Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Bodycount Casey Jones & Raphael

by Simon Bisley and Kevin Eastman

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887279369
• ISBN13: 9781887279369
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Image Comics
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Frank Miller Worship

I received this and read it in one sitting the same day. If you are looking to buy TMNT stuff for your little kids, do NOT buy this. However, if you are looking for some ultra violent, abstract Frank Miller worship, BUY THIS NOW. If you have always wanted to see TMNT in an adult oriented story, BUY THIS NOW(you get to see Raphael shoot an Uzi at some thugs). I truly felt like I was reading a Frank Miller book from the 80s. Some of the reviews say things about the art being inconsistent, but that didn't bother me too much, I get what they are doing. Raphael is my favorite and seeing him and Casey basically just kick @$$ for 100 pages is awesome. The book itself is magazine size like the Heavy Metal mags, which is cool, but the binding seems kind of fragile, I could feel the glue coming apart as I was turning pages. I only noticed one word misspelled and there was one page that is in there twice. All those points aside, I would say it is worth the price.

Image remakes the turtles

Image did a fantastic job with the turtles for the brief time they had them, taking the book to some dark places. The continuing story though out the run is the search for splinter, though along the way we get to see some of out favorite heroes mutilated in ways that force the team dynamics to change. I hope someone eventually releases the rest of the run so we can get to the point where raphael dons the shredder armor and takes over the foot clan.

not yer toddler's turtles

I can't tell if the other "pop-up" review is an excellent joke, or a stupid mistake. In either case, do a little googling on Kevin Eastman's Bodycount and you'll find that the only things "popping out" in this book are bad guys' eyeballs and babe's bazungas... aka NOT for kids 3 - 6. The book is a completely different take on the turtles, presented in a hyper-violent, hyper-sexualized style. The art is impressive and is certainly worth the read for a turtle vet who wants to appreciate the full spectrum of the TMNT, from goof to gore (this being of the gore variety). It will certainly wash the candy-coated-cowabunga-cartoon-turtle-taste out of your mouth if anything... plus it's turtle founding father Kevin Eastman's swan-song (or rather swan-rampage) to the TMNT - his last main turtle work before he signed over all the rights to collaborator Peter Laird.