Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #54 The Animus War part 2 of 2
Cover Date: March, 1994
Animus arrives on the scene and declares that it has begun the Armageddon with the help of the End of Days scroll. Golani atacks the behemoth, who orders the possessed Al'Falqa and Katmandu to protect him. The TMNT and Ninjara have their hands full fendi ...
Issue Description
Animus arrives on the scene and declares that it has begun the Armageddon with the help of the End of Days scroll. Golani atacks the behemoth, who orders the possessed Al'Falqa and Katmandu to protect him. The TMNT and Ninjara have their hands full fending off human attackers. April and Oyuki arrive and try to get some footage of the battle. April shines a bright light on Animus, which cause the creature to recoil. Golani realizes that the monster fears the light, and so she blasts him with hers. Animus fades away, but vows that he will return that night.
Master Splinter reaches Michaelangelo's side, and discovers that his son has been blinded from the explosion that he was caught in.
Our heroes go back to their hotel to plan and recuperate. The group decides to take the fight to Animus and head off to find his hideout inside the Fortress of Nimrod. Oyuki stays behind with Mike, who can't leave due to his blindness.
Later that evening, the TMNT, Splinter, Ninjara, Al'Falqa and Katmandu find the Fortress entrance and go inside to investigate. They're immediately attacked by the men who freed Animus, but our heroes make short work of their foes. The Turtles find what they think is a giant statue of Animus, with the End of Days scroll at its base. Golani picks up the parchment and flies off with it - which causes the statue's eyes to glow. It wasn't a statue afterall, but Animus himself! Without the power of the scroll or its followers, the monster begins to shrink down in size, until its merely a few inches tall. Ninjara borrows a snow globe that Oyuki had bought as a souvenir and traps the miniature Animus inside.
Back up story featuring the shocking death of the Mighty Mutanimals at the hands of the Gang of Four.
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.
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