For over four years,IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been one of the best comics on the stands, hands down. It's a blend of everything that TMNT has ever been, and a synthesis that combines action,sci-fi and ninja mysticism into one sprawling, epic chronicle that has spilled out from an ongoing series into a string of miniseries and one-shots that have built something genuinely incredible. Now, and the series is closing in on its biggest chronicle yet with the release of #50 and the ultimate battle between the Ninja Turtles and Shredder's Foot Clan.
To effect the occasion,ComicsAlliance spoke to co-writer Tom Waltz, TMNT co-creator and series co-writer Kevin Eastman, and series editor Bobby Curnow approximately the history of the series,covering the process of rebuilding TMNT for comics from the ground up, the pleased accidents that led to some of their favorite new characters, and the surprising,heartbreaking challenge of coming up with something horrible to do to a party dude like Michelangelo.
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Source: comicsalliance.com