Old Hob's weasels



In the IDW continuity, 's weasels are a trio of mutants first appearing in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles issue #102. In a shady arrangement with of the, Hob mutated the three weasels to be bartered to the Foot as new recruits in exchange for food, ammunition and winter gear for Hob's  in Mutant Town. But as Hob and Karai's subordinate Koya argued over transit details, Diamond, a former Mutanimals enforcer who Sally Pride had just fired, covertly opened the weasels' crate to release them, but Diamond was herself attacked and bitten by them. The aggressive weasels escaped onto the streets of Mutant Town in search of food.

Trivia

 * The weasels first appeared on the solicited cover art for issue #103. Their description as being Hob's weasels immediately drew comparison to Caesar's weasels Tork, Hambone and Lyssis, who appeared in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness, a tabletop role-playing game book published in 1985 by Palladium Books.  The writer and character designer of Hob's weasels, Sophie Campbell, acknowledged that her characters were also weasels.
 * It was also incidentally apparent that Old Hob himself, a recurring IDW TMNT character since issue #1: Change is Constant, part 1, had always resembled Caesar's character in both role and personality.
 * The story arc that introduced Hob's weasels also introduced Diamond, a mutant porcupine who strongly resembles an unnamed mutant porcupine artwork drawn by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird for TMNT&OS.