Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin II: Re-Evolution #[nn]

History

The sequel was announced at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2023, with the entire original Last Ronin creative team — co-writers Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz, artists Esau and Isaac Escorza and Ben Bishop, colorist Luis Antonio Delgado (also credited as Edgar Delgado in some solicitations), and letterer Shawn Lee — reuniting for the project. Originally solicited with a December 2023 on-sale date for issue #1, the series ultimately launched in comic shops on March 6, 2024, with subsequent issues shipping on a roughly bi-monthly schedule; issue #5 reached shelves on April 30, 2025. Each issue shipped in the oversized prestige format that distinguished its predecessor, with three standard cover variants per issue (Escorzas, Eastman, and Bishop covers) alongside a wide array of retailer-exclusive virgin variants.

Trivia · 8 facts

• The series is a five-issue prestige-format miniseries (IDW Publishing), with issue #1 on sale March 6, 2024, and issue #5 concluding the run on April 30, 2025.
• Written by Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz; drawn by Esau Escorza, Isaac Escorza, and Ben Bishop; colored by Luis Antonio Delgado; lettered by Shawn Lee — the complete creative team from the original The Last Ronin.
• The four new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Odyn, Uno, Yi, and Moja — take their names from the word 'one' in Russian, Spanish, Chinese, and Swahili respectively, and each wields all four classic TMNT weapons rather than a single specialized weapon, a deliberate echo of Michelangelo's all-weapon mastery as the Last Ronin.
• The series is set approximately 15 years after the conclusion of The Last Ronin, with the new turtles now teenagers under the training of Casey Marie Jones (daughter of April O'Neil and Casey Jones), who serves as their primary sensei.
• Casey Marie Jones acts as the de facto protagonist and field leader, carrying on the legacy of both her parents and of Michelangelo; April O'Neil appears in the role of 'Grammy-April,' the elder guardian of the new team.
• The new turtles are shown to possess mutant abilities beyond those of their predecessors — including Odyn's ability to turn to stone and Yi's apparent control of lightning and force-fields — a plot element that opens the Roninverse to more overt supernatural storytelling.
• The series exists in the self-contained 'Roninverse,' which is unconnected to IDW's main TMNT continuity and is set in an alternate dystopian future first established in The Last Ronin (2020–2022) and further developed in The Last Ronin: The Lost Years (2023).
• Issue #5 closes the Re-Evolution story while explicitly setting up a third Roninverse installment, confirming the Roninverse as a continuing franchise; a live-action film adaptation of the original Last Ronin was also in development at Paramount Pictures, though its status was in flux as of late 2025.

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