EPISODE 338 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Dark Knight Returns style!

We go over the 2020(ish) mini series The Last Ronin. This takes place in a bleak future version of our world, where only one turtle is still alive, and he is fighting to avenge his fallen brothers and father. It was a hit story and mostly very well received by fans! There is a very clear influence from Frank Miller's mid-1980s Batman story The Dark Knight Returns, but it's still very much a TMNT story, albeit one in the "mature, violent" category.

Kevin Eastman collaborated on this, using an outline he and Peter Laird had done in 1987 as a starting point. Along with writer Tom Waltz and a cadre of brilliant arists (Esau and Isaac Escorza, Ben Bishop as well as Kevin Eastman), they craft a dark post-apocalyptic (not technically, but it feels like a fallen world) landscape.

We visit most of the main cast of Turtles lore (in the comics) one way or the other.

Despite all the harshness and sad turns, it's very fun!

In Loose Screws, we talk about Batman: Dark Patterns, which Kevin loves (and Will has not read).