Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #43 The Future Shark Trilogy Part 2 of 3

Issue Description

Future Don explains to the TMNT, Ninjara and Splinter how New York City came to be flooded due to the Greenhouse Effect. The floods caused the rats of the city to move higher into the buildings of the city, creating a huge problem. Future Don worked with a cat mutant named Manx to devise robots that would kill the rats, and the two were very successful. Too successful, as their machines earned them the ire of the Rat King, who attacked the TMNT relentlessly. The Turtles eventually chased Rat King and his remaining minions away.
Future Don and Manx became extremely wealthy, thanks to their robots' effectiveness. But Manx wanted more than wealth, he sought immortality as well - and he devised his own cybernetics that he used to "enhance" himself. Unfortuntely, the biomechanics altered Manx, he changed his name to Verminator X and began to steal things and kill anyone who tried to stop him in the pursuit of his goal.
Of course, Verminator X had a falling out with Future Don, who began his own research on time travel. Don had initial success using the Eye of Sarnath as his power source, but the demands of the machine soon depleted the Eye and Don needed a new power supply. Future Don began work on a new Time-Slip Generator, as he knew his old one was only good for a few more uses. Unfortunately Armaggon arrived and stole the original time machine. Don then finished work on his second Time-Slip Generator, only to be assaulted by Armaggon, Shredder and Verminator X, who stole the new machine as well! So Future Don then set about building his thrid time machine - which he powered with normal electricity to go back in time and retrieve the TMNT of his past so they could help him and Future Raph stop Armaggon, Shredder and Verminator X.
While Future Don is telling his tale, Future Raph corners his past self and asks him to learn to lighten up and appreciate his friends and family. Naturally, Present Day Raph gets upset.
Meanwhile, Armaggon is completing work on his Time-Slip Generator, powering it with nuclear fuel, the bones of the Roswell Alien, Hitler's brain and the White Stone of Mecca.
Future Don then gathers our heroes together so they can use his time machine to ambush Armaggon, Shredder and Verminator X.
As armaggon loads the White Stone into his Time-Slip Generator, the portal screen begins to radiate with energy - and our heroes leap thorugh and attack their foes! A battle erupts as Armaggon arrives in a gigantic exo-skeleton, but the Turtles defeat it easily. Armaggon leaps from the mech and grabs Leo, bolting towards the Time-Slip Generator. The shark man takes Leo through the portal, with Future Raph, Raph and Don in close pursuit.
On the other side of the protal, the Turtles find themselves in a swamp - with no way back and no sign of Leonardo or Armaggon.

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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