TMNT #43 Preview & Discussion
 

Preview here!

Pretty brutal beatdown!

cant wait for this issue! it looks so good. couldnt read it all though, the link took me to some WAY oversized images and part of each page wouldnt fit within my screen.

Ooooooooh, this will be interesting. Where's the Mutanimals preview?

It looks like that last panel is the moment Shredder decides to carry out his contingency plan...

Pfft, when Shredder's helmet comes off that easy that's how you know he's the fake one and you should be attacking the other Shredder. And hope he doesn't use that cheap one-hit-kill lightning move.

Lmao, nice. Didn't know what you were saying at first, but good one dawg.

Good point,I hadn't even thought about that..can't wait to find out what the real one is up too

Cory is killing these pages, I can't wait to see what Shredder does next!

I probably shouldn't have looked at the preview. Waiting for this story has been hard enough up to now and now I just want it worse, lol. :lol:

Never a bad issue, major credit to Tom, Kevin, Bob and all the various art teams

Man that was an action-packed issue, lotta in's and out's, lotta what-have-you's. Lot of stuff I didn't expect to see yet! But everything was well done, another phenomenal job by the IDW team. I had forgotten that next month is the conclusion to this arc, cuz I've just been thinking about the next arc building up to issue #50 and where things will go from them.

Wow that issue was amazing, so much action and it's getting intense. I want to read issue 44 now.

Here's my full summary and review of TMNT #43 at TMNT Entity.

While the first half of the arc was all setup, the back half is a real rollercoaster seeing all these plot threads collide head on. The Turtles, Shredder, Krang, the Mutanimals, Splinter, Fugitoid, Baxter... all coming together in one giant dog pile. Really exciting.

The lust for catchphrases and quips seemed to override characterization or atmosphere a bit, though. I mean, from all we've seen of this Mondo Gecko so far, he seems like a pretty nice dude who gets along with the Turtles. He seemed waaaayyyyy to chill with abandoning Splinter to die. If he hadn't spouted a callous catchphrase ("Lead the way, Jefe") the moment might not have stood out so much, is all.

Still, great stuff. Now onto the Mutanimals miniseries!

Hob isn't exactly a character one would call heroic, that much is clear. I doubt he cares about Splinter at all, he probably just wanted to get the mutagen and get out of there from the start.

What a great issue! Stockman legit suprised me. Can't wait for next month.

I'm actually glad to see Hob being a dick again, he was actually a little too chummy lately.

I think slash will turn on hob at some point. I don't think they are on the same page.

Great story, looking forward to the next issue.

I honestly feel like it will be Hob to turn on him first

Good issue, lots of action. Krang can't be too happy with Baxter Stockman now, I'm looking forward to seeing him being mutilated in some way only possible with Utrom technology and Game of thrones level sadism. I'm also wondering what happens with Donatello now, I already read the spoiler preview of the FCBD comic, it'll be good to see how it all transpires in the interim. I would to see more realism concerning battles of swords vs modern firearms, since it's sometimes hard to suspend disbelief. I don't see why the foot soldiers aren't using silenced pistols with subsonic ammo.