SNL recently parodied the Middle-Aged Mutant Ninja Turtles where their best days were behind them, but an upcoming comic book miniseries from the creators of TMNT will depict an even bleaker future for the pizza-loving superheroes, one where three of the four heroes in a half shell are dead.
IDW Publishing announced Monday that they will release the five-issue miniseries Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, based on a decades-old concept by TMNT co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, this summer.
Here’s the official plot synopsis:
“In a future New York City far different from the one we know today, a lone surviving Turtle goes on a seemingly hopeless mission to obtain justice for his fallen family and friends.”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin features layouts by Eastman, inks from Andy Kuhn, and a script by Tom Waltz.
Check out the first artwork from the miniseries in the slideshow below:
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“About ten years ago, I re-discovered a twenty-page outline for a TMNT story that Peter and I wrote together back in 1987. The story was set thirty years in the future, which (as written then) was set in 2017,” Eastman recalled in the official press release.
“Reading through it again, I drifted back to a very different time in TMNT history — back when it was all about the comics, mostly just Peter and I writing and drawing the issues, pre-everything the world would soon come to know about these characters that we’d created and called the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.”
Series co-writer Tom Waltz said he was “gobsmacked” when Eastman showed him the outline he and Laird had created over thirty years ago: “Beyond Peter Laird’s eerily prescient technological and sociological predictions, the story idea itself was exciting and versatile, designed in a way that it could be easily modified to fit into the many different TMNT iterations that have existed over the years, without losing any of the core elements injected into it by both Kevin and Peter.”
Waltz added that he has “the absolute honor to join these legendary creators to craft a TMNT story set in a chaotic future, rife with revenge, honor, tragedy, hope, and over-the-top ninja-action sequences that’ll blow any Turtles fan’s mind, no matter what version of the beloved franchise is their favorite.”
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin #1 will be available this summer and with multiple cover variants. Each issue of the IDW miniseries will run 48 pages.
Source: IGN.com The Last Ronin Depicts a Future Where Only One Ninja Turtle Still Lives