So TMNT Saturday morning Adventures is basically the best TMNT comic series from IDW. It was a follow-up to the Saturday Morning Adventures miniseries as this ongoing comic series takes place after the events of season 7 and before the events of season 8, it was pretty good the comic was canon to the show and do things the show didn't do like having usagi going back to his home in the crossover special that was kinda great they did that.
BUT...... there is one thing that i just didn't like at all what they did and that........ was introducing TMNT characters that didn't exist during this time when the show was around, in issue 15 they introduce the Pantheon which was introduced by from mirage in a story from 2007 and later return in IDW the ones that are in the team are old hob, drako, aka and Golgotha these four are characters that didn't exist during this time the other two are scratch and mammoth characters that did exist during the show of course and the last member is a new character called the Rat queen.
Now i don't hate these characters at all i like old hob and drako the problem i have is that these are characters that didn't exist at this time at all and you are using them in a comic series that is canon and takes place before season 8 like if you wanna be faithful to the show you should not introduce characters that did not exist during this year and time period the show was in at all, The only two i was fine with was Scratch and Mammoth as those two did exist during the show even tho they never did appeared in the show if you know what i mean, Also yeah mammoth was a member of the team in the IDW comics where he was a god instead of a mutant mammoth.
Also Renet showed up in the series by the way and that was fine as well because they should use these types of characters that existed before the show and around the show not just those characters at all Like why the heck would they do that?
Like they could of introduce other characters that never appeared in the show that were only in the toys, the archie comics, video games and also some from the mirage comics, Like they could introduce characters like Jagwar, Dreadmon, Wyrm, Pizza face, Scale tail, Tora, Hothead and you know Ray fillet since it would be nice they can give us the real one because we got this other guy called ray........ yeah.
I know they might do it but there really was no need to introduce these types of TMNT characters at all it was a dumb idea, Like if Marvel do a Spider Man 98 they should avoided using any characters that existed during the 2000s and 2020s like Morlun, Silk, Mister negative, Yuri Watanabe, Overdrive and of course Miles they should just keep it faithful to the era and year this show was around and not use the characters that didn't exist at this time because X men 97 did this by the way for some odd reason, But that's the one thing I just really didn't like they did in this comic series.
So as for other things we don't know the origins of the members of the Pantheon and how they came to be as of yet but I can tell for sure the new character Rat Queen is basically gonna be the long lost daughter of splinter and that they will reveal that tang shen existed and he was indeed married to her but something happen and he was forced to be separated from her and then something awful happen to her and she died yoshi found out about it but he didn't knew at all she had a daughter because she was born when he was not around and basically splinter's daughter went homeless after her mom died and basically was exposed to mutagen and got mutated into a rat and became the rat queen, Because I can tell there is a reason why this character is a Rat and that she will have a connection with him once we see her again and meets splinter for the first time I bet for sure they will do this.
But that's all I gotta say about this.
