The relaunched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, which has kicked off by looking at a lone Turtle sibling per issue, continues. This third chapter focuses on leader Leonardo, who travels to the Ganges River and is forced to sit in quiet contemplation, before unwittingly attracting the wrong sort of attention.

It’s another great issue, with Jason Aaron’s approach of slowing the pace and zooming in on a single sibling per issue really allowing for some great character insight.

When the action kicks into gear, it’s all the more impactful, particularly in the shocking climax which leads us towards the Donatello issue, up next.

Cliff Chiang’s art is fantastic here, and there’s some great use of colour too; Leonardo’s  trademark blue bandana colour in particular seems to strongly permeate the panels, both in the narration boxes and the artwork itself.

This has, so far, been a really good start to a new TMNT series, which does things a little differently and ensures the decades long lore of the Turtles is shifted a little to the background. Shorn of a reliance on an extended cast of characters and a tangled web of story threads, it’s great to see the brothers get some chance to breathe and give their different characteristics equal time to shine through.