Diamond Comics has issued the following missive to retailers explaining why they won't be getting quite as many copies of TMNT: The Last Ronin, the new Turtles comic book writer by Turtles creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.
Regarding TMNT: The Last Ronin #1, IDW unfortunately set print quantities in advance of FOC due to considerations stemming[...]
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And it's the launch of TMNT: The Last Ronin series by Eastman and Laird which puts on the most orders (unless you are Mammoth Comics) ahead of Spawn #111 (which has put on a fair amount up to 150,000) and the second issue of Department Of Truth (up to 50,000) and Giga (up to 28,000).
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Artist Jon Mastajwood created retailer exclusive cover for the launch of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin #1, completed two weeks before the cover deadline.
However, when the store owners emailed their representative at IDW, Rosalind Morehead, to make sure everything was proceeding as expected, only to receive an automatic[...]
Eastman then shifted to talking about the TMNT 2012 Annual which he and Waltz did, where Eastman "had this huge grid of what I wanted to do, this sort of Guy Ritchie sort of heist, and I think I was like what the hell am I supposed to do with this, but Tom helped me[...]