I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, IDW Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The art varies wildly between issues, but I also don't think this is a problem. There is little extra narrative explaining how this happened or why it's happening, but I don't think that's a problem. My review copy was only 88 pages and the page count is listed as 104, so I'm not sure what I'm missing. This strange future may have been caused by one of the guys, so soul searching is required. The final issue finds them in a strange future with other anthropomorphic creatures. Aboard a sailing ship full of privateers, they help a crew fight off pirates, including one wielding a strange, futuristic weapon. The turtles find themselves in medieval Japan and seeing a chance to change their lives by altering an event from their past. A character I wasn't familiar with named Renet shows up and seems to be responsible for the time displacement, but it seems like she's still having problems. Issue one dumps us right in the middle of our turtles runing from Utrom riding dinosaurs (Utrom is the race of aliens that Krang is from). Each issue is a different time period, and a different team of writers and artists. The turtles find th 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time' collects 4 issues of the series. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time' collects 4 issues of the series. But Turtles in Time didn’t make me want to seek out more Turtles comics anytime soon.more The writing and characterisations are fine, the art is ok, and maybe if you’re a bigger fan of the characters you’ll get more out of it. I can’t say Turtles in Time is a bad comic but it just wasn’t for me. I didn’t love any of the art styles though and none really stood out as exceptional. But then I didn’t really get all those references to “mom” and “dad” when the Turtles were in feudal Japan - just how old is Splinter?! Or Shredder for that matter - the dude pops up centuries apart and doesn’t seem to age! Unless Shredder and Splinter are titles rather than people? I have no clue.Įach issue is drawn by a separate artist, so sometimes the Turtles kinda look facially like girls, or monsters, and sometimes they look totally unmemorable. It seems that in the comics, Splinter is a human who mutated into a rat, rather than a rat who mutated into a larger rat who could talk and do martial arts. It’s never clear why they’re time-travelling or why they had to go to these specific times, but maybe I’m missing the point of Turtles comics - maybe the readership simply don’t care and just want to see their heroes do ninja-stuff in different settings? The Turtles jump from prehistoric times to feudal Japan (referencing the third Turtles movie, which is also where the time-travel wand gets its design from, I think), to pirate-times, to dystopian future. Who’s she? Shut up, dude, that’s not important - the Turtles are fighting!Īnd that’s basically the whole book. First page - the Turtles are in dinosaur times! Why? There’s a woman called Renet who’s got a time-travel wand. The Turtles jump from prehistoric times to feudal Japan (referencing the thir This is my first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic so I don’t know if Turtles in Time slots into some ongoing storyline but they jump straight into the time-travelling with no backstory whatsoever. Who’s she? Shut up, dude, that’s not important - the Turtles are fighting! And that’s basically the whole book. This is my first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic so I don’t know if Turtles in Time slots into some ongoing storyline but they jump straight into the time-travelling with no backstory whatsoever.
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