Casey and April #4 preview/discussion
 

Finally! I spent all of yesterday and this morning (in Europe) searching for this preview but you got the drop on me, Nines. I guess they took their sweet time posting it figuring not many people would care about the delay. :evilgrin:

Aaand... Welcome to what the previous three issues should've been like!

I guess Rat King was (or posed as) Spiro Agnew. Kinda funny.

Richard Nixon done got taken in by Rat King? :tlol:

And where the FVCK was all this goodness the first three useless issues?

Poor Tricky Dick just can't catch a break when it comes to his portrayal in comic books, I guess. Maybe it's not quite as bad as what Marvel did to him in Captain America #175.

Ah yes the book where nothing really ever happens. Thank god this is over this week. Batman/tmnt here we come!

Care to give me a spoiler on Nixon in Captain America? You intrigue me greatly, old man! :tsmile:

I'll just leave this here...

http://i.imgur.com/frOCuS4.jpg

Sadly, I've never actually read that infamously historic issue myself, but it was one of the most pivotal events in Captain America's character development way back in the 1970s in the wake of Vietnam and the Watergate scandal. It really shook up Cap as to whether he was really fighting on the side of the good guys anymore. As I understand, it was the conclusion of the "Secret Empire" storyline (now available in a TPB if interested), where Cap discovered the mysterious leader of the Secret Empire was non other than . . . eh... some high ranking government official whose face remained shielded from the reader via silhouette... who promptly committed suicide! Marvel editors tried to distance themselves from committing to the true identity of "Number One," but the authorial intention was pretty obvious.
http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Number_...28Earth-616%29

I laughed a little too hard at that.

Interesting indeed! I think my favorite portrayal of Richard Nixon is from Doctor Who's "Day of the Moon" two-part story. I love those episodes...

Oh Rat King... :tlol: Face it, RK, you haven't done much else yet this story. Unless you redeem yourself with some sheer badassery this issue, you've been reduced to the TMNT's version of Stubb's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ...2_Stubblefield

Will it release tomorow?

It comes out this Wednesday.

So far the preview for #4 looks better. I'm hoping we get some big payoff this issue to make up for the slow pacing of the first three.

Well, it was a decent end to the mini, at least... Though it felt a bit rushed, especially after three issues where nothing happened and suddenly we were moving so fast that the final pages came out of nowhere.

Not the best effort by the IDW TMNT crew in terms of a mini, but this issue was at least intriguing.

I agree with this, but I feel the payoff at the end still wasn't worth the first 3 issues. Honestly, we don't really know too much more about the pantheon other than



I was just hoping for something more in terms of what is coming up with the pantheon, or perhaps another character reveal.

I dunno, I just found this whole mini to be a disappointment.

Haven't had a chance to read it yet. So, to sum EVERYTHING we've learned from this mini-series:

^Pretty much this.

All I want to know is

Well, this IS a TMNT comic. What better way to disguise a terrible useless story than by including...