Doom's the closest to the Morrison take on Lex, the man who COULD have saved the world, and didn't, because what's really important to him is conquering it and being LOVED for that.

Eric is a truly next level hater who wants to destroy everything the Black Panther is, because the Panther was supposed to be there for him and -wasn't.-

Major difference between them and Mags, and an important distinction to make? All of them are leaders, who truly could make something great. But there are multiple roles Magneto could adopt to lead his people. Teacher, general, philosopher, statesman. He's first among equals, with cause to be arrogant when he is.

Doom and Killmonger want to be -kings.- Which is why I think fairy tale is an apt description for them. You know what a man who kills to become a king is.

Should clarify, talking about the comic version of Killmonger here. Christopher Priest's take.
Oh yeah, also worth mentioning. Killmonger and Doom? Both capitalists. Absolutely aware of what it does to the world, Killmonger especially having suffered for it. Both of them perfectly happy to use it.

There's also the setting all three were built to work in, although Eric came along in the 70s and it'd take until around then for Mags to start becoming the multifaceted character we all talk about. The Marvel Universe begins in the Cold War, it's heroes powered by (cartoonish) radiation, often in the form of an accident. Hulk and Daredevil are mutilated victims of (cartoon) radiation.

That's the text. That this stuff isn't beneficial even when it -is- empowering.

DC's heroes were power fantasies. What if just for once strength, darkness, nature, science, fetish (in the case of Wil Marston) were on YOUR side?

Marvel's heroes lived in the atomic age, were powered by it, and didn't want to be here. The Fantastic Four are already kinda the all American ideal, and after their shuttle crash they become superheroes out of self defence, because now America will hunt them down with pitchforks if they don't market their radioactive mutations properly.

Peter Parker doesn't turn Spider-Man into a superhero just because Uncle Ben said a thing, it's because A) doing parkour and beating up muggers is fun, B) because J. Jonah Jameson pays for photos to run for his smear campaigns and Aunt May needs heart medication. And there's a lot you could say about the promises America makes Peter Parker's generation.

Point being, you have all these heroes who never asked for the power and obligation to do anything, and have an ongoing conversation about whether they -can- use those things to affect their society, the one invading Vietnam, never mind if they have the right.

So y'know who'd be a great foil to an uncertain hero? Someone who's utterly convinced he's right and the world owes them for their special pain.

Not every Marvel villain was that, of course. Any in-depth conversation about Magento should include the fact he starts out as a pretty stock mastermind type.

It's also interesting that Doom's first appearance only specifies his interest in black magic and the hubristic accident that scarred him, the fact he was orphaned (and he's Romani!) not revealed/invented until the FF's second annual, published two years after his first appearance.

This is where Doom graduates from simply hating Reed Richards to a man shaped by hate, -because- he was hated. Warts and all, we likely don't get the Magneto we know without this backstory.
Sorry for the delay, part of what weighed this down is this was in danger of just becoming an IDW Megatron thread. And it's hard to know where to start but I do know why I like "Megatron the Autobot" more than I liked "IDW Shredder Feels Guilty Enough to Become the Surrogate Dad", so I've narrowed it down to the issue I think summarises why, if MTMtE Megs works for you, it works.

This version of Megatron seeking redemption works because his redemption is a series of questions, from if it's even possible to whether he deserves it and where would he even begin.

Best will in the world, IDW Shredder just not being evil any more because magic or something I don't even know, is not that.

So many words to say I don't like Shredder leaving a cat on a stoop, good God.
His hobo-ninja outfit looks cool, I'll give them that.

Alright, had dinner, let's get on with it. This is gonna be the Splinter Clan dojo, our main setting for Campbell's run. Characters, backgrounds and detritus, three of Campbell's greatest artistic strengths!

Also, what song do you imagine this montage being set to? The Jason Segal Muppet movie has cursed my brain into playing We Built This City on endless loop.

#tmnt

Wonder who James is.

#tmnt

Continuing the theme of The Most Sophie Campbell Panel Ever.

#tmnt

Spent most of the past year moving into a flat, so I relate very hard to this image.

INTERNET.

Mikey in a Wu-Tang shirt.

#tmnt

Guess he can't wear his Batman shirt from vol 1 #17 because IDW Mikey has actually met the big guy and it'd be tacky.

EDIT: No, wait, he wore a Superman shirt a couple of issues ago, so are Clark and Bruce both fictional characters in IDWT-verse and they were just too polite to mention it to Bruce or...?

Couldn't you just shove both of them in a locker?

#tmnt

Should probably have something to say about this moment, one of several that cause a disturbing amount of middle aged white men who allegedly like this series to flip their shit, but Jen and Mona's outfits are eating up a lot of my attention span.
If you're wondering why these men felt that way, despite TMNT's long history with 80s music and endless visual gags of them doing mundane things, let me save you some time: because woke.
And no, not every aspect of Campbell's time at the helm can be accounted for as either having to adapt to the pandemic or having to pander to the Armageddon Game. You also can't pretend that a tans woman writing TMNT was only facing differences of opinion.
The metal show/battle of the bands storyline is usually held up by this kind of person as an example of what's wrong with this run. Putting aside a lot of inherent bad faith behind that sentiment, I think a good comparison is if you don't like it you probably have a good idea how I felt being told that the preceding 100 issues were going to contain the most epic moment of anything ever I'd ever see.
It's almost as if TMNT began life as a very idiosyncratic thing derived from it's creators' interests and should continue to be so.

Again, kinda wish this was April's role.

#tmnt

Let me put this in terms the TMNT wiki'll understand: yOu'Re nOt oN nIcK tOoNs aNyMoRe!

#tmnt

Music by Sebastian Evans II.

#TMNT

The covers for this portion of the run are great. So distinctive after a couple years worth of generic cape comic covers of the characters just standing/posing/gurning.

#tmnt

1) It is amazing how Campbell both makes every single mutant in this crowd and on stage distinct and keeps their positioning consistent across this whole page.
2) Story of my life; I'd -like- to be Leo in this situation but I know I'd be Raph.
#tmnt
God, lookit 'im. Standing there in the most normcore sweater possible yet utterly at peace with this sea of leather and fishnets.
#tmnt
Almost made a "future liberals want" joke but those panels are too perfect to need text, and, like, does the irony even work? Feel confident most people seeing this would be onboard with everything about this situation.

Need to commit to a better bit than how much the first 100 issues suck, at least until the Armageddon Game comes along, but to tide me over, because I'm that petty, and because the opportunity is too good to resist: Raph and Al after reading the first 100 issues, boom, did it.

#tmnt

JEN & DONNIE: In the crater after the bomb love begins to tentatively bloom
MIKEY: I'M ALIVE! FOR THE FIRST TIME I AM ALIVE
RAPH & AL: Fuck everyone and everything (not complimentary)

#tmnt

I love this joke.

#tmnt

Solid conversation, these poor kids are going to try their best. Also: possible neurodivergent Raph? "You're always so literal" and he doesn't twig when Al's kidding.

#tmnt

The above post was unironically composed to Barenaked Ladies' "Call and Answer" playing in the other tab.

Picking this back up because I can't sleep and am angry at the news. Meet Bludgeon and Koya! Two Foot clan mutants created along with Alopex, now working for Karai. You may remember Koya from earlier with Hob and Weasels and have grokked that she's a nasty piece of work. Bludgeon's thing is being more contemplative and diplomatic, despite serving, y'know, Shredder. I liked him well enough from what I read of him in the first 100 issues, glad to see he's still around.

#tmnt

Said in "But fusion is for WEAK GEMS!" voice

#tmnt

Forgotten the exact details but Koya has a serious beef with Leo specifically. He's involved in her losing her real wings and gaining some sort of soul magic replacements she can manifest. It's comics as hell.

1) Adorable together, aren't they?
2) Bandit and Puggle, confirmed gay male mutants, look so angry that lesbians exists.
Seriously, people complain about the book developing a romantic side but this kind of Actually Having A Life stuff was such a draw for me. The smaller scale stuff (and the eventual fights to keep it) was the kinda stuff I was hoping to get out of the X-Men's Krakoa era (which I wanna say was happening concurrently with Campbell's TMNT?) and never quite did.

#tmnt

I was honestly hoping Campbell's time with the Turtles would be another More Than Meets the Eye, which also didn't happen. But I'm glad she got what time she did and hope whoever's holding the reins in the future gives her another shot, preferably really doing her own thing this time.

Most of the issue after the club stuff is very nice slice of life stuff, and the amount of colour, personality and body language reminds me of your art, @Morg

#tmnt

Good craft here, two pages where a petty scuffle is avoided and a relationship budding but with sinister hints of bigger, darker things stirring in the background. And again, only two pages!

This is the IDW version of May-Ray/Ray Fillet, who's Archie debut was the first TMNT comic I ever had! Not sure how to feel about IDW's decision to make him one of Hobb's mutant revolutionaries, but there again it's not as if anyone's sitting up wondering whatever happened to Man-Ray.

#tmnt

@LeoJetSkiFuelnardo That's a very flattering comparison! I need to get a hold of some of these sophie campbell comics - every time you post pages I get sucked into artwork - they're incredible.