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Urban Legends #24

TMNT: URBAN LEGENDS #24 “APRIL” 2020 BY GARY CARLSON, FRANK FOSCO, ADAM GUZOWSKI AND COURTLAND BRUGGER

Twenty-something years later, IDW is finally finishing Image’s TMNT run. Pimiko has joined the Turtles in their attempt to defeat Lady Shredder, and Donatello is fighting to get Master Splinter back to “life”, but he will have to fight his own armor first.

SCORE: 7

That was a long wait, but you may already know, I actually reviewed the “unofficial” ending of that run. Now, while those issues were a little different from the usual TMNT issues of the time, it was based on notes from Carlson, if my memory doesn’t fail me. So when I read that Urban Legends was going to finish that story I thought “well, they probably weren’t happy with the final product”.

While this issue doesn’t follow those unofficial releases (and it actually hides away from one of its plots), it does seem to be going the same way for other plots... perhaps one of the most... controversial ones of that run. It also makes me wonder if this run will connect with Volume 4 (like the unofficial release did).

The art is not very eye-catching, but it is the style of the book, so on issue 24 I cannot really start complaining about how it looks, or more specifically, how awful Pimiko looks.

I used quotes around “April” in the date because that is what the book says... but it should either say July or September. I think IDW always uses the month it comes out. So my guess is this book was delayed by the COVID-19/diamond fiasco. I had to re-read issues 22 and 23 before reading this (which I recommend). Also for me, it was technically the first time reading them, since I had to read the originals to complete the run last year (and those issues weren’t out in color yet).

Spoilers after the break...

The idea that Karai was Lady Shredder was kind of obvious, and even more after the 2003 cartoon... however...

First: Pimiko is actually Shredder’s daughter. But her mother was Komodo’s wife. And that character kept some things in common with the Andrew Modeen version of the character. This leaves out the character of Tang Amaya though, which leads to the most confusing plot element of this issue.

Lady Shredder is the nanotek armor that apparently took over Lurch (another Carlson character from Vanguard). Now, I couldn’t figure out if this means she is Lurch or she just took Lurch’s DNA. What did you understand from it? It’s a little weird for this story to tie into another property at this point. But, well, that technology is becoming the main plot...

And once again, the idea that the Turtles have a healing factor could allow for this run to be made canon. Especially by the way Karai was reset (that would allow for her to come back). Now, I am not entirely sure this would work well with some of the “Tales” stories, but I think it should all kind of work if they want it to.

And also like in Andrew Modeen’s version, the technology is not allowing the healing factor to work properly. But how can we explain Raphael’s face not healing up?

I am glad this run is getting a conclusion, but I am curious now... as I once hear from a fan that the Andrew Modeen’s “conclusion” was a “joke”. I wonder what that fan will think of this version that has so many similarities?

As I said before, I am glad Modeen’s version existed. And after all, it was based on notes from Carlson, so I would be really surprised if the story ended up being too different.

The armor stuff looks different enough though.

[vigilantsycamore]

So, there's an ancient Chinese account of Japan which mentions that in the 3rd Century CE Japan was ruled by Pimiko, a witch-queen who never married, was "mature in age", and had 1000 women as attendants and only 1 man

Just letting y'all know about that

[vampire-moon]

INKTOBER 2018

Day 15 - Sun Queen Himiko

The main antagonist of the Tomb Raider 2013 reboot, the Sun Queen, known as Himiko was a powerful sorceress and could control the weather. She was one of my favourite parts of the reboot series and I enjoyed drawing her scary face! 

[hynmy]

TMNT // Of A Different Color // Chapter 1 // Cover & Panels 1-7

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[thesecretdiariesofmelissaseacove]

⛓🗡Auntie karai and her niece pimiko⛓🗡 I'd been siting on this idea for a while now and I'd decided to draw it out. Karai in this incarnation is the sister of shredder and has a connection to Casey jones in her teenage years. She is very strong and also very mature, kind of the opposite of pimiko, who is the daughter of shredder, however she loves being a ninja she is somewhat childlike in behaviour, doesn't really think things through and can be quite stubborn but she does have her moments. These are just the outfits for karai and pimiko. Karai would be in her forties while pimiko would be in her teenage years.

[joshdancato]

TMNT Sketches:

1.

Tatsu - Kitsune - Khan

2.

Pimiko - Lotus - Karai

3.

April-April

4.

Wrestling Turtles meet Future Turtles

5.

Warrior Dragon vs. Hothead

6.

Irma-Carter-Keno-Mamisha

7.

Ninjara and her daughter meet Raf

[thecomicsnexus]

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: URBAN LEGENDS #26 (FINAL ISSUE) AUGUST 2020 BY GARY CARLSONO, FRANK FOSCO, ADAM GUZOWSKI AND COURTLAND BRUGGER

The Turtles will try to get Splinter back in his body and Pimiko will finally face her father in the final battle of this long awaited conclusion.

SCORE: 4

I feel like Modeen did a better job in two issues than Carlson in three. These last issues were filled with exposition and very anti-climatic endings.

Does it try to connect with Volume 4? I can see the connection there... I cannot think of a plot that couldn’t make sense. Even if it isn’t canon.

Still, this story could have been done in five issues instead of three, giving enough space to the different battles and separating the villains (as their goals didn’t seem to connect much). Splinter’s arc conclusion is also sloppy.

The art didn’t help, but it is the style of the book, so I will give it a pass.

Spoilers after the break...

It’s lifeless, that’s what it is. Pimiko, King Komodo and his brother, Lady Shredder... they are barely there. It’s like they are representing the characters they are, but they are not them. This story was rushed and there were no reasons for it. They could have done 30 issues of Urban Legends with all the story they had. Anyway, at least we get an official conclusion for volume three.

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