I decided
to give this comic book series a try as I was such a huge fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV show
when I was a kid. Plus, the fact that a new TMNT
video game is getting released in a few weeks also swayed me to pick up these
comics. This is because one of the lead artists on the game also worked on the
comic books. As the game looks amazing, I thought I’d love the comics too.
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| Artwork from game |
Unfortunately
this wasn’t the case. The art style in the video game was very bright and easy
to look at and enjoy, whereas I found the comics to be almost monochrome,
limited to blacks, greens and reds. It gives the art style of the comic a much
more grown up feel, which it could be argued is the comic’s target audience as
most of its reader would have grown up with the Turtles as kids (like me).
However, I felt it was too harsh for me because the limited colour pallet didn’t
distinguish each individual tile of artwork from one and other. This led me to
mostly just read the text in the book and not look at the corresponding
pictures because I enjoyed the story more than the artwork.
The story
is the origin story of the Turtles and their master Splinter. Though some parts
of the story were ridiculous; like Splinter (as a rat and not a mutant)
defeating two Ninjas as they try and steal the Turtles, I still thought it was
very original and more dynamic than the original origin stories from the TV
show and numerous movies following it. The loss of Raphael was interesting and
used well as it gave the writers a chance to introduce other key characters in
the series, which I thought was an refreshing sub-plot and really enjoyed.
I won’t be
continuing this series as I feel it’s not for me. However, if you are a
TMNT fan I think you should give Vol 1
a try, as it is quite short and actually has an ending where you can walk away
from the series feeling content.
To buy the comics click here.
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