WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: TMNT Collected Book Volume One
11 Comments | Posted: September 11th, 2009 | Filed under: What I've Been Reading | Tags: teenage mutant ninja turtles
This collection of the first three years of Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is clumsily plotted, packed with expository, derivative dialogue and art for which “adequate” is bends the truth a bit. It’s also visceral, engaging, and exciting. 25 years after the fact, it’s easy to see why the comics collected here were the first wave of a phenomenon — they’re a slapdash celebration of Japanese cinema, Frank Miller, and pulp fiction, fueled by starry-eyed youth and a complete lack of knowledge when it comes to what not to do. It’s more than recommended; I’d say this book is essential for anyone who wants to better understand the changes that comics have endured in the past quarter-century.
