With a mutagen bomb attack by Hob on the New York populace during Baxter Stockman's inauguration as the city's new mayor, the world's public is made aware of the existence of mutants. A mysterious Pantheon of immortal demigods, some of whom to subvert humanity to their will, as they once did in bygone times.įinding new allies as they go, the Turtles are forced to strive against enemies and save the world from total destruction as this many-fold conflict begins to spin out of control.The mysterious Madam Null and her enterprise Null Group, a business conglomerate with its hands in many ventures and ties to other dimensions which deliberately creates mutants as a slave workforce.The zealous government agent John Bishop, leader of the Earth Protection Force, who seeks to eradicate mutantkind and aliens.The Utrom warlord Krang, who plans to terraform Earth into a new home for the last survivors of his race.The Foot Clan, with their leader Shredder, who has survived into the modern age due to the machinations of the shape-shifting witch Kitsune.Unfortunately, the seemingly trivial event which led to the creation of the Turtles and Splinter is part of an escalating conflict between several powers trying to take control of the Earth: Yoshi, now called Splinter, remembers his past life and begins to train the turtles in the art of ninjutsu. The animals are taken by mistake, and when they and the stolen mutagen get lost in the sewer, they are covered with the spilled mutagen and transformed into enlightened, humanoid beings. Members of the Foot Clan break into the facility to steal an alien mutagen. An intern at Stock Gen, April O'Neil, names the turtles after Renaissance artists: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. Yoshi and his sons' spirits are reincarnated in modern times as a gray rat and four green turtles in a research laboratory called Stock Gen, owned by Baxter Stockman, a scientist who has secretly allied himself with Krang. Saki, who will later be known as Shredder, eventually finds Yoshi and his children, and murders them all. He flees with the boys and remains on the run for several years. Yoshi's wife, Tang Shen, is attacked and severely wounded, and with her last breath she beseeches Yoshi to protect himself and the children. After seeing Saki act ruthlessly, Yoshi leaves the Clan and is marked a traitor, and Saki orders Yoshi's entire family to be put to death. Hamato Yoshi is a member of the Foot Clan led by Oroku Saki during Japan's feudal period. Starting with issue #101, series writer and artist Sophie Campbell took over as the sole lead writer for the book. In 2019, issue #100 of the comic was published, concluding the eight part "City at War" arc. In 2017, issue #73 of the main ongoing series was published, making it the longest-running comic in the franchise's history, surpassing Archie Comics' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures. Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz wrote the book, with Eastman and Dan Duncan providing art. The first issue of the new series was released on August 24 that year. ![]() In April 2011, IDW Publishing acquired the license to publish new collections of older Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics from Nickelodeon, as well as a new ongoing series. ![]() ![]() The initial creative team consisted of Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman (who collaborated on the plot and the page layouts), Tom Waltz (who scripted the series) and artist Dan Duncan. Debuting in August 2011, it was the first new comic version of the Turtles to debut after the sale of the media franchise to Nickelodeon in October 2009. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an ongoing American comic book series published by IDW Publishing. ![]() Art by Dan Duncan colors by Ronda Pattison.Ģ69 (as of March 2023 3 out-of-continuity)
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