Summary: 🎶When the Mogura ninja attack, those Turtle boys don't cut 'em no slack 🎶 (you know you just sang that in your head)
Plot: Without spoiling too much, this one is going to hit hard shaxper . Real hard. Stan excels at creating intense character moments and although she only appeared here in this issue for a short time she's long been a fan favorite so I'm sure her absence will be felt though I suppose one can take solace in that this is merely a potential future and not the state of the actual ongoing so in that way that character isn't really gone. But still, that said it still took me a second there before I could read on and I totally felt for Gen. Which is really saying something about Stan's skills as a writer, I think Usagi has long since proven that it's no silly animal comic and that it can tell serious stories but every once in a while Stan finds a way to really hammer that point home. In this case it was with a lasting death but he's been just as capable in the past of doing it with devoting whole issues to exploring cultural elements that you just wouldn't see in some silly kid's book which really makes you feel you're reading a worth while story and not just a frivolous inter-company crossover.  There's action here, humor and intense pathos...all in all just a really well rounded book that you seriously need to track down.
Art: I think I've said it before but it bears repeating: I love how Stan draws the Turtles! There's just a sense of fun and energy to them that they really jump off of every page they're on. And I can't put my finger on it, but despite Stan not altering his usual style there's something that just visually sets them apart as being separate from Usagi's world and distinctly part of the Turtle Universe. Maybe it's the lack of clothes? I don't rightly know but it creates a really fun visual clash that I really feel increases my love of the book.
Grade:10/10