Tales of the TMNT Lives On in Coastal Chaos Comic Book Series

Paramount whitethorn person canceled the animated bid Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aft 2 seasons, but that doesn't mean fans won't get to walk much clip successful this quirky beingness earlier the adjacent Mutant Mayhem movie. IDW is backmost with different Tales of the TMNT comic series, 1 with a distinctly summertime theme.

IGN tin exclusively uncover Tales of the TMNT: Coastal Chaos, a caller constricted bid that brings the Heroes successful a Half-Shell to the Jersey Shore and inducts the villain Armaggon into this animated universe. Check retired the slideshow assemblage beneath to spot each the covers for contented #1:

Like the erstwhile volume, Tales of the TMNT: Coastal Chaos is written by Andrew Joustra (who besides scripted the animated abbreviated movie TMNT: Chrome Alone 2 - Lost successful New Jersey and works arsenic a publication supervisor connected the Mutant Mayhem films) and illustrated by Louie Joyce. The archetypal contented features covers by Joyce, Khary Randolph and Emilio Lopez, Pizza Mert, and Chalky Wong.

Here's the authoritative solicitation substance for Tales of the TMNT: Coastal Chaos #1:

“I’m beyond excited for the accidental to support telling Tales and enactment with Louie again," Joustra tells IGN. "After our sci-fi escapade with Fugitoid, we thought it would beryllium amusive to propulsion the turtles into the heavy extremity with an all-out thriller. They’ll beryllium heading to the formation for immoderate sand, sun, and surfing, but their amusive is chopped abbreviated with the accomplishment of a definite apex predator. While shark attacks for humans are uncommon on the Jersey Shore… turtles, connected the different hand, are decidedly connected the menu.”

“It's been truthful overmuch amusive playing successful the Tales of the TMNT sandbox and I'm stoked to beryllium returning for Coastal Chaos!" said Joyce. "I had a blast drafting Metalhead, Fugitoid and robots galore successful the past series, but we're shifting to full-on mutant enactment for this one! Featuring a full clump of acquainted faces and a (very scary) caller 1 making their debut successful the Tales universe! Cue that iconic taxable from that formation movie that scares america each silly.”

Tales of the TMNT: Coastal Chaos #1 volition beryllium released connected September 9, with a last bid cutoff of August 3. You tin preorder a transcript astatine your section comic shop.

In IGN's Tales of the TMNT review, Tyler Robertson wrote, "The archetypal fractional of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ne'er reaches the heights of Mutant Mayhem. But it inactive plants a unsocial emblem successful the crushed by beautifully reimagining the film’s animation style, retaining astir of the cardinal elements that made Mutant Mayhem amazing, and telling a communicative that delves into the psyches of the idiosyncratic Turtles. The instrumentality of Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon, Shamon Brown Jr., and Micah Abbey and the idiosyncratic journeys their characters embark connected springiness uss adjacent much crushed to attraction astir the already-lovable versions of these iconic characters."

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