By request of Jephael, the "Road Hogs" mini-comic

[Andrew Modeen]

I've put all 9 pages of it up in fairly hi res for a limited time before I have to yank it down.

Grab it/read it while it's up, showing the distant future Raphael of the Mirage/Image universe:

http://www.actiontattoos.com/tmnt/roadhogs.html

[Jephael]

Thanks, man. I printed out all 9 pages of the story. It had such a great script, and it makes you wonder what became of Mikey and the others in that world.

[Andrew Modeen]

We don't really learn any of the new Turtles' names... the old Raphael just calls them all "Mike" because his (senile?) mind keep going to the past, as the comic shows us. What's interesting is that there is indeed a female Turtle among them.

What I find most ironic about the whole thing is, if we're to assume it's canon, and that's really (distant) future Raph, of all the 4 Turtles it is RAPHAEL that basically becomes the new Splinter for a new generation of all the Turtles. It's great stuff.

[Jephael]

Actually, I believe Donatello will be the last turtle alive. If you read Plastron Cafe #1, there's a gripping story where Don in the future has a VR simulated battle with Foot Soldiers and Shredder when he sees replications of his brothers and himself as teenagers. This gets him choked up inside, which leads us to the realization that he truly is the last one alive.

[Andrew Modeen]

While Don seems roughly middle-aged in Plastron Cafe #1 (though "middle-aged" as far as Turtles, particularly mutated ones, is a relative term... some real life Turtles like 150 years or so), a few wrinkles around his lips, the tale with Raph clearly takes place much further in the future than even that mini-tale... barely able to walk, wrinkles all over, etc..