The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles panel at New York Comic Con tonight was a big crowd-pleaser, with fans cheering and screaming for Ciro Nieli (executive producer), Brandon Aumen (head writer), Greg Cipes (Michaelengelo), Rob Paulsen (Donatello) and Hoon Lee (Splinter). The entire Season 2 premiere was shown - but we'll have more about that this weekend, after you all see it, in Max Nicholson's review.

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However, plenty of other new details were revealed, along with a lot of glimpses at what was to come via early, animatic footage.The classic -- albeit not exactly ominous -- character Pizza Face will be introduced, in a very funny way. Sounding much like Wario, when he’s first called Pizza Face, he responds, “I lika-that. Because I got-a pizza for a face!” One sequence showed Pizza Face having taken control of Raph, Leo and Don, making them attack Mike. As Mike is forced to fight his brothers, he apologies as he hits them, “Sorry, Don! Sorry, Leo!” Until he gets to Raphael and says, “Not sorry, Raph!”There will an upcoming episode near the end of the season set entirely in Dimension X. However, Nieli promised, “Even before that we get into some inter-dimensional problems.” His big reveal was that at one point, an inter-dimensional rift will tear open to a 1980s universe with some familiar characters – the 1980s animated Ninja Turtles! Nieli stressed it was just a cameo, but that yes, Rob Paulsen will speak to himself, via current Don and classic Raph.April’s psychic abilities will be further explored, as we meet a character named Kurtzman, voiced by none other than Robert Forster, fresh off his appearance on Breaking Bad. We saw a scene in which Kurtzman tells the Turtles and April that the Kraang have been attempting to terraform the Earth for thousands of years, but needed a “specific chain of human DNA.” He then takes out a photo of a baby girl, making April stare in shock.Shredder will go on a journey of his own, leaving Karai in charge. He will meet up with Tiger Claw, who was mutated as a boy into a tiger creature, growing up as a circus performer before becoming part of the underworld. Nieli said Tiger Claw gave them an opportunity to finally have “The cat vs. the rat,” and we saw an animatic of Tiger Claw facing off with Splinter and the two leaping at each other.