Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Soul Winter—The Collected TMNT Work of Michael Zulli

    (Mirage, 2007)
™ and © 2007 Mirage Publishing, Inc.

Ah, now here’s a horse of a different color. Michael Zulli takes all the hard-edged manga that inspired Frank Miller’s Daredevil (which in turn, was the fodder for TMNT) and applies it to the ninja turtles. The result is a rare version of the book without its signature humor, and not suffering for it. It’s striking, foreboding, mysterious and inclined to humanize the Shredder’s point of view while making conversely rendering Splinter a bit cold-hearted. If the regular, humorous TMNT stories are Ranma ½, this book is Lone Wolf & Cub.

— Brendan McGinley
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