Because Frank Miller's Daredevil work inspired Ninja Turtles, he now draws a cover for one of the latest stories from IDW

The Hollywood Reporter announced Frank Miller drew a cover for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles coming from IDW:

Frank Miller was one of the major influences on Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird when the duo, then in their twenties, created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the early 1980s.

Miller’s popular work on Daredevil, which centered on a hero who received his powers from radioactive elements, finds a sensei, and fights a ninja clan named the Hand, were direct elements that the budding writer and artists borrowed in their creation of four turtles, who thanks to radioactive elements, become anthropomorphic, find a sensei, and fight a ninja clan named the Foot in New York City.

So it’s fitting, and a little overdue, that Miller would come to work a TMNT cover.

There might once have been a time when this could mean something. But Miller's artwork degenerated into mediocrity a long time ago, and looks almost as "blocky" as some of John Romita Jr's artwork from the time he worked with J. Michael Straczynski on his dreadful Spider-Man run a quarter century back. Oh, and there's also the following to ponder:

The issue will also have a cover by J. Scott Campbell and Juan Ferreyra, among other creators. IDW is also putting out a blind bag for the issue as well, all but guaranteeing No. 300 will be one of the top-selling indie issues of the year.

Indeed. This suggests that, much like Image/Skybound's approach to selling their M.A.S.K adaptation, they're going to use a tactic to potentially encourage speculators and hoarders to buy multiple copies in hopes they'll get all possible variants. Once again, this overabundance of variant covers is a disaster for comicdom, and no matter how much I find Campbell's work impressive, I can't overlook how he's been contributing to it.

All that aside, let's not forget IDW previously assigned woke writer Jason Aaron to work on their TMNT comics, and there's no telling if that's improved since. If IDW loses the license to develop/publish TMNT in the future, it'll be for the best, but if the franchise only makes its way to another publisher that's just as woke, nothing will change.