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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Animated Adventures #4-6
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Animated Adventures Omnibus, Vol. 2
Spinning straight out of the nit Nickelodeon cartoon, New Animated Adventures provides all-ages excitement perfect for fans old and new! Follow along as Mikey, Donnie, Raph, Leo, April, and Casey battle villains such as Baxter Stockman, Fishface, The Kraang, Tiger Claw, and more in 21 action-packed tales! Collects issues #13 24."
268 pages, Paperback
Published December 27, 2016
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August 1, 2024
This second omnibus volume collects issues 13-24, the second half, of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Animated Adventures. It is extremely similar to the first half, with the exception that one or two of the issues are slightly more creative (one is mostly drawn in first-person) and more of these issues tend to feature a couple shorter stories instead of one longer one. Due to the similarities, my review for the first half still stands and is included below:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Animated Adventures is a certain type of comic: bland, inoffensive tie-ins to media properties that feel like part of the universe and are enjoyable to read in the moment but don't tell particularly important or memorable stories. (Kids TV shows occasionally get this sort of thing.)
Personally, I enjoy the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV show. I think the characterizations are great, the plots are interesting and interconnected, the art style is distinctive, etc. It's a great show! And the 12 comic issues in this omnibus feel like part of it -- the characters are written similarly well and feel consistent with the show, and the show's unique look translates well to comic panels.
The only downside here is the plots. I read somewhere (unconfirmed) that there were serious restrictions placed on the authors to make the series fit within the TV show's continuity. If that's true, and I believe it could be (it "feels" true), it's definitely a double-edged sword. New Animated Adventures really does work as a good accompaniment to the show and part of the same universe, but it also seems like it's basically telling side-stories. Tons of great characters come back, but they're not participating in anything particularly meaningful. The stakes are scaled down considerably, and sometimes the stories follow sort of a jokey premise ("The turtles chase a package and learn at the end that it's not what they thought they were after") or basic moral ("Mikey learns a lesson about responsibility"). Granted, I don't think it's actually the point of the series to be some big deal with major lore implications -- but even though it does what it sets out to do, the breezy, unimportant nature of the stories affects my enjoyment.
Basically, just go into this knowing and accepting what it is. This isn't the next great and meaningful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, but it's a perfectly acceptable tie-in series of side-stories to the 2012 TV show.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: New Animated Adventures is a certain type of comic: bland, inoffensive tie-ins to media properties that feel like part of the universe and are enjoyable to read in the moment but don't tell particularly important or memorable stories. (Kids TV shows occasionally get this sort of thing.)
Personally, I enjoy the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV show. I think the characterizations are great, the plots are interesting and interconnected, the art style is distinctive, etc. It's a great show! And the 12 comic issues in this omnibus feel like part of it -- the characters are written similarly well and feel consistent with the show, and the show's unique look translates well to comic panels.
The only downside here is the plots. I read somewhere (unconfirmed) that there were serious restrictions placed on the authors to make the series fit within the TV show's continuity. If that's true, and I believe it could be (it "feels" true), it's definitely a double-edged sword. New Animated Adventures really does work as a good accompaniment to the show and part of the same universe, but it also seems like it's basically telling side-stories. Tons of great characters come back, but they're not participating in anything particularly meaningful. The stakes are scaled down considerably, and sometimes the stories follow sort of a jokey premise ("The turtles chase a package and learn at the end that it's not what they thought they were after") or basic moral ("Mikey learns a lesson about responsibility"). Granted, I don't think it's actually the point of the series to be some big deal with major lore implications -- but even though it does what it sets out to do, the breezy, unimportant nature of the stories affects my enjoyment.
Basically, just go into this knowing and accepting what it is. This isn't the next great and meaningful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, but it's a perfectly acceptable tie-in series of side-stories to the 2012 TV show.
April 10, 2018
Not bad, but the adult TMNT IDW series is much better!
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