TMNT #56 Preview and Discussion

[cookie jar]

http://comicvine.gamespot.com/articl...6/1100-155148/

[Utrommaniac]

I just finished looking through it.

From the Rat King's five second visit with Kitsune, we might have an idea of what's next next storyline. Maybe the "Rats. Rats everywhere" piece of TMNT lore.

[CyberCubed]

We've been waiting so long for Leatherhead to debut, over 56 issues! Especially with the teases of him in Turtles in Time #3, and in #49-50.

Its about time.

[2K3]

Spoiler:

I'm guessing the two figures by the fire are Traag and Granitor

Nice to see Metalhead is being reconstructed; hopefully we'll get to see this mechanized turtle soon!

I'm curious about Harold's former "Partner"; wondering who "she" is (Null maybe?)

Gotta love the Rat King; and it's high time we saw him and Kitsune together.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Sounds like Splinter knows something is up regarding someone's mortal remains!

RAT KING!!!!

[MikeandRaph87]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Sounds like Splinter knows something is up regarding someone's mortal remains!

RAT KING!!!!

Rat King has interest in Shredder? I do qu3stion why Splinter would charge the defector with protecting Shredder's resting place. Its like hevis asking for a ritual to revive Shredder.

[neatoman]

Who knows, maybe Rat King just thinks Shredder's bones would be nice to chew on?

[Utrommaniac]

It would depend on if the Rat King is involved with Shredder at all. Bringing him back might be Kitsune's ambition (how that involves Alopex is to be determined), and Splinter is suspicious. Hence finding a guard for his tomb.

[CyberCubed]

Am I the only one who thinks too many things are going on at once? You have the whole Kitsune/Rat King and Pantheon story going with them controlling Alopex, you have this current arc with Leatherhead and the Utroms, you have Bishop and Darkwater monitoring Burnow Island, you have the Street Phantoms and Darius Dunn as well as the professor and his partner's connection to them, plus now Splinter and the blonde Foot Soldier.

And this is on top of the other stuff on the side like the Mutanimals and Hob, whereever Karai went, and Null, etc.

It almost seems like too much is going on and there's not enough screentime or breathing room for everything.

[ChosenOne]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Am I the only one who thinks too many things are going on at once? You have the whole Kitsune/Rat King and Pantheon story going with them controlling Alopex, you have this current arc with Leatherhead and the Utroms, you have Bishop and Darkwater monitoring Burnow Island, you have the Street Phantoms and Darius Dunn as well as the professor and his partner's connection to them, plus now Splinter and the blonde Foot Soldier.

And this is on top of the other stuff on the side like the Mutanimals and Hob, whereever Karai went, and Null, etc.

It almost seems like too much is going on and there's not enough screentime or breathing room for everything.

I expect many of those plot threads will come together eventually.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Am I the only one who thinks too many things are going on at once? You have the whole Kitsune/Rat King and Pantheon story going with them controlling Alopex, you have this current arc with Leatherhead and the Utroms, you have Bishop and Darkwater monitoring Burnow Island, you have the Street Phantoms and Darius Dunn as well as the professor and his partner's connection to them, plus now Splinter and the blonde Foot Soldier.

And this is on top of the other stuff on the side like the Mutanimals and Hob, whereever Karai went, and Null, etc.

It almost seems like too much is going on and there's not enough screentime or breathing room for everything.

Calm down, you. IDW has juggled many balls before.

[TomWaltz]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Am I the only one who thinks too many things are going on at once? You have the whole Kitsune/Rat King and Pantheon story going with them controlling Alopex, you have this current arc with Leatherhead and the Utroms, you have Bishop and Darkwater monitoring Burnow Island, you have the Street Phantoms and Darius Dunn as well as the professor and his partner's connection to them, plus now Splinter and the blonde Foot Soldier.

And this is on top of the other stuff on the side like the Mutanimals and Hob, whereever Karai went, and Null, etc.

It almost seems like too much is going on and there's not enough screentime or breathing room for everything.

Talk soon...

Tom W.

[Technogeek29]

Still kinda makes my skin crawl to see Rat King. While Saki might be gone it's heavily implied his spirit will be reborn someday, wonder when that will pop up?

[Ninjinister]

One of the best things about this series is how many stories they can have going at one time without sacrificing quality.

[Joey Kamikaze]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Am I the only one who thinks too many things are going on at once? ... It almost seems like too much is going on and there's not enough screentime or breathing room for everything.

Nah. It's how this book has always worked. The first year is all one big story that comes together in #12. #13-21 and the related minis are all either world-building for the long term story or build-up to City Fall. Then everything after City Fall is again either long-term world building (like the formation of the Mutanimals) or build up to Attack on Technodrome and #50.

So now post-#50 some of what's going is slow-burn stuff, like the Pantheon storyline, which will presumably be this volume's long-term megastory; some of it is continuing fallout from what's come (the Leatherhead arc will presumably deal with fallout from Attack on Technodrome); the other random new bits will probably come together in a big story soon, especially if Null is Harold's ex-partner and supplied the Phantoms' cloaking tech, which feels like where they're going with this.

And to be honest, I feel like the book's finally at a point where they can **** around a little, tell some fun two- or three-part stories and have some of those random, weird adventures the turtles are known for. The recent Mikey and the Mutanimals two-parter was a good example of what this book can do now that the status quo is where it is at the moment. It doesn't have to be plot twists and melodrama all the time, fun as that's been the past year.

[swing_kinker]

Just finished it. Good stuff and that Mateus cover is sublime. I've enjoyed the stand in artists but this really is a book at its best when he and Ronda are delivering. Brilliant stuff, we get an origin story too

[ProphetofGanja]

Originally Posted by swing_kinker

Just finished it. Good stuff and that Mateus cover is sublime. I've enjoyed the stand in artists but this really is a book at its best when he and Ronda are delivering. Brilliant stuff, we get an origin story too

Man, I can't wait til tomorrow

[ChosenOne]

Originally Posted by swing_kinker

Just finished it. Good stuff and that Mateus cover is sublime. I've enjoyed the stand in artists but this really is a book at its best when he and Ronda are delivering. Brilliant stuff, we get an origin story too

Oh, you and your sadistic teasing of us poor souls who don't get advance copies. One of these days, Alice, one of these days...

[Utrommaniac]

Well...I'm full of sugar from a milkshake coming back to Waco from Ft. Worth. I'll probably see if it's up at midnight and read it immediately.

[Technogeek29]

Originally Posted by Utrommaniac

Well...I'm full of sugar from a milkshake coming back to Waco from Ft. Worth. I'll probably see if it's up at midnight and read it immediately.

Waco to Ft Worth? Jesus that's almost a 3 hour drive 5 hours for me although Waco is considerably closer.