![]() ![]() Interestingly, de La Cruz doesn’t seem to be telling some sort of prequel to the various characters’ origin stories, of what they were like as teenagers before they would adopt their better-known alter egos, but rather she is remixing the basic Batman story, stripping it of its superhero trappings and recasting the familiar characters into a new setting and with new, sometimes strange relationships. I’ve yet to encounter an O’Neill comic that wasn’t great, but this one stands out as particularly accessible.Īrchie Comics artist Thomas Pitilli transfers to a different school as the artist on popular YA prose writer Melissa de la Cruz’s Gotham High, a rather radical reimagining of Batman and some of his more prominent villains as troubled teens of the Pretty Little Liars or Riverdale variety. As in some of her past works, O’Neill includes information about her real-world inspiration, and after the conclusion of the story, all of the main characters get a little section explaining what species they are and some facts about their species. If you don’t know what an axolotl is, don’t worry you will by the time you close the book. One by one, the little axolotl visits the others, and, one by one, they each come to a moral-like revelation that any kid (or any grown-up) could use reminding of now and then. Not Dewdrop! While Mia, a turtle who has signed up for the pebble-throwing contest, sees how big and strong the other participants are and thinks “Maybe there’s no point competing with them after all,” Dewdrop practices a routine for a couple panels and says, “Wow! I am so good at cheerleading!” The title character is a bright and relentlessly positive axolotl, who is working on a cheerleading routine for the pond’s upcoming sports fair.ĭewdrop’s friends are all participating in different ways too, but as the festival draws closer, they each begin to get frustrated and experience doubts about their own abilities and whether they should even be participating. The latest from Tea Dragon Society and Aquicorn Cove cartoonist Katie O’Neill is Dewdrop, a 30-page all-ages comic that approaches picture book territory in its simplicity. In that respect, this crossover series is like far too many modern superhero comics: Just how much a reader gets out of it depends on how much experience and enthusiasm they bring to it. If you’re not, it probably sounds like gobbledygook…and the fact that DC got TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman to draw the original Turtles into this comic alongside the current, IDW versions that Williams draws might not prove too terribly exciting to you, either. If you’re already a fan of either franchise, chances are that previous sentence makes sense…and, in fact, you’ve seen something similar, in the form of the 2009 Turtles Forever animated special, in which various iterations of the Turtles team-up with their original version from the Mirage comics. ![]() To set things right, a Turtle from the original 1980s black-and-white Mirage Studios TMNT comics visits this new world, explaining how the villain kidnapped the original Turtles and the original Golden Age Batman from the franchises’ “progenitor worlds” in order to control both the Batman and the Turtle multiverses. ![]() This time, a villain has combined the two worlds into a new, awkwardly amalgamated world with a weird, new, combined version of the franchises’ narratives (ome elements of which work much better than others). In the second, Batman and some of his characters went to the Turtles’ world. In the first, the Turtles journeyed from their universe in the current IDW Publishing version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics to Batman’s world. In some ways, writer James Tynion IV and artist Freddie Williams II’s third Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover is the best of the three they’ve produced together, although it’s also an unfortunate mix of derivative and inaccessible. KILLERS #2 (of 5) Please note we incorrectly stated "of 4" last month.Artists: Freddie Williams II and Kevin Eastman $3.99 | 32 pages | T+ | On Sale AUGUST 28th ![]()
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