While out shopping for meds for his flu-stricken brothers, Donatello ends up being recruited by Dirk Savage, agent of DUDE (the Daring Undercover Department of Espionage), for a mission to foil a supervillain’s nefarious plans.

As is generally the case with the Saturday Morning Adventures comics, this issue is a fun, breezy and nostalgic trip; a deliberately campy, cheesy and enjoyable done-in-one.

The James Bond references and little jokes about how silly everything is are gently amusing, rather than laugh-out-loud hilarious, with the action scripted and drawn exactly like an episode of the classic TMNT animated show.

It’s not particularly memorable and definitely not deep or anything, but it’s not supposed to be; it’s all good, clean, all-ages fun, exactly as intended. What is refreshing is being able to pick up a single issue of this series and being able to experience a complete story; though there’s the occasional multi-part tale in Saturday Morning Adventures, they’re thankfully the exception rather than the rule, and issue #23 is an excellent example of the single-issue tale that begins in media res before flashing back to fill us in on the details. Great fun.

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