TMNT (IDW) #25
Aug. 28th, 2013 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwatersparkUh, not sure how my LJ turned into an IDW TMNT review/rambles blog, but...yeah, I guess that's what I'm doing now?
So far we're 4/7ths of the way through City Fall, and this is the second issue that I felt was actually satisfying (the other one I liked was #23). There was lots of action, a decent amount of character interaction/development, and the eponymous "City Fall" is FINALLY starting to get underway (about halfway through the actual story arc). Also, finally the bros (or all of them minus Leo) get some bro-to-bro chat time, for I think the first time since City Fall started.
The revelation that Casey Jones's deadbeat dad is actually going to become Hun made me facepalm, though. There is good writing that plans out unexpected connections ahead of time in a way that's surprising and delightful...and then there's writing in which everybody is connected to everybody and nothing is surprising anymore. Eh, we'll see, I suppose this does set the stage for bringing back 2003 Casey's grudge against Hun in an interesting twist.
(** some rambling about TMNT meta below, less related to the issue **)
So in this issue, it confirms that Kitsune is controlling Leo somehow and that his "personality swap" is due to her magic or whatever, which seems to rule out my speculation that Dark Leo might be a magically-induced manifestation of Leo's "dark side." Which is kind of a shame, though there are also plenty of logical holes to this setup. How exactly is Kitsune controlling Leo, considering he seems to have some measure of autonomy? Gah. (Using magic to handwave logic is one of the worst things writers can do.)
So far we're 4/7ths of the way through City Fall, and this is the second issue that I felt was actually satisfying (the other one I liked was #23). There was lots of action, a decent amount of character interaction/development, and the eponymous "City Fall" is FINALLY starting to get underway (about halfway through the actual story arc). Also, finally the bros (or all of them minus Leo) get some bro-to-bro chat time, for I think the first time since City Fall started.
The revelation that Casey Jones's deadbeat dad is actually going to become Hun made me facepalm, though. There is good writing that plans out unexpected connections ahead of time in a way that's surprising and delightful...and then there's writing in which everybody is connected to everybody and nothing is surprising anymore. Eh, we'll see, I suppose this does set the stage for bringing back 2003 Casey's grudge against Hun in an interesting twist.
(** some rambling about TMNT meta below, less related to the issue **)
So in this issue, it confirms that Kitsune is controlling Leo somehow and that his "personality swap" is due to her magic or whatever, which seems to rule out my speculation that Dark Leo might be a magically-induced manifestation of Leo's "dark side." Which is kind of a shame, though there are also plenty of logical holes to this setup. How exactly is Kitsune controlling Leo, considering he seems to have some measure of autonomy? Gah. (Using magic to handwave logic is one of the worst things writers can do.)
