A new plot
So the first 4 issues were exciting, though they made considerable changes, and #4 tied in to a great, emotional ending, nice wrap up of the history up to there and,.... now we have this.
Great opening, Splinter doing his thing. Awesome. And as if the minor tweaks in the first 4 issues weren't messy enough,... now they bring in some past life stuff ! What? i guess it works actually, with the 3rd movie and it's time travel and samurais and Don saying he wished there was more to their origin than a broken TGRI canister in Secret of the Ooze. I don't like it.
This issue actually gives a clear idea of the order of the turtles by age, that was cool. This story changes the original backstory of Shredder and his enmity with the turtles. Nagi is taken out, no harm there, Nagi only barely existed in the original comic anyway, and in the movie i believe it was Shredder himself that hated Yoshi. Splinter is no longer Yoshi's pet but Yoshi himself, but hey, i'm a 90s kid, i grew up with the Fred Wolf cartoon, and even though that was the one thing i didn't like about that cartoon (back then) Yoshi = Splinter is not a new idea. However, there was a fan made web-comic, "Dawn of the Ninja" that had a similar plot, and "Shinobi" by Ninja comics (which i hope to upload someday) too had a familiar plot.
So all in all this is definitely not a bad comic, it's great. The action's great, the bros are talking, Splinter's kicking butt, new bandanas are given (not optional but COMPULSORY,) and all that so it's not horrible. What it does to the major tradition is what is crazy
