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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 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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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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A TMNT: Saturday Morning Adventures #1 Micro-Review – That ’80s Feel

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TMNT Saturday Morning Adventures 1, cover, 2022, Tim LattieTITLE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures #1
AUTHOR: Erik Burnham
ARTISTS: Tim Lattie, Sarah Myer (Colorist), Shawn Lee (Letterer)

RELEASED: October 5, 2022

By Rob Siebert
Fanboy Wonder

Inevitably, one of the goals of a book like this is to recapture the feel of the original product. In this case, the classic 1980s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon show.

As someone who grew up on that show, I’d say this issue hits the mark. The script about the Turtles being sucked into a video game feels like something that would have come out of the series. Burnham has the characters down pat.

Lattie and Myer’s art also has a fun, colorful, series-evocative look to it, with a few classic TMNT video game Easter eggs thrown in.

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