In the City at War storyline, the turtles return to New York to put an end to the Foot Clan's civil war. Grabbing a stick, an angry Jones continually pokes the turtle until he loses his temper and sends Casey careening into the water. Donatello suggests they should continue the conversation when Casey is sober.
Casey accuses the turtle of using big words and acting better than everyone else. In the Shades of Grey storyline, Casey Jones encounters the turtle by a ravine as he was pondering "the fractal structure of natural patterns". The two newfound friends journey to a dimension inhabited by Kirby's creations and help the heroes defeat the invading monsters. In the Donatello one shot, Donatello encounters an artist called Kirby (an homage to the comic artist Jack Kirby) whose mysterious crystal brings his drawings to life before disappearing. He also finds an old typewriter and writes his own personal credo. Most notably he spent days and nights fixing the boiler to give his family hot running water and builds a windmill and a water wheel to provide electricity. During the turtles' exile to Northampton, Donatello becomes obsessed with fixing up and repairing the many broken things within the farmhouse they were living in.
Later in the issue, Donatello states that he is "familiar with some computer systems" and helps April O'Neil deactivate the Mousers. The second issue elaborated more on each turtles' personalities and opened with Donatello soldering a circuit. In the first issue, he is the one that killed the Shredder by knocking him and his grenade off the roof. While the comics portrayal of the team has no official command structure, in the early stories he is depicted as second-in-command. In the comics, Donatello is originally presented along with Leonardo as one of the two calmer turtles. He is named after the Italian sculptor Donatello. Donnie often speaks in technobabble with a natural aptitude for science and technology. In all media, he is depicted as the smartest and second-in-command of the four turtles. His primary signature weapon is his effective bō staff. In the Mirage/Image Comics, all four turtles wear red bandanas, but in other versions he wears a purple bandana. And now it seems that a whole mess of people are probably going to be buying Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #45.Ī statement from IDW about how this is not the time to get all cynical about publicity stunts could not be acquired at press time.Donatello, often shortened to Don or Donnie/Donny is one of the four protagonists of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all related media.He is co-creator Peter Laird's favorite Turtle. Though Newsarama does make a point to say that it’s never actually confirmed by IDW, Eastman, or Waltz that Donatello has passed on to the great, big laboratory in the sky (remember: he’s the one that does machines), the implications are all there. It appears that the asshole warthog/rhino duo remembered that bit where the Turtles are described as “Heroes in a Half-Shell” and, in their excitement, decided to celebrate by literally chopping the poor Turtle’s shell in half. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #44 features the conclusion to the four-part “Attack on Technodrome” saga, wherein the evil Shredder, finally fed up with with those damn Turtles never cutting him no slack, faced off against Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo alongside the squiggly Krang in a battle for the Technodrome.Īll of this occurs while the nefarious Bebop and Rocksteady unleash a surprise attack on Donatello (* sniff* hold on… no, I can do this…), who – despite the fact that Splinter taught him to be a ninja teen – is overwhelmed by the bumbling, shockingly violent assault of the two dim-witted henchmen, and is seemingly left for dead. (Perhaps you’d like to just hold on to what’s left of your innocence and watch this instead?) And though you would be right in thinking the “continuing saga” of four mutant, wise-cracking turtles might include being really hip and reminding us all to get a grip, the latest issue took a decidedly non-chill direction.Īgain, pizza-spoilers. This past Wednesday saw the release to IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #44, a book that features the continuing saga of the world’s most fearsome fighting team, as imagined by Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman and co-writer Tom Waltz.