My friend Sean was nice enough to pick up issues #s 81, 82, and 83 of IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics to see where the series has gone. It’s one of the comics series I was thoroughly enjoying when I still had money to buy comics and it’s been nice to see the same people involved and still able to keep the story interesting. When you put the right writer or writers on a comic they can go a long time, and 84 issues plus any spinoffs they might have been on (although others usually worked on those) and annuals is very rare in comics today.
When last we left our young altered martial artist reptiles Leonardo had a vision that the Rat King (in this reality a paranormal being devoted to chaos) was about to cause more mischief, which New York didn’t need seeing as it was still recovering from this dimension’s version of the Triceraton invasion. They went to Rat King’s home reality in hopes of finding answers to how to stop him. But while they made a new friend they didn’t learn much. Or did they? Meanwhile, Splinter now rules the Foot Clan and appears to be on the outs with his sons, who remain under the “banner” of the Hamato Clan. And with the Rat King comes a lot more rats and April has convinced Baxter Stockman to use his Mousers to solve the problem as a way of keeping him out of worse activities. When we ended the last issue Clan Hamato was confronting the Rat King just as he was about to “pied piper” a group of orphans off of the damaged bridge. (My dad’s the one from New York so I couldn’t tell you which one.) And thus we enter the final chapter of this story arc.
“Careful, one of these may be our uncle!”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #84
IDW Publishing (July, 2018)
STORY: Kevin Eastman, Bobby Curnow, & Tom Waltz
SCRIPT: Tom Waltz
ARTIST: Dave Wachter
COLORIST: Ronda Pattison
SELECTED COVER ART: Kevin Eastman (artist) & Tomi Varga (colorist)
LETTERER: Shawn Lee
EDITOR: Bobby Curnow
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