Let us read every TMNT comic ever made. This is going to be a long one. This is the reading order I am using.https://eliasrwrites.ghost.io/tag/so-you-want-to-read-tmnt/Previous thread >>153952124
>>153967917Just wanted to ask, where is the Fifth turtle located in this storytime?
>>153968046Stuart Sutcliffe?
>>153968107The Archie comics story.
>>153968141We're not doing Archie yet, see the reading order OP linked above
If you're looking at these covers thinking that they look familiar, this volume is currently being republished I think for the first time as TMNT Journeys.
>>153968268No Eastmand involvement, so forget about street-level gritty action stuff, and get ready for a big load of sci-fi and dinosaurs! (I do like this run overall, despite a few caveats, and sorely missing Eastman's influence)
>>153968046You talking about that boring bitch, Jennika? She’s an IDW OC.
>>153968509>teenage Shadow training in NinjutsuOh yeah, there's the first thing I disliked in this run
>>153968713>there’s a trillion superheroes flying around, but the four turtles have to live in secret because they’re freaksLaird is such a fucking hack.
>>153968646I liked her backstory as a teen runaway who got pulled into the Foot clan like it was a cult. But yeah, they did nothing interesting with her after she left the Foot, particularly after they turned her into a turtle.
>>153968684Aaaand here goes Laird with free rein, lol
>>153968790He really needs somebody to say "no, dial it back a bit" now and then. Remind him of shit like that, rein in his wild-n-crazy impulses a little.
>>153968790For another...four issues, anyway.
And oh boy, if you think Laird had crazy ideas before...you ain't seen nothin' yet.
>>153969441>>153969450Awww, look how happy and friendly Peter still is.
>>153968509Timeskip seems like a weird decision. Enough years have passed that those Turtles definitely aren't Teenage anymore.
>>153968646>>153968650Jennika is a boring character from beginning. However, I like her relationship with IDW Casey. In my option, the only best thing for this character is remain human and continue her relationship with Casey. I wouldn't mind if she become IDW Gaby and eventually have a child named Shadow.IDW loves to introduce one character and turn them into another (Chet into Fugitoid, Angel into Nobody, Casey's dad into Hun, etc), they could easily say Gabrielle is Jennika's middle name or something.
>>153967917>>153968268so is this a complete reboot?
>>153970763No, this is a continuation of volume 2. The Image era is non-canon.
Are the rumors of Journeys continuing with Laird and Lawson returning true?
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>>153971152It makes sense, but no. Not yet anyway.
V2 is about "what will the Turtles do after they fulfilled their life's purpose of ending Oroku Saki and that circle of vengeance?". V4 is "if they can join society."
>>153971152>>153971377Hopefully there is a chance to reveal that "if Karai actually help Casey to continues Jones family bloodline?"
>>153968678>last panelThat's not a tail, that's a penis. Why are they drawing the turtles with wangs? Its coming out the front of his pelvis for fucks sake, no way this is an accident.
So who's stupid fucking idea was it to make TMNT a Savage Dragon spin-off?
>>153972358Only Mirage turtles have tails. Depending on the artist. Their resemblance to dicks is why no other version has tails.
>>153969687I preferred when there were only a few superheroes in the world, and most of them kept out of the public eye.
>>153968272Completely different vibe right away. Instead of a bunch of random cyborgs shooting at turtles on the first page while they quip a lot of sex jokes, we have a robot jumping on the moon!
>>153968407>middle-aged mutant ninja turtles
>>153970412And they're just giving transmats away now.>Your planet gets a transmat! And your planet! And your planet! Everybody gets a transmat!>t. jelly-blob Oprah
>>153968552>Planet RacersIs that available anywhere? All I know about them is the crossover episode of 4Kids TMNT.
>>153970672Why are they brawling with airport security, Mr. Laird?
>>153969053Raph is even more bitchy than usual. You'd think he'd like working on the truck.
>>153970840This shit Laird's pumping out here is even less canon than Image, if you ask me. As dumb 90s-edgy as it was, Image still felt more like old Mirage than this marvel comics alien encounter soap opera. Even when there is some action, it feels shoehorned in, like Laird doesn't wanna do it, but figures it's expected of a TMNT book.
>>153974148I believe Donatello is Peter’s favorite turtle and Raphael is his least.
>>153970057It's not really a time skip, it's just adjustment for real time. 15 years have passed between 1986 and 2001.
>>153970939Those alien kids are adorable!
>>153971126>We don't understand quantum physics but we can teleport people instantaneously across the galaxyCome the fuck on
>>153971241Utrom Maury Povich over here with the blood test results
>>153970708And here I thought she was just pregnant.
>>153974148I gotta say, finding an infamously stolen armored car full of money and corpses, deciding to chuck the mummified bodies out the door and take right it home is really dumb.
>>153970951Wait, this was before the 4kids show premiered, right?
>>153974642They would have gotten toys early.
>>153971189>Well, at least you're not a mob boss, Mr Splinter
>>153971213Robyn's kept great figure for her age and lifestyle.She's like what, nearing 40?
>>153974159Yea. Image run was retarded, but this one is just dull.
>>153974235Another good thing is at least Laird didn't portray Donnie as nerd, socially awkward, workaholic.
>>153974966Yeah I like Laird, he has some cool ideas and there are things he writes well, but TMNT without Eastman there is just missing half of what makes the TMNT work. It's lopsided.
>>153975065Besides drawing the cover, I'm curious how much involvement Eastman actually has in IDW TMNT? Even for The Last Ronin series, the overall writing style seems to be entirely dominated by Tom Waltz.
>>153975494Eastman talks about it here:https://www.cbr.com/tmnt-kevin-eastman-interview/>and Tom and I were discussing where do we go after issue 100. And there were a lot of ideas being thrown around, and I dusted off this story that Pete and I had written. It was about 20 pages, and [I] said, "I'd like to develop this further, and if you think it's something once I play with it a little bit, let's join forces and adapt it into something set 20 years in the future for the turtles." >Working with Tom, I have such huge respect, he wrote 100 issues with turtles in a row, and they're brilliant. Instead of him in the driver's seat and me in the passenger's riding shotgun, we just switched seats for a while. And the work was a lot like how Pete and I used to work. We had a pretty decent treatment.
>>153968790Also>There's tons of super heroes>Somehow random gangs with access to high end weaponry still roam the streets
Shadow > Casey Marie
>>153975494This image makes my blood boil.
>>153973790At least they are not like IDW, IDW still pretend that IDW Turtles' current age is still that of a minors.
This series we learn that April is a Galatea type 2 homunculus
>>153973790Middle-aged Ninja Turtles!Middle-aged Ninja Turtles!Heroes in group home!Turtle power!
>>153978231They can’t call them Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles if they aren’t teenaged anymore.
