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It was first confirmed that the reality ofTMNT : The Last Roninwould expound beyond the initial standalone plot line withTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Last Ronin II - Re - Evolutionat San Diego Comic Con 2023 , and buff anticipation has been building ever since . While the prequel / sequel miniseriesThe Lost Yearseffectively bridge the opening between the dystopian future ofLast Roninand its upcoming chapter , that was just a precursor to what ’s in store forTMNTfans withRe - Evolution .
Screen Rant got the opportunity to readTMNT : The Last Ronin II - Re - Evolution#1 in an single first - flavor at the series , and the one thing that is abundantly clear is that these newfangled mutant heroes are not your parents’Turtles(and that ’s a very good thing ) .
2023 see the TMNT defeat the Rat King in Armageddon Game and challenge Armaggon in the Road to 150 , but the biggest word was the rise of the new TMNT .
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Last Ronin II - Re - Evolution#1 by Kevin Eastman , Tom Waltz , Ben Bishop , Isaac & Esau Escorza , Luis Antonio Delgado , and Shawn Lee picks up right where readers ofThe lose Yearsleft off with the four fresh Turtles , Yi , Uno , Moja , and Odyn . New York is still a cesspool of deplorable activity , and the death of Oroku Hiroto and the subsequent fall of the Foot Clan ( as shown inThe Last Ronin ) somehow only made things bad .
Enjoy these images fromTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Last Ronin - The Lost Yearsfor a spoiler - free glimpse into the existence ofRe - Evolution !
Casey Marie Jones , daughter of April O’Neil and Casey Jones , is one of the leaders of a resistance work out to crusade the rising criminal warlords in New York , while the police force and local government but rest to the media about the acquire crisis . New York has effectively become a post - revelatory wasteland right under everyone ’s noses , and only a select few are willing to defend to restore it . And in this first issue , the unexampled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles officially unite that fight .
Last Ronin: Re-Evolution Is Allowed To Be Gritty In Ways The Original Wasn’t
While it may seem impossible for any modernTMNTcomic to top the grittiness of the original black-market and white chronicle of murderous , gutter - dwelling mutant , Re - Evolutionactually draw in it off . The new Turtles themselves are n’t darker or more ' edgy ' than the originalTMNTby any mean – in fact , they ’re all the perfect embodiments of classic adolescent siblings . But it ’s the scope that allows this story to be more grim , more bestial , and more hard-core than the classicTMNT .
In the original , the Ninja Turtles had to operate in the shadows , maintaining secrecy lest the modern world key the existence of mutant . InRe - Evolution , however , the world has been through a draw ( as shown in the two former miniseries ) . Which think mutant turtle joining an undercover ohmic resistance against an army ofWarriors - esque ring is n’t that shocking . Ultimately , leaving the new TMNT free to bash heads as struggle - ready warriors in this barren setting , and do so in ways their offence - fighting , vigilante predecessors never could , which gives the entire serial the freedom to be gritty in room the original was n’t .
Yi, Uno, Moja, & Odyn Could Be The Definitive TMNT For The Next Generation
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Last Ronin II - Re - Evolution#1 immediately encounter a perfect balance between honoring the original Ninja Turtles , while still allowing the newfangled Turtles to number into their own . Not only that , but the world edifice is a welcome achievement , deftly revealing the accurate state of its futuristic New York , previously an ambiguous wasteland . The death result is a foundation firmly pose , setting up this universe and these character to flourish without the predominate mien of Leonardo , Donatello , Michelangelo , and Raphael .
Makee no mistake : the heroes Yi , Uno , Odyn , and Moja have an opportunity to become the authoritative TMNT for a young generation . And based onRe - Evolution#1 , there is a ripe chance they will . Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Last Ronin II - Re - phylogeny # 1is usable everywhere on March 6 , from IDW Publishing .