Reviews

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Reborn, Vol. 1 - From the Ashes by Sophie Campbell

grimdark_dad's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

ccreadz's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

5.0

this is the first tmnt comic I've read and I love it I  should've bought the second part because I read it so quickly. I love seeing these new characters and the new twists on the classic ones. cant wait to read more.

iainkelly_writing's review

adventurous fast-paced

4.0

This is the TMNT taken seriously. After the death of their father Splinter there's a lot of soul searching and angst, and not so much cowabunga and pizza. There's also surprisingly little action in these collected edition and instead a focus on emotions, feelings and relationships. Sets it up nicely for more exciting stories to follow. The art is excellent, especially the representation of mutanimals.

hidingzeus's review

3.0

Honestly wasn't sure about this going into it, but once I did, I wound up liking it. This series was surprisingly good. Like most comics, it references stuff that the average newbie won't know, but there's enough loose explanation that it's pretty easy to catch on to what's going on.
The art was very nice.

crookedtreehouse's review

4.0

I haven't seen/read anything related to TMNT since I saw the 1990 live action film in theaters (unless we're counting the Vanilla Ice Turtle rap for Macaroni and Cheese from a few years ago). The comics from the 80s never connected with me, and there was such a contrasting tone between the comics and the cartoon and film properties that I just wasn't interested in trying to connect to them.

I mainly picked this up because of Sophie Campbell's name. And I'm glad I did.

This was a great story about loss, grief, and interpersonal relationship. But with talking mutant animals. It was good enough that I did some online research to see how the story had progressed to this point, and I'm going to pick up some earlier parts of the IDW turtles books, and see if I enjoy them as well.

I recommend this to both the Turtle faithful, and those who've had reservations about picking up any Turtle books.

unrealpunk's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful

5.0

This is astoundingly good.  An absolutely effortless reading experience thanks to the masterful storytelling.  So much is happening; the plot, characters, and relationships are constantly moving forward, always complimented and never weighed down by the dialog, which is sparse but impactful.  

Mutant town is one of the best things that ever happened to the TMNT.  It's so great to see them in a community where they might be able to live like regular citizens. And it gives us this sort of BoJack Horseman setting that is so fun and full of potential.  Pure comic book gold.

I laughed, I cried, I loved the weasels.

bradlyofmartin's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

plaidbrarian's review

4.0

I got a little lost at first not having read any of the IDW TMNT stuff that came before this, but there was enough context to catch up enough and get onto the meat of the story, which was really about rebuilding your life and community after grief and tragedy, and I could relate to that. Kind of the right book at the right time in a really weird way.

alexfromistemor's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

5.0

weejane's review

4.0

Good book. Lots of timely undertones in various social issues. And I've always like TMNT!