Casey Jones Spinoff, Annual 2025 and Peter Laird's return
 

Ok, that was unexpected.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/scoo...c-casey-jones/

So I am curious what TMNT Journeys comic will be about

Great Scott!

My first guess is that it’s the volume 4 conclusion. Similar to how they called the Image revival “Urban Legends”.

But it seems like they would have reprinted everything before doing that. Either way I’m blown away by this news. Very exciting.

I wonder what else they can do with Casey? Ever since he was stabbed by Shredder, his character arc and goal have lost direction. Next, he become a leader of Purple Dragons and become a couple with Jennika. Everything should be going well, right? Then, like a complete loser, he lost everything and become an alcoholic like his father. He later joined Foot Clan but soon left. Now, he's been shot and hospitalized.

Thinking about this more, I think Journeys is going to be a series of one-shots or two parters from around the multiverse and they’re kicking it off with Peter writing #1 (hopefully with Jim on pencils).

This tracks with Ciro’s recent art teases on Insta. Wonder what else we could see… 1990 sequel could be fun. This could FINALLY give us the Gang Wars conclusion.

You might be right and after that all of that stories to lead to crossover event

PL is 71 years old, this is probably the last chance for Vol. 4 to get any type of conclusion.

I’m pretty bored with multiverse fiction, and I don’t think TMNT has much else to say on the topic after Turtles Forever and Odyssey. But maybe there’s a good story there somewhere.

Could be a fun way to end the IDW universe, which is becoming ancient at this point. But they’re just getting started on the new volume, so I don’t see that happening.

Do you also think it can be crossover event?

I guess it could be. I don’t really see the point.

So do you mean point of releasing this stories across different universes without it leading to crossover event? I also hope there will be some story set in TMNT 1990 movie universe, maybe after events of TMNT III movie and that Turtles to also be part of crossover comic if that happens

I would rather see an anthology series that wasn’t necessarily leading to some big event. Just random stories from around the turtle-verse.

I’d love some 1990 stuff too, but I’d rather see something that was more of a true sequel to the first film that ignored SotO and everything else.

Okay, I guess that I can quote here what Bobby teased, here: "I can also tease that, towards the end of the year, the Turtles will be going off-world for an adventure that will make Turtles fans of all types very, very happy." So this means crossover comic is likely to happen maybe, here is where he said this, here: https://www.cbr.com/idw-publishing-b...now-interview/

Maybe a Battle Nexus story? They introduced that like 10 years ago in IDW and never returned to it, per my memory. And Peter was getting into Battle Nexus stuff there at the end of Vol. 4 (fake Splinter and Oroku Yoshi).

It’s funny to imagine the current IDW turtles in a crossover event and all they do is just beat the hell out of each other lol

We will see, maybe it will be crossover event but maybe IDW Turtles will not be in it

What do you guys think about TMNT Oddysey comic? In might not be canon but from what I saw it looks really good and if crossover comic really happens it might be similar to that comic in terms how many characters will appear maybe, also if crossover comic happens it might be Renet who caused some trouble accidentally across multiverse, maybe Savanti will also be involved

It’s one of my favorite TMNT stories. You can’t call it canon officially without Peter’s blessing, but it fits perfectly so I personally do consider it in continuity. Same thing with TMNT: 2030, Image #24/25, etc.

You are right, it would be good if this crossover comic that might happen references events of TMNT Oddysey making it canon but it probably won't just to ask this about this crossover comic that might happen, here: do you think Renet and Savanti could be involved in it?

I'm veeeery curious about this Journeys thing. I hope it's a place for new contents by the old Mirage crew.

We will see, it might be stories from different TMNT universes including Mirage universe