TMNT #140 is out

[Coola Yagami]

Funny conversation I had with the comic book store lady this afternoon that I didn't feel warranted its own topic.

I went in to buy the TMNT Saturday Morning series and the first issue of TMNT X Street Fighter and both were sold out. She told me lately the Turtles have been selling out which has been surprising her because they're been just laying there clogging up the shelves for months and no one's buying them. She says she'll have to start ordering more.

I didn't get into detail but I told her some time after issue 100 it got boring and nothing was really going on until recently the bad guys finally started doing things and things started to get exciting again, so it's not surprising people are starting to buy them again.

Now I wonder if that smaller comic shop will now start ordering copies.

[Sumac]

Didn't she said which TMNT comic book have been selling out?
Like, all of them or just some series (IDW, TMNT x SF, Saturday Morning)?

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Sumac

Didn't she said which TMNT comic book have been selling out?
Like, all of them or just some series (IDW, TMNT x SF, Saturday Morning)?

I saw only one issue 140 left, and no signs of Saturday Morning or TMNT X SF, so it looks like all of them.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

I saw only one issue 140 left, and no signs of Saturday Morning or TMNT X SF, so it looks like all of them.

Curious.
Thank you for the information.

[CyberCubed]

We have to wait till July 5th to see how they defeat Rat King, 3 weeks after this issue came out. Whelp.

[TheLabRat]

Curiously about the failure of Rat King. He is a demigod, so even he is be killed, he can be easily reincarnate. Just like Aka. Unless, he has been banished to other realm and never came back.

Also, why do they suddenly care about vigilante duty? Before that, they become passive.

[Stu_Padasso]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

It's pretty obvious looking at this issue they're already struggling to find reasons to keep Jennika with the Turtles. She already went off to her band in this issue, might as well just have her and Sheena stay there as the Turtles move on.

That’s actually a good idea. While I don’t dislike Jennika as much as many as this forum do, it seems clear at this point that she’s not the breakthrough character that they wanted. This way they could save face and say that we’ve introduced this new character and could keep her around for future events once they figure out what the hell to do with her. Also, This way you don’t have too many characters in the lead roster.

For example, what if Donatello took advantage of the post lockdown situation to go to school and give another character like Venus some time to shine for a while?

I would like to keep Lita around somehow, though. Having a small child mutant turtle around seems to be a fresh idea to me and she doesn’t have the baggage that Jennika does.

[Cowabung-Gal]

Originally Posted by Stu_Padasso

I would like to keep Lita around somehow, though. Having a small child mutant turtle around seems to be a fresh idea to me and she doesn’t have the baggage that Jennika does.

I do prefer Lita over Jennika. It’d be cute for the turtles to have a little sister in their group.

[Stu_Padasso]

Originally Posted by Cowabung-Gal

I do prefer Lita over Jennika. It’d be cute for the turtles to have a little sister in their group.

It’s more appealing to me anyway than having Jennika being the older stepsister which is supposed to be April’s role and trying to boss the guys around despite being the new girl. There’s also more story potential for Lita given that she was presumably once human and probably has a family out there who may try to take her back, especially if a way of reversing her mutation is found. I’m also curious to see if my theory of Lita being an early attempt at creating a Trojan horse by Dr. Barlow is correct or if she simply gravitated toward the Hamatos because she’s a turtle like them.

[neatoman]

… Yes, technically speaking, Lita is a "better" concept than Jennika, simply because it's not quite as much of an obvious attempt to add to the main group of Turtles… But that's still what she kind of is...

[CyberCubed]

It's true, they actually have an easy way of writing Jennika out that's actually respectful to the character instead of just pulling a Poochy with her and sending her back to her home planet.

Jennika and Sheena are already a couple and they both like performing in bands. Just have Jennika and Sheena say they're staying in mutant town or wherever to perform, and the Turtles just move on with their lives and their adventures. Jennika could pop up from time to time, but she doesn't have to be part of the main cast.

[Stu_Padasso]

Originally Posted by neatoman

… Yes, technically speaking, Lita is a "better" concept than Jennika, simply because it's not quite as much of an obvious attempt to add to the main group of Turtles… But that's still what she kind of is...

And you know what? I’m fine with that. Letting Chris Claremont and others to introduce new characters gave us Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Storm, Colossus, and Kitty Pryde in the X-Men.

What I *do* have a problem with is when it becomes like the X-Men *now* that has a cast of thousands that mostly never go anywhere and causing the whole narrative to collapse under its own weight because Marvel doesn’t want to let Logan to ride off into the sunset with dignity before readers got sick of him or letting Kurt and Kitty do their own thing with Excalibur while getting caught up in bloated crossovers with the Avengers.

Personally, unless you do the occasional multiverse thing, I’ve come to despise superhero crossovers. And if the current state of the MCU and Marvel comics themselves, so has a good deal of general audiences have as well. People aren’t willing to do hours of homework watching movies and Disney+ and reading about characters they don’t care about like Captain Marvel just to keep up only to watch someone like Joe Quesada kneecap the franchise you do like just because he didn’t like seeing all these mutants running around but still wanted Wolverine to be an Avenger.

F-ck that. I’d rather see the Turtles do a crossover with Archer or Parks and Recreation and see Donnie and Dr. Krieger build some unholy abomination of science or Ron Swanson on Sally Pride’s staff than see another superhero event/gimmick.

Sorry for my little rant. I just don’t want what happened to the X-books happen to the TMNT.

[Stu_Padasso]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

It's true, they actually have an easy way of writing Jennika out that's actually respectful to the character instead of just pulling a Poochy with her and sending her back to her home planet.

Jennika and Sheena are already a couple and they both like performing in bands. Just have Jennika and Sheena say they're staying in mutant town or wherever to perform, and the Turtles just move on with their lives and their adventures. Jennika could pop up from time to time, but she doesn't have to be part of the main cast.

Maybe they could go on tour and aren’t heard from again until years later when Jennika appears on Behind the Music where she talks about her career ups and downs and her heroin addiction and how she came to accept Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior.

[CyberCubed]

So now that Armaggeddon game is out I re-read this issue. I guess Sally/Regenta going on press tours with Baxter was a follow-up of keeping him under lock and key. Everyone else from the previous arc has largely been written out off-screen (Karai, Casey and the mutants, all the Dimension X characters, etc) so the cast is smaller again.

This was a decent issue, a bit better than the earlier Sophie issues, but I hope it isn't just more mutant town for the forseeable future.