The third Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover, Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, launches this week from DC Comics and IDW, and DC has released a preview of the issue. Appropriate for the "Crisis in a Half Shell" story title, the preview opens with red skies above an amalgamation of New York and Gotham City. Writer James Tynion IV and artist Freddie Williams II showed off designs for the characters from the series, all of which merge aspects of characters from Batman comics with those of TMNT ones, earlier this month. We previously talked about some of the heroes, but the preview shows The Laughing Man in action.

Who is the Laughing Man? He's one part Shredder, one part The Joker. In other words, the ultimate villain. Or in other other words: really, there's a fourth joker now?

I couldn't agree more! I'm thrilled to draw them as they do battle against the terrifying LAUGHING MAN, and his vile SMILE CLAN #BTMNT3 pic.twitter.com/n3M1usaA1u — Freddie Williams II (@Freddieart) April 12, 2019

Check out the preview below, and look for Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III #1 in comic shops Wednesday.

Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III #1 (of 6)

(W) James TynionIV (A/CA) Freddie Williams II

The 80th anniversary of Batman collides with the 35th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in this stunning concluding miniseries to the BATMAN/TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES trilogy. Our heroes have battled the evil of the Foot Clan in Gotham City and Bane in New York, but now Krang has gotten his hands on the most dangerous technologies in the DC Universe-and no universe is safe from his wrath! Co-published with IDW.

In Shops: May 01, 2019

SRP: $3.99