Story: Paul Allor
Art: Andy Kuhn
Colors: Nick Filardi
Fresh off the pages of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ongoing series, comes the team of Mutanimals. Who are the Mutanimals you ask? This team consists of the massive snapping turtle Slash, Herman the hermit crab soldier, Pete the absent minded pigeon and Mondo Gecko the rad skateboarding lizard, all of them are led by the feline flea bag Old Hob (who is the on again off again antagonist for the Ninja Turtles). Old Hob’s mission is to overthrow the human order, fill the mutant-kind ranks with soldiers of his own making, and not the tortured, science lab side show freaks that humans have been creating, which is exactly what this comic explores.
The creative team behind this series is different from that of the TMNT ongoing series, but they still nail the character models and personalities. The art in this series seems to like to show the characters in one panel and again shortly after just to display the contrast of the varying mood and emotional shifts that the Mutanimals are going through. If you haven’t experienced the Mutanimals in the regular run, then you are in for a ride. This team likes to fight fast and hard, usually without thinking things through first. The one instance they were cooperating with the Ninja Turtles was in the practice and training phase of a raid. Now without the turtles, the action gets hectic and chaotic quick.
This series is a reward for those reading the current run, as well as the hardcore fans from the late 80s early 90s series. The Mutanimals were present then and were just as fun and loose as the Ninja Turtles themselves. Now with they’re return signified by the return of another mutant from the original series, Mutagen Man, a human creature that was part of a science experiment that leaves the mutant as a liquid filled tank with human organs clearly visible. This perversion of science is the exact reason Old Hob is leading this crusade against human-kind, and the exact reason you should be reading this book. The Mutanimals are just as classic and fun to read about as the source material they come from. Side note: Mutagen Man also has made his appearance in the 2012 cartoon series, along with a large stable of mutants that were in the original cartoon and comic. Man I love being a turtle (fan).
By Cory Anderson
Born in Boston MA, raised in NH. Fully functioning adult who happens to read any and every comic under the (yellow)sun. Of course there are the favorite comics I must read when they're released, but any comic is fair game in my eyes. Of course my love for pop culture doesn't end with comics, but branches out to movies, toys, video games and most importantly Dungeons and Dragons (which I withheld this last hobby from my Fiancée until she said "Yes").
Point of Origin for my nerdy condition may have been in '93 when I got slimed at Nickelodeon(now closed), and a teenage accident or two(collapsed lungs) landing me in the hospital around the same time the Tobey Maguire Spiderman movies started coming out. When my dad stopped at the local comic store and brought me the essential comics for Spiderman and the X-Men, I stood no chance. (Which also created a secret aspiration to start a fundraiser of sorts to bring comic books to kids in hospitals to keep their spirits up(nothing has come of this to date)) Add in a heavy dose of trip to Disney World, upcoming Disney themed wedding and a career aspiration to become a Disney Imagineer, I think it's safe to say I never want to grow up.
Xbox Live Gamertag: AllusiveReaper7
(If you notice my xbox achievement score, you might assume I game a bit)
Twitter: @AllusiveReaper7
Recent comic addictions(Non "Big Two"): Saga, Crossed, Coffin Hill, Rat Queens, Pathfinder and Rover Red Charlie
Collects: Old Comics (Green Lama), Miniatures (D&D, Heroclix, Star Wars), Action Figures preferably 90s and older, and comic book themed hats
Systems Owned: NES (though it was my sister's), Game Boy(The gray brick), Sega Genesis, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, Game Boy Advanced, Nintendo DS, Xbox, Xbox360, Wii, Xbox One, Junk PC
