Cover Story - Top 15 Ninja Turtle Covers

So, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have returned to the box office 2 years after their universally panned reboot film.  While Out of the Shadows seems to have fixed some of the previous film’s problems audience interest seems lapsed at best, mainly owing to the first films complete lack of quality and the much more popular Nickelodeon show only picking up steam in the interim. 

However, I’m not here to discuss the failings of the new TMNT movie as I didn’t bother to go see it, fixed income and all that.  Instead, let us actually celebrate the Ninja Turtles the only way a comic book nerd like me can: with an arbitrary assortment of covers arranged into a ranking format so as to give the illusion of meaning and import to my personal preferences.  With that said, let’s dive into the shallow end and get the cover story on the top 15 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles covers.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Trailer

The 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turltes movie was awful, let’s get those cards on the table right here at the start.  I did a full review of the film at the time but I get the sense in the time sense it came out there’s been a tendency by most to mellow on its awfulness.  More and more the defense I hear from people is “it’s for kids and it’s not that bad aside from the changes,” to which I say: no, it is exactly that bad.  I’m not even really a fan of the Ninja Turtles so much as a thoroughly concerned observer and even I know the movie is terrible, mainly because it insults you with every chance it gets. 

Seriously, the writing in the film is so incredibly broken and incompetent that the finale is hinged on a call-back to something that was never established in the first place.  The movie is essentially a first draft that received no polish under the assumption people wouldn’t care.  However, it made a whole lot of money at the box office so now we’re getting a sequel just a scant 2 years after the original, pretty much the same approach as the Amazing Spider-Man franchise that the new TMNT draws so heavily from.  Now we’ve got the first trailer for that new film entitled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows and surprise; it doesn’t look that bad.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #50 Review

It's issue #50 for IDW's excellent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic and I give it the full review over on Front Towards Gamer, check it out here:

http://ftg.operationsupplydrop.org/2015/10/13/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-50-review-comics/