Usagi Yojimbo

• Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #5
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• Writer: Stan Sakai
• Artist: Stan Sakai

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen comes to a close with the final battle against Dr. WhereWhen and his mechanical forces both within the castle where the Turtles and Usagi‘s friends have been able to reach as well as out on the battle field. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #5 offers an action-packed conclusion to the series with one big surprise in the death of a recurring Usagi Yojimbo character. The death of Yukichi, who has been a large role is recent Usagi storylines, is unexpected, but he’s given a heroic death here to save his friends.

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• Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #4
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• Writer: Stan Sakai
• Artist: Stan Sakai

The crossover event continues as the Turtles, the Neko Ninja, and Usagi and his friends battle their way to Dr. WhereWhen‘s fortress encountering some of his new mechanical monstrosities in the form of giant spiders and a dragon. They aren’t the only one to encounter Dr. WhereWhen’s clockwork creations as Zato-Ino and his daughter Ichiko also run into the foot soldiers in the woods and an entire legion on them is about to overwhelm the camp of Lord Noriyuki whose army is stalled licking its wounds and burying their dead before continuing on their march towards Lord Hikiju.

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• Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #2
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• Writer: Stan Sakai
• Artist: Stan Sakai

The second issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen picks up immediately from where the first issue ended in the classic hero misunderstanding with the friends mistakenly taking the newly arrived Turtles for the Kappa who have been terrorizing the area. This provides the only real action of the issue which ends with the arrival of Miyamoto Usagi, introducing Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael to his friends.

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• Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #1
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• Writer: Stan Sakai
• Artist: Stan Sakai

Ever since Usagi moved to IDW, here’s the crossover fans have been waiting for. Although the first issue of the new five-issue crossover mini-series doesn’t offer much in the way of interactions between characters of the two brands, it does set up an interesting situation with multiple time-displaced characters. With Lord Noriyuki leading an army against Lord Hikiju, Miyamoto Usagi‘s heartstrings are pulled by villagers in need of aid. And so Usagi, Tomoe, Jotaro, and Yukichi go in search of an evil Kappa.

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