Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #4 Incredible Shrinking Turtles Part 2

Issue Description

The Shredder gleefully claims that Krang will have to believe him about destroying the Turtles now that he has a collection of shrunken buildings. April and Splinter get stuck in New York City traffic on their way to get the Eye fragment from Shredder. The Turtles are enjoying being shrunk because they can get more than enough pizza... just as a sewer trickle flushes them down the pipes. The lads are attacked by a snake, but Leo saves the day. Krang tells Saki that he doesn't care about shrunken buildings, he wants the Turtles! Baxter reveals a device that will help them find the tiny TMNT, so Shredder sends Stockman out alone to bring the Green Team to him. The Turtles end up being flushed out into the harbor, where Baxter is waiting to capture them with a fish net. The mad scientist sticks the TMNT into a jar and returns them to Shredder. April and Splinter are finally free of the traffic, and they park the van and prepare to enter Shredder's hideout. Shredder shows Krang that he has the TMNT in hand, and prepares to crush them with a crowbar... much to the Warlord's delight. But before the evil ninja can deliver the killing blow, Splinter bolts into the room and engages Saki in combat. April finds the Eye fragment and uses it to return the Turtles to their normal size... but the battle between Splinter and Shredder isn't going well for the old rat! Just as Saki prepares to murder Splinter, the Turtles save the day! In the confusion, the Eye fragment finds its way into Baxter's hands, who tosses it to Shredder. The two villains make their escape, with the crystal piece still in their possession. The Turtles return home and watch April on the news, and then have their customary dinner... albeit a small bit altered.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (1989)

Publisher

Archie Adventure Series

Volume Description

Published by Archie Comics, this comic was based on mainstream version of the turtles. It started out simply retelling episodes of the then popular animated series but with the fifth issue the book branched out into telling it's own stories. Primarily written by Dean Clarrain the stories would often have an underlying environmentalist themes, over time the storylines grew darker and more mature. The series drew negative press when a storyline saw the death of the turtle's allies The Mighty Mutanimals in a massacre.

The three part "Future Shark Trilogy" which saw the turtles, Splinter and their ally Ninjara come to the aid of the older turtles in dystopian future proved popular with fans and elements and characters from the story were revisited many times in the series. For five issues the comic was renamed Cyber Samurai Mutant Ninja Turtles in a storyline that was set soley in the aforementioned future. By now the turtles fad of the eighties and early nineties had faded which meant lagging sales. Mirage wanting to put out their own color TMNT book made the publishers nervous of competition leading them to consider cancellation. Growing frustration of darker storylines came to a head when Clarrain and co plotter and artist Chris Allen submitted a time travel story involving the the future turtles Archie was displeased. The covers for the seven part epic "Forever War" were made with the belief that this would be final storyline of the series. Clarrain and Allen were dropped from the book and it was cancelled two issues later with the final storyline focused on a present Splinter telling the story of how pre-teen turtles picked their weapons written by Steve Sullivan and drawn by Brian Thomas.

Years later Clarrain and Allen would work on the second volume of Tales of the TMNT writing the original turtles for Mirage. It has also been confirmed they are working on completing the final storyline of TMNT Adventures "Forever War" with Mirage publishing it as part of the TMNT's 25th anniversary in 2009.

Collected EditionsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 1 (#1-4)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 2 (#5-8)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 3 (#9-12)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 4 (#13-16)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 5 (#17-20)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 6 (#21-22)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 7 (#23-27)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 8 (#28-31)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 9 (#38-40)

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