TMNT #26 Preview/Discussion

*Cipher* · 10-18-2013, 07:28 PM

Took me a while to pick this one up, but this really kicked the IDW series up a notch in my eyes. I was seriously weighing dropping the book after "City Fall," but this bought it quite a bit more time with me. More quiet issues, please!

I bought ten new comics this month, and of all of them, Turtles was the one in which I cared most about the characters and was most interested to see what happened next. I think we just needed to crest the hill of constant action, cliches and cartoon melodrama that had been bogging the book down since the beginning of "Krang War".

I feel like, to this point, we still haven't known a lot of these characters. The main book has been almost non-stop action and the micros, which should be character spotlights, have just been twenty-two pages of monologue boxes ever since the four Turtles' wrapped -- it doesn't really help us know them on anything other than a superficial level. This is one of the first times we've just seen the characters interacting in the midst of a dire plot line, and it's the kind of kick I've needed to actually care about how that plot develops.

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Cipher Foot Elite Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 3,454	Took me a while to pick this one up, but this really kicked the IDW series up a notch in my eyes. I was seriously weighing dropping the book after "City Fall," but this bought it quite a bit more time with me. More quiet issues, please! I bought ten new comics this month, and of all of them, Turtles was the one in which I cared most about the characters and was most interested to see what happened next. I think we just needed to crest the hill of constant action, cliches and cartoon melodrama that had been bogging the book down since the beginning of "Krang War". I feel like, to this point, we still haven't known a lot of these characters. The main book has been almost non-stop action and the micros, which should be character spotlights, have just been twenty-two pages of monologue boxes ever since the four Turtles' wrapped -- it doesn't really help us know them on anything other than a superficial level. This is one of the first times we've just seen the characters interacting in the midst of a dire plot line, and it's the kind of kick I've needed to actually care about how that plot develops. Last edited by Cipher; 10-18-2013 at 09:21 PM.