clan" and in future Lita's future timeline, Alopex did end up on her own and the weasels being part of her clan.

We don't know how much of that is planting the seeds of a possible future, The fact Mutants integrated with the rest of the humans in New York, That's kind of hinting at a possible outcome many years from now.

I suppose I should just be happy for Alopex content where she's not sitting on a couch wearing turtleneck or some meme shirt.

I disagree, I love moments like this.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/a135dfcc...c253f255c8.jpg

Who wouldn't want to snuggle with Alopex? :tgrin:

Finally nice to see her do something else since like what? Issue 70?

Sure, that’s cute. And I ship Alopex with Raph myself. But this isn’t a Freeform slice-of-life teen drama. This is TMNT.

TigerClaw is a furry

Meh, I miss the days when Alopex had that b-movie horror vibe:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tm...20141210220548

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tm...20130808214845

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tm...20130926213112

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tm...20200707030436

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tm...20130808215103

I'm a furry too. I just thought she was hotter when she was a ninja rather than just "a girlfriend"

Apparently, the Band War arc is pointless. They still want continue with the bad future timeline.

Lets be real, even if they didn't want to continue the bad future timeline... the Band War arc would still be pointless.

Right but imagine instead of being in a house with sweaters, they're on a roof somewhere dressed in their ninja gear, looking a little beat up and worse for wear after a fight, but relaxing against eachother after a hard fought victory. That's more what I wanted to see out of their romance. Lovers on the battlefield, not... whatever Mutant Town turned everyone into.

Demigorgons fused into mousers? So like cyborgs? That doesn't even make sense.

A nice cuddle during a time of peace is nice. I just didn't like them turning her into a valley girl. Alopex is amazing as a character.

… Did Baxter Stockman have human hands after his transformation? One cover gives him human hands and the other purple monster hands.

And I mean in a general sense of course, FW was bad with consistency. Most screenshots I'm looking at shows purple hands that are proportioned to regular human hands, though i wouldn't be surprised if there are plenty of shots where they range from perfectly human to monsterlike.

the toy had human hands, the animated version was purple.

They just keep repeating endless arguments. In issue 140, they spend almost the entire issue arguing if they should even fight crime anymore and how they'll have to get jobs and rent apartments.