Turtles on the defensive, a “TMNT #48” (Review)

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TMNT #48
IDW

Written by: Kevin Eastman, Bobby Curnow & Tom Waltz
Art by: Cory Smith

If the road to #50 is going to be as action packed as well as thrilling as this, I don’t know if I’m going to make it. The last few issues have been building up the final attack, and some of the future action has been spilling out along the way. Now we are seeing the beginning of the end. The turtles were trying to recoup and catch their breath in the wake of their brother becoming a robo-bro, but they can no longer just sit and wait. As Raph complains to Leo “You know…Sensei keeps tellin’ us to protect ourselves”, the brothers keep retreating and retreating until they can’t fall back any further.

The art of Cory Smith has kept this arc flowing from panel to panel, keeping up with each nun chuck and ninja flip. Each of the turtles including “DUZ MACHINES 84”, the code name for Donnie while his mind is in Metal Head (which is an amazing reference to the cartoon’s theme song), they each have their own style of fighting from rage and well-disciplined to wild and free styling. I can usually guess or see where the story is heading early on in the arc, but the script of Tom Waltz has me on my toes with unexpected rescues and rendezvous.

I know that in the end everything will come together in an explosive arc conclusion, but at this moment, there are so many moving parts and background figures still getting their hands dirty that everything feels fresh and new. What I have seen and experienced in all of the previous issues in this current run (City fall and Donnie’s near death to name just a few) has reaffirmed my love for the TMNT property, but more importantly the creative team that has been telling these stories month in and month out has my complete faith with the outcome of issue 50. Each issue has been well worth the buy and read (and multiple buys in the case of variant covers).

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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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