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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The IDW Collection Volume 8
by Ben Bates, Kevin Eastman, Dustin Weaver
A surprisingly fun read compared to the last omnibus! Most of that is due to 2 stories with *very* different tones.
Bebop & Rocksteady Destroy Everything is a time travel action/comedy of Bebop and Rocksteady just looking for a gang to join and nearly destroying all of space and time in the process. It reminded of all the crazy, stupid, inconsistent time travel shenanigans that went on in old Flash stories that made me *DESPISE* time travel as a concept.
Here's why I still like Bebop & Rocksteady.
While Flash stories take their premise seriously and never consistently play by the rules they establish for how time travel works, Bebop & Rocksteady never takes itself seriously, and *SOMEHOW* still stays true to all the rules B&R's story establishes about how time travel and alternate timelines work from from beginning to end. All while telling a hilarious story about 2 dummies becoming better friends and nearly destroying reality itself. That's damn impressive in my book. And I haven't even touched the art yet, which does Spider-Verse before Spider-Verse and uses different art styles to communicate what timelines we're looking at.
Now lets talk about the other story, TMNT Universe. This arc sets up the foe for the Turtles, a shady government organization called the EPF that is hellbent on capturing the Turtles and using them for biological warfare against alien invaders.
The resources and manpower alone are enough to communicate the threat they pose, but like their tactics thematically make them an interesting opponent to the Turtles. The black-ops soldiers they deploy are essentially modern ninjas: people who value pragmatism over honor and will use anything at their disposal to achieve victory. The difference is that these soldiers use guns and modern technology, while the Turtles are still using old weapons like katana and kunai. The addition of Agent Bishop as an antagonist also just makes my nerd heart happy, as I grew up with the cartoon from 2003.
Overall I just loved this book so much more than the last one. I'm noticing a trend that these limited series end up being much better than the main Ninja Turtle book, so here's hoping the next omnibus contains even more of them, because this is the most fun I've had from TMNT in a while.
Bebop & Rocksteady Destroy Everything is a time travel action/comedy of Bebop and Rocksteady just looking for a gang to join and nearly destroying all of space and time in the process. It reminded of all the crazy, stupid, inconsistent time travel shenanigans that went on in old Flash stories that made me *DESPISE* time travel as a concept.
Here's why I still like Bebop & Rocksteady.
While Flash stories take their premise seriously and never consistently play by the rules they establish for how time travel works, Bebop & Rocksteady never takes itself seriously, and *SOMEHOW* still stays true to all the rules B&R's story establishes about how time travel and alternate timelines work from from beginning to end. All while telling a hilarious story about 2 dummies becoming better friends and nearly destroying reality itself. That's damn impressive in my book. And I haven't even touched the art yet, which does Spider-Verse before Spider-Verse and uses different art styles to communicate what timelines we're looking at.
Now lets talk about the other story, TMNT Universe. This arc sets up the foe for the Turtles, a shady government organization called the EPF that is hellbent on capturing the Turtles and using them for biological warfare against alien invaders.
The resources and manpower alone are enough to communicate the threat they pose, but like their tactics thematically make them an interesting opponent to the Turtles. The black-ops soldiers they deploy are essentially modern ninjas: people who value pragmatism over honor and will use anything at their disposal to achieve victory. The difference is that these soldiers use guns and modern technology, while the Turtles are still using old weapons like katana and kunai. The addition of Agent Bishop as an antagonist also just makes my nerd heart happy, as I grew up with the cartoon from 2003.
Overall I just loved this book so much more than the last one. I'm noticing a trend that these limited series end up being much better than the main Ninja Turtle book, so here's hoping the next omnibus contains even more of them, because this is the most fun I've had from TMNT in a while.