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09-14-2006, 10:25 AM
And one of the best mini-series of the year comes to an end...
Usually when I finish reading a mini-series, I'm pissed that I wasted all the money on the individual issues and didn't wait for the TPB... I also often find that I'm disappointed with final issues, (Revelations comes to mind - I LOVED that series, but the last issue just kind of dropped it for me) but this one was well worth it right up to the end.
Yeah, the end put everything back to the status quo as with most mini's... While that's one of the things that often annoys me about them, I was good with this. Perhaps b/c, from the beginning, it was obvious that Leo was going to get his sight back. There weren't any feigns in trying to make the reader believe that he'd always be blind. It always was a journey, and we always knew where we'd end up. I'm not usually very good at realizing that the "journey is the destination" or whatever either. But this time I liked it. A lot.
*****SPOILERS*****
The swords being cursed was pretty obvious and I suppose I should have seen it coming that the Daimyo was behind the stealing of the swords, but I missed it until Leo mentioned that something weird was going on. I thought the Daimyo's strangeness was just due to space constraints in the book. Should have known better. :)
So, regardless, Leonardo gets kicked out of the village and his daughter is sent to kill him. But the guy that he killed on the rooftop was there to warn him, so he wasn't caught unaware... After the attack, Leo heads back to the Daimyo to throw down. The Daimyo explains the story behind the swords with a neat little trick in the water and then a story about the turle gods and rat gods and something... honestly, I got kind of lost there. Regardless, mayhem ensues and, of course, Leo ends up kicking ass. During the fight, however, the temple catches on fire and, again, the guy that Leonardo killed helps and points the way out... after leaving, the dead guy explains how the foot soldier actually tricked Leo into thinking that he killed him. And how Leo's own guilt was prohibiting his body from healing. At which point, Leo wakes up and is back home... with his sight.
I think that's about that for the story... but what's the deal with the gods? I haven't read a lot of back issues... are the turtles and Splinter actually supposed to be related to the Zodiac things? And how was it that the dead guy kept showing up in Leo's vision? The best I could assume was that Leo knew, all along, that he never killed that guy, and his presence in the vision was just Leonardo's subconcious.
Anyway... great art, great story... I'm sad this one's over!
Usually when I finish reading a mini-series, I'm pissed that I wasted all the money on the individual issues and didn't wait for the TPB... I also often find that I'm disappointed with final issues, (Revelations comes to mind - I LOVED that series, but the last issue just kind of dropped it for me) but this one was well worth it right up to the end.
Yeah, the end put everything back to the status quo as with most mini's... While that's one of the things that often annoys me about them, I was good with this. Perhaps b/c, from the beginning, it was obvious that Leo was going to get his sight back. There weren't any feigns in trying to make the reader believe that he'd always be blind. It always was a journey, and we always knew where we'd end up. I'm not usually very good at realizing that the "journey is the destination" or whatever either. But this time I liked it. A lot.
*****SPOILERS*****
The swords being cursed was pretty obvious and I suppose I should have seen it coming that the Daimyo was behind the stealing of the swords, but I missed it until Leo mentioned that something weird was going on. I thought the Daimyo's strangeness was just due to space constraints in the book. Should have known better. :)
So, regardless, Leonardo gets kicked out of the village and his daughter is sent to kill him. But the guy that he killed on the rooftop was there to warn him, so he wasn't caught unaware... After the attack, Leo heads back to the Daimyo to throw down. The Daimyo explains the story behind the swords with a neat little trick in the water and then a story about the turle gods and rat gods and something... honestly, I got kind of lost there. Regardless, mayhem ensues and, of course, Leo ends up kicking ass. During the fight, however, the temple catches on fire and, again, the guy that Leonardo killed helps and points the way out... after leaving, the dead guy explains how the foot soldier actually tricked Leo into thinking that he killed him. And how Leo's own guilt was prohibiting his body from healing. At which point, Leo wakes up and is back home... with his sight.
I think that's about that for the story... but what's the deal with the gods? I haven't read a lot of back issues... are the turtles and Splinter actually supposed to be related to the Zodiac things? And how was it that the dead guy kept showing up in Leo's vision? The best I could assume was that Leo knew, all along, that he never killed that guy, and his presence in the vision was just Leonardo's subconcious.
Anyway... great art, great story... I'm sad this one's over!