News from... uhhh.... Newsweek of all places:
The new relaunch has been a hit, producing an already heavily anticipated spinoff revolved around the infamous Shredder. But Oroku Sakai isn't the only character that is getting a highlight, as IDW is announcing another spinoff revolving around Casey Jones.
Casey Jones is a character that many TMNT fans should know well, as he is the smooth-talking and brash vigilante teammate who often teams up with the turtles, and often draws the ire of the group as well.
The new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle: Casey Jones" is written by Alex Paknadel and drawn by Amancay Nahuelpan. The mini-series will follow the vigilante, giving fans a chance to truly learn what makes this hockey stick-wielding crime fighter tick.
Interesting snippet here from the writer:
"This is very much Casey 'off the leash,' I guess you could say. I mean, it isn't that we haven't seen that before, but I think, you know, there was very much, there was some sort of pretty high-level discussions about integrating the various kind of iterations of the character that we've seen to sort of kind of cohesive whole, you know, obviously, you know, throughout the kind of IDW continuity, there's been a lot of work, a lot of character work done.
"There's been a lot of attempts to kind of rationalize this kind of backstory and to make it as kind of, you know, quite sort of dark and sort of emotionally resonant ... But I think there has been a desire to sort of hark back to the sort of more reckless kind of Mirage days. So I guess what we're doing with this series is trying to, almost, as I said, like rationalize that, and kind of bring it together and give people that kind of
sort of devil may care Casey."
