Dust off those nunchuks and start sharpening your katanas, because the boys in green are back in four-color glory! This volume plunges the Turtles back into their dark and mysterious ninja roots. April O'Neil, the Foot Clan, and of course the deadly Shredder all return to mix it up martial-arts style. Contains sketches, covers and more!
2 stars Poor execution of both the art and the script. It's obviously supposed to be read with the 2003 show but quickly deviates from the episodes. No wonder it was discontinued after only 7 issues.
I've never been as big a fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as many people my age; I think I'm just a little bit too old to have hit them at the right age. That being said, I like the concept. Unfortunately, these issues don't do much with the concept, which is even more disappointing when you see that they have a good writer behind them.
The art is one of the biggest problems, although it may be the coloring more than the line art. Either way, it seems murky and dark, and it's almost impossible to differentiate the turtles by the colors of their bandannas. But the characters don't really work either, as the turtles rarely display any personality, and what we do see is blended together, without much effort to give them unique voices. The issues also feel disjointed, with abrupt starts and stops. This could have been much better.
Public libray copy. This book collects content from a formerly cancelled series. I'm not sure what the point was in collecting an incomplete story, but there it is. I didn't care enough to read synopses of the unpublished stories.