IDW hires Matthew Rosenberg to write Ninja Turtles

The Wrap wrote a sugary announcement that Rosenberg, who once penned a far-left take on the Punisher, has been assigned to write a Ninja Turtles story for IDW, and they're even giving Shredder his own spinoff story, which looks like another attempt to put a villain in role meant for people who uphold the law:

In the new “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” comic arc, the heroes in a half shell are being hunted.

Beginning with issue #25 of the mainline comic book line from IDW, which begins a new run by writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Juann Cabal, the Turtles are being chased across all of New York City over the course of a single night, hounded by a roster of their most diabolical enemies. The new arc is titled “War All the Time.” [...]

See three exclusive art pages, an exclusive “TMNT” cover and two exclusive covers of spinoff series “Shredder” below. Briefly about “Shredder” – writer Dan Watters has taken the unforgettable villain in an entirely new direction as he is now the leader of the Earth Protection Force, think the “TMNT” universe’s version of SHIELD. While originally planned for a 12-issue run, fan demand was so great that they extended it to 18. It’ll wrap next year but IDW confirmed that there are plans to see more of Shredder in Rosenberg’s mainline “TMNT” run.

It's bad enough another ultra-leftist is being hired by a company whose current management is likely making the choices deliberately. But it's also tasteless to see how a villain's being put in a role meant for good people. It reminds me of 15 years ago, when Geoff Johns put Sinestro in a Green Lantern Corps role, as though his whole repellent past as an intergalactic criminal had never been. Seriously, was fan demand for Shredder to receive his own series where he'd be in a role meant for honest folks really that high, or does it exist? Well it certainly would tell what's wrong with some people in real life today. This villain-worship has gone on too long and has to cease.

And it's shameful how IDW's now hiring some of the most dreadful scribes around to pen properties that should never have been sold to conglomerates in the first place, yet that's what Ninja Turtles underwent, and now they're being subjected to bad writers who could very easily have agendas on their mind. This is why TMNT should really have stopped publication long ago.