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SCOOP: Full IDW September 2024 Solicits With TMNT: Mutant Nation #1
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Nation #1 by Tom Waltz, Erik Burnham, Vincenzo Federici and Mateus Santolouco from IDW
Article Summary
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Nation #1 launches in IDW's September 2024 lineup.
- New story arcs and surprises in TMNT universe including Raphael's solo adventure.
- Exciting IDW releases featuring Star Trek, My Little Pony, and Godzilla series.
- Eisner Award nominee Beneath the Trees and Neal Adams' art showcased.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Nation #1 by Tom Waltz, Erik Burnham, Vincenzo Federici and Mateus Santolouco is launching in IDW September 2024 solicits and solicitations, filling in much-needed Turtle continuity between #150 and the new #1 as an ongoing series. With aliens and Casey Jones. it's published alongside TMNT: Nightwatcher #2 and the launch of My Little Pony: The Storm Of Zephyr Heights #1 by Jeremy Whitley and Andy Price.
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT NATION #1
(COVER A: JAVIER FERNANDEZ)
Story Tom Waltz, Erik Burnham
Art Vincenzo Federici, Mateus Santolouco
40 Pages • $5.99 • SEPT 2024
New ongoing series! Part 1 of the Raphael flashback adventure arc "Attack on Area 51"! Expect old favorites and new surprises in this new ongoing series! Between the events of TMNT #150 and the new TMNT #1, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles found themselves at a crossroads, attempting to keep their family united while individually feeling the need to break away and explore life in a world that knows about mutants. To clear his head, Raphael is heading west when a dormant enemy out for revenge on the Turtles engineers a dangerous detour to Area 51. When Raphael is held hostage with some unexpected old friends, his soul-searching quest mutates into a crisis as he brawls in the desert to keep the Earth Protection Force cache of coveted technology out of the wrong hands. Will Raphael find his new purpose away from his brothers…or just more trouble than he can handle alone? Tom Waltz, the TMNT mastermind and co-writer of TMNT: The Last Ronin, returns to tell brand-new stories about everyone's favorite anthropomorphic misfits with artist Vincenzo Federici. Plus, writer Erik Burnham and fan-favorite TMNT artist Mateus Santolouco present a four-issue bonus backup: after the events of The Untold Destiny of the Foot Clan, can Casey Jones tolerate Karai's descent into ruthlessness, or will he turn his back on the Foot? The answer ripples into the upcoming action in Jason Aaron's TMNT! Each arc of Mutant Nation will feature two stories exploring different corners of the TMNT universe, easily accessible to casual fans but with ties connecting the ongoing series and Nightwatcher.
Additional Covers Offered: 40th Anniversary (Lawson), B (Federici), C (Santolouco)
1:10 (Lonergan)
Cover 40th Anniversary (Lawson)
Cover B (Federici)
Cover 1:10 (Lonergan)
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: NIGHTWATCHER #2
(COVER A: FERO PE)
Discover the origin story of Mutant Town's protector, the Nightwatcher! Life in New York City marches on, but with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles scattered, the mutant population is more vulnerable than ever. The community needs a defender, and as the police struggle to address rising crime rates against mutants, someone else has to step up. A new symbol of safety and justice is born in the shadows, but even the best intentions can lead to unforeseen consequences…
Additional Covers Offered: B (Lankry), 1:10 (Ba)
Story Juni Ba
Art Fero Pe
32 Pages • $3.99 • OCT 2024
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SATURDAY MORNING ADVENTURES #17
(COVER A: SARAH MYER)
There are some strange shenanigans transpiring at one of New York's top museums as a recently acquired artifact is discovered disassembled every evening, and there are never any signs of a break-in! This is the kind of weirdness that typically tends to tug at the attention of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and their awesome allies— join Raphael and Mona Lisa in the start of a new arc as they race to solve the mystery at the museum!
Additional Covers Offered: B (Fonseca)
Story Erik Burnham
Art Sarah Myer
32 Pages • $3.99 • SEPT 2024
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SATURDAY MORNING ADVENTURES, VOL. 3
The adventures of the Turtles continue in this new series inspired by the classic animated series. Grab a slice and settle in with the world's most fearsome fighting team—Cowabunga! Season's greetings! First, the Turtles take on a nightmarish test of bravery at Halloween. Then, it's election season and Chrome Dome is running for mayor of NYC and when Christmas comes around Shredder decides to put on a ShredderCon! Also, a blast from the past comes back to make trouble for the Turtles with the return of Mister Ogg. Collects issues #6–8 and the Halloween Special of the new ongoing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures series!
Story Erik Burnham
Art Sarah Myer, Dan Schoening
128 Pages • $16.99 • TPB • SEPT 2024
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: AMAZING ADVENTURES OMNIBUS
Relive all the action from Nickelodeon's 2012 animated TMNT series in this graphic novel collection of stories based on the show! These four Turtle brothers are emerging from the sewers for the first time, facing enemies more dangerous and pizza more delicious than anything they could have imagined. Younger and ninja-ier, Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael will have to work together to grow into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This omnibus collects all 14 issues of the series and the three-issue miniseries Robotanimals! from a wide array of talent including Landry Q. Walker, Chad Thomas, Sina Grace, Caleb Goellner, Ian Flynn, Jon Sommariva, Matthew K. Manning, Dave Alvarez, and more!
Story Landry Q. Walker, Matthew K. Manning, and more
Art Chad Thomas, Dave Alvarez, Jon Sommariva, and more
408 Pages • $19.99 • TPB SEPT 2024
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: REBORN, VOL. 9: FIRST, LAST, ALWAYS
One hundred fifty issues have all led to this! Read the climactic finale to over 12 years of storytelling! Change is constant, but family is forever…at least it's supposed to be. Since recent events have left his family fractured, Donatello has taken it upon himself to do whatever it takes to protect his brothers from a threat only he saw coming. Little does he know it's already too late…Armageddon is inevitable. It's a race against time in one of the biggest TMNT stories yet! Collects issues #145–150.
Story Sophie Campbell
Art Vincenzo Federici, Fero Pe, Dan Duncan, Sophie Campbell
176 Pages • $24.99 • TPB • OCT 2024
GODZILLA RIVALS: MECHAGODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH
(COVER A: CASEY MALONEY)
From the mind of Tom Waltz, the legendary writer of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and co-writer of The Last Ronin, comes a whole new spin on a classic myth! Forget everything you think you know about Atlantis. The ancient civilization was once an idyllic island in the middle of the ocean, subject not just to the regular caprice of Mother Nature, but also under the threat—and protection—of kaiju! Mechagodzilla provides them with their one true protection against these monstrous forces, but is it enough when ambitious and evil members of the cultural elite try to summon a three-headed beast to take control? All bets are off when King Ghidorah swoops down from the skies. But its presence not only terrifies the island citizenry, it also awakens the King of the Monsters to emerge from its home deep below the waves. Can Godzilla prevent the legendary civilization from a watery grave?
Additional Covers Offered: B (Lonergan), 1:10 (Mason)
Story Tom Waltz
Art Casey Maloney, Maria Keane
52 Pages • $7.99 • OCT 2024
GODZILLA: HERE THERE BE DRAGONS II—SONS OF GIANTS #3
(COVER A: INAKI MIRANDA)
The original GODZILLA: HERE THERE BE DRAGONS is now a 2024 Eisner Nominee for Best Limited Series and Best Artist! For the first time, the biblical origins of one of Godzilla's greatest allies will be revealed—MOTHRA. A mysterious kaiju who appears in times of need— now revealed to have once laid siege to Egypt in the real story behind the eighth biblical plague. Then, in 1804, watch as the Sons of Giants begin to unravel… And finally, what brought all of the kaiju to Rome hundreds of years ago? This sequel to the hit miniseries digs deeper into Godzilla lore, unveiling the secret history of the world long hidden—until now!
Additional Covers Offered: B (Smith), 1:10 (Smith)
Story Frank Tieri
Art Inaki Miranda
32 Pages • $4.99 • SEPT 2024
GODZILLA: SKATE OR DIE #4
(COVER A: LOUIE JOYCE)
Godzilla, Varan, skater punks, Australia…and now, aliens? Last issue, an earthquake trapped our skater punks underground— and now they find themselves lost in a high-tech military base that was hidden beneath their skatepark?! While the kaiju brawl continues above, our skater punks unwittingly dive farther into the base—and their government's extraterrestrial secrets—in an attempt to escape with their lives.
Additional Covers Offered: B (Ba)
Story & Art Louie Joyce
32 Pages • $4.99 • OCT 2024
GODZILLA: THE WAR FOR HUMANITY
Everyone's favorite city-smashing monster may be humanity's only hope for survival in this twist on a classic kaiju battle! "Godzilla saved us that day." When Dr. Yuko Honda was young, she was chased by Hedorah, the smog monster, and thought it was all over…until Godzilla saved her! Now a respected professor and writer, she's dedicated her life to showing that while Godzilla may be a monster, that doesn't mean it and the other kaiju are enemies. Unfortunately, when a strange new monster emerges, her belief in the good of Godzilla will be put to the test. If Godzilla doesn't defend them, what can humanity do against the might of ZOOSPORA?! Find out in this titanic tale written by Andrew MacLean (Head Lopper) with art by Jake Smith (Blood Force Trauma)!
Story Andrew MacLean
Art Jake Smith
128 Pages • $19.99 • TPB
GODZILLA LIBRARY COLLECTION, VOL. 3
Relive the destruction of the History's Greatest Monster series in this IDW Library Collection! Cities, special forces teams, and a legion of kaiju are no match for…Godzilla! The Godzilla Library Collection is a comprehensive line of books that will collect every comic series by IDW! Volume 3 collects the 13-issue series History's Greatest Monster by Duane Swierczynski and Simon Gane. Godzilla continues to destroy cities and lives all over the world, and ex– special forces tough guy Boxer is a man with a grudge who vows to end the terror—no matter what! He assembles a top-notch team to take Godzilla and the other monsters down at $7 billion a bounty.
Story Duane Swierczynski
Art Simon Gane, Dave Wachter
328 Pages • $29.99 • TPB
STAR TREK #24
(COVER A: MEGAN LEVENS)
Reality has literally begun collapsing around Captain Sisko and the U.S.S. Theseus crew as they race through space and, one by one, witness the gods be annihilated by the new godkiller! The detonation of a god-scale bomb at the Pleroma started a chain reaction beginning the unraveling of time and space. But the Theseus crew are Starfleet officers ready to step up to the plate and boldly take on the unknown, and their captain is a prophet ready to embrace his godhood for the sake of the universe…or else!
Additional Covers Offered: B (Ward), 1:10 (Lendl Connecting Stained Glass Variant)
Story Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
Art & Cover A Megan Levens
32 Pages • $4.99 • SEPT 2024
STAR TREK: DEFIANT #19
(COVER A: ÁNGEL UNZUETA)
Miles O'Brien and his trusty holohelm set course for the planet Antara as Romulan forces prepare to besiege the population with Worf, B'Elanna, and Ro among them. A menacing Romulan blockade stands between him and his friends, but as he braces to brave the Romulans alone, matters are further complicated when an old friend—none other than Dr. Julian Bashir—delivers an urgent message from Section 31. Meanwhile, on Romulus, Commander Sela and Spock uncover a dark secret that General Revo is willing to kill to keep hidden…
Additional Covers Offered: B (Mason), 1:10 (Shalvey)
Story Christopher Cantwell
Art Ángel Unzueta
32 Pages • $4.99 • SEPT 2024
STAR TREK, VOL. 1: GODSHOCK
Deep Space Nine captain Benjamin Sisko returns in a new ongoing series featuring fan-favorite characters from across the Star Trek universe. Now available in gorgeous softcover format with a new cover! Star Trek: Year Five lead writers Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly (Batman Beyond, Captain America) and artists Ramon Rosanas, Oleg Chudakov, Joe Eisma, and Erik Tamayo present a new ship, a new mission, and a lot of old friends! Sisko is joined by Commanders Data and Worf, and Dr. Beverly Crusher, of Star Trek: The Next Generation; Lt. Tom Paris, of Star Trek: Voyager; Captain Montgomery Scott, of Star Trek; and Ben's son, Jake. But there are new faces as well, to surprise established fans while showing new readers the ropes. Collects the prequel short story "A Perfect System" from Star Trek #400 and issues #1–6 of the Eisner-nominated ongoing series.
Story Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
Art Ramon Rosanas, Oleg Chudakov, Joe Eisma
192 Pages • $19.99 • TPB • SEPT 2024
STAR TREK, VOL. 2: THE RED PATH
The second arc of the critically acclaimed Star Trek flagship comic series continues with Benjamin Sisko's quest to stop celestial genocide! Now available in gorgeous softcover format with new cover. Sisko returns to Deep Space 9, and it's the family reunion we've all been waiting for—or is it? As Sisko reckons with the sins of his past, the Theseus travels to a mysterious corner of Cardassian space to uncover the secrets of the Prophets…and learn how far the Red Path have infiltrated the galaxy!
Volume 2 collects Star Trek issues #7–10 and the 2023 Star Trek Annual by writers Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing (Star Trek: Year Five) with artists Mike Feehan and Rachael Stott.
Story Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
Art Mike Feehan, Rachael Stott
152 Pages • $19.99 • TPB • SEPT 2024
STAR TREK LIBRARY COLLECTION, VOL. 3
Volume 3 collects stories featuring the crew from the Original Series! First, two stories set during the fourth year of the U.S.S. Enterprise's five-year mission! In Star Trek: Year Four the Enterprise encounters a strange series of planets, arranged to look like a strand of DNA floating through space. The crew can't help but explore once Spock realizes that the desolate structure once supported more than 800 billion beings in the past. In a sequel to "The Enterprise Incident," The Enterprise Experiment details the Federation's experiments with a Romulan cloaking device. Also collected are two one-shots featuring Vulcans and the Gorn! A Starfleet starship arrives at a planet on the brink of its own destruction. A once peaceful society is now savage and warlike linking itself to the turmoiled past of the Vulcans. Then, after their shuttlecraft crashlands on an uncharted planet, Captain Terrell and Commander Chekov calculate that their odds of survival are somewhat decreased when they find themselves facing off against an army of Gorn warriors.
Story David Tischman, D. C. Fontana, Derek Chester, James Patrick, Scott & David Tipton
Art Leonard O'Grady, Steve Conley, Gordon Purcell, Joe & Rob Sharp, Josep Maria Beloy, David Messina
328 Pages • $29.99 • TPB OCT 2024
THE ROCKETEER: BREAKS FREE #3
(COVER A: DOUG WHEATLEY)
Peevy and Rose narrowly survived the U-boat attack on San Francisco, but as witnesses to the danger, they are now targets! For Cliff to protect his friends, he's going to need to rely on special allies, including a mysterious figure from his past who previously had designs of his own for the rocket pack. Defeating the enemy will require some desperate measures, including the previously unthinkable—breaking into Alcatraz!
Additional Covers Offered: B (Johnson), 1:10 (Wheatley Full Art)
Story Stephen Mooney
Art Staz Johnson
36 Pages • $4.99 • SEPT 2024
BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES
2024 EISNER AWARD NOMINEE FOR "BEST NEW SERIES"! Don't. Murder. The locals. This is adorable brown bear and small town serial killer Samantha Strong's cardinal rule. After all, there's a sea of potential victims in the big city just beyond the forest and when you've worked as hard as Sam to build a cozy life and a thriving business in a community like Woodbrook—surrounded by friendly fellow animal folk and the aroma of cedar trees and fresh apple pies—the last thing you want to do is disturb the peace. So you can imagine Sam's outrage when one of Woodbrook's own meets a grisly, mysterious demise… and you wouldn't blame her for doing anything it takes to hunt down her rival before the body count rises and Sheriff Patterson starts (literally) barking up the wrong tree. Collects all six issues of breakout writer-artist Patrick Horvath's smash hit Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, now a 2024 Eisner Award nominee for "Best New Series"!
Story & Art Patrick Horvath
152 Pages • $17.99 • TPB
SEPT 2024
MY LITTLE PONY: THE STORM OF ZEPHYR HEIGHTS #1
(COVER A: JUNI BA)
The story begins in #1 and continues in two epic, oversized issues! A must-read for Friendship Is Magic fans as the world of Generation Four collides with the ponies of Generation Five. A storm's a-brewing in Zephyr Heights! For the first time in forever, Queen Haven is taking a vacation, which means Princess Zipp is in charge! And while the queen is away, the Mane Six will play. But the forecast for the substitute queen's reign is not looking good… A mass of clouds the size of a city is wreaking havoc on Zephyr Heights… It's hailing, it's snowing, it's raining, it's blowing wind, and all the Pegasi are in danger! The Mane Six quickly jump into action, but it's up to Zipp to save her kingdom. Her bravery may just lead to the discovery of a lifetime…and bridge the world between the past and present.
Additional Covers Offered: B (Andy Price)
Story Jeremy Whitley
Art Andy Price
32 Pages •$3.99 • SEPT 2024
MY LITTLE PONY: MARETIME MYSTERIES #4
(COVER A: ABIGAIL STARLING)
A dark force looms over Maretime Bay despite Misty and her friends solving each of the ghost's riddles! What is going on, and who is this mysterious spirit from the board game? The answer may prove to be hauntingly relatable to Misty, but can she take on the final challenge to save her friends and Equestria in time? Find out in the grand finale to Maretime Mysteries!
Additional Covers Offered: B (Shauna Grant)
Story Stephanie Williams
Art Abby Bulmer
32 Pages • $3.99 • SEPT 2024
MONSTER HIGH: NEW SCAREMESTER #2
(COVER A: ARIELLE JOVELLANOS)
Dreadful news, ghouls: Fearleading tryouts are upon us again—the time of year when every ghoul can be found practicing their tryout routines in the hallways. But the shouts of, "Go, Fright, Win!" have almost been drowned out by the sound of Cleo de Nile shaking in her Scaremes boots. Without her ghoul squad behind her, Cleo's reign as queen bee is losing commoner support, and she needs a spot on the team to secure her dynasty for another scaremester. Every ghoul knows that the fearleaders run the school, and none know that better than our queen bee. Nothing will stop her from another year in the goregeous uniform. But you know what they say… It's lonely at the top of the pyramid. —XOXO CryptCrier
Additional Covers Offered: B (Camacho)
Story Jacque Aye
Art Caroline Shuda
32 Pages • $4.99 • SEPT 2024
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #73
(COVER A: RYAN JAMPOLE)
This is it—the final event of the Clean Sweepstakes. Clutch closes the trap he's placed around the Restoration by using the Phantom Rider, a mysterious figure who's been disrupting the other racers, as an excuse to seize power. But with Surge and Kit about to spring a trap of their own, maybe Clutch shouldn't celebrate just yet! Meanwhile, Amy, Tails, and Belle find some friends who might hold the key to toppling Clean Sweep Inc.'s empire…if they can survive!
Additional Covers Offered: B (Fonseca), 1:10 (Fourdraine)
Story Evan Stanley
Art Min Ho Kim
32 Pages • $3.99 • SEPT 2024
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: BOX SET, VOL. 1-3
Join the Blue Blur for brand-new adventures as he and his friends race around the world to defeat the evil Dr. Eggman's robotic forces! Catch up on the first three volumes of the acclaimed Sonic the Hedgehog comic series with this box set! The evil genius Dr. Eggman has been foiled—but the work of Sonic the Hedgehog isn't over yet! In the aftermath of the latest epic battle, rogue robots continue to attack small villages around the world. In order to succeed, Sonic will need the help of his friends Tails, Knuckles, and Amy, along with some new and surprising allies. Includes Vol. 1: Fallout!, Vol. 2: The Fate Of Dr. Eggman, and
Vol. 3: Battle For Angel Island.
Story Ian Flynn
Art Tracy Yardley, Adam Bryce Thomas, Evan Stanley
296 Pages • $35.99 • OCT 2024
NEAL ADAMS' CLASSIC DC ARTIST'S EDITION
NEAL ADAMS IS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT COMIC ARTISTS OF ALL TIME: A hugely influential and popular artist, Adams redefined the way comics were viewed by both fans and creators. This Artist's Edition presents Neal Adams' original artwork scanned at high resolution and in color (though the art appears to be in black and white) so the reader can view pages and covers as close to their natural state as possible, mimicking the look and even the feel of original art. This artist editions includes five fold-outs!
248 Pages • $150.00 • HC OCT 2024
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE: THE COMPLETE LIBRARY, VOL. 9
Collect the beloved newspaper comic strip that chronicles the saga of the Patterson family in real time, over three decades, in this definitive edition.
The For Better or For Worse saga comes to an end in this final volume that finishes collecting Lynn Johnston's comic strip masterpiece. A fire at Michael and Deanna's apartment building leaves their family without a place to stay, but this coincides with John's retirement and desire to downsize their house. April takes one last summer trip to the farm and gets a job at a veterinarian clinic. And finally, the entire cast comes together for the wedding of Elizabeth and Anthony.
This volume collects every strip from July 20, 2006, to the series' conclusion on August 30, 2008, plus all of the new strips created for the second run in newspapers!
Story
Lynn Johnston
496 Pages • $49.99 • HC
NOV 2024
Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons II—Sons of Giants #3
Monster High: New Scaremester #2
My Little Pony: The Storm of Zephyr Heights #1
Star Trek: Defiant #19
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #17
Godzilla Library Collection, Vol. 3
Star Trek, Vol. 2: The Red Path
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Amazing Adventures Omnibus
Godzilla Rivals: Mechagodzilla Vs. King Ghidorah
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Nightwatcher #2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Reborn, Vol. 9: First, Last, Always
Sonic the Hedgehog: Box Set, Vol. 1-3
Sonic the Hedgehog #73
Star Trek #24
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Nation #1
The Rocketeer: Breaks Free #3
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees
Godzilla: The War for Humanity
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures, Vol. 3
Godzilla: Skate or Die #4
My Little Pony: Maretime Mysteries #4
Star Trek, Vol. 1: Godshock
Star Trek Library Collection, Vol. 3