Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #66 Cyber Samurai Mutant Ninja Turtles part 5 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.

Leo's students, Mike, Raph and Mez face the horde of zombies - Raph pulls out Don's futuristic staff and uses it to electrocute the monsters. Meanwhile, Leonardo is almost overcome by the brains when Donatello returns and blasts them off his brother. Don explains that he used the exo-skeleton's ability to heat-up to burn the brains off of him and escape. Back inside the warehouse, Raph fries all of the remaining zombies with a mega-dose of electricty - which causes the staff to overheat and blast a hole into a nearby wall. Thousands of gallons of liquid pour into the room, along with brains and... Leo and Don! Just then, Craniac and Verminator X arrive and start shooting our heroes with laser blasters. Mike throws his chuks at Craniac, hitting the fiend in the face and causing him to fire his weapon into the ceiling, which collapses onto the villains. Craniac flips out and prepares to "carve the brains" out of the Turtles, but Verminator X turns his gun on his partner and states that they agreed to take no brains from living beings. Bemused, Crainiac announces that they'll all die when the asteroid hits the planet and escapes in his ship. The TMNT are shocked to hear about an asteroid on a collision course for Earth!

Verminator X laments forming a partnership with someone who "looks like a pig" as Raph grabs a pistol and points it at the catman. The two stand face to face, guns pointed at one another. Verminator X dares Raphael to shoot him - so the turtle does! Leo is furious at Raphael for using a gun, something Splinter had always taught them to avoid. Raph states that he'll deal with the consequences by himself... for the rest of his life... which will only last until the comet hits.

Cut to a scene in outer space, a ship is closing with the asteroid and fires a missile into it, blasting it to bits. As the camera pans out, we see that the pilots of the craft are none other than Donatello and Verminator X - now returned to his former persona of Manx. Donatello was able to save his life and return him to his former, heroic self.

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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