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Ninja Turtles: Reborn Vol. 8—Damage caused (IDW Publishing) The book opens with a somewhat incongruous chapter by guest writer Michael Walsh and artists Vlad Legstaev, Santos, and Walsh. In the play, four turtle brothers are wandering alone in their lair when they receive an unexpected visitor from the future, a middle-aged mutant ninja turtle, apparently one of them. He specifically warns Donatello not to do what he is considering doing, which would bring great destruction to them and even endanger the entire world.
This seems to be setting up the next arc, which will follow the arc of this volume (which, if I count correctly, will be regular writer Sophie Campbell’s last, before the big reboot).
After that episode, we’re back to our regular programming, in which the events of “The Doomsday Game” have concluded but are still echoing (I originally wanted to read that book from the library, but couldn’t find it) Before reading this , I felt a bit lost on some issues, such as the walls coming down in Mutant Town, and the fact that mutants are now somewhat accepted as part of general human society).
As for the Splinter Tribe, they’re in the midst of a schism, with different characters having different priorities: Janeca has her band; Donatello is holed up in his lab, obsessed with researching something he doesn’t want to share with his brothers secret; Raphael was still preoccupied with Alopex’s departure; Michelangelo felt the call to travel, which manifested itself in his frequent phone calls with Princess Seri, who was on some sort of press tour, and Leonardo Then try to keep everyone on the same page to conduct regular patrols and fight crime.
Essentially, the Turtles are growing up and fighting the fact that they’re not growing up. have Just stay together because they are brothers; in fact, they can do their own thing.
Meanwhile, mutants seem to be disappearing and dying with alarming frequency. There seems to be a mutant serial killer on the loose. While drifting apart, the Turtles and their allies must band together to face a threat, which turns out to be several villains we’ve seen before. Things become urgent when one of Turtle’s friends, a weasel, goes missing.
The art for this arc was provided by Gavin Smith, who also drew the cover, and it’s very realistic. Maybe also His work is authentic to my personal taste, as his turtle paintings often remind me of the original live-action Turtles movies (the ones with Jim Henson’s face on them). I have to say that his expressions and acting skills are still very proficient.
Personally, I prefer Campbell’s art and think it’s a tragedy that she couldn’t write both and Draw her entire run. We do get to see some of Campbell’s paintings in the book, however, as she collaborated with Kevin Eastman on some variant covers, and the two made a pretty ideal Ninja Turtles art team. I know I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: I hope IDW finds a good project for the two to collaborate on interior design.
It’s clear from the book that Campbell’s campaign was coming to an end. In fact, the final issue reads like the final issue of a series or series, as the Turtles go their separate ways. But I know we still have at least one more Campbell arc to go.
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Batman: The Adventures Continue Season 3 (DC Comics) Batman: The Animated Series Producers Alan Burnett and Paul Dini continue to revisit their seminal cartoon series, continuing the show’s continuity with a new series by artist Ty Templeton Templeton) and others are meticulously drawn in the show’s style (Kevin Altieri’s The Old Man, Batman/Harley Quinn team-up, a rare departure from the Bruce Timm-inspired cartoon aesthetics).
There are two main storylines running throughout the book, each starring one of Batman’s greatest nemesis: the Joker and Ra’s al Ghul. The former involves the Suicide Squad (and the recent addition of muscle) hunting down the Joker’s new super-powerful sidekick Naoto in Gotham, and the latter involves Ra making Batman an offer that he’d be hard-pressed to refuse, especially given the fact that Batman is in demand It seems to be less than ever as crime in Gotham seems to have mysteriously almost disappeared overnight.
Both are fantastic stories that make use of the show’s wide-ranging cast to date, including characters (and plots) introduced throughout The adventure continues. Although a bit more adult than the TV show, it’s said to be a sequel – the scene with Bruce and Thalia in bed, where she’s obviously naked under the sheets, and Harry’s rather gory decapitation with a scythe to the Talon of the Court of Owls – is A great celebration of it all, and the climax of the story, “The Offer” features nearly every member of Batman’s Rogues Gallery in what appears to be his biggest “animated” adventure ever, Mask of Illusion and a variety of direct-to-video movies.
In addition to “straight” covers and a few covers designed to resemble the title cards of old shows, there are several eye-catching variant covers, including one by Kevin Nowlan, which serves as the cover for the series ( Above), a work by Daniel Warren Johnson showing Batman building the Batmobile, and a work by Kelley Jones showing Batman and all his animated series Thieves Gallery. While few of them are cartoony, it’s interesting to see how different Timm’s designs are, including those of Sweeney Boo, Gustavo Duerte, Keron Grant, Cliff Jiang, Guillem March, Rafael Albuquerque, Brian Bolland, Matteo Carrera et al.
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The good boy mayor turns into a bad guy (picture on the right) Everyone in Abby Aberman’s world seems to be acting weird lately, and no one is weirder than the good boy Mayor, who might have…gone evil? What on earth happened? The final book in Dave Scheidt and Miranda Harmon’s graphic novel trilogy tells the story of a small town with a talking dog mayor. Hopefully the couple will publish more books in the future. More here.
