I didn’t know about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin before I read news on production of prequel on one movie site. A conception of a story lured me what caused to immediate wish to familiarize with it what was a thrilling reading. I want to have it comic book in one edition on my book shelf.
I wasn’t against to release of more from that universe though I had reasons for incredulity. One of them was that the new stories also will continuation of events, which is repeating of itself. I was attracted in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin – Lost Years to what was with Michelangelo in gap period.
The first issue is only introduction. It makes extended telling of how a protagonist wanted to die, changed his thoughts and how appearance of thugs made absolute turning point, which continued from there into involvement in conflict with unknown forces yet. My eyes in excitement by reading profound narrating of main character and how he crushes hostiles. I’m in flabbergasting by thorough drawing work made by that part of team. That’s when the story isn’t perspective and have signs of predictability. Describing of “mysterious forces” in ran-in epithets of how they powerful and formidable by mention a vast size and that police and army fearing them. I already don’t see their mighty if these hillbillies only have access to cold weapon and automatic rifles. Michelangelo chops them without getting rebuff.
Kevin Eastman enriches lead character’s personality by adding flashback about sudden fear of fighting in what can’t believe by surrounding of dozen corpses and character’s background. That entered line for motivation in other time has odd place for a matured warrior. It’s past moment is unnecessary itself.
The cherry of the worst in putting soap opera in the last pages. Michelangelo who had bloody fight and conversation with an old man about so evil forces gets twist by seeing his dead brothers in phantom forms. Even Eastman didn’t know an answer about visions in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin. Whether it is hallucination or they are ghosts. Logically, that must be the first, because why don’t appear other ghosts, why wasn’t the protagonist inform on alive persons and why didn’t they show up earlier for motivate him. The stance in which Michelangelo meets brothers at the first time makes unacceptable on hallucination.
Meantime the future isn’t tantalizing. That period takes few pages on which line I looked as initially. We see guises of new four turtles who are kids yet, know their names and revealing their likes, which for characterization as well as specialty makes that each of them has a different look for be recognizable without color of bandage. The authors put characteristics into personages by rudely shoving them for that readers already know a lot on these turtles.
I don’t say “it’s over” and I will read the second at least of five projected issues and who knows that maybe it will with announced in days an additional one-shot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin – Lost Day Special, which will take set in more further future. Although I’m not sure that I will see splendid.