IDW TMNT ongoing thread

Tatoruzu · 2025-02-04T20:06:00+00:00

Doesn't make sense to have a thread for every new release, so here's a thread to discuss ongoing releases for the main series as they come out. So we migh...

Tatoruzu

Just finished reading issue #7.

It's the best new TMNT release I've read in years.

Gort

Tatoruzu i went up to get it yesterday but there was some kind of supply chain issue. didnt get savage sword #7 either. had to settle for batman dark patterns and some old savage dragon issues which turned out cool. all in all not a bad trip but im really glad to hear this. also as a donny fan im biased but i feel like the route theyre taking with him is so interesting.

ADistantImage

Gort Is Savage Dragon still any good? I heard Eric Larsen went off the deep end and turned the book into another completely leftarded anti-TROMP sloprag

Tatoruzu

Made a video about my thoughts on the run so far:

Gort

already watching it rn lmao

Stu_Paddasso

Aaron earlier stuff like Wolverine and the X-Men and Astonishing X-Men was great, but it’s hard to tell how much of his latter work was actually him or Marvel’s ridiculous editorial staff. Hopefully at IDW he’ll have the clout to do his own thing.

It’s a wait and see situation.

Tatoruzu

Stu_Paddasso

There's also a question of whether or not he actually liked those characters at Marvel. From what I can tell, he was a true fan of 80s TMNT and indie comics. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt for now.

Gort

Tatoruzu at marvel he would often do whatever he wanted regardless of what it meant for the character in question. as a known name he was pretty much able to do whatever he wanted as far as i could tell. like when he wrote for the avengers he did a story where there were avengers in like 1 million BC or some shit and made she hulk into savage hulk because hulk was dead when he was writing avengers and he wanted a savage hulk. hes made a lot of unpopular decisions. that said hes right about punisher i dont care what anyone says and his conan work was great. his thor was great too. the only original work ive read by him was scalped but that was high quality as well. i really dont think he we have anything to worry about from him on this book.

Gort

ADistantImage i couldnt tell you ive only read the earliest issues ive managed to get ahold of. i fear the same thing is happening to the ice cream man. might change my avatar soon.

Tatoruzu

ADistantImage

Gort

Savage Dragon is still around. There's been some wild uncensored sex scenes thrown into the story over the past few years. And yeah, a lot of political shit. It definitely has an unhinged vibe to it.

Erik Larsen and Savage Dragon is like the left-wing version of Dave Sim and Cerebus LMAO

I haven't taken a deep dive and read every issue like I did with Cerebus, but maybe someday.

CodeXAhex

Lets hope to god the comic dont go to shit after issue 7 i have high hopes for this comics as of now.

Also im thinking about making a thread about leonardo scar of tmnt universe stuff that was explored in his issue marco series of idw tmnt. Imo that's literally the only issue post tranny sophie has done pretty well. Which is kinda comparing a ice cream sundae to a pile of shit lol.

Tatoruzu

CodeXAhex Yeah that issue was pretty good

Tatoruzu

CodeXAhex But I think that was pre-transition if we're thinking of the same issue

helljumper

Just read issue #7 and honestly it's so refreshing to see the main run putting out what's looking like a potentially decent story now. I'm really glad they're just going back to basics this time around for the relaunch

Tatoruzu I think you're confusing the micro series issue from 2012 that Campbell did art on for the macro series issue from 2018 that they did both writing and art on.

CodeXAhex

helljumper i meant the 2018 marco series @Tatoruzu

Tatoruzu

I guess this should've been obvious with April's use of Casey's hockey stick in issue #7.

But looks like April is going to be the "new Casey" now lol.

I think this could work out pretty well in this run... It makes sense while Casey is hospitalized. I'm sure April had some ninja training at some point in time in the past 150+ issues (I can't remember for certain).

But it makes me worried for the future of Casey's character franchise-wide. I don't want "Casey" to continue to be a girl or have Casey and April's characters merged in future iterations. But this is usually how shit like that starts — think about how much Spider-Gwen is shoved in our faces.

Gort

Tatoruzu I'm sure April had some ninja training at some point in time in the past 150+ issues (I can't remember for certain).

she was trained by casey himself very early in volume 1 in exchange for exam lessons iirc

MrSlash

Tatoruzu hopefully she won't call herself Casey Jones because that would be dumb as Casey Jones is not a mantle but a person

Gort

Tatoruzu i only collect A covers but god i love this cover. maybe because the hairline being pushed so far back reminds me of ro laren

Tatoruzu

Gort I'm sure that's not all Casey gave her :^]

Tatoruzu

MrSlash Thankfully, I don't think that will happen... this iteration

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