Turtle Fighters by Isaac Lenkiewicz and Benjamin Wright
IF THE legend is true that Eastman and Laird's cult comic classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles first came to life on diner napkins during caffeine-fuelled late night comic jam sessions, then my first thought reading Isaac Lenkiewicz and Benjamin Wright's gloriously weird homage, Turtle Fighters, is that it was surely created amid a full-scale Hunter S Thompson-style drug and alcohol rampage ... in a padded room with crayons ... As part of the generation weened on the Turtles, my reaction to this summer's 'blockbuster' movie was perhaps surprising ... I had no interest in seeing it. I knew they wouldn't be MY ninja turtles, because they haven't been for a long, long time, and with that in mind I saw no point in parting with hard-earned cash just to be disappointed. You might well question then, my decision to pick up Turtle Fighters at Thought Bubble this year, but honestly, I would have been hard pressed to walk away. The second the book caught my eye an...