Dark Horse and IDW have announced the first crossover event since the nineties of Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo and Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  The one-shot comic book will be available both as a comic book and as a deluxe hardcover edition; additionally, there will be a special variant edition with a cover by Mouse Guard‘s David Petersen.

“I had wanted to reunite Usagi and the TMNT for a while, but these are not the Turtles that he knew,” said Sakai. “Relationships have to be reestablished, suspicions overcome, and trust earned. The survival of all Japan literally rests on them working as a team.”

“Stan and I both started out the same year, 1984, and here we are still living the dream telling stories with characters we created over three decades ago,” said Kevin Eastman, cocreator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. “I love the fact that our two creations were intertwined from the beginning and could not be more thrilled that Stan is coming back to tell a new story in the IDW TMNT comics universe.”

In the upcoming crossover event, “Miyamoto Usagi has embarked on a quest to save Japan, and combining forces with the Heroes in a Half Shell to take on the maniacal Jei may be the only path to coming out of this alive.”

 

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