#3 TMNT Batman 3

#3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Batman 3

As the title would suggest this is the 3rd outing for the TMNT and Batman crossover, I will be touching on the previous two but it's not essential to read them in order to understand what is happening with this plot. Plus, let's be honest almost all TMNT and Batman stories follow the same backbone origin, TMNT being the mutation of the turtles and Batman being the death of Bruce Wanes' parents in Crime Alley (Originally called Park Row). This multiverse tale has allowed a combination of the two origin stories, which is interesting but nothing we haven’t seen a million times before. The third collaboration see’s focus move to the villainous big guns being released, Joker, Harley Quinn and Krang.

Krang, in an attempt to control the multiverse has torn the timelines apart and combined the two, while confusing the memories of all involved. This has resulted in appearances from the black and white Turtles, which is a nod of nostalgia to the very first TMNT books, and more importantly full on ninja versions of the Batman and Joker. Which we haven’t seen since the Batman Ninja film (if you haven’t seen that yet, watch it now! It’s on Netflix).


The character designs and artwork are fantastic but the crossover is getting a little bit stale at this point, particularly in the opening two issues, everything that happens has already been done in the previous two outings with Ra's Al Ghul/Shredder in the first and Bane in the second instalment's, but the target audience is probably not thirty year old men! I would recommend all three storylines,  it's fun and has some brilliant action in it, but just don't go in expecting Stephen King, and leave a larger gap in between each series than I maybe did. That being said if they go for a forth I'll still be buying it.


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