This series recently became the longest continuously running comic in the history of the TMNT franchise. Now TMNT reaches another milestone as it hits the issue #75 mark and wraps up the "Trial of Krang" storyline. But whole eventful, this oversized issue is also badly disjointed and poorly paced. In short, not the best way to ring in this milestone.
It's possible that some of TMNT #75's problems could be solved merely by splitting the book into two separate issues. The first half of Tom Waltz's script focuses mainly on an epic space battle with the Malignoid Swarm, with the second transitioning back to Krang's trial and the ensuing legal drama. It makes for a very jarring transition. The clashing art styles at work here don't exactly help. Worse, the sudden transition from space battles to courtroom drama only serves to make the former feel all the more superfluous. The resolution is so simple and easy that it robs the conflict of drama.
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It's possible that some of TMNT #75's problems could be solved merely by splitting the book into two separate issues. The first half of Tom Waltz's script focuses mainly on an epic space battle with the Malignoid Swarm, with the second transitioning back to Krang's trial and the ensuing legal drama. It makes for a very jarring transition. The clashing art styles at work here don't exactly help. Worse, the sudden transition from space battles to courtroom drama only serves to make the former feel all the more superfluous. The resolution is so simple and easy that it robs the conflict of drama.
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