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TheTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesuniverse has never been more grand , andthe hereafter ofTMNTis only getting adult . With more than 300 issues making up one complete tale , featuring hundreds of original character , the currentTMNTcanon is enough to make even the most hardcore Turtle - head dizzy . Which is why IDW Publishing has fans insure with the release ofTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Sourcebook#1(of 4 ) , written by Patrick Ehlers .
TheTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Sourcebookis a comprehensive timeline of event chroniclingIDW Publishing’sTMNTseries from issue # 1-#150 , including all the spin - off and railroad tie - in cartoon strip / storylines as well . And it ’s not simply aTMNTtextbook or encyclopedia , either , but a total retelling ofTMNT ’s entire IDW Publishing canon in a streamlined book , complete with theatrical role background and additional pieces of information fans did n’t get just from reading the original cartoon strip . gratefully , Screen Rant speak withTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Sourcebookwriter Patrick Ehlers , who excuse precisely why this is a must - have for everyTMNTfan ’s ingathering .
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The TMNT Sourcebook is an Integral Addition to Every Turtle-Head’s Collection
TheTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Sourcebookis a complete guide to/retelling of the entire IDW run!
Screen bombast : For survive lover of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , can you say us what make this newSourcebookso important to let in in their collection ?
Patrick Ehlers : " The Sourcebook is of import to have in your ingathering because it does n’t matter how well you think you acknowledge the series , there are details about these characters , and about these upshot that you will not be able to immediately recall . There are so many .
I just finish writing the second subject , which is all about Dimension X and the Utroms and all of that , and there are so many Triceraton warrior , Utroms , and Neutrinos that all have names and jobs and alliances and all these kinds of thing that … they ’re going to get back . We ’re going to see these characters again in succeeding Ninja Turtles stories in the same continuity . And if you need a flying , easy way to see who is who , and why they are the way they are , the Sourcebook will be that . It ’s going to be a great reference stuff for that .
But it ’s more than that , because it ’s structured in a narrative way that if you wanted to interpret an issue of the Sourcebook from covering to cover , you would experience a complete report . So , if you have skipped the IDW bunk out of comics altogether , and you just desire to hop-skip on at the new # 1 with Jason Aaron , you may read through the Sourcebook and have all that same information and sense as though you ’re not just reading an encyclopedia , but convey a story as well . "
SR : Did you have a favorite era ofTMNTto search , when compiling all of this history into one collection ?
PE : " There are so many eras within IDW Publishing that are extremely compelling , like the reinvention of the Turtles correctly from the get - go with the renascence storyline , which is so exciting and casts back to Feudal Japan . All that kind of stuff is really appeal to me . I love the artistic production of Mateus Santolouco , which was absolutely killer during that geological period .
But , I have to say , one of the things that I have found in digging deep [ into TMNT canon ] is that I ’m really moved and intrigued bythe Armageddon Game earned run average of the cartoon strip , wherein there ’s a conflict between the Triceratons and the Utroms . They are sharing Burnow Island together , and they have a limited number of resources , and it ’s all genuinely about war , and how one mathematical group of multitude subjugates another . There are questions of solid food and questions of replication and all these huge , macro - flat sociological war questions . It ’s noteworthy how well it gets search in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics . "
SR : This is just the first issue of four , so whatTMNTera are you most excited to explore next ?
PE : " There ’s a lot . So , the first issue is really just the Splinter ( Hamato Yoshi ) versus Shredder ( Oroku Saki ) . The second issue is a circumstances of Utrom stuff and nonsense , and I ’m activated . I was very happy to dig more deeply into that , and I ’m excited for people to understand that .
The thing that has me most activated is that I ’ll have the opportunity to search Mutant Town . With TMNT # 101 , Sophie Campbell takes over the written material and , like , a million new mutants are carry . I ’m exaggerate , the numbers game are not quite that high . But there are so many new and demented characters , that are point of reference to the most deep cut characters from the Archie series , characters that are reference in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG book in the Palladium series .
I just desire to last in that world . It is as though Sophie Campbell ’s mentality was set in the primer , and out sprouted a forest of newfangled sport , and we get to go explore in that woodland , and I could n’t be more aroused . "
“He’s Been My Boy Forever”: TMNT Writer Confirms Favorite Original Turtle Brother
SR : We have to require , who was your favourite character to turn over into ?
PE : " I love deep - undercut fibre . I have sex Leatherhead . I like this expression of Leatherhead . I lovewhat happened with Dirtbag and Groundchuck , and how they ’ve become this body horror amalgamation where they ’re jam-packed together into one trunk . But the simple answer , and perhaps the basic answer , is Michelangelo . He ’s been my son perpetually . His characterization , in particular as Tom Waltz and Sophie Campbell wrote him , he ’s just the most emotionally thinking of the Turtles . To call him a ‘ party dude ’ is to sell him short .
He know what hoi polloi take to hear , he knows how to clear a problem without violence , and then if it issue forth to violence , he also kick ass . You make out ? He ’s too good with those nunchucks . People do n’t really swing around a couplet of nunchucks . That ’s not a real matter that people really do . Check out Bruce Lee , he ’s using a single couplet , but Michelangelo , he ’s swinging around two like a lunatic .
Michelangelo ’s the sound . I love him . Anytime one of these stories veers into Michelangelo territory , I always find like they ’re going to be fine because Mikey ’s there . "
SR : Upon diving intoTMNT ’s history so deeply , did any one event stand out , or floor you more than the others ?
PE : " I do n’t know if things shocked me too much . I worked on the Teenage Mutant Turtles Oral History that we were putting together in the lead - up to emerge # 100 , where I was interviewing the creators , and actually getting their firsthand account of what it was like to be making these comic . One major takeout from those interviews is that this series , even though it ’s a crowing IP mirthful series , really is the workplace of a lot of auteurs . You are getting personality - driven stories that reflect the specific personal involvement of a bunch of these creators .
Everything that Sophie Campbell does is plunge in ponderous metallic element medicine and identity , and all this stuff that you ’re just like , “ that ’s Sophie . ” And you see it really well articulate in Tom Waltz too . He ’s a little bit more of a spiritual guy rope , so he require to explore the Turtles dying and coming back to aliveness , and he want to research gods and a pantheon . One of the things that I love about Tom is that he ’s got this delightfully conspiratorial mind . He like to talk about UFOs , aliens , and the military industrial complex , and all this kind of clobber . He ’s such a smart , ground , wonderful guy , and then this little quirk here , where you ’re like , “ this is an interest that is genuinely his ” .
you may see that reflected through the character of Agent Bishop and his father , who established the EPF - the Earth Protection Force . And he tissue that into Roswell , New Mexico and Area 51 , but instead of the Grays or whatever , what if they were Utroms ? Then we can build the Turtles mythology out around this existent world history , or the sort of darker , weirder parts of real world history that maybe throw some myths to it , and maybe there ’s some realism to it too .
I would say , as far as surprise go or things that are so impactful to me , it ’s really seeing the specific personalities of the creators hail out in the stories that are being told throughout this series . "
The True Core TMNT Characters of The Entire Series
SR : This first era of IDW’sTMNTcanon really boils down to the kinship between Shredder and Splinter . Can you speak on the wallop their human relationship had on the across-the-board canon ?
PE : " We ’re speak about Oroku Saki - Shredder - and Hamato Yoshi - Splinter - and we hound them back to Feudal Japan , and they survive their integral lives there . They come up as peers , they ’re private-enterprise , and they are contend for their position within the Foot Clan and what it means to be a part of a social unit like that , part of a ninja kindred . But then , of course of action , the story refuse to end there . They keep to have this tumultuous relationship throughout time . They either go into hibernation or one is kill , and they descend back in the advanced Clarence Day .
The matter about Teenage Mutant Turtles as a attribute is that you ’ve got mutation , and you ’ve got interdimensional aliens , and you ’ve got fourth dimension travel and all this lopsided stuff . But Hamato Yoshi , and Oroku Saki are like the two rails on which the train of all that unbalanced [ stuff ] actually move . It ’s their relationship . Splinter has a fatherlike human relationship with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , and then we skim ahead 100 issue and suddenly now Shredder ’s in that place , and he ’s play as the father to the Ninja Turtles . Same matter with the Foot Clan . Shredder is the unchallenged Godhead and passkey of the Foot Clan , until he die , and then Splinter takes over .
Every large matter that happens in this world has to go through the lens of the relationship between these two guys . It ’s a elbow room to make these other worldly , tremendous taradiddle small and understandable . We know what it ’s like to have a booster , we have it off what it ’s like to have a Father-God , and we know what it ’s like when those citizenry disappoint us or offend us or assist us . That ’s really the Southern Cross of the first 100 issues of the series , and then even going on into the future .
SR : Is there anything you would wish to deal with the fan , maybe just about the process of crafting this Bible , or anything in particular you start out out of it in person ?
PE : " It ’s a lot of body of work . There are close to 300 egress that go into informing these characters and these events that we ’re hide in the Sourcebook . Almost more than anything , it ’s give me the chance to register , and reread , and reread , and reread the series , until I know it forward and rearwards . One matter that I ’m looking forward to when this unconscious process is all over is putting aside my collected edition , so they ’re not just heap up on my kitchen table indefinitely , forever .
But , no , one of the swell thing about Turtles fandom , and the masses who make Ninja Turtles poppycock is that everyone is so versed and passionate . So , when I am writing up something and I have a query , or something ’s not totally clear , it becomes like an ‘ all hands on deck ’ sort of affair where I can tap the resource of the people who in reality wrote the comics , or the sort of IP logic gate holders at Nickelodeon , and we can come to solid canyon resolution for , like , 90 million enquiry . "
So , for me , I think the joy in making it is live on to be a lot of the same joy that people are going to receive in reading it . It ’s going to feel like you ’ve got canon response in your paw , where you ’re like , “ ah , that ’s why this happened , that ’s where these people were at this time ” . It feels upright to have some thing nail down .
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Sourcebook Will Include Additional TMNT Content
This is an example of Renet the Timestress chime in throughout the tale , which is one of many extra piece of contentTMNTfans can revel from theSourcebook !
SR : Is there anything that ’s go to be in theSourcebookthat you would n’t of necessity get just by take the originalTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesissues ?
PE : Yes , a couple of thing . One is that , as I state before , I got a pot of position through the Oral account on why the characters are the direction they are from the creators , so some of that perspective is reflected in there , from my interviews with citizenry . In addition to that , we wanted the book to be a fun read and not just like a dry informational read , so there is comment throughout the book from various characters .
For instance , Dr. Harold Lilja will chime in from metre to prison term to comment on technology , or other things like that , and that ’ll be in that character ’s vocalisation . You wo n’t find out those thing if you ’re reading the series . Renet , the Timestress will chime in sometimes to speak about what happens in alternative edition , and alternate timeline , and how that is dissimilar from what happens in the IDW comics .
We ’ve got the mutant morphology . Whenever possible , I tried to look into what these mutants actually were when they were animals , or in some cases , the animal that they mutated into , and dig up some merriment animal facts and come to them to why that fictitious character is the way they are . So yeah , we snuff it through some somewhat strenuous efforts to make this a fun read , and a lot of that you ’re rifle to see in character voices . "
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Sourcebook # 1 ( of 4)from IDW Publishing is available February 21 , 2024 .
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Sourcebook # 1 ( 2024 )
