TMNT: The Hunger is on sale today and all five covers are orderable, incentives included

Hun comes back from the dead in a bar, through a green portal that opens over a pool table, and the first thing any of the risen says about the experience is that something inside him is nibbling. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hunger is a 36 page one shot from IDW, written by Pallie Paul Allor, drawn by Gavin Smith and coloured by Luis Antonio Delgado, and it sits inside the ongoing City That Never Dies storyline rather than alongside it.

All five covers are orderable at MyComicShop this morning, at grades and prices the listing states outright. Cover A by Gavin Smith, Cover B by Dev Madan and Cover C by Chamba are in at the $5.99 cover price, in New. The retailer incentives have moved since the weekend and are in as well: Igor Monti’s 1 in 10 at $7.99 in Near Mint and $6.39 in Very Fine, and Isobel Rees’ 1 in 25 at $7.20 in Fine. When we read the same listing on 28 September, all five rows said want list. [1]

For reading rather than collecting, Cover A is the one, and its composition is the reason: Hun front and centre with a crowd of green eyed dead stacked behind him, Slash and Ninjara in the foreground with a sword and a set of claws between them.

Hun and the risen Purple Dragons step out of a green portal into Mutant Town, past a wolf in a sweater vest walking a small dog.

What it is actually about

The dead come back starving, and Allor writes that hunger as a physical complaint before he writes it as a theme, so a man saying that something is nibbling him from the inside arrives well before anybody in the book explains what has happened to them. One of the risen states the condition himself: death wants death. They kill, or they go back.

A risen Purple Dragon says his insides have teeth, then kills a mutant rabbit police officer in the street.

Hun’s objection is not to the killing but to the reason for it, and he gives the reason a whole speech. “So kill who you want to kill,” he tells them. “But murder is supposed to tell the world something. If all you have to say is ‘I NEED,’ you were never one of mine. Dogs need. Beggars need. Junkies need. Purple Dragons take.”

A distinction about appetite is a strange thing to hang a gang on, and it works. He has been a brawler, he has been Casey Jones’ father, and his authority has always come from what he can physically do, yet the line he draws here has nothing to do with strength. The hunger offends him because it is a need, and he is plainly more troubled by that than by the murder it produces.

Hun tells his risen crew that Purple Dragons take rather than need, and names the man sitting in his chair.

Who is in front of him

Two things stand between Hun and his old chair. One is the man currently in it, a Purple Dragon leader Hun says outright he intends to kill on the way back to the job. The other is the pair IDW’s solicitation names: Slash and Ninjara, both recently returned from the Battle Nexus, which gives the issue three characters who have all been somewhere else and come back, by three different routes. Slash, whose page has been in our character index since the site opened, has usually been the thing somebody else has to contain. Pointing him at a man whose complaint is about self control is a pairing with some wit in it.

Casey is not in the preview pages, and the solicitation does not put him in the issue. Hun coming back to New York sounds like a Casey story, and this one is not. His page here covers the Hun material. [2]

Worth the six dollars

At $5.99 for 36 pages, against the $4.99 on IDW’s other Turtles titles, the extra is being spent on Smith and Delgado rather than on the script. In IDW’s preview the resurrections are drawn in a green so bright it bleaches the bar behind them; the street where the dead arrive in Mutant Town is staged around a wolf in a sweater vest walking a small dog, going about his evening; and the murder that follows, of a mutant rabbit police officer, is the one page in the preview coloured red. Delgado has told us which of the three the book thinks is the shock. [3]

Buy Cover A to read it, or one of the two incentives if variants are the point. Either way, this is a villain who came back from the grave and used the occasion to tell his own men that wanting something is beneath them.

Notes

[1] Stock and grades read at MyComicShop on 30 September 2026, and the same listing read on 28 September. Comic stock moves. Check the listing before counting on a grade.

[2] MyComicShop’s listing credits the writer as Paul Allor. The credits page reproduced in IDW’s own preview reads Pallie Paul Allor, and we have followed the book.

[3] All art description above is taken from the seven page preview IDW supplied to Graphic Policy, linked below, not from a finished copy.

Sources

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hunger at MyComicShop - covers, grades, prices and stock, read 30 September 2026.
Preview: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hunger #1, Graphic Policy - IDW’s own seven page preview, 28 September 2026.
Cover and interior art: IDW Publishing, from the preview above.