This Wednesday, August 27th, IDW Publishing is releasing TMNT: Shredder #1!

Dan Watters, the celebrated writer of Batman: Dark Patterns, Nightwing, Lucifer, Six Fingers, and Home Sick Pilots, teams with Michele Bandini (Batman Incorporated, Spider-Man: City at War) to tell the rags-to-revenge story of the ultimate ronin.

Here’s a look at the covers, the storyline, and preview pages
for this week’s new release from IDW Publishing!

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: Shredder #1

Chapter One: Only the Blade
Written by Dan Watters
Art by Michele Bandini
Colors by Marco Lesko
Letters by Darran Robinson

Covers & Cover Artists:
Mateus Santolouco (Cover A)
Michele Bandini (Cover B)
Kael Ngu (Cover C)
Blank Variant (Cover D)
Mateus Santolouco (Cover E – Foil Variant)
Kael Ngu (Cover F – Black & White Variant)
Dike Ruan (Cover G)
Stjepan Šejić (Cover H)

As a dark new power rises from the shadows of New York, so does a much darker power return to the city’s streets… for revenge. One of the most terrifying villains in the history of comics is back-and more deadly than ever!

Returned forever changed by a maddening ordeal beyond imagining, the Shredder is a man out of time, betrayed by all around him, without the Foot Clan, and quite possibly insane. When one of his former Foot prodigies forms their own rival clan with infernal designs on New York, a recovering Shredder must quest deep into the criminal underworld, where enemies both old and new will discover what defiance will bring them at the end of the Shredder’s blades.


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