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A TMNT: Saturday Morning Adventures Continued #1 Micro-Review – Mickey Ears?!?

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TITLE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures Continued #1
AUTHOR: Erik Burnham
ARTISTS: Tim Lattie, Jack Lawrence (Inker), Raul Angulo (Colorist), Ed Dukeshire (Letterer)
RELEASED: May 31, 2023

By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder

In essence, what we get from this issue is more of the same. But in this case, that’s a good thing. The charm and show-faithfulness of Erik Burnham’s writing at the fun of Tim Lattie’s pencils are very much intact.

Late in this issue, the Turtles don space suits that very obviously have Mickey Mouse ears on them. Raph makes a joke about them being from TCRI’s “psychological warfare department.” I’m not sure if that joke lands or not. But it’s definitely surreal to see the Turtles essentially dressed like Disney characters.

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TMNT: The Armageddon Game – The Alliance #6 Micro-Review – A Larger, Messier Picture

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TMNT The Armageddon Game the Alliance, cover, April 2023, Roi Mercado, William SoaresTITLE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Armageddon Game – The Alliance #6
AUTHOR: Erik Burnham
ARTISTS: Roi Mercado, William Soares (Colorist), Shawn Lee (Letterer)
RELEASED: April 19, 2023

By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder

In the smaller sense of things, this final Alliance issue is executed fine. The art is good. The characters all feel true to themselves. It’s everything you’d expect from the creators involved.

But the overall Armageddon Game story still feels like a jumbled, bloated mess. That’s not Burnham or Mercado’s fault, per se. But their work is caught in the middle of a larger, messier picture.

On the upside, in this issue Rocksteady gets to do a “thunderclap” like the Hulk does. That’s a fun little moment.

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TMNT: The Armageddon Game – The Alliance #5 Micro-Review – Spotlight on April O’Neil

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TMNT Armageddon Game Alliance 5, cover, March 2023, Roi Mercado, William SoaresTITLE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Armageddon Game – The Alliance #4
AUTHORS: Paul Allor, Erik Burnham
ARTISTS: Pablo Verdugo, Gigi Dutreix (Colorist), Shawn Lee (Letterer), Roi Mercado, William Soares (Colorist). Cover by Mercado & Soares.
RELEASED: March 8, 2023

By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder

This is a nice little April O’Neil-focused issue. Nothing too complicated. She’s running from some bad guys. It’s a fine little piece of the larger Armageddon Game story, which is a big mess.

We don’t actually see the Turtles in this issue. But I like Pablo Verdugo’s take on their world. It’s got a nice animated look to it. I’d enjoy seeing more from him.

Nice to see Paul Allor and Erik Burnham working together on an issue. Reminds me of their work together on Turtles in Time.

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TMNT: The Armageddon Game – The Alliance #4 Micro-Review – More Old Man Donatello

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TMNT Armageddon Game the Alliance 4, cover, February 2023, Roi Mercado Wiliam SoaresTITLE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Armageddon Game – The Alliance #4
AUTHORS: Sophie Campbell, Erik Burnham
ARTISTS: Brittany Peer, Roi Mercado, William Soares (Colorist), Nate Widick (Letterer), Shawn Lee (Letterer). Cover by Mercado & Soares.
RELEASED: February 15, 2023

By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder

Artistically, this issue is really strong. Brittany Peer has a knack for the TMNT universe, and she does her own inks and colors to boot. Meanwhile, Roi Mercado’s work is delightfully clean, with figures that are dynamic-looking even while not necessarily doing anything dynamic.

This issue gives us another version of Old Man Donatello in the IDW continuity. Granted, it’s not the same Old Man Donatello we saw in the Turtles in Time book. But still.

I like this duo of Venus and Bludgeon (the big shark guy). More of them, please.

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A TMNT: Saturday Morning Adventures #4 Micro-Review – Microscopic Mousers!

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TMNT Saturday Morning Adventures 4, cover, January 2023, Tim LattieTITLE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #4
AUTHOR: Erik Burnham
ARTISTS: Tim Lattie, Sarah Myer (Colorist), Nathan Widick (Letterer)
RELEASED: January 25, 2023

By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder

This is the last issue of this Saturday Morning Adventures miniseries. But this has been a lot of fun. I’d definitely be up for more of this.

As the cover indicates, the Turtles go into Splinter’s bloodstream in this issue to fight tiny Mousers. As it turns out, Splinter’s white blood cells look like tiny, pale rats. Who knew?

If you watched the TV show when you were a kid, you can practically hear that old cartoon soundtrack during certain scenes in these issues. That may be the greatest compliment I can bestow upon them.

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A TMNT: The Armageddon Game – The Alliance #3 – A One-Two Punch

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TMNT The Armageddon Game The Alliance 3, cover, January 2023, Roi MercadoTITLE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Armageddon Game – The Alliance #3
AUTHORS: Juni Ba, Erik Burnham
ARTISTS: Ba, Roi Mercado, Ronda Pattison (Colorist), William Soares (Colorist), Jake M. Wood (Letterer). Cover by Mercado.
RELEASED: January 4, 2023

By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder

This is far and away the best issue to come out of this Armageddon Game storyline yet. Juni Ba’s writing and art on the main story (along with Ronda Pattison’s colors) are a tremendous change of pace, delivering a great character story for Alopex. Then Burnham and Mercado’s back-up makes for a great one-two punch.

Mind you, I’m still not enthralled with Armageddon Game as a whole. But this the first issue from the storyline that I’ve enjoyed from start to finish.

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A TMNT Saturday Morning Adventures #3 Micro-Review – A Gameboy Cameo!!!

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TMNT Saturday Morning Adventures 3, cover, December 2022, Tim LattieTITLE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #3
AUTHOR: Erik Burnham
ARTISTS: Tim Lattie, Sarah Myer (Colorist), Jake M. Wood (Letterer)

RELEASED: December 21, 2022

By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder

Even more so than what we saw in the previous two issues, this feels like a story they would have done on the old show. Burnham does an excellent job of making this series feel authentic to what we saw back in the ’80s and ’90s.

Early in the issue, we see Michelangelo with a Gameboy. Now that’s retro.

My only complaint is a minor one, and it involves the Turtles’ eyes. Those black pupils are a little big for my taste. Certainly bigger than they were on the show.

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TMNT: The Armageddon Game – The Alliance #2 Micro-Review – The Art of Exposition

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TMNT The Armageddon Game the Alliance 2, cover, December 2022, Roi Mercado, William SoaresTITLE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Armageddon Game – The Alliance #2
AUTHORS: Will Robson, Erik Burnham
ARTISTS: Robson, Roi Mercado, Andrew Dalhouse (Colorist), William Soares (Colorist), Shawn Lee (Letterer), Neil Uyetake (Letterer). Cover by Mercado & Soares.

RELEASED: December 14, 2022

By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder

There’s a lot of expositing going on here. We start off with a monologue from Casey Jones that goes on for three pages. Then the Punk Frogs exposit fairly heavily. Then for our back-up we have a mostly one-sided dialogue between Casey and Karai that goes over her situation.

In terms of Casey, I found myself wishing they’d found another, quicker way to get that information to us. As for the expositing overall, the scope of this Armageddon Game story is just THAT big that we need to constantly be reminded of what’s going on with everybody….

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TMNT: The Armageddon Game – The Alliance #1 Micro-Review – Karai and the Imposter Turtles

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TMNT Armageddon Game Alliance 1, cover, 2022, Roi MercadoTITLE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Armageddon Game – The Alliance #1
AUTHOR: Erik Burnham
ARTISTS: Roi Mercado, William Soares (Colorist), Shawn Lee (Letterer)

RELEASED: November 9, 2022

By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder

We see the events of this issue from Karai’s perspective. That’s nice to see, as she hasn’t gotten a lot of focus lately. That’s an advantage of this story having such a wide scope.

We also gain a little bit of insight into our four imposter Turtles. We can flat out say they’re imposters at this point, can’t we?

The Foot Clan’s training facility is apparently in Queens. Is that a weird place to put it? Or do I just not know New York City well enough? Maybe Queens is crawling with ninjas…

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A TMNT: Saturday Morning Adventures #2 Micro-Review – Faithful and Fittingly Cartoony

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TMNT Saturday Morning Adventures 2, cover, 2022, Tim LattieTITLE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #2
AUTHOR: Erik Burnham
ARTISTS: Tim Lattie, Sarah Myer (Colorist), Jake M. Wood (Letterer)

RELEASED: November 2, 2022

By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder

This issue feels even more like an episode of the cartoon than the last one. Which is to say that Burnham, Lattie, and this crew are doing their job well. You know a throwback book like this is working when you can hear the voice actors as you’re reading.

It all feels faithful and fittingly cartoony. We’ve got Shredder and Krang bickering like an old married couple, Raph making bad puns, and a crowd-surfing rock monster! Raph and Mikey even break the fourth wall at one point! Vernon’s facial expressions are also a joy.

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