The recent trend with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics has been to lean a little more towards the dark side of things. There's an obvious reason for that: TMNT: The Last Ronin was a monster hit for publisher IDW, one that pushed the comics in a tougher, more mature direction. The currently ongoing sequel series, The Last Ronin II: Re-Evolution, has taken and run with that tone, and the upcoming Jason Aaron-led relaunch of the main series, while different in many ways, also looks like it's leaning into a grittier approach to Turtle Power.
IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 40th Anniversary Comics Celebration, which publishes next week, is very different. For a start, it's an anthology, containing 11 new strips from a myriad of different creators. And while some of the stories have a harder edge, the comic as a whole is an all-encompassing celebration of the diversity of tones that this franchise is capable of.
