Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #9 ★★★☆☆

 

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Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #9
Authors: Peter Laird & Kevin Eastman
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre: Comics
Pages: 36
Words: 3K

Synopsis:

This is a prequel comic of sorts, but I'm not sure exactly. There's no April O'Neal or space triceratops or robots or even the Foot Clan, but there are ninja's with machine guns.

A dying samurai must pass on his heritage to his grandson who lives in America. He possesses Splinter's body and Splinter and the boys track down the grandson. And are all promptly attacked by gun ninjas. The Turtles save the day, allow the spiritual succession to happen and everyone goes home happy. Except the dead gun ninjas. Because it's wicked hard to go home happy when you're dead.

My Thoughts:

Thankfully this was directly involved with the TMNT even while being a standalone story. It was hokey though and was about as 80's as you could ask for. Samurai, ghosts and machine guns. All together. If that doesn't scream The 80's to you, then maybe you're just too young. Young'en.

While I enjoyed this more than the previous issue with Cerebus the grumpy and dumb aardvark, I am finding that I want an overarching storyline from the TMNT. I get all the standalone I need from the Groo and Asterix comics and don't need it here. Just gotta hang on while the artists get their act together.

★★★☆☆

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