Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #68 Moon Eyes Saga part 2 of 4

Issue Description

Mokoshan continues to threaten our heroes when he's suddenly taken aback by Ninjara. The angry werewolf leaps down from his rocky perch and discovers that Ninjara is one of his kindred, and compliments her on her beauty. Raph gets angry and tells Mokoshan to head for home to get his clothes out of the dryer. Mokoshan ignores the testy Turtle as wind begins to swirl snow around him - when the air clears, the wolf man is gone, leaving a doe-eyed Ninjara feeling flummoxed.
Later that night, Ninjara sits by the campfire while everyone else sleeps - everyone except April, that is. The reporter asks Ninjara if she's in the mood for some "girl talk" and Ninjara reveals that she's not in love with Raphael anymore.
In the morning the group hits the road. Ninjara and Raph continue to fight. As they drive, Raph spots an "Indian dude" keeping pace with them on foot, but no one else sees the man. The group stops to take a hike and Raph begs Ninjara to talk to him and tells her that he loves her. Ninjara sighs and begins to explain her feelings when the others call them over to view some wolves feeding on a deer carcass. Ninjara spots the old man from the Jeep aiming his rifle at the wolves and screams that they have to stop him. She dives over the precipice that the group is perched upon and lands among the wolves as the hunter fires his gun... hitting Ninjara several times in the shoulder, ribs and thigh! Raphael freaks out and attacks the hunter, ripping the rifle from his hands and threatening him - but the boy appears between the two and beseeches Raph not to hurt his Grampa.
The snow begins to swirl and Mokoshan emerges from the murk. The mysterious werewolf picks up Ninjara and states that his medicine will cure her, and the two of them disappear into the gail. Raph smashes the rifle in anger as the hunter and his grandson flee. Raphael decides to head out in search for Ninjara, but Leo states that the storm is getting worse and they have to make camp. Raph protests, but Leonardo points out that Raph has no idea which direction to go, and the storm will only make things more difficult - they'll have to camp until the storm blows over. Raphael reluctantly agrees and the Turtles make camp. Later, April and Mike discuss Raph - Mikey says that he just needs some time alone and he'll be better - besides, it's not like Raph could go out in the blizzard alone to search for Ninjara...
Sure enough, that's exactly what Raphael is doing.

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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