IDW Sends the Turtles Into a Triceraton-Ruled 2037 in Tales of the TMNT: Tear in Time

IDW is sending the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into their bleakest future yet. Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tear in Time, a new limited series from writer Andrew Joustra and artist Louie Joyce, drops the four brothers into the year 2037 — a world where the Triceratons have already won. Time-traveler Renet Tilley pulls Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael forward to rescue their older selves before the timeline collapses entirely.

Joustra has called it the largest-scale TMNT story he's written to date, and the series is positioned to braid together threads from the 2024 Mutant Mayhem film, the follow-up Tales animated series, and IDW's own prior comic runs — no small task for a book pulling from three different continuities at once.

Issue #1 arrives December 12, with pre-orders closing November 2, so retailers and collectors chasing early variants will want to get orders in well ahead of the release date.

Original reporting: Dork.