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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #48 Black Hole Trilogy Number One of Three
Cover Date: September, 1993
Sarnath's ship arrives in Dimension X near a Black Hole. As Don explains to everyone what a Black Hole is, their craft is suddenly attacked by Ki'Rec and his Imperial Aerwyl Fleet. Sarnath fights back and a space dogfight ensues. Everyone puts on pressur ...
Issue Description
Sarnath's ship arrives in Dimension X near a Black Hole. As Don explains to everyone what a Black Hole is, their craft is suddenly attacked by Ki'Rec and his Imperial Aerwyl Fleet. Sarnath fights back and a space dogfight ensues. Everyone puts on pressurized space suits in case they need to abandon ship.
Sarnath does well dispatching the attackers, but his ship takes heavy damage and is eventually destroyed. As the Turtles and Ninjara float in space, they see the wreckage of Sarnath's ship being pulled towards the Black Hole. Mikey screams to their friend to eject, but Sarnath states that there's no time to save both Qark and himself, and he jettisons an escape pod as his ship disappears into the Hole.
The Turtles find themselves under attack from the remaining Imperials. Just as all seems lost, a strange ship arrives and destroys the attacking vessels. The pilot pulls alongside our heroes, explains that the ship belongs to the Nova Posse, and offers them a ride. Once on board, the TMNT met the rest of the Posse. The pilot is a gargoyle-like alien named Zebulon, who is accompanied by a humanoid woman named Trip, a blue woman named Luna Azul, a purple man named Rave and a four-armed bat-like woman named Exeen. Trip explains that the Black Hole they've just encountered didn't exist in that spot a mere six months ago - in fact, there wasn't even a star in that location that could have become a Black Hole. Donatello states that's impossible, and the Posse explains that not only is it possible, it's getting bigger and devouring everything in its path.
The ship then comes upon Stump Asteroid, where a huge fleet of ships is circling (among them Cudley the Cowlick). The Posse land on the asteroid, where they're greeted by Stump and Sling. Luna tells the materialistic duo that the Posse is at their service. Much to Luna's surprise, Stump and Sling are far more excited to greet the Turtles and begin planning their next wrestling match. When the Turtles explain that they're not interested and the Nova Posse has arrived to help assist them against the Imperial Forces, the wooden aliens couldn't care less.
Donatello excuses himself to go to the restroom. On his way, he encounters the Sons of Silence... and disappears.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (1989)
- Publisher
- Archie Adventure Series
Volume Description
Published by Archie Comics, this comic was based on mainstream version of the turtles. It started out simply retelling episodes of the then popular animated series but with the fifth issue the book branched out into telling it's own stories. Primarily written by Dean Clarrain the stories would often have an underlying environmentalist themes, over time the storylines grew darker and more mature. The series drew negative press when a storyline saw the death of the turtle's allies The Mighty Mutanimals in a massacre.
The three part "Future Shark Trilogy" which saw the turtles, Splinter and their ally Ninjara come to the aid of the older turtles in dystopian future proved popular with fans and elements and characters from the story were revisited many times in the series. For five issues the comic was renamed Cyber Samurai Mutant Ninja Turtles in a storyline that was set soley in the aforementioned future. By now the turtles fad of the eighties and early nineties had faded which meant lagging sales. Mirage wanting to put out their own color TMNT book made the publishers nervous of competition leading them to consider cancellation. Growing frustration of darker storylines came to a head when Clarrain and co plotter and artist Chris Allen submitted a time travel story involving the the future turtles Archie was displeased. The covers for the seven part epic "Forever War" were made with the belief that this would be final storyline of the series. Clarrain and Allen were dropped from the book and it was cancelled two issues later with the final storyline focused on a present Splinter telling the story of how pre-teen turtles picked their weapons written by Steve Sullivan and drawn by Brian Thomas.
Years later Clarrain and Allen would work on the second volume of Tales of the TMNT writing the original turtles for Mirage. It has also been confirmed they are working on completing the final storyline of TMNT Adventures "Forever War" with Mirage publishing it as part of the TMNT's 25th anniversary in 2009.
Collected EditionsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 1 (#1-4)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 2 (#5-8)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 3 (#9-12)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 4 (#13-16)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 5 (#17-20)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 6 (#21-22)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 7 (#23-27)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 8 (#28-31)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Vol. 9 (#38-40)Please first Sign In before leaving a review.