The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Saturday Morning Adventures series comes to a close with this fourth and final issue.

For the uninitiated, the Saturday Morning Adventures comics are intended to ape the style and tone of the 80s cartoons we middle aged geeks grew up with; the first series was a multi-part GI Joe story (and was excellent), with this follow up mini series focusing on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Though the GI Joe series told one continuous story, the TMNT series is instead a series of one shot tales, featuring daft, high concept stories that perfectly mimic the silliness of the 80s cartoons.

In this issue, Splinter falls prey to a mysterious illness – and it’s soon discovered that he’s being attacked from within by microscopic Mouser robots, courtesy of evil scientist, Dr Baxter Stockman.

The Turtles decide that the only way they can save their rodent Sensei is by shrinking themselves down to fight the Mousers directly – in true silly sci-fi style (Fantastic Voyage or InnerSpace, anyone?).

Though the TMNT concept is an inherently daft one to begin with, the satirical nature of the original comic (which lampooned the then-edgy, incredibly popular trend for darkness, violence and, well, ninjas in 80s comics) is often forgotten, with plenty of Turtles-based media taking a more serious approach to the material.

It’s refreshing, then, to see Saturday Morning Adventures bring the fun back to the sewer – even if it doesn’t strike the same sophisticated satirical tone as the original comics, it’s not trying to; what it does set out to do, in giving readers an episode of an 80s animated show in comic book form, it does very well indeed.

The art is bold, bright, colourful and hews suitably closely to the show, but does have its own feel.

Despite the fact that the Saturday Morning Adventures series are limited – a shame because they could live quite happily alongside the more continuity heavy, adult oriented comics featuring the same characters – it’s great knowing that a sequel mini-series is on the way.

So stay tuned. Go change into your PJs, grab a massive bowl of artificially coloured, overly sugary cereal – because I’ll also be covering the first issue of Saturday Morning Adventures Continued when it releases soon!