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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have just entered a new chapter in their lives, and it might just be the worst one yet.
WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #125, available now from IDW.
Mutant Town has come a long way in recent months, but its latest arrivals are already undoing more of those accomplishments than anyone could have imagined. Not only have the Punk Frogs come to town looking to take down the Turtles, they’ve hit the Heroes in a Half Shell where it hurts most. Even if the heroes of the Splinter Clan are still in one piece, that doesn’t make up for the home they just lost.
Despite the increased pressure from current mayor Baxter Stockman and the Earth Protection Force, the residents of Mutant Town have been making the best of things since getting rid of the threat posed by the Mutanimals. Unfortunately, the militant mutant army cobbled together by Old Hob is far from the only anthropomorphic one there is to deal with. Shortly after arriving in Mutant Town, the Punk Frogs make their way to the Splinter Clan Dojo – and everything changed.
Operating under the false assumption that the Turtles’ have taken one of their own, the Punk Frogs don’t waste any time going on the offensive. Even worse, by the time the amphibious assailants are done, the building that has become the Splinter Clan’s home is nothing more than a roaring inferno. Thankfully, there weren’t any lives lost in the fray, though that doesn’t diminish the danger that has left the Turtles’ lives in shambles.
Compared to previous iterations of the Punk Frogs, those seen in the pages of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #125 by Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Sophie Campbell, Pablo Tunica, Ronda Pattison, Bobby Curnow, and Shawn Lee are easily the most lethal of them all. To make matters even worse, the Punk Frogs are only one piece of a whole torrent of terror preparing to be unleashed on the Turtles’ world. Between the secret experiments being run in secret by Old Hob and Lindsey Baker, the open threat to Mutant Town being posed by Baxter Stockman and the E.P.F., and the other members of the Rat King’s shadowy cabal, all of the heroes’ efforts over the past two years may prove to have all been for nothing.
There is no doubt that the Turtles’ have been experiencing a recent spate of invaluable victories. Defeating the Mutanimals, bringing an end to their war with the Foot Clan, and getting to glimpse their own brightest future had previously all been signs that better days were soon to come for the heroes. Now, it looks like every battle they have won was merely a brief reprieve from the inescapable devastation that permeates their lives. The fact that Raphael wasn’t even around to help stave off this latest attack certainly isn’t going to help things, either. While he might have been on his newly regular patrols, that his absence from the fight was so noticeable speaks to how far the team’s dynamic has changed.
While the Turtles are entering a new era of tragedy rather than prosperity, the tensions that exist between them are more worrisome than ever. What is already a volatile situation could easily boil over into something much worse. The Splinter Clan will surely have no problem pushing through without their dojo, but it is the magnitude of the event that matters so much more than the loss itself. With any luck, the Turtles will be able to overcome this tragedy like they have so many others, assuming they can stick together that long in the first place.
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