Rat King (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) cameo appearance in "Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtles" Vol. 4, watching as Splinter succumbs to a heart attack and dies while retrieving milk from a refrigerator. Much of the Rat King's origin is later revealed in an issue of "Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Vol. 2; the story reveals that a group of beings known as the Pantheon exists, with each member of the group having jurisdiction over a species of animal. When the time of the Pantheon member who rules the rats reaches an end, a new one is chosen, a scarred and heavily bandaged (explaining the Rat
Splinter (novel) lives." In the SF Encyclopedia, John Clute described "Splinter" as an "enjoyable homage to and gloss upon the Verne novel." Splinter (novel) Splinter, published in 2007, is a science fiction novel by the British writer Adam Roberts. It is based on an earlier story by the author, "Hector Servadac, fils", which was part of "The Mammoth Book of Jules Verne Adventures". It is a reworking of "Off on a Comet", an 1877 novel by Jules Verne. The hardcover edition of the novel is included in a slipcase with a hardcover edition of "Off on a Comet". As in Verne's novel,