TMNT New Animated Adventures CANCELED

If you checked IDW’s July 2015 solicitations (or you’ve seen my recent July TMNT publications posts) then you already know that something is missing…TMNT New Animated Adventures.  I just confirmed with IDW that the TMNTNAA title has, indeed, been canceled.  However, IDW does have plans for it to return after a short hiatus with a new name / title along with a brand new approach.  I’ll be sure to keep you all updated as I find out more about that.

UPDATE 5/9: excerpts from an ICv2 article…

Bobby, can you tell us about what you’ve got coming up that is of interest to our readers?

Curnow: We’ve got our Ninja Turtles New Animated Adventures which is sort of a spin-off from the current cartoon. That’s going to wrap up in June. We’re going to take a little hiatus and then it re-launches as Ninja Turtles Amazing Adventures. What’s cool about that is we have a free leash now in terms of continuity. We can start developing our own characters and our own storylines. We’re also going to see back-up stories by noted cartoonists like James Kochalka (American Elf, Dragonpucher) and Andy Runton (Owly).

It’s going to be a nice mix. We’re going to get a nice ongoing, developing continuity that’s set in the animated world, but not confined to it 100%, and some fun one-off eight-page stories. It should be a little bit of something for everybody.

And who’s doing the series?

Curnow: It’s going to be rotating group of writers: Landry Q Walker, Matthew K. Manning, Caleb Goellner, a variety of people. Chad Thomas (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles New Animated Adventures) is going to be the primary artist.