Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #60 Blind Sight part 2 of 2

Issue Description

The TMNT, April and Oyuki are working with Kid Terra and his allies to try to locate Master Splinter, Donatello, Raphael, Ninjara, Future Raph and Future Don.
We discover that the spaceship carrying the others was intercepted by U.S. Air Force stealth planes and forced to land at Area 51, a top secret base in the desert of Nevada. Raph, Don, Splinter, Future Raph and Future Don were taken into captivity at the underground base. Fortunately, a janitor there is one of Kid's friends and calls the cowboy to tell him what he saw.
Back at the base, the Turtles are interrogated. Raphael goes ballistic, which gives Future Don a chance to try to escape. As he runs through the base trying to get his bearings, Future Don discovers a captured alien. Don tries to pick the lock to free the being, but is thwarted by armed guards that take him away. Unbeknownst to the soldiers, Future Don had succesfully picked the lock, freeing the alien from its cell.
As the general chastises Raph and Don for being uncooperative, the alien arrives and psionically paralyzes him. Our heroes make their escape and battle guards on their way to freedom. But once the Turtles reach the surface, they're met by the general and a horde of armed soldiers. Suddenly, Kid Terra and the others arrive in a helicopter. Terra tells the general that he's come to take his friends home. The general states that he's willing to give up the Turtles if they hand over the alien - Future Don protests, but the alien sends him a telepathic message that it's okay. The Turtles are allowed to leave as the alien is taken back inside the base. Future Don promises to return for his alien friend and as our heroes are escorted off the base in pick up trucks.

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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