Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin - Lost Years

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, #02

by Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Ben Bishop, S. L. Gallant

Hardcover, 208 pages

English language

Published by IDW Publishing.

ISBN:: 979-8-88724-010-7

(15 reviews)

RETURN TO THE RONIN-VERSE! In TMNT: The Last Ronin, readers were taken on a pulse-pounding trek through time—past, present, future—to witness the final gut-wrenching days of the Heroes in a Half-Shell.

In Last Ronin–Lost Years, new secrets of the Turtles’ past are revealed as we learn more about the devastating series of events leading up to the Last Ronin’s final battle, as well as its aftermath.

For Michelangelo in particular, the march to his heartbreaking last battle was long and dangerous, taking him from New York City, to Japan, across Asia and Europe, and then back home again to administer final justice against those guilty of killing his family. But what happened during those fateful years when he had only the need for vengeance and Master Splinter’s journal to guide him? What battles did he fight? What hard lessons did he learn?

The time has come to find out as …

The time has come to find out as original miniseries writers Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz join artist Ben Bishop (TMNT: The Last Ronin) and SL Gallant (G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero) to finally reveal what adventures the Last Ronin experienced during his vengeful journey. While in the present, a new master, Casey Marie Jones, prepares her young terrapin students to be the next generation of…Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

Collects the five-issue series and the TMNT: Lost Day Special.

17 editions

Brett Edmond Carlock reviewed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin - Lost Years by Tom Waltz (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, #02)

Last Ronin; My First TMNT Graphic Novel

5 stars

I guess this was quite the way to get introduced to the TMNT Graphic Novels instead of the early 90s cartoon and the absolutely peerless 1990 film.

The art is absolutely stellar, the colors and lighting are fantastic. The dialogue and subject material are darker and more down-trodden than I had expected, but this apparently tracks with the original graphic novels.

I loved seeing the final epiphany of the Last Ronin written in the notebook. A poignant way to try and set the next generation on the right path and to avoid the suffering that came before.

OriginalBarbas reviewed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin by Tom Waltz (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, #01)

A great finale

5 stars

I grew up with the TMNT but, as for the comics, I have only read the first two volumes of East and Laird's original run. This volume, The Last Ronin, is one of the best comics I have ever read. The pacing, plot, art and character development is brilliant and executed with great care. After reading this, I just want to read more of the TMNT comics.