Get Out Of The Shadows With This TMNT Reading Guide
May 28, 2016
by Andrea Purcell
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael are at it again as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows crashed into theaters! Joining the Turtles are new friends and foes as Shredder added the mutated monsters Bebop and Rocksteady to his Foot Clan and terror rains from the sky as the alien threat of Krang looms. Casey Jones is joining the fight with his trusty bag of sporting goods as he and April O’Neil team up with the Turtles to save New York City once again.
Learn more about the crazy characters that hit the screen in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows with these five comics you should be reading, all available now at your local comic shop!
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Bebop and Rocksteady Destroy Everything
The mutated menaces of Bebop and Rocksteady are making their live action film debut in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, but they’ve been battling with the Turtles for almost thirty years. Conscripted as the muscle for Shedder’s Foot Clan, these dull-witted henchmen normally end up botching the job and wreaking havoc but their luck is turning in IDW Publishing’s latest mini-series. Like the title implies, Bebop and Rocksteady Destroy Everything (APR160459) will be a nonstop buffet of chaos and carnage as they find a time-travel scepter and start bumbling through history. It’s up to Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Leonardo to stop the mutant mayhem from changing the universe or history as we know it will be altered forever!
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TMNT Allies and Enemies
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is full of new characters to both help and vex Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo; fortunately IDW Publishing puts the spotlight on some of the minor players in the TMNT universe with the trade paperback Allies and Enemies (MAR160346). Featuring four all new individual stories, you’ll learn that the world of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is bursting with crazy and courageous characters. Find out more about the man behind the hockey mask with Casey Jones or April O’Neil, the tenacious reporter that lives for the story; and follow Shredder’s most inept henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, or learn the evil behind the insidious General Krang.
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TMNT Casey and April
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have always had their human allies for backup and a hand in hairy situations, now two of their longest associates are striking out in a solo mini-series from IDW Publishing. The man with the hockey mask and the reporter who won’t quit are hitting the road in Casey and April (OCT150403) as they take a trip to the southwest and learn more about the enigmatic corporation threating the Turtles. As the mystery surrounding them deepens so does the romance, and the relationship between Casey and April may forever be changed.
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TMNT Micro Series, Volume 1
As a team Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Donatello have defeated cataclysmic threats to New York City and the world; but what sort of adventures do they get into in their free time? In IDW Publishing's first volume of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series (MAY140504) it’s four tales of four brothers and what happens when the Turtles aren’t busy being a team but can’t stop being heroes. Raphael runs into everyone’s favorite vigilante with a hockey stick, Casey Jones as Michelangelo stumbles into a high stakes burglary while sightseeing in New York; Donatello goes undercover to enter a science fair and finds out Baxter Stockman is behind it while Leonardo takes on the Foot Clan in a ruthless battle.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Volume 1
Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird first brought their comic book opus to martial arts and noir superheroes to life over thirty years ago and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have stuck around ever since, now co-creator Kevin Eastman is giving them a fresh start at IDW Publishing. Change is Constant (APR120369), the first volume of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ongoing series gives a fresh entry point to the new adventures of Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo as they take on the dreaded Shredder and his formidable Foot Clan. Master Splinter must help the brothers band together and defeat their foes before New York is destroyed, but can the Turtles put aside their squabbles or are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles finished for good?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is in theaters June 3rd!
