‘Forever War’ (2019-23) a fitting Clarrain-Modeen mashup to end ‘TMNT Adventures’
Turtle Tuesday (Comic book review): Artist Chris Allan and serious fans get together to complete the long-anticipated final arc.
Chris Allan
‘Forever War’ (2019-23) a fitting Clarrain-Modeen mashup to end ‘TMNT Adventures’
‘TMNT Adventures’ reaches respectable end in Issues 67-72 (1995), ‘Year of the Turtle’ (1996)
Turtle Tuesday (Comic book reviews): Clarrain wins in quantity, but Dan Slott matches him in quality in Archie’s final batch of issues.
‘TMNT Adventures’ shows ambition in Issues 58-66 (1994-95)
Turtle Tuesday (Comic book reviews): Clarrain takes the story to the past and future, and delivers one of the series’ most solid issues.
Amid Mutanimals’ end, ‘TMNT Adventures’ 46-57 (1993-94) finds spark of life
Turtle Tuesday (Comic book reviews): The quality slightly increases thanks in part to callbacks to past characters, including Chameleon, Scumbug and Wyrm.
‘April O’Neil’ (1993) takes spotlight in one good, one bad miniseries
Turtle Tuesday (Comic book reviews): The first series is a strong look at April’s development in martial arts, but “The May East Saga” is dreck.
It’s shark week in the panels of ‘TMNT Adventures,’ ‘Mighty Mutanimals’ (1992-93)
Turtle Tuesday (Comic book reviews): The introduction of Armaggon, a land shark from the future, spices up titles that had been lagging. I review “Adventures” 38-45 and “Mutanimals” 6-9.
‘TMNT Adventures’ 32-37 and ‘Mighty Mutanimals’ 1-5 (1992) become ‘the banned issues’
Turtle Tuesday (Comic book review): Under Archie in the 1990s, Clarrain was allowed to tie foreign cultures into his mythology. Viacom isn’t so keen on that.
‘TMNT Adventures’ Issues 23-31 (1991-92) explore Turtles’ Japanese roots
‘TMNT’ flashback (Comic book reviews): Though not deeply profound tales, it’s clear Archie is trying; and here we get cool newcomers like Slash and Ninjara.
‘Tales of the TMNT’ fills in gaps in Issues 31-41 (2007)
‘TMNT’ flashback (Comic book reviews): Dan Berger takes over as editor and “Tales of the TMNT” Vol. 2 begins to fill in story gaps in Issues 31-41.
April shines in ‘Tales of the TMNT’ Issues 19-30 (2006)
‘TMNT’ flashback (Comic book reviews): Here are my reviews of “Tales of the TMNT” Vol. 2 Issues 19-30, including a standout April O’Neil tale.