According to writer Peter David’s weblog, the Dreamwave series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be suspended with issue #7. Dreamwave had to pay licensing fees for the book and ultimately did not sell enough copies to turn a profit.
"As fun as the series has been to produce, writing the first four issues under the constraint that they had to be based on the first four animated episodes resulted in issues that were, I think, not representative of what the series could have been," David writes. "Plus, of course, one runs the risk of seeming superfluous since you're just rehashing stories people can see animated and for free. Issue #5, starting the run of wholly original stories, was the first issue I was completely happy with, and it was very well received...but not by enough readers."
David says a relaunch may happen this summer, but that depends on sales for issues #6 and #7 of the current series. Issue #8 was to have kicked off the four part "T4: The Turtlenator," a storyline Dreamwave has been advertising.
