Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Original Motion Picture Special Edition: 35th Anniversary by Peter LairdMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
I'm a serious outlier here, because I thought it kinda sucked.
The artwork is childish and flat, with hideous faces and a lack of detail that makes the characters look freakish. Very reminiscent of the bad drawings I used to do on MS Paint as a kid, where you then just fill the colour with a click. The panels are cramped and the writing more so, and just so much of it!
It's been a long time since I saw the film, and I wanted to feel the nostalgia but I just couldn't get past the hideous presentation. I'm a big TMNT fan so it feels a little like blasphemy saying so, but I just did not enjoy this. The massive, central watermark on the NetGalley digital copy didn't help, either.
The bonus sketch pages at the back were kinda cool, but to me it also kinda showed that the faces hadn't changed all that much from the original rough sketches. It's always cool to see an artist's process, though, so fans of the comic format should get a kick out of it.
Sadly, this was a massive disappointment to me. I'll stick to the new stuff, I think!
With thanks to NetGalley for an e-ARC
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