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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures, Volume 1 by Ken Mitchroney, Dave Garcia, Beth Mitchroney
housedesignerking's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Recently, I came across the Ninja Turtles online again and decided that I wanted the original animated series on DVD (1987-1996, 10 seasons) and managed to snag it online. Subsequently, I found out that these exist; 16 graphic novels/comic compilations with 2 full stories in each across 4 separate comics. Apparently, these are only based on the animated series' episodes until 'book 5,' which doing the math means 10 episodes ended up becoming comics. Presumably, the rest are only loosely-at-best based on episodes. Really, I didn't remember much about the original series before putting this in aside from Bebop, Rocksteady, and Krang, though admittedly not their names and I didn't really remember what the face of the body Krang gets looked like.
This one has the first two episodes of season 2 ("The Return of Shredder Parts 1-2" and "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles Parts 1-2") with very few differences. Having recently started binge-watching the series, I basically read every character's talk and thought bubbles in the character's voices, which probably makes this experience all the better. I will say that I find it interesting that in the latter half of story 2/comic 4, they actually fixed a mistake made in the episode. In the episode, something happened without any explanation whatsoever. I'm assuming the team realized this <i>after</i> the episode aired. It's such a <i>small</i> mistake that it's hard to harshly judge them for it.
As a random note: I thought this would take much, much longer to read than it actually did. I had to check this out through a public library because the price to own it -- just because it's the first one -- is a bit high for only 120 pages. The cheapest I found it online was for $40-some while the pricier end runs from $70-120. <i>MAYBE</i> it would be worth those prices if these were just based on the characters with stories that never ended up in the animated series (years mentioned above), but even those in this series that aren't based on the episodes cost somewhere between $17-22. It was worth reading and I even appreciated their mistake correction. 5 stars.
This one has the first two episodes of season 2 ("The Return of Shredder Parts 1-2" and "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles Parts 1-2") with very few differences. Having recently started binge-watching the series, I basically read every character's talk and thought bubbles in the character's voices, which probably makes this experience all the better. I will say that I find it interesting that in the latter half of story 2/comic 4, they actually fixed a mistake made in the episode. In the episode, something happened without any explanation whatsoever. I'm assuming the team realized this <i>after</i> the episode aired. It's such a <i>small</i> mistake that it's hard to harshly judge them for it.
As a random note: I thought this would take much, much longer to read than it actually did. I had to check this out through a public library because the price to own it -- just because it's the first one -- is a bit high for only 120 pages. The cheapest I found it online was for $40-some while the pricier end runs from $70-120. <i>MAYBE</i> it would be worth those prices if these were just based on the characters with stories that never ended up in the animated series (years mentioned above), but even those in this series that aren't based on the episodes cost somewhere between $17-22. It was worth reading and I even appreciated their mistake correction. 5 stars.
jmbz38's review
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
librarianryan's review
3.0
I am glad that the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comics are being reprinted in graphic novel format. It’s completely about nostalgia.
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