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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios 1984)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Book II
The forces of good and evil marshal on multiple fronts. The Turtles have a new mission, but Shredder’s ambitions could put an end to it before it begins. Meanwhile, Krang has an arsenal and wit unlike any other and his master plan sees the Turtles come into direct confrontation with one of their mightiest enemies! Collects issues #13–24 of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ongoing series.
126 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1985
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Kevin Eastman
1,104 books345 followersKevin B. Eastman is an American comic book artist, co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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January 1, 2020
Good art. Bad writing.
April 27, 2020
Pretty much speechless from where the plot takes the turtles!
Growing up on the late 80's turtles cartoon and 90's live action movies, I thought I was prepared for how bonkers the Ninja Turtles could possibly get. But reading these comics, I was floored about what really happened and how the turtles got their start! In Book 1, we meet these crazy creatures, brought to life by a strange mutagen, 'kill' their teacher's old owner's rival and murderer, stop a city from being destroyed, then lose their master, and also got our first hint of possible aliens? Like whoa, a lot to process. Then Book 2 doubles down, sending the turtles to another planet, fighting smart dinosaurs with a run-away robot with a real person's mind trapped in it, to gladiator combat fighting, more alien stuff, just insane! But still so fascinating to read.
And then we get more detail into how the turtles came to be, and it's just exciting and so different than what I remember from growing up with the TV Show canon. Definitely suggest reading these just to get a sense of how much has changed since the Turtles really first hit the scene with the comics.
Growing up on the late 80's turtles cartoon and 90's live action movies, I thought I was prepared for how bonkers the Ninja Turtles could possibly get. But reading these comics, I was floored about what really happened and how the turtles got their start! In Book 1, we meet these crazy creatures, brought to life by a strange mutagen, 'kill' their teacher's old owner's rival and murderer, stop a city from being destroyed, then lose their master, and also got our first hint of possible aliens? Like whoa, a lot to process. Then Book 2 doubles down, sending the turtles to another planet, fighting smart dinosaurs with a run-away robot with a real person's mind trapped in it, to gladiator combat fighting, more alien stuff, just insane! But still so fascinating to read.
And then we get more detail into how the turtles came to be, and it's just exciting and so different than what I remember from growing up with the TV Show canon. Definitely suggest reading these just to get a sense of how much has changed since the Turtles really first hit the scene with the comics.
February 4, 2018
So... cool triceratops-like alien monster guys, but the robot aliens with gooey-octopus-blob things in the belly just make me think Dr. Who. Outside of that, the scifi space faring ninja turtle fun was kinda cool, but I suspect the younger me would have appreciated it more. Aliens and space travel seems so passe now. However, since I seem to have only picked up volumes 1, 2 and 4, I'm ever so grateful to Powel's who will be shipping me the missing volume 3. (Point being it was still awesome and I MUST know what happens next!)
October 6, 2024
And then things got weird. Eastman and Laird take their storytelling to the next level with original stories that rely less on satire and more on their own ideas. Once again, familiar elements that will be sanitized for the cartoon are present, but this certainly ain’t kids stuff.
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January 12, 2024Tomo 2 de los 3 que se publicarían en Argentina de la primera continuidad de las Tortugas Ninja.
October 27, 2022
You know, as I continue reading these, what I'm noticing is that while most of the Turtles have more differentiated individual identities than I was told to expect, Mikey doesn't really stand out much at all yet! Which if you've seen literally any onscreen version of the franchise is probably a bit difficult to believe, and I'm not gonna lie it’s kinda freaking me out!
This volume sees the turtle boys locate Splinter just in time to be accidentally teleported to a faraway planet by the Krang! Which, by the way, since the 1987 cartoon was my entry point to the franchise (like it was for many people my age), I always thought it was weird that Krang was not an individual but rather a species in several of the more recent adaptations, but it perhaps shouldn't surprise me to learn that that's actually how it originally was in the comics!
The heroic ninja (see what I did there?) turtle boys find themselves in the middle of a war between some militaristic humans called the Federation and the Triceratons! In a fun bit of timing I happen to have just watched this arc in the 2003 show and I can vouch for the fact that while it expands on it a bit it's actually super faithful otherwise, so that's pretty awesome. And yeah I may or may not be super thirsty for the Triceratons so I loved this arc.
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Check out my compilation review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on my blog, 24,000 Miles to the Moon! https://24000milestothemoon.com/2022/...
This volume sees the turtle boys locate Splinter just in time to be accidentally teleported to a faraway planet by the Krang! Which, by the way, since the 1987 cartoon was my entry point to the franchise (like it was for many people my age), I always thought it was weird that Krang was not an individual but rather a species in several of the more recent adaptations, but it perhaps shouldn't surprise me to learn that that's actually how it originally was in the comics!
The heroic ninja (see what I did there?) turtle boys find themselves in the middle of a war between some militaristic humans called the Federation and the Triceratons! In a fun bit of timing I happen to have just watched this arc in the 2003 show and I can vouch for the fact that while it expands on it a bit it's actually super faithful otherwise, so that's pretty awesome. And yeah I may or may not be super thirsty for the Triceratons so I loved this arc.
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Check out my compilation review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on my blog, 24,000 Miles to the Moon! https://24000milestothemoon.com/2022/...
May 8, 2012
If I say a story about turtles mutated by glowing goo and trained as ninjas from their infancy to their teenage years is silly but I’m not talking about the Turtles at all will that make any sense?
In this book the turtles discover a building with the logo TCRI, the same logo on the bottle of goo that mutated them so long ago. Having never in all of the years they’ve lived in New York looked up the company in a phone book or directory or tried to find out who they were they find they are suddenly obsessed with curiosity and break into the building, foiling a series of high tech security devices. What they find are aliens.
During the ensuing carnage the Turtles get transported across the galaxy to a world populated by a corrupt galactic Federation that is run by xenophobic humans and everybody speaks English clearly enough to communicate with the Turtles freely.
After that they get forced into some kind of gladiator combat with a group of aliens called Triceratons, which are so cool that I lament that fact that the action figure designers never decided to make one. Probably because the Triceratons are too violent for children. When their supreme overlord gets in the way they just shoot him. That’ll teach those pesky Turtles to take hostages.
If you can overlook these minor quibbles and the completely nonsensical way in which the Turtles end their adventure in a galaxy far far away then this book isn’t too bad.
In this book the turtles discover a building with the logo TCRI, the same logo on the bottle of goo that mutated them so long ago. Having never in all of the years they’ve lived in New York looked up the company in a phone book or directory or tried to find out who they were they find they are suddenly obsessed with curiosity and break into the building, foiling a series of high tech security devices. What they find are aliens.
During the ensuing carnage the Turtles get transported across the galaxy to a world populated by a corrupt galactic Federation that is run by xenophobic humans and everybody speaks English clearly enough to communicate with the Turtles freely.
After that they get forced into some kind of gladiator combat with a group of aliens called Triceratons, which are so cool that I lament that fact that the action figure designers never decided to make one. Probably because the Triceratons are too violent for children. When their supreme overlord gets in the way they just shoot him. That’ll teach those pesky Turtles to take hostages.
If you can overlook these minor quibbles and the completely nonsensical way in which the Turtles end their adventure in a galaxy far far away then this book isn’t too bad.
May 9, 2016
I bought this book back in 1987 and always wanted to buy the other volumes in the set, but back then I didn't have any money, so I had to be content with reading this volume... flash forward many years later... I recently got a new book shelf and was putting some of my old books and graphic novels on it when I rediscovered this comic again. I decided to look it up on amazon.com and saw that the other volumes were available for really cheap ($3 each) so I decided to buy them and finish the series I never got to when I was a kid... I've read volume II many times over the years, but thought I'd read it again to freshen up on the story. I have always loved the original comic Turtles... they are a little more rough around the edges before they started making toys and cartoons about them. I always loved the trans-dimensional travel in the original comics and the weird places the turtles would end up.... This was a great story and I look forward to reading volume III and volume IV....
January 8, 2011
This book was kind of weird. Its starts off reasonable enough, the Turtles are trying to find the source of the ooze. But then through a series of events they get sucked into across the universe to another world of tyrannical human-like beings and another race called "Triceratons" (or something to that affect; which by the way are a bipedal triceratops like creature that talks). They run into a Fugitoid, which apparently is a scientist's mind that got put into a robots body, who tries to help the Turtles and vice-versa. (I'm trying not reveal too much plot). Sound weird enough yet?
Anyways, it seemed like a writers plot to get two of their creations together and didn't really add much to the Turtles story as a whole. If you just want good Turtle power, skip to Book IV, Books II and III are kind of out there.
Anyways, it seemed like a writers plot to get two of their creations together and didn't really add much to the Turtles story as a whole. If you just want good Turtle power, skip to Book IV, Books II and III are kind of out there.
May 19, 2013
Love that they made April O'Neil a programmer instead of a tv news reporter. It feels like it gives her more strength as a character than the old cartoon. I also really enjoy the drawing style. I don't at all mind that this comic is in black and white. Love the cover for the fact that it wraps all the way around to the back.
This really makes me want to get the rest of these comics, as i only at the moment have Book 2, Book 5 and Book 7.
This really makes me want to get the rest of these comics, as i only at the moment have Book 2, Book 5 and Book 7.
March 17, 2014
Still as violent as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Book I, with the added bonus of the TMNT discovering truth of their origin.
Then things get a little weird with inter-planetary travel, and.... Nah, if I tell you any more, it'll give the plot away.
If you can get your hands on a copy, do so. And say "Hi" to Fugitoid for me.
Then things get a little weird with inter-planetary travel, and.... Nah, if I tell you any more, it'll give the plot away.
If you can get your hands on a copy, do so. And say "Hi" to Fugitoid for me.
June 9, 2016
I had a lot of fun reading this graphic novel. Borrowed the book from my brother Arlo. I've been wanting to read it for years, since I was a child. Never got around to it until recently. I've been a Ninja Turtles fan pretty much since the old original cartoons came out. Am I looking forward to reading the next in the series? Absolutely!
July 27, 2016
Pierde potencia y cierta frescura con respecto al primer, poderoso y casi revolucionario tomo 1 (no revolucionario a nivel contenido, pero sí retroactivamente a nivel mercado y repercusión multimedia), pero sigue siendo un comic muy entretenido y bien narrado.
February 18, 2012
Issues 12 - 14.
February 26, 2024
Segundo tomo de la inconclusa edición argentina de TMNT. Repite ISBN con el tercer tomo. Apareció saldado al poco tiempo de estar la venta.
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November 1, 2015Edición argentina, tomo 2.
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