A-hal-right! After a brief hiatus to get my teaching bearings set straight, I am back in the saddle. Damn it feels good to be talking about comics again.Even more important than my triumphant return to the blog is that last week marked the return of one of my all-time favorite comics series. It’s a series and group of characters that colored a very large part of my childhood, and as college student reminded me of the amazing spirit of independent comics. It’s a series that is one of, if not the, most import comics of the past forty years. Last week Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Casey Jones, and, the greatest of them all, Raphael returned to the comic book page in a brand new ongoing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series from IDW. “Journalistic” (HA!) objectivity aside, I have not been this excited for a new comics series in a long time… this is particularly true because of the involvement of Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman.
