Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe: Volume 3
If you’re like me you love pizza, superheroes, and pop culture. Naturally, this led me to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I like many have come to love the four mutated brothers. Even though this book says Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the cover, the key word here is Universe. Despite what some folks may have believed this book does not star the Ninja Turtles, and it barely even includes them at all. I would’ve thought that I would’ve been annoyed with a book set in the TMNT universe without the turtles. Fortunately, it looks like I was wrong.
This volume of TMNT Universe stories collects 3 tales within their amazing world. The anthology features a multitude of creators. Rich Doueck, Erik Burnham, and Sophie Campbell have writing credits in the book. Doueck writes the first story (“The Jersey Devil”), Burnham and Campbell write the second (“Karai’s Path”), and Sophie Campbell does pretty much everything on the last story (“Prey”). In fact, Sophie Campbell does the majority of the art in this book, although her work is colored over by Brittany Peer in “Karai’s Path”. The art for the first story, however, is Aaron Conley, with Triona Farrell on colors. Overall I thought the creative teams performed respectably.
I loved the first standalone feature of this volume. I really thought the story stood by itself well, and the characters interacted great. “The Jersey Devil” made for a very entertaining story, and I would enjoy a series with these characters. I really like all of the various mutants seen throughout the book. Between solid character development, cool equipment, awesome mutants, and a little bit of a car chase, the first story hit a lead-off home run.
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