Over at the IDW comic con panel, IDW’s Bobby Curnow announced that Kevin Eastman is working on 48 pages TMNT annual, set in the IDW continuity (Cover above). Bobby describes the annual as “FULL story by Kevin Eastman, with Tom on script (as opposed to co-story by Eastman/Waltz). Kevin on full art duties. It’s a 48 page stand-alone story set in the IDW universe. It’s basically a caper gone awry, with various criminal factions in NYC vying for power, with the Turtles caught in the middle ” (Source: Technodrome forums).
MTV got the chance to talk to Kevin Eastman about the upcoming annual.
From the interview:
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Geek: What’s your take on where Raphael is emotionally when this story starts?
KE: With this one, Tom and I wanted to keep it a bit more “less intense emotionally” if you will–yes the arc’s are strong and meaningful, but most of the beats relate to the what is going on at that moment in the story as opposed to the heavier over all structure–not that this is outside of that, but the pace was intended to be faster, reactionary to the layers we peel away then and there rather than the deeper stuff.
Geek: How about Casey?
KE: Pretty much the same as Raph’s really–but it is his neighborhood, people know him so he’s a little more guarded of exposing Ralph on the one hand, but still trying to pull out all the stops to try and put the pieces of the puzzle together.
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You can read the full interview by clicking here.
Bobby also announced a new Ninja Turtles related mini series titled “The Secret History of the foot Clann” which will show how shredder Rose to power and how he came back to the present. The series is written by Mateus Santolouco and Eric Burnham.
The Secret History of the foot Clan will be a 4 issues mini series and has a tentative first issue release for December.