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Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen (IDW Publishing) 2018 Dark Horse Books Publishing Usagi Yojimbo/Ninja Turtles: Complete Versionwhich includes a comic crossover between Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Stan Sakai’s Samurai Rabbit, starting with Sakai’s 1987 From the drawn six-page short “Turtle Soup and Rabbit Stew” to the 2017 Sakai created “Namazu or Rabbit Stew” “Big Fish Story”, a 40-page single shot published by IDW.
The title of that book, while important and valuable, is no longer accurate, as IDW has just published another TMNT/Usagi Yojimbo book, and it’s the most important yet: five issues, 144 pages adventure When is the location. Written, drawn, and lettered by Sakai with colors from Hi-Fi Desgin, the book technically features the IDW iterations of the turtles (at least the main four; Jennika is MIA), as they’re recognizable from the pages of “Namazu” out Usagi, but otherwise these could be any version of the Turtles, so the ending of the story is continuity-lite (which I, a fan of the original version, appreciate; these read like real Turtles, not specific turtles) their version).
The continuity is a little heavy on Usagi’s side, with some surprising changes to the cast – read: deaths – and in that regard, this is a crossover. In Age of Usagi, the story is set before the events of the 2014 miniseries Usagi Yojimbo: SenseRonin Rabbit is now a general and as part of the army, goes to destroy Hijiki and his army at the request of the shogun.
As they prepare to set up camp, a local villager approaches Usagi and tells him that the kappa is threatening them. Usagi seeks permission to hunt the turtle monster, and does so, so we see Starkey’s version of the famous Japanese yokai (also, it’s shaped like a turtle, which is, of course, auspicious for the Usagi character) creature) face before the arrival of the Ninja Turtles).
Meanwhile, in the present, four Turtles – “naked” compared to the IDW version written by Sophie Campbell – are tracking a supervillain, a space-time robot from the future called Dr. WhereWhen, he comes to his world.
However, his robots are no match for the Turtles, so he decides to escape further into the past where they won’t fight him there, and so he arrives in 17th century feudal Japan, or Usagi’s time. Due to the vagaries of time travel stories, WhereWhen actually got there before the Turtles did, and had time to use his futuristic knowledge and today’s technology to build various clockwork warriors and monsters.
After a brief confrontation over a kappa story, General Usagi arrives to greet his old friend (this story apparently takes place 20 years after the last Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Usagi Yojimbo crossover) and straighten everything out. When WhereWhen heard of their arrival, he sent wave after wave of attackers after the turtles in Lord Noriyuki’s camp, first ambushed by the mogura ninja, and then by WhereWhen’s “Samuroids” ”.
Rather than simply sit back and wait, the Turtles, Usagi, and some of Usagi’s allies storm into WhereWhen’s castle and find a variety of clockwork monsters to fight off. They successfully shut down WhereWhen’s operations and got hold of his time travel device, allowing themselves to return home (as to why feudal Japan was filled with talking animals instead of Japanese people, there were some brief hints that it was weird, but no What’s stopping the story; as always, Usagi Yojimbo is like a Disney comic, obviously meant to make the animals read more or less like humans, except maybe the mole).
At this point in his career, Sakai is as accomplished as any living manga artist, and he’s drawn enough Ninja Turtles to make him one of their better artists.
Each issue of the series features a wraparound cover by Sakai and a variant by Kevin Eastman, all of which are reprinted within. There’s also a single cover by Peter Laird and Eastman, which is a pretty big deal if you ask me, although it’s just relegated to the status of a fourth-issue variant ( It’s also not too turtle-heavy, featuring Leonardo and half a human being drawing turtles, because I can’t remember when).
Other variations come from Sarah Myer, who drew the “Retailer Incentive” covers in a highly animated style, including one with pupils in the eyes of turtles on the cover, showing them feasting on royal jelly beans. Good Burn, and a connecting cover by David Petersen.
Sadly, there’s no variant drawn by Sophie Campbell; I’d really like to see what her version of Usagi would look like.
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Comey Can’t Communicate Vol. 28 (visual media) Despite what the cover suggests, it’s not Komi and the girls in the cast who go to the sauna in this book, but the boys; specifically, it’s Tadano and Mei’s dad…and younger brother (obviously, Tadano’s dad is too Too shy to hang out with Tadano alone). As Comey’s father eventually admitted during the proceedings, they went on the date so he could connect with Tadano. They even ended up kissing, although it was a bit like the medical procedure triggered by Comey’s father pretending to be sick.
Kissing is something that lingers in the minds of Komi and Tadano throughout the book, and during one of Komi’s study dates they seem to become very close until her mother interrupts them. Komi’s parents seemed to like Tadano, in fact, dressing up and joining the children while they were studying, until Komi finally shooed them away.
Other stories in the book include a new version of “Summer Uniform Grand Prix” and “Quiet Studying in the Library,” where Wakai, who is unable to talk to girls, discovers that he can talk to Mambaji through a logic loophole, and where Kermit is talking to a group of people deal with.
My cute kitty roll. 1 (Seven Seas Entertainment) The inciting incident of this yuri comic is when Yuna brings home a kitten to her new pet apartment that she has shared with her college friend Rena for many years. Realizing that they may finally be going their separate ways, Lina is ready to finally let Yuna go, even though she is madly in love with Yuna.
What does this mean? “Look…I love you,” she admitted. “I don’t mean to be friends. I want to kiss you and sleep with you. That A kind of love.
To Reyna’s surprise, Yuna echoed her feelings…sort of. Or at least she wants to continue living together, and seems willing to let things be, even if it means entering into a lesbian relationship with her long-time best friend and roommate. However, her attempts to consummate their love are thwarted by circumstances, as Yuna is so drunk that she passes out and this will be their “first time” (Yona thinks this may actually happen, Although she doesn’t remember it) causing trouble for their newfound kitty pet Chibi.
Eventually, the two decided to move in together and find a new, pet-friendly apartment for their new family of three, while their relationship continued to take faltering, often frustrating steps forward, Rena said. Trying to determine if this is possible. she Adorable kitten Yuna is really ready for a relationship, and Yuna struggles with whether she’s good enough for Rena.
It’s a fascinating enough affair, with enough suspense and drama, despite the fact that the guilty plea came very early in the proceedings.
Star Wars: Darth Vader—Black, White, and Red Vault Edition (Marvel Entertainment) The character of Darth Vader seems to be a perfect fit for the Limited Palette Anthology series, as it is a Limited Palette character design, all black, with a bright red signature weapon in his hand. The book measures 8.7″ x 13.25″ and is a great display of art with names that I am very familiar with such as Leonard Kirk and Klaus Janson and some that I have heard of such as Peach Momoko , Alessandro Vitti and Daniel Warren Johnson, and some people I’d never heard of like Marika Cresta, Stefano Raffaele, Paul Davidson and Danny Earls.
The book is divided into four issues, one of which is a longer storyline written by Jason Aaron and drawn by Kirk called “Hard Shutdown” (Kirk is signed by Mark Morales in the fourth installment ), followed by two separate short films with stories from some other creators, and so on until the end. The series follows this formula, using short stories to break up the Aaron/Kirk story.
“Hard Shutdown” introduces a doctor’s son who works on building Vader’s robotic body, so he knows a special code that allows him to Star Wars The villain entered a blocked state and was completely unable to move. The idea was to then chop him up and sell his very expensive, state-of-the-art components while taking out the worst bad guys in the galaxy. However, things don’t go as planned, and although Vader can’t even twitch a muscle, his mind is still active, and he can still use his Force powers, allowing him to control all the tools in the room designed to cut him apart. Shattered, threw his body around to help, and even pulled a ship out of the sky.
The point of this story, besides endangering the 47-year-old character in a new and interesting way, is to emphasize just how powerful Darth Vader really is. In fact, this is a theme throughout the book, which is basically a celebration of Vader’s poor performance as he uses his laser sword and the Force to satisfy and defeat all opponents, even if he has to fight off a horde of ten thousand people at the same time Parsi people. Fight against viral life forms on a global scale.
It’s a miracle that Luke Skywalker kid was able to go toe-to-toe with Vader.
In addition to stories written by Aaron, standouts include the bizarre imagery of Peach’s Dream Story, “The Power” by Victoria Ying and Cresta, and Johnson’s “Annihilation,” in which a young boy learns entirely the wrong information , which features some particularly neat lightsaber effects, as well as a pitch-perfect “ZROWWW” sound that swings in a wide arc.
I’m also intrigued by the different cover galleries, which include Kevin Eastman’s contribution depicting the Dark Lord of the Sith, all but for the red of his sword, on what appears to be a snowy Hoth. It’s black and white. I’m always interested in Eastman’s signature style applied to other people’s characters, and Darth Vader is an unlikely character in the artist’s imagination.
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Punicorn (HarperCollins Publishers) Andi Watson’s latest finds the longtime creator at his absolute silliest, with work that seems a far cry from his usual writing…or even painting. Even compared to his other children’s work, it seemed like a departure. That said, this is an interesting little book, and the usual charms of Watson’s work are present, even if you have to look harder than usual for them. More here.
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I and Cleopatra in space Creator Mike Maihack talks about the Spider-Man graphic novel trilogy he created for Abrams on the occasion of the release of the second installment, Spider-Man: Quantum Quest. You can read our conversation here.
