The finale of The City That Never Dies sees the Turtles split between the realms of the living and the dead; the latter with plenty of revelations still to uncover about its nature. Can the Turtles stop General Eight Thunders?

Gene Luen Yang’s run on TMNT comes to a close here, and honestly I’m not sad about it. This story arc has been pretty bad, and the climax isn’t particularly engaging unfortunately.

The problem is the seemingly constant returning to the realm of the dead, and the ease with which so many characters are able to switch between worlds. It just lowers the stakes far too much when so many characters keep coming back from the dead, and it just doesn’t feel like there’s much drama here at all.

There are too many villains, and they’re wasted just sitting around for the most part. It ends in a way that neatly ties everything up, but it’s all just such a letdown and an anticlimactic finish. Let’s hope that the new creative team injects some life into this current run of TMNT, which started off so strongly and has only recently lost its way.

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