Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW Publishing)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The cover of issue number 2. Art by Dan Duncan; colors by Ronda Pattison.
Publication information
Publisher	IDW Publishing
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Superhero fiction Science fantasy Supernatural fiction
Publication date	Vol. 1.: August 2011 – April 2024[1] Vol. 2.: July 2024[2] –
No. of issues	291 (as of August 2024)
Creative team
Written by	Kevin Eastman Tom Waltz Bobby Curnow Sophie Campbell Ian Flynn Jason Aaron
Artist(s)	Kevin Eastman (8–11, 13–15 2012 Annual, 16–17, 19–28, 30–37 2014 Annual, 38–48) Dan Duncan (1–12, 23) Andy Kuhn (13–16, 23) Ben Bates (17–20, 23) Mateus Santolouco (5, 22–28, 33–36, 38–40, FCBD 2015, 45–50, 56–58, 65, 67–70, 75) (23, 29–32, 66) Cory Smith (37, 41–44, 48, 73–75) Ken Garing (51, 52) Michael Dialynas (53–55) Dave Wachter (59–64, 71–72) Damian Couceiro (75–78) Chris Johnson (75) Brahm Revel (79)
Colorist(s)	Ronda Pattison (1–150)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an ongoing American comic book series published by IDW Publishing. Debuting in August 2011, the series is part of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles media franchise created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird and was the first new comic incarnation of the Turtles to debut after the franchise's sale to Nickelodeon in October 2009. It is the fifth comic book series in the franchise's publication history and serves as a reboot of the franchise's story and characters, including those originating in media from outside the original Mirage comics.^[3]

The IDW Turtles series reimagines the franchise's titular characters—brothers Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo—as sons of Hamato Yoshi, a member of the Foot Clan led by Oroku Saki in feudal Japan. When Yoshi leaves the Clan, Saki (who will later be known as Shredder) murders Yoshi and his four sons. In modern times, the spirits of Yoshi and his sons are reincarnated as a rat and four turtles, respectively, in a research laboratory owned by Baxter Stockman, a scientist who has secretly allied himself with the extraterrestrial Krang. After coming in contact with the alien mutagen, Yoshi and the turtles are transformed into intelligent, humanoid beings. Living in the sewers, Yoshi (now called Splinter), remembers his past life and begins to train the turtles in the art of ninjutsu. Allying themselves with April O'Neil and Casey Jones, they are threatened by Shredder, who has survived through the centuries; Shredder's descendant Karai; and Krang, who seeks to conquer Earth.

The initial creative team on the IDW series consisted of Eastman, who collaborated on the plot and the page layouts, writer Tom Waltz, and artist Dan Duncan. In 2017, it became the longest-running comic book series in the franchise's history, surpassing Archie Comics' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures, which ran from 1988 to 1995. Starting from issue #101, IDW series writer and artist Sophie Campbell took over as the sole lead writer for the series.