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Old 01-23-2021, 11:17 PM   #1
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Old 01-23-2021, 11:41 PM   #2
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feels like a Freddy Kruger moment.
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Old 01-24-2021, 09:14 AM   #3
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The artist changed?
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Old 01-24-2021, 01:46 PM   #4
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The artist changed?
Yeah, it seems like the mini series is actually two 3-part stories rather than the single 6-part story that was previously assumed.
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Old 02-02-2021, 10:10 AM   #5
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Old 02-02-2021, 10:17 AM   #6
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mikey's got a shaggy sandwich.
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Old 02-02-2021, 11:44 AM   #7
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Here I am, fervently praying to all the gods that these next few issues introduce IDW Chien Khan as Jennika's very own archenemesis...
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Old 02-02-2021, 10:45 PM   #8
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Was there a nod to the Terror Bears, in there?
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Old 02-03-2021, 08:43 AM   #9
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Oh yeeaah, Jennika killed people back in the day, even a few who probably didn’t deserve it. Alopex too. Nice thing to bring back.

This issue had me searching for which species of gazelle or antelope have horned females. I do enjoy her design and the art work regardless. I confess my heart sank a bit at the end there.
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Old 02-03-2021, 08:54 AM   #10
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This issue had me searching for which species of gazelle or antelope have horned females.
I haven't read the issue yet so I might not be getting what you mean but all gazelles do. Only some antelope species, though.
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I haven't read the issue yet so I might not be getting what you mean but all gazelles do. Only some antelope species, though.
I'm admittedly not an expert, I think I was getting them confused with impalas.
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Old 02-03-2021, 09:27 AM   #12
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Wow, what incredibly nice pacing this issue had! Some character development, some action, and a clear setup for the plot moving forward! And the whole thing felt like a damn TMNT comic! It's depressing that I have to look to the side stories to get issues like this since the mainline is desperate to meander around childish ideas like building a band to save the future and take 2-3 issues to even get the ball rolling on that. If the plan was to make the mainline so eye-rolling in order to make people warm up to Jennika with these great side stories... welll... it's working.
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Old 02-03-2021, 11:46 AM   #13
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I'm admittedly not an expert, I think I was getting them confused with impalas.
Yep, it can get quite confusing at times. The differences between each are very small.

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Wow, what incredibly nice pacing this issue had! Some character development, some action, and a clear setup for the plot moving forward! And the whole thing felt like a damn TMNT comic! It's depressing that I have to look to the side stories to get issues like this since the mainline is desperate to meander around childish ideas like building a band to save the future and take 2-3 issues to even get the ball rolling on that. If the plan was to make the mainline so eye-rolling in order to make people warm up to Jennika with these great side stories... welll... it's working.
This. So much this. I have nothing to add. What a crazy world we live in, the minis are now the ongoing and the ongoing reads like a fever dream fanfiction.

The plot reminded me of one of the Transporter movies, I forget which one. My guess is they're gonna use Jennika to kidnap the kid.
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Old 02-03-2021, 03:22 PM   #14
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Admittedly, “A time traveler arrives to start a band to save the future” does weirdly seem like it could have been an episode plot in the 1987 series.

I think side story mini’s tend to have less ‘pressure’ and can tell more compact, stand alone stories? Not sure if I’m expressing myself well but I recall things like Marvel’s Civil War and the like seemed to have better received side stories than the main run.

Ah well, I think I’ll elaborate a bit more on this issue, apparently this story is by Ronda Pattison? I might have missed something. In any case she and Jodi Nishijima put together a good issue to start this second arc. Jennika’s past coming back to haunt her is great. That poor kid, not only is he dad dead, but your mother is a mutant, isolated and...oh yeah I guess she doesn’t actually care about him but wants to use him somehow. Too bad, as Lucia is a gorgeous gazelle, to repeat myself, I love the artwork. I do wonder if perhaps she isn’t the real Lucia? That theory that popped into my head about a mutant pretending to be someone else is still kicking around there I guess.
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liked it, loved the bea cameo. looks like i've got another one to add to the miss mutant pageant.
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apparently this story is by Ronda Pattison?
Yes, story and colors. It doesn't often happen that a colorist get to write a story. Not sure if it's her first time.
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Old 02-03-2021, 07:07 PM   #17
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Admittedly, “A time traveler arrives to start a band to save the future” does weirdly seem like it could have been an episode plot in the 1987 series.
Or a rejected draft for Back to the Future.

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That poor kid, not only is he dad dead, but your mother is a mutant, isolated and...oh yeah I guess she doesn’t actually care about him but wants to use him somehow. Too bad, as Lucia is a gorgeous gazelle, to repeat myself, I love the artwork. I do wonder if perhaps she isn’t the real Lucia? That theory that popped into my head about a mutant pretending to be someone else is still kicking around there I guess.
I thought about that too. And then there's the chance that the guy Jenny killed isn't the kid's real father either. Either way, I like the intrigue. Feels very noir.
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Old 02-04-2021, 03:46 AM   #18
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I'm actually thinking of bad mafia/godfather bits now.

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Yes, story and colors. It doesn't often happen that a colorist get to write a story. Not sure if it's her first time.
She's written several stories.
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Old 02-04-2021, 10:33 AM   #20
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Honestly I like the Jennika mini series (both of them so far) for how they have handled Jenny and Mutant Town as a living place better than the main comic. I guess it isn't so much the setting but how its explored that really makes it.

Also I feel like for the side stories we don't have to see the main turtles in action, this is where anybody else can get the spotlight. I feel like for way to long the actual TMNT brothers have been very overshadowed by all the other many characters in their own book.
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