Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #63 Cyber Samurai Mutant Ninja Turtles part 2 of 5

Issue Description

The five part "Dreamland" story takes place in the future and features the future versions of the TMNT in their Cyber Samurai gear.

Back at Turtleco, the brain "wakes up" and views scenes on the Time-Slip Generator of Berlin being bombed by the allies back in the 1940s.

Meanwhile, a boat is attacked by three heavily armored bandits. The guards onboard are severely outgunned and one is killed, but the Cyber Samurai Turtles arrive and defeat the exo-suited murderers - who mysteriously give off no signs of life when scanned. Don unmasks one to reveal a rotting, zombie face.

Verminator X is viewing the scene on a monitor in his spacecraft and vows vengeance against the Turtles for thwarting his plans yet again.

The Turtles split up to see if they can find any clues. As Mike flies through the air, Verminator X leaps from a building and lands on his back. The futuristic feline attacks Mike with a fervor, removing his exoskeleton and beating him senseless. As the villain is about to finish the Turtle, a strange creature arrives and tells X to accompany him.

Raphael is flying low patrol when a spaceship erupts out of the waters, nearly colliding with the ninja. Raph calls Mike and asks him if he can see the ship - but he gets no reply. Fearing the worst, our hero zooms off to find his brother.

Back at Turtleco, Don suspects Verminator X or Thanotics are behind the robberies of NASA parts. The two head towards the room housing the Time-Slip Generator and are shocked to see that it's on again and still showing scenes of Nazi Germany. Suddenly, Raph arrives with the body of Mike and announces that the fallen Turtle is not breathing...

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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