Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin has scored second place on Circana BookScan’s Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels for 2023.
TMNT: The Last Ronin‘s sales are an impressive accomplishment in a list that is primarily dominated by manga titles. Circana BookScan is considered the gold standard for graphic novel sales information, with ICv2 recently providing the complete sales rankings for 2023, where TMNT: The Last Ronin snagged its high spot on the list. The collected hardcover for the series was second only to Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba, Vol. 1 and beat out some of the most popular manga titles, including Chainsaw Man, Spy x Family and Jujutsu Kaisen. The graphic novel went on sale in 2022 with a cover price almost double most manga trade paperbacks, making the sales figures an even bigger accomplishment for the series. TMNT: The Last Ronin was written by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird and Tom Waltz and was released by IDW Publishing.
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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE LAST RONIN HC
- Written by KEVIN EASTMAN, PETER LAIRD, TOM WALTZ
- Art by ESAU & ISAAC ESCORZA, BEN BISHOP
- Introduction by ROBERT RODRIGUEZ
The hardcover edition of TMNT: The Last Ronin collects all five issues of the miniseries in a graphic novel format. The Last Ronin is set in a future post-apocalyptic New York City, where one surviving Turtle goes on a mission to get revenge for the family he lost. The series is unconnected to IDW’s continuity, set in its own universe called the “Ronin-verse”.
TMNT Returns to the Ronin-verse with ‘Re-Evolution’
Following the success of TMNT: The Last Ronin, Eastman and Waltz will return to the Ronin-verse with TMNT: The Last Ronin II – Re-Evolution, releasing Feb. 28. The new series is set more than a decade after the Last Ronin defeated the Foot Clan, and New York City once again finds itself in chaos. A new generation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will rise to prominence and come to protect the city.
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The new Turtles were previously seen in TMNT: The Last Ronin: The Lost Years, a prequel series. Yi, Uno, Odyn and Moja have been training under Casey Marie Jones and TMNT: The Last Ronin II – Re-Evolution will see them, now with 10 years of training under their belt, ready to go out to restore peace to New York City.
The collected hardcover of TMNT: The Last Ronin is available now from IDW. TMNT: The Last Ronin II – Re-Evolution #1 goes on sale Feb. 28.
Source: ICv2
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