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''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' is an ongoing comic book series published by IDW Publishing. Since its inception in August 2011, it has been the first new comic version of the turtles to debut after the sale of the franchise to Nickelodeon in October 2009. The initial creative team consisted of ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' co-creator Kevin Eastman (who collaborated on the plot and the page layouts), Tom Waltz (who scripted the series) and artist Dan Duncan. The series slightly re-imagines the origins of the Turtles, as well as other characters such as April O'Neil, Splinter and Casey Jones. It has also introduced new characters, such as Old Hob, a mutated cat, and Alopex, a mutant polar fox who begins her new life as an assassin of the Foot Clan. Notably, the series, like the original Mirage version, initially gives all four Turtles red eye masks until issue #5, where Splinter gives Leonardo, Donatello and Michelangelo their well-known blue, purple and orange masks, respectively. Additionally, the series features characters and plot devices from all over the to-date ''TMNT'' franchise, including Karai, the Utroms, the Triceratons, the Rat King, Professor Honeycutt, Leatherhead and the Pantheon from the Mirage Comics; Krang, the Stone Soldiers, Slash, Bebop and Rocksteady, the Technodrome, Dark Water and the Neutrinos from the 1987 cartoon series; the Mighty Mutanimals and their prime antagonist Null from the Archie Comics series; Hun, Angel, Darius Dun, the Street Phantoms and the Battle Nexus Tournament from the 2003 cartoon series; and Pigeon Pete from the contemporary 2012 CGI series. In August 2014, the Russian publisher "Комильфо" bought the rights to publishing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. ==Plot== Hamato Yoshi is a member of the Foot Clan led by Oroku Saki during Japan's feudal period. After seeing Saki act ruthlessly, Yoshi leaves the Clan and is marked a traitor. Saki orders Yoshi's wife and four sons to be put to death. Yoshi's wife, Tang Shen, is attacked and severely wounded. With her last breath she beseeches Yoshi to protect himself and the children. He flees with the boys and remains on the run for many years. Saki, who will later be known as Shredder, eventually finds Yoshi and his children then murders them all. Yoshi and his sons are reincarnated as a rat and four turtles in a research laboratory called Stockgen owned by Baxter Stockman, a scientist who has secretly allied himself with Krang. Members of the Foot Clan break into the facility to steal an alien mutagen. The animals are taken by mistake and after fleeing into a sewer they are covered with the spilled mutagen and transformed into enlightened, humanoid beings. Yoshi, now called Splinter remembers his past life and begins to train the turtles in the art of ninjutsu. An assistant at Stockgen, April O'Neil, names the turtles after Renaissance artists: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael. Unfortunately, the seemingly trivial event which led to the creation of the Turtles and Splinter is part of an escalating conflict between several powers trying to take control of the Earth: *The Foot Clan, with their leader The Shredder, who has survived into the new age due to the machinations of the shape-shifting witch Kitsune; *the Utrom warlord Krang, who plans to terraform Earth into a new home for the last survivors of his race; *and a mysterious Pantheon of immortal creatures seeking to subvert humanity to their will, as they once did in bygone times. Finding new allies as they go, the Turtles are forced to strive and save the world from total destruction as this many-fold conflict begins to spin out of control. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW Publishing)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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