Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #100

From my viewpoint, this eight part series really finds a way to wrap you into the big picture with this final issue. The creators and IDW craft a turtle soup story that no five star restaurant can ever cook up. It makes your laugh, it makes you gasp, and it makes you bring a box of tissue to it. It's storytelling done right, and it's a TMNT story that will be remembered for years to come. Read Full Review

Waltz and company go out with a Bang in issue 100, which is what you should expect from the best interpretation of the turtles ever produced. Artist/Writer Sophie Campbell will be at the helm next year with issue 101. Itll be interesting to see how she dives into Jennikas character and if she can learn to love being a turtle. The first arc in IDWs TMNT is called Change is constant, and there are deff a lot of changes coming after this issue. Families change, Friends change, Writers change, but you can bet This being a must-have book every issue wont change at all. Read Full Review

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #100 has been promoted as the one TMNT book you can't miss. Believe the hype. Read Full Review

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I realize the turtles arent going anywhere, but seeing Shredder carry Master Splinter's lifeless body, gave me chills, my eyes watered, I closed the book and silently said thank you to Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Tom Waltz, and everyone that has ever drawn and wrote Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I truly cannot wait for the next 100 issues. Read Full Review

TMNT #100 is by all accounts a success. Though imperfect from a craftsmanship perspective, it is a perfect capstone to 100 issues of storytelling while springboarding the series into the future. IDW Publishing deserves a lot of credit for putting together this creative team, as their efforts have resulted in the definitive version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Read Full Review

The writing is really good and it is incredible that the writing team has been planting these seeds and letting them grow for this long. The art is great as well; it just doesn't all flow together. Read Full Review

Overall, longtime fans of this series should find plenty of reasons throughout this story to move them - be it thrills and excitement or sombre moments of pause. Even those who have a more casual interest in the TMNT and want to see what these characters are up to will find plenty to recognize to keep their interest and even more questions raised that will encourage at least a few to stick around and see what happens next. There's a lot to take in, and it can be a little dizzying at times to keep up with it all given how big and bombastic the team takes this story, but it should be a crowd-pleaser all the same. Read Full Review

With the help of co-plotters Kevin Eastman and Bobby Curnow, the strong artwork of Mike Dialynas and Dave Wachter, and colors by Ronda Pattison, the issue is a fitting conclusion to an inspired reimagining of a fan-favorite franchise. Read Full Review

The sacrifice of Splinter and return of a less-murderous Oroku Saki felt like an echo of Magneto's X-Men from so many years ago. I'm not sure where such a move takes the Turtles moving forward, but it certainly shakes up the status quo (in a way IDW wasn't willing to do in allowing Donatello to stay dead or a robot). Worth a look. Read Full Review

If you're a TURTLES fan, this is the issue things have been building toward. If you've been away for a while, this is the issue to catch you back up. Either way, it's going to be a milestone in TMNT history that you're going to want to have in your collection. Read Full Review

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Dec 14, 2019

I've referenced a few titles for consideration when it comes to the best single issue of 2019. The first issue that comes to mind would be House of X #2 which covered the lives of Moira X. House of X #4 which covered the X-Men's assault on the Mother Mold facility. The Walking Dead also ended this year and did what Game of Thrones could not in providing a satisfying conclusion to that series. Even with those releases, I feel pretty comfortable naming TMNT #100 as 2019's top comic. All opinions are subjective and I admit at the outset of this review that my enjoyment of this issue is colored by having read about 90% of all of the TMNT content that has been released since IDW acquired the IP. Before getting into the actual content of the book, I do want to mention that the book is 7.99. The price bump is expected and in this instance, as with the last month, the increase seems fair. I'm also a fan of DC's Black Label line of comics. I don't have an issue paying more for a book if I'm getting more for the money. The comic comes in at 45 pages and is in the format traditionally reserved for a trade paperback. Books like this one make me question the monthly format. I often lament comics that come in at 3.99 that I read in 5 minutes. I often feel ripped off. TMNT #100 is a bigger comic and offers a lot more value. If the series was released bimonthly at 7.99 in this particular format I wouldn't complain at all. On art duty our old favorites Dave Wachter, Mateus Santolouco and Michael Dialynas provide linework. Ronda Pattison does her thing and maintains color consistency throughout the book. The overall editing of this issue is solid and although the issue juggles a lot of artists and characters nothing looked jarring or inconsistent. On a surface level, TMNT #100 marks the end to the City at War story arc that has been running through all of 2019. If you've been following the IDW line of TMNT stories you know that this issue also is a direct follow-up to Shredder in Hell #5. This book works as a conclusion to both series. The Turtles and Agent Bishop's Earth Protection Force have converged into the Foot Clan's base. All hell has broken loose. While the battle is raging, Kitsune performs a ritual that if successful will resurrect the Dragon God that could potentially destroy the world. The issue pays off many of the ongoing storylines that have been going on in the supplemental material. TMNT: Macro-Series was my favorite series of 2018, many of the seeds planted in that series bare fruit here. In the Raphael Macro, Raph was captured and tortured by the EPF. Raphael finally catches up to Agent Bishop in this issue and the scenes are just as intense as you'd imagine they would be. The series has wonderful callbacks throughout. The funniest one for me was pulled from Bebop & Rocksteady: Hit The Road. I spent a lot of time with that series and often felt like I was the only person reading that comic. Seeing Bebop & Rocksteady's pet Raptor show up and save their asses got an audible reaction out of me. It was an ongoing gag in their series and the scene wouldn't have worked at all if I hadn't read their mini-series. The book also has one of the best and bittersweet conclusions I've read in a longrunning story arc. There are casualties on both sides of this war. I'm sad that I pretty much called the conclusion of this book and Shredder in Hell months ago, but I'm also excited to see the new status quo for the series. I won't spoil the book here, but I will make a supplemental video later this week going over my thoughts and providing predictions for the series going forward. Sophie Campbell is the new writer starting next month and I'm confident she can continue where Tom leaves off. She wrote one of my favorite TMNT stories ever with the TMNT Macro-Series: Leonardo. She gets these characters and their personalities. It will be great to see her deal with the fallout of this issue and I think Sophie is the perfect candidate to steer this ship going forward. TMNT #100 isn't just a culmination of Tom Waltz and the gang's run on the characters. It's also a culmination of much of the supplemental material. The issue is a direct follow-up to Shredder in Hell #5, which ended last week. It also either resolves or addresses plot points going back to the early days of the series. This a beautiful issue from beginning to end. The creative team clearly loves these characters and it will be hard to top this conclusion going forward. If the series ended with this issue I wouldn't complain. I know it won't happen, but I can't think of a more satisfying conclusion for these characters that would fit thematically. The issue is simply amazing. more

K-23

Dec 14, 2019

Great issue that wrapped up the city at war arch leaving plenty of new directions for the book to go. The conclusion felt a little rushed but the resulting emotional ending scene after totally made up for it.

Micky H

Dec 26, 2019

pretty cool issue. story got rushed/messy in the middle but a satisfying conclusion in the end.

Hislight

Mar 21, 2021

Not as Grand as the Big issue 50 wrap up...I liked splinters ending but found too many of the plot lines to conclude too easily

myconius

Dec 11, 2019

i wish i could hop on the hype train. a few critics have given this comic a perfect 10. it IS NOT a perfect 10!! jumping back and forth through various artists was jarring. a lot of the art looked very rushed and it really took me out of the story. i guess my frustration really comes with just how much time & money this series takes to go nowhere. they force readers (customers) to have to buy supplement mini-series and one-shots to get the full story, yet so many stories get dragged out endlessly and never really go anywhere, or have a satisfying conclusion. plus what’s the point of buying a Ninja Turtle comic if the Ninja Turtles never really get to shine in their own series? the plot has been meandering for such a long time ( since #50) that within the last year or more the writers needed to sell us FOUR (double priced) Marco-series One-shots to catch up with all the plot threads that were dragging for so long. even then there have been too many loose threads to keep track of. i cannot even remember what happened to Metal-Head in this story-arc, nor do i even remember what Leatherhead was doing in the beginning of this arc. many of the resolutions and conclusions within this story were very anti-climatic and unsatisfying! there are just TOO damn many characters kicking around that the focus barely lands on the title characters. the Turtles barely felt like they even really affected the overall plot of the story. so many characters and plot points (that have been clogging up this series) went absolutely nowhere. ((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS)))))))))) ((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS)))))))))) ((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS)))))))))) ((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS)))))))))) ((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS))))))))))((((((((((SPOILERS)))))))))) -Splinter’s death was so forced and predictable in this. i felt absolutely nothing when he died. -what was the point of bringing back Oroku Saki? if he’s no longer evil then what purpose could he possibly serve? -what was the point in wasting time on The Pantheon? they were USELESS. -the Turtles themselves were useless. none of them even got to kill Bishop. -Hun (Arnold Jones) did a 180 in character a while back, just so he can do another one in sacrifice himself for his son. it felt very forced and anti-climatic. -the call-back to Splinter’s opening dialog from issue #1 was nice, but honestly felt very forced in. -what was the point of bringing Krang back? we’ve already told that story, and it wasn’t even that good. ((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS)))))))))))) ((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS)))))))))))) ((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS)))))))))))) ((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS)))))))))))) ((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS))))))))))))((((((((((((END SPOILERS)))))))))))) i’ve been more than a loyal customer to this series from the beginning. i buy every issue (with variants) all the mini-series & one-shots, the trade paperbacks of the ongoing as well as the collections of the mini-series, and also buy the IDW collection hardcovers. i am really starting to see this as throwing my money away, just so that i can have clutter in my house. i’ve been really thinking about jumping off this series for a while now, but had to see it through till issue 100. ...issue 100 was terribly disappointing. IF i actually continue reading this series, it might just continue buying the digital version on Comixology. but as it stands i seriously doubt that i can continue to invest as much as i have into something so fruitless. more