Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Urban Legends #9

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  Jul 17, 2020

  I used to consider TMNT Vol: 3 from Image comics to be the outcast of the Ninja Turtles franchise. Few people read the original run and most of the commentary surrounding the series was dismissive or negative. Flipping through this series I can honestly say its underrated. The series is nowhere near as good as the main IDW series but it does feel like an honest continuation of the Mirage series from the 80s and 90s. The series is consistent and does represent the growth of the characters that you rarely get from the 36-year-old franchise. This issue features an unauthorized crossover with Batman. It's not really Batman but it's close enough that you'd be a fool to miss it. Depending on the perspective you may see this take as a blata nt ripoff or homage. I read the comic and saw it as a homage to Adam West Batman. Leonardo flies solo in this issue attempting to locate Splinter who is operating out of Midway City (Gotham). Splinter has transferred into a giant Bat and has begun biting and mutating people. When Leonardo appears he is almost immediately attacked by these Bat creatures and nearly kills one before he is interrupted by The Knight Watchman (Batman) who offers assistance as well as an antidote. Leo and The Knight Watchman then proceed and work together to locate Splinter. Urban Legend #9 is another decent outing for this creative team. The Batman team-up is pretty cool and I think the choice to homage Adam West version was a pretty cool throwback. The character has good chemistry with Leo I could see the characters having regular team-ups. Art is always an issue for the series so I won't dwell on it. The action sequences are pretty good and the addition of color really helps in distinguishing what's going on. There isn't really much else to say. The comic is solid and if you run across the book it's still worth a read. more

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  myconius

  Jan 30, 2019

  this was always one of my favorite issues of the entire Image run of Tmnt. Leo has to travel to Midway City home of the Knight Watchman, who is basically a homage of Batman. originally the character was published by Big Bang Comics, and eventually found he way over to Image. at this point of his career the original Knight Watchman has retired from crimefighting, and his former junior sidekick Galahad has taken on the mantle of Knight Watchman. Leo is in pursuit of Master Splinter, who in the first arc was transformed into a humanoid Bat. Splinter's second mutation has lead to an epidemic of infecting people transforming them into anthropomorphic Bats. even though KW is not officially Batman, this has actually felt closer to a Batman /Tmnt cross-over that the actual licensed ones a few years back. i also liked that this was done as a single issue story without a ton of needless buildup and overdone exposition. another thing i'll add is you can really tell Frank Fosco was enjoying illustrating the Knight Watchman. he has a very cool Frank Miller Dark Knight look to him. a short and sweet one and done, this is definitely one i'll be re-reading again soon. more

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