🔴TMNT's Last Surviving Turtle Gets Genius Redesign in Last Ronin Fanart🔴
0The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ darkest and most depressing storyline is immortalized in this breathtaking and tragic artwork. The TMNT series has been on a roll with its incredible IDW comic book run and an upcoming relaunch later this year. But their most praised and well-known storyline in modern times has to be Last Ronin and its main character, Michelangelo.
In a recent Instagram post, Kode Abdo shared his beautiful artwork of the Last Ronin himself, Michelangelo. The art shows the older and weathered Mikey drenched in the rain while wrapped in the three ninja masks of his late brothers and his orange mask.
There is so much to unpack about this image, with how The Last Ronin portrays not only Michelangelo but the entire city of New York in the future. Mikey tries to wash away the pain he has endured for the past few decades and wearing his brothers’ masks makes him feel closer to them.
2020’s TMNT: The Last Ronin is a five-issue IDW miniseries by the original TMNT co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird with artwork by Ben Bishop and Esau and Isaac Escorza. The story takes place 25 years in a dystopian futuristic New York City ruled by the Foot Clan and Shredder’s grandson, Oroku Hiroto. It’s here where the last surviving ninja turtle, Michelangelo aka The Last Ronin, returns after an extended self-exile to avenge his dead family members and friends. With almost every hero and villain from the original series dead, Michelangelo works with April O’Neil-Jones and her daughter Casey Marie to kill the new Shredder before his time runs out. But this miniseries has done more than just serve as a great “What If” story.
Since it ended in 2022, The Last Ronin has received universal praise from critics and fans alike, who were drawn in by the mature and emotional storyline. IDW saw the success of this dark love letter to TMNT, and a sequel comic series was released in 2024 with Casey Marie raising and training a new generation of Ninja Turtles named Odyn, Moja, Uno, and Yi. Most recently, a Black Forest Games/THQ Nordic video game adaption and an R-rated live-action movie of The Last Ronin have been greenlit. There’s no stopping the money train with this incredible story that has reached so many old and new fans.