Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin
Ratings30
Average rating4.3
I'm pretty bored with legacy sequels nowadays. Every major, and most minor, media franchises from my youth have been revisited in some way in an attempt to update a proven property to appeal to modern audiences. I can understand the appeal, I certainly understand the economic reasoning, but most of them fall flat to me. Works of media are of their age, and you can't just pull them out of their time and expect them to have the same impact on an entirely new generation. And most of them just remind me I could be engaging with the original, and usually much better, version.
The Last Ronin is a legacy sequel, but it's good! it's not just a continuation of the original Eastman & Laird TMNT series, it's the end. It feels very much like the stories of theirs I read back in the 90s, and it's a perfect ending to that story. Sad, sure, but also a love letter to one of the most enduring pop culture franchises of the past 40 years. After reading this I hope there are more legacy sequels intent on ending their story instead of trying to create a new, updated version with the main purpose of making more money.
WOW, as a massive Tnmnt fan as a kid this was the first ever Tnmnt comic I read and it blew me away, gorgeous graphics, and the story was gripping and sad
I don't think I've read TMNT since Return to New York. So I genuinely had no idea The Last Ronin would be so fantastic. What an amazing capstone.