Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Bebop & Rocksteady Destroy Everything

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2011) #16.1

by Dustin Weaver (Writer/Illustrator), Ben Bates (Writer/Illustrator), Sophie Campbell (Illustrator)

The dull-witted Bebop and Rocksteady are feeling dejected and without purpose after their defeat to the Turtles. However, when they stumble across a time-travel scepter, they realize that their craziest, most destructive adventure awaits! Will the universe survive?

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Time Travel, Superheroes

133 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 21, 2016

About the author

Dustin Weaver is an American comics writer/artist.

Reviews

[Jayson]

(B) 73% | More than Satisfactory
Notes: Stupid, stupid, stupid stuff! still, fun enough, art's up to snuff, just harmless fluff, though timey-wimey logic's rough.

[Chad]

Bebop and Rocksteady get a hold of some time wand thingy and travel through time. Sounds like it should be fun. Instead it was just an incomprehensible mess with hundreds of Bebop and Rocksteadys running around and lots of time line changes that are just waved away.

Received an advance copy from IDW and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

[Wayne McCoy]

'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Bebop & Rocksteady Destroy Everything' is a crazy timeline adventure where our witless villains do exactly as described in the title.

The Turtles go to a museum exhibit to see a mummy queen and see something unreal: the skeletons of Bebop and Rocksteady. When they touch a jewel being worn by the mummy, their time-travelling friend Renet shows up and they get whisked off on an adventure. It seems that Bebop has gotten his hands on a sceptre that creates time portals, and everywhere the villain boys visit, they create disaster. Continuity be darned as well as time travel rules. Bebop and Rocksteady even meet versions of themselves before they got turned into mutants.

It's all crazy and chaotic and even when it was over, I'm not sure how it all got resolved, but it was a fun ride. I like the idea of a whole dimension full of Bebop and Rocksteady just waiting for someone to make a wrong turn somewhere. I like the art style. It fit the over the top style of the comic. I'm glad I read this one.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from IDW Publishing, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

[Patrick]

Some fun comics. They had a strong retro feel to me, not a bad thing either way.
If you're a big TMNT fan definitely worth a look.

I received an advanced copy of this from NetGalley.com and the publisher

[Chris Lemmerman]

I...don't...what? Why does this book exist?

Bebop and Rocksteady get hold of a time scepter and proceed to run havoc across the timestream, closely followed by Renet and the Turtles, but there doesn't seem to be much point otherwise? The story crisscrosses over itself until there's hundreds of Bebops and Rocksteadys, and I just don't understand what it was trying to accomplish. The one thing it did do, I highly doubt will be acknowledged in the main book at all.

Add to this the fact that there's like 10 artists across 5 issues, and it's not very nice to look at for the most part either. The best bits are the concept art pages in the back of the trade. Glad to see the back of this one.

[Chelsea]

This was absolutely awful. The artwork was messy throughout and the dialogue was just long and all over the place. Ugh. The "plot" was contradictory and silly...I don't like time travel usually and this one was twice as messy as I've ever seen it.

[jess]

time travel is so confusing

[Ron]

Bebop and Rocksteady are a couple of Foot Clan wanna-bees who manage to get themselves mutated into strange animal-hybrids. They had left NYC, so why were their skeletons found with a strange mummy from the Cretaceous period and placed on display in the NY Natural History Museum? That is the question that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Renet the Time-Master from the 79th Dimension. The whole book is almost a circular loop that answers the question in the most obtuse way with plenty of recursive action that manages to get almost everyone where they belong.

[Alex]

I'm giving this five stars for the scenes in which bebop and Rocksteady meet their former pre-mutant selves, which the timelines, dimensions and turtles hijinx exist to make happen. Comedy gold, these guys continue to be the best thing about the IDW turtles-verse.

[Jamie]

Confusing betimes, but awesome!

[Joshua Williams]

25 books into the IDW TMNT universe we find what is without a doubt the worst trade ever.

[brianna]

Did I not understand some of the time travel stuff? Yes. DId I read this for the Pepperoni and Raph reunion? Yes.

[B]

Part of this I really liked: Bebop and Rocksteady are difficult jerks who can't be trusted with the power of time travel. They do, in fact, screw everything up. Rare to see a time travel story where they just let that happen.

Part of this I didn't like: Everything having to do with that time cop who I never saw before and never felt a connection with, every attempt to put the pieces back together, and, ultimately, this particular Bebop and Rocksteady isn't quite how I remember the characters. I think of them as more aimless and lazy rather than chaotic instigators.

[Ronnie Gardocki]

Absurd nonsense starring my favorite TMNT characters. Yes, little of it makes sense, but the art is wildly energetic, the book is funny and the characterization is on point. The boys are stupid, yes, but that doesn't make them any less dangerous. Well, maybe a LITTLE less dangerous.

There's a quasi-sequel, and I hope there's a miniseries of these two fools every year.

[Shaun Jex]

This was a lot of fun with fantastic art, though the plot is an almost impenetrable tangle thanks to time travel and a multitude of alternate dimensions that end up overlapping and intersecting. Bebop and Rocksteady are fun as always. Just don't try too hard to make sense of the story and you'll be fine.

[James]

TMNT: Bebop & Rocksteady

Love this book. Not your usual TMNT book but something more. The pig and rino were always my favorite turtles bad guys. Should be an unstoppable force, but just so dumb.

[Miclase_Mc]

2.5
This was weird, messy, and surprisingly fun, but also confusing as hell. It felt like it had a direction at first, only to completely lose the plot along the way. There are some genuinely fun moments here, but overall, it’s a chaotic miniseries that never really knows where it wants to go.

[Max Cherepitsa]

Черепахи милые, но сюжет какое-то куку

[Andres Pasten]

De los especiales más entretenidos de las TMNT

[Sheldon]

Time travel stories are hard to pull of successfully, this was not successful. I don't understand the need to have like bajillion artists on a spin off one shot series like this either.

[Burrito von Ska]

My introduction to the IDW universe and I *loved* it. Funny how the turts are mostly witnesses, and the emphasis is on the gruesome twosome.

[Evan]

Goofy, weird stuff for TMNT fans. It would help to be familiar with the IDW comic continuity going into reading this.

[Bryce]

This was an absolute slog to get through. I love Bebop and Rocksteady, but nothing in this made any sense. Also, I think I hate Renet, and I'm tired of dimensions and time travel

[Austin Davis]

I’m 121 issues deep into IDW’s TMNT run and these 5 issues are by far the worse in the run and maybe the worst comics I’ve ever read. These sucked so hard. One star is too high

[Matt Elliott]

Good fun, a fee dodgy moments and not great artwork IMHO

[Cyril]

Eh... what a mess. And the ugly art did not help.
Totally skippable on a re-read!
2 stars

[Douglas]

too convoluted for my taste..too much attempted fan service.

[Carola | adreamofpages]

I didn't really like the art style and I couldn't really get into the story either.
I think someone who is a fan would like it though.

[G-E]

C’est un comics correct mais sans plus. L’histoire est compliquée avec plusieurs voyages dans le temps et plusieurs univers parallèles.