Just when things don’t seem as if they can’t get any more grim, another fan-favorite dies.

In the scuffle, though, Dr. Jones suffers a bullet to the chest.

Right before the end, the last panel to feature the new-age Turtles is them surrounding their fallen mentor.

Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi holding his green lightsaber in front of a blue image showing Darth Vader’s helmet

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin II: Re-Evolution#5 is available now from IDW Publishing.

Throughout the years, their comic books expanded to movies, TV shows, video games, and toys.

The Far Side, a wide-eyed man grinning wildly (left) while a man with a mustache looks on concerned (right.)

Characters from The Far Side drawing and waving.

TMNT’s The Last Ronin with a red moon behind him.

April O’Neil gets shot to death in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Last Ronin II Re-Evolution

April O’Neil dies in the arms of her daughter Casey Marie Jones surrounded by the TMNT and Zayton in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Last Ronin II Re-Evolution II #5

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