TMNT: The Armageddon Game: Opening Moves #2 Preview and Discussion

[AlZarkovski]

Preview here.

[ChosenOne]

A personal assistant called Zara working with genetically manipulated aquatic monsters. Never ends well, historically.

[lonewarrior20]

All that’s left is a “bah humbug.”

[hypered1]

Originally Posted by ChosenOne

A personal assistant called Zara working with genetically manipulated aquatic monsters. Never ends well, historically.

That's still the most mean-spirited and unnecessarily harsh death in the series.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by hypered1

That's still the most mean-spirited and unnecessarily harsh death in the series.

what is this about

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by Ninjinister

what is this about

To be fair, it took me a bit of Google-Fu to figure it out because I don't care to remember the names of characters introduced after the original movie, but I do remember the moment.

[Ninjinister]

Ahh okay. I don't remember a single character name from the ''World'' movies that wasn't introduced before them. Hell I don't remember all of the legacy ''Park'' characters either.

Also if I took a drink every time "cousin" was said in this issue, I'd be dead.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by neatoman

To be fair, it took me a bit of Google-Fu to figure it out because I don't care to remember the names of characters introduced after the original movie, but I do remember the moment.

It was pretty extreme for a "non-villain." Movies usually reserve that sort of thing for a character the audience is conditioned to hate.

[lonewarrior20]

Definitely an interesting read.

[ChosenOne]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

It was pretty extreme for a "non-villain." Movies usually reserve that sort of thing for a character the audience is conditioned to hate.

Meanwhile, Dodgson got off too easily. The only villain in the franchise who got a cutaway death.

Originally Posted by lonewarrior20

Definitely an interesting read.

Noi Tai Dar but no Chien Khan. Talk about a c*cktease.

[shredder orokusaki]

see?! THAT WHY IAM THE SHREDDER!!!!!!! I WILL KILL STOCKMAN AND NULL AND RAT KING!!! AND then the world will be mine!! MUHAHAHAAHAHAAH!!!!!!!

[neatoman]

So is Dimension Z just Alien Hell or something?

[CyberCubed]

Its been so many years I've honestly forgotten Old Hob and Baxter were a team in the very first issues.

And Null, a character introduced back in 2016, is just now *finally* getting her plot started literally 5 years after her character was introduced. Goddamn. Null was the slowest burn character of the series, I can't believe she was introduced in 2016 and only just now did we learn anything about her.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by neatoman

So is Dimension Z just Alien Hell or something?

No different than in the 1987 series, as evidenced by the fact that Mr. Ogg is from there

[ChosenOne]

The Dimension Z sequence felt like a different comic, in a good way. Certainly the most literally alien setting ever depicted in any TMNT media. I can buy that it's an entirely different dimension rather than just another planet. Waltz's writing continues to be masterful.

[neatoman]

What happened to Dimension Y?

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by ChosenOne

The Dimension Z sequence felt like a different comic, in a good way. Certainly the most literally alien setting ever depicted in any TMNT media. I can buy that it's an entirely different dimension rather than just another planet. Waltz's writing continues to be masterful.

idk about that, these last two issues have had the same problem most TMNT comics have had that introduce/reintroduce characters and situations with the overdone exposition dialogue. It just feels unnatural. I mean none have been worse than some of the vol. 4 stuff but it's still weiiiiird. There's way to introduce people to these things without basically overexplaining everything to the reader, especially things that the characters involved already know.

[Andrew NDB]

I wonder what's going on with the Turnstone. You can do anything you want with it and Cherubae is having trouble fending off a rock tiger with it. She should be able to atomize it with a thought, or just transport herself away across the universe. Maybe it's inert now?

[CyberCubed]

The Turnstone was basically a literal deus ex machina in the Archie series, hopefully this one has more limits to what it can do. Or better explained at least.

[Andrew NDB]

I look at it like a Green Lantern ring with no limitations or power limit... but it also drives you mad by using it.