However, IDW did provide IGN with an early look at Bishop's character designs for the four characters. Even their names and colors are being kept under wraps. Unsurprisingly, Waltz isn't able to reveal much about the new family of Turtles at this early stage. In other words, we’re just getting started!" Meet the New Ninja Turtles "We’ll be filling in important plot/character details during those time periods…while also (hopefully) opening the doors for future tales to be told during the timeframe covered that we’re not able to get to in Lost Years (and/or Lost Day). "In the five issues of Lost Years, we’ll be covering approximately 16 years, both past (Mikey’s adventures in Asia and Europe) and present/future (basically highlighting the new turtles as they grow from age 3 to age 16)," Waltz teases. The creative team also includes letterer Shawn Lee. The flashbacks, meanwhile, will be illustrated by SL Gallant and inked by Maria Keane. Artist Ben Bishop and colorist Antonio Delgado are also returning, this time rendering the flash-forward sequences featuring the young Turtles. Lost Years is again plotted and written by Waltz and Eastman.
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Each chapter in this five-issue series (along with a one-shot tie-in special called The Last Ronin: Lost Day) will jump forward in time, tracing these characters as they grow from infants to full-fledged Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in their own right.
The other half of the series, however, looks ahead after the events of The Last Ronin and the saga of the new Turtles. We'll see how the former jokester of the family became the battle-scarred, hardened warrior he is in the present. As the title suggests, this book is partly devoted to fleshing out those 16 missing years between the deaths of Mikey's brothers and the events of the original comic. Lost Years is both a prequel and a sequel to The Last Ronin.
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And once we realized Ronin was its own thing - a new TMNT iteration - a lot of self-imposed canonical constraints fell away and we just started telling the best story we knew how to and hoped our fellow TMNT fans would fall in love with it like we were as we created it."
From the very start, what we now call the Roninverse began to clearly reveal itself, and Kevin and I knew we weren’t just doing something old… we were actually doing something new based on a timeless idea. Waltz continues, "Luckily for us - and despite what the publishing delays we experienced might’ve indicated otherwise - molding The Last Ronin into a cohesive (and commercially and critically acclaimed) comic-book adventure came naturally to us. "Personally, I could see how strong the foundational concept was from my first reading of Kevin and Peter’s amazing outline from 1987 - but knowing and doing are two very different things, and Kevin and I had our work cut out for us when it came to adapting/adjusting a 35-year-old outline into a tale that would still work for a modern audience." To say we were (and continue to be) surprised is the understatement of the century," Waltz tells IGN. "Kevin and I started discussing the evergreen potential of The Last Ronin from the very start, but neither of us ever expected the kind of reaction/connection the story has made with so many folks across such a wide demographical swath. The Last Ronin is a story almost as old as TMNT itself. But fans may not know that the origins of the series go back several decades, when Eastman and Laird developed their original pitch back in 1987. Issue #2 is actually IDW's most heavily printed single issue ever. It's no stretch to say The Last Ronin is one of the most successful releases in the IDW era of the franchise.
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