Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin - Lost Years

, #02

Hardcover, 208 pages

English language

Published by IDW Publishing.

ISBN:
979-8-88724-010-7
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5 stars (1 review)

RETURN TO THE RONIN-VERSE! In TMNT: The Last Ronin, readers were taken on a pulse-pounding trek through time—past, present, future—to witness the final gut-wrenching days of the Heroes in a Half-Shell.

In Last Ronin–Lost Years, new secrets of the Turtles’ past are revealed as we learn more about the devastating series of events leading up to the Last Ronin’s final battle, as well as its aftermath.

For Michelangelo in particular, the march to his heartbreaking last battle was long and dangerous, taking him from New York City, to Japan, across Asia and Europe, and then back home again to administer final justice against those guilty of killing his family. But what happened during those fateful years when he had only the need for vengeance and Master Splinter’s journal to guide him? What battles did he fight? What hard lessons did he learn?

The time has come to find out as …

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reviewed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin by Kevin Eastman (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, #01)

Last Ronin; My First TMNT Graphic Novel

5 stars

I guess this was quite the way to get introduced to the TMNT Graphic Novels instead of the early 90s cartoon and the absolutely peerless 1990 film.

The art is absolutely stellar, the colors and lighting are fantastic. The dialogue and subject material are darker and more down-trodden than I had expected, but this apparently tracks with the original graphic novels.

I loved seeing the final epiphany of the Last Ronin written in the notebook. A poignant way to try and set the next generation on the right path and to avoid the suffering that came before.

Subjects

  • Comics & graphic novels, science fiction
  • Comics & graphic novels, dystopian
  • Comics & graphic novels, media tie-in