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That worked out...
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01-11-2018, 09:29 PM | #63 |
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You know despite me loving this series its kinda annoying how the main villains make dumb choices, first Shredder kills Alopex's family and made Leo his number 2 and now Bishop is pretty much dooming Earth. Splinter isn't much better if he thinks his little Ninja clan can go toe to toe with and an advance alien army.
If there is one thing I liked about this issue, is how Hun and Casey were working together to fight off a Triceraton. Don't get me wrong, this team up probably won't end well but its an awesome sight none the less.
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It's especially disappointing when they're supposedly masters of warfare. I can make some passes for Shredder, he's literally still in the 16th century mentally, but that's still no excuse for him not counting on people wanting to take revenge on him.
Krang, however as the supposed "war genius" would have taken miles of steps back with...just about everything. Though, I place some of that with not having someone to pull reins on him to stop him from "Quanin levels" of mistake-ry; he really should never have been left alone. It's likely part of how he went a little nuts.
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01-11-2018, 09:50 PM | #65 |
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Usually most villains are egotistical and cause their own downfall, this has been true in real life history as well.
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There is a huuuuge ass difference between being cocky and just screwing over your lieutenants or picking a fight with an advance species because you hate furries(or scalies in this case)
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That is a good point. But when there's a particular reputation at hand, there should be at least a few levels at which it would make sense for them to make a mistake and other times where it wouldn't.
Eh. Both works in Shredder's situation.
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Okay I just reread the first three parts of this story arc. A few things:
I also just reread the Trial of Krang arc. I wonder if we could see Leatherhead go live with the Triceratons for a while, and learn to accept that even if his consciousness was born from wrong and unfortunate circumstances he is allowed to appreciate his own existence and come to terms with himself. Could be cool.
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Maybe he's always been a machine? With red lubricant that looks like blood? And the skin is fake. (Might be something Honeycutt should be interested in developing. Sure, he'd still be a robot, but could at least try to copy his original body as closely as possible.)
I'm more of a Leatherhead teaming up with Slash person. Oh, do the parallels abound. With....one of said parallels being woven into the story instead of throwing out "hey this is a thing that happened, 'kay?" Besides, I don't even think Leatherhead knows about the Triceratons, and probably won't until after they leave.
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Is this the first time we’ve seen a Styracodon in an issue of IDW? (At least that’s what I’m assuming the grey unihorn dude is...) I wonder if there will be any Tri v. Sty wars alluded to like those that were taking place in volume 4, or maybe it will be a distant future plot?
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I'm just wondering how they even got one, since Styracosaurus went extinct long before Triceratops came to be. It could be chalked up to "just not caring" on the writing side, but it rubs me the wrong way a little bit.
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Whew, I'm catching up; had to put reading the comics on hold for a while. But here are my full summary and reviews for Invasion of the Triceratons at TMNT Entity.
TMNT #76 TMNT #77 TMNT #78 Enjoying the arc a heck of a lot so far. I'm appreciating the different dimensions applied to established characters that are unique to IDW's mythology. The Triceratons are in a way more sympathetic situation than they've ever been in before, while Splinter is scheming in a morally questionable sort of way. Bishop is kind of a mustache-twirling villain, but that's OK. After reading the three issues released so far all at once, I did kinda realize that I'm liking this arc for everything BUT the Turtles. We're halfway through and they're still sitting on the sidelines as plot happens around them and without them. I'm enjoying all that stuff, don't get me wrong, I just don't think the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles should be so passive in a comic titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Last edited by DrSpengler; 01-14-2018 at 07:21 PM. |
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In Trial of Krang, the Turtles were pretty passive except for escorting witnesses and telling them where to sit. And in Desperate Measures, the Mutanimals did most of the heavy lifting and the Turtles mostly just ducked and covered. Seems like the Turtles do more in the miniseries (Dimension X and Ghostbusters/TMNT II) than in the main ongoing these days...
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Chop chop, boys. Start doing stuff.
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Kinda hard to impress us when Hob and Splinter are more interesting characters.
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It's like they've been on a very, very slow slide since...maybe the Leatherhead arch - maybe earlier - in story presence.
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That's why I hope there's a bloodbath in the next arc when all the factions go at each other, it will clear up the main recurring character list.
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I still don't understand something, The Triceratons were grown in a lab from triceratops DNA to be a slave race to the utroms. Then on a mission a few million years later they are brought to extinction except for one. That one is cloned into male and female and is what the Triceratons are today, a genetically modified race that was restarted as male and female Jango Fetts? Its very convoluted. Why not have at least a female with Zog or a small collection of young Triceratons who are too young for battle? Female variants are a bit creepy. Vice-versa for males if they were based off of a female.
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Yeah, I've been thinking about that a lot. There's very, very little logic in any of the way the Triceratons were created, but especially the cloning bits. Which would come with a lot of problems with the major lack in genetic diversity. If an extreme disease comes their way, they are royally screwed, because they wouldn't have the genetic resistance to fight it. Not to compare them to plants, but that's why we've struggled with banana crops. Not only once, but now a second time.
And any self-respecting Utrom scientist should have known that. If they're capable of cloning fully sapient beings, then they should be capable of knowing how quickly an entire population sharing a single DNA background could crumble with the slightest common cold.
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#73-#75 TMNT get trial witnesses and the trial ends up being for nothing. As the expected verdict is handed down Leatherhead pulls a DeviantArt. #76-#80 Agent Bishop and Splinter lead Foot Clan vs misunderstood Triceraton clones with the TMNT are peace brokers. #81? Its not a bad thing. It shows just how strong of a character list that TMNT has thanks to IDW's awesome writing! The TMNT will be making big moves instead of reacting to supporting characters soon. This actually would make for a good letter to the editor with this observation. Anyone want to write it?
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