12. First meet!
I CAN’T BE THE ONLY ONE SLIGHTLY PEEVED THAT WE DIDN’T GET ARMAGGON IN THE MOVIE-
I have no idea what the context of him was, but based on the animatics I assume he either traveled to the past with Casey, OR we met his present day counterpart. I like the idea of the latter (but I also like the idea that Casey still recognizes him from the future).
Hence. First meet.
(More versions under cut!)
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“Through the Swamp”
Throw back to way too long ago when I painted the Turtles going through a swamp along with a couple of Punk Frogs and Man Ray / Ray Fillet, with Armaggon and Leatherhead lurking.
Watercolour and gouache.
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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #149
March 2024
By Sophie Campbell, Kevin Eastman , Vincenzo Federici, Ronda Pattison, and Shawn Lee.
The Turtles discover the importance of QNA in their mutations as they try to reunite with each other and find the older Donnie, before Armaggon wipes them out of existence.
SCORE: 8
I guess that a proper conclusion to an arc that started with Mutant Town, kind of needed to touch on the topic of self-hate. Not that the topic is completely new to the series, but it's a reasonable one considering so many characters were transformed against their will.
But reading these issues makes me wonder if Armageddon Game just complicated what should have been a simpler story. A whole year was dedicated to the Pantheon saga, and in the meantime, all the character development necessary for this story to make sense was postponed. Now Sophie is trying to tell as much story as possible in just a few issues, and it's not enough.
The most blatant example of that is Mikey giving a whole exposition about his character arc that happened between the present and the future. If this comic was still planning to continue, the five turtles from the future would have had their own micro-series to explore what happened to them. Instead we have characters telling us a very rushed exposition about them.
Maybe I should continue this in the spoiler section...
So Bob can easily undo the effects of Mutant Town with this set of powers. He could have even demutated himself, but he chose to be faithful to Armaggon instead.
But of course, just because a lot of people got turned into a mutant, it doesn't mean that all of them want to turn back to human. In the case of Lita, as far as I can remember, she lost her parents. Or they abandoned her. As a turtle she found a new family, so it would make sense for her to want to be a mutant to stay close to them.
But there is actually another problem with Bob demutating Lita. She is a time lord in her mutated form. Assuming she is still alive.
Whatever happens, I am sure it will lead up to the Turtles going back to Feudal Japan to fight Armaggon, and possibly tie some loose ends around Krang and the QNA.
Again, I understand that this book has been trying to close plots for the last year, but another publisher would have released several tie-ins to tell the rest of the story that couldn't be properly told in one book.
After all, IDW is planning to multiplicate the Turtle books, so why not?
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Kind of remembered how you said in the reply of an old ask of mine about Newt how it be fitting that he makes a return in season 4 the space arc. Now I'm curious~ How would you have it maybe played out and how do you think it would happen?
I honestly don’t know.
I never really thought about that idea that much, I just felt it was a missed opportunity to bring Newtralizer back in season 4 during the space arc.
Maybe have an episode where him and Armaggon compete to see who should be Dregg’s personal assassin, since Armaggon is his current bounty hunter but (in canon) it was originally Newt, and they settle this by hunting down the Turtles. Who ever kills the most Turtles win!
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