Here's Your First Look At TMNT's Badass New Shredder Era

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Here's Your First Look At TMNT's Badass New Shredder Era

Fans can now get an exclusive look at IDW Publishing's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder.

Courtesy of IDW Publishing, CBR can offer readers an exclusive look at preview pages from the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder #1. Written by Dan Watters and featuring art by Michele Bandini, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder will mark the beginning of a new era for the titular villain as outside forces and a harrowing experience of his own drive Oroku Saki to once again take up the mantle of the Shredder. Readers can find the multitude of cover variants that the series' first issue will be available in below, as well as inked preview pages exclusive to CBR.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder #1

Written by DAN WATTERS
Art by MICHEL BANDINI
Colors by MARCO LESKO
Main cover art by MATEUS SANTOLUOCO
Variant covers by MICHEL BANDINI; KAEL NGU; DIKE RUA; and STJEPAN SEJIC

Per the official solicitation synopsis for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder #1, "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!"

The solicitation continues, "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."

Oroku Saki, better known as the Shredder, is one of, if not the oldest, enemies that the Heroes in a Half Shell ever faced, with his first appearance taking place in the pages of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 all the way back in 1984. Since then, the Shredder has been at the heart of nearly every single iteration of the franchise in comics, on television, and across numerous feature film and video game adaptations.

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In the primary IDW Publishing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles timeline, Oroku Saki has spent recent years playing the role of guardian angel and mentor to the Turtles, although it seems like all that might be changing with the impending release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder #1 goes on sale August 27 from IDW Publishing.

Source: IDW Publishing