Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder, Vol. 1 Brings the Iconic Villain Back With a Deadlier Edge

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder, Vol. 1 arrives on August 4, 2026, from IDW Publishing, giving one of the most feared villains in comics his own brutal new spotlight. Written by Dan Watters with art by Michele Bandini and Sid Kotian, this new volume follows Oroku Saki, better known as Shredder, after his return to New York City. But this is not the same crime lord fans remember. Shredder is older, scarred, betrayed, disconnected from the Foot Clan, and possibly broken by an ordeal beyond imagination. That makes this new series more than a villain comeback. It is a revenge story, a crime story, and a dark character study about what remains when a legend loses everything except the blade. Shredder Returns to New York Shredder has always been one of the most dangerous figures in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe. He is not just a fighter. He is a symbol of fear, control, discipline, and violence. In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder, Vol. 1, that symbol returns to a city that moved on without him. A dark new power is rising from the shadows of New York, and Shredder must descend into the criminal underworld to confront enemies tied to his past. One of his former Fo...