Thirty Days of Turtles: Jagwar

Recently I decided that if I want to keep having new content on this blog, I'm going to have to branch out beyond Marvel and DC. They'll always bring in new content, and I'm sure I'll continue to find old ones I've missed, but it's time to move toward more unfamiliar territory. With that in mind, and because they have a new movie out, I thought I'd kick this new era off with Thirty Days of Turtles!

That's right: From June 3 to July 2, there'll be a post each day highlighting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles canon immigrants. Now, because TMNT canon is a little confusing, it can be hard to tell what counts as a canon immigrant and what doesn't. So for the purposes of this blog, a TMNT canon immigrant is anything (a) from the movies, cartoons, video games, toy lines, or tie-in comic series that later appeared in (b) TMNT volumes 1, 2, or 4 [because they're by the original creators] or TMNT volume 5 [because the original creators are involved, it's the new official continuity, and its goal is to use as much of the diverse TMNT lore as possible].

With that in mind, let's look at today's entry: Jagwar!

Jagwar first appeared in 1989 as a sketch for potential Playmates action figures. That action figure would never get made, but Jagwar would go on to appear in the animated series spin-off comic.

Jagwar would first appear in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #14 (August 1990). Despite going on to become a Mutanimal, Jagwar is not actually a mutant. Instead, he's from a secret tribe of jaguar people.

Jagwar would later go on to cameo with (most of) the rest of the Mutanimals in Mirage's Tales of the TMNT #58 (May 2009), although it's important to note that this is still the "animated" version because it's in a scene of the multiverse.