Category: Comic Musings

Funny how things work, you know? Back in the original Mirage series, Shredder was offed in the first issue. Brought back to life later on and killed off once more (permanently) when the original TMNT cartoon was in its third year… with Shredder as a main villain. And yet, here we are on a new comic building up on a character that was essentially a throw-away. Funny how that works.

As far as this rendition of Shredder? Looks like he’s human and not a shell for a Utrom like in the 2003 cartoon (like the cartoon, but hated that version of Shredder). Then again, not much is known at this point, so who knows what the deal is. At the very least, I like the new design. Nice and simple, yet imposing at the same time. Sometimes, it’s the little things that work.

While I was in the john one day, I was rumaging through the magazine basket and pulled out an old copy of the collected Mighty Mutanimals miniseries published by Archie Comics. For those who have no clue what I’m talking about…

Once upon a time, Archie Comics used to publish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures, a comic series loosely based on the original animated series. Starting off as loose adaptations of early episodes, the series would then segway into outlandish adventures that included man ray fillets, intergalactic wrestling matches, mutant jaguars named Jagwar (conceived in a union between a wildwoman and a jaguar spirit… don’t ask), and a flying cow’s head. Those were good days. In any case, Archie decided to compile some of these non-TMNT anthrophomorphic animals and turn them into a team. Or something like that.

So yeah, I was reading this and thought… “Hey, this could make a great review.” Maybe… we’ll see.

First, I gotta get all this MMPR stuff out first.

So I was able to get my hands on the first three issues of IDW’s current Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic and so far, I thought it was an enjoyable series. Essentially serving as a reboot of the franchise (forgoing any of the prior comics), the series reintroduces us to the TMNT and tweeks the origin story a bit, with the turtles no longer being pet turtles, but rather test subjects.

It’s an interesting twist on the origin story and it (among other things that I honestly don’t want to dwell on here… not yet) results in the dynamics of the family being somewhat  different from what came before. I’ll probably hold off with a full overview until this current arc ends, but like I said, I’ve been enjoying this run so far and it’s been pretty fun to read a new TMNT book.