TMNT Alpha. Preview and discussion
 

Preview here.

This looks very good. Some of the best covers I've seen on a Turtles book by IDW.

Definitely looking forward to this run. Let’s get some friendly competition going between this and the Ronin-Verse. Who can make the better comic?

Isn't this just a one-shot issue.

Okay, so Alpha is a short prelude to setup for the main relaunch?

Been so unsure what they're even doing with these different ones coming or how they might (or not) fit together.

Pretty sure this is just a one-shot. The new issue #1 isn't till the month after.

It’s a one-shot but it’s the start of several new runs.

This one shots leads to the first issue of the relaunch, and the other stories that will be covered in the other ongoing spinoffs.

I thought it was a new series on its own.

UDFC 1-5 > FCBD > Alpha > Volume 2 ongoing (July) / NightWatcher ongoing (August) / Mutant Nation ongoing (September)

I am still amazed they got Burham on this book. He was basically a successor to Frank Quitely during Morrison’s run on Batman. Definitely has a similar vibe and is hyper talented even if not quite Quitely-level in my personal opinion.

Couldn’t have been cheap, relatively speaking. These are all prestige artists.

Preview pages for Monster Island: https://x.com/tomwaltz/status/179782...ySHN3w9RDOY7yg

We are in brundle territory now.

Lindsey went from 2011 when she debuted till now without becoming a mutant, 2011-2024. I guess it had to happen sooner or later. I'm surprised they waited so long.

It's been a slow burn for a few years now with her mutation.

I know issue 122 revealed her partial mutation and I think it was teased even before that in one of the tie-ins. She's had a bug hand for awhile now.

Was that ever explained? I don't think they ever explained it, she just had a bug hand all of sudden.

Probably from the mutagen bomb.

That would then raise the question of why she was the only person ever to get only partially mutated.

She was creating artificial mutagen and was most likely the test subject.

I think she’s been working on a retromutagen unbeknownst to Old Hobb and it only kind of works.