The Technodrome fires in "TMNT #43" REVIEW

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TMNT #43
IDW

Story By: Kevin Eastman, Bobby Curnow & Tom Waltz
Script: Tom Waltz
Art: Cory Smith
Colors: Ronda Pattison

Attack on the technodrome part three. This is it, blood and sweat is being shed in a fight where each party has a different agenda; to destroy, to run it themselves and to defeat Krang. This issue contains a lot of actions on a lot of fronts. Each fight scene has great action with some good back and forth between the parties interested, including ninjas (Foot Clan and Turtles), mutanimals and the aliens/dimension x fighters. There is no great conspiracy or large reveal to the story in this issue. This is about all the training and practice that everyone has put into achieving the goal they’re fighting towards.

The art hasn’t changed throughout this arc or for most of the ongoing series. It has brought a small sense of realism to a comic about ninja turtles and skateboarding geckos. The fights have some key panels that really look amazing and capture the moment perfectly. The one thing that always brings me back to the turtles’ ongoing series is the relationships and riffs that carry the story. Luckily for fans of the mutanimals, they have their own series starting this week too (Check out my review of that here)!

With all the fighting going on, I kept hoping and expecting things to go ultimately well for the turtles. Though this time things have wandered into unknown terrain for them, as everything they had planned goes horribly wrong. They are not the only ones who are experiencing less than desired results as Krang and Shredder are in an intense fight to end it all. The only group that sees some form of success are the mutanimals with Splinter aiding in their raid to steal back all the mutagen so there will be no more experiments. The end of this issues leaves us with the technodrome activating and sending a terraforming beam into the skies, which is a metaphor for how well the fight is going for everyone but Krang.

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

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