If could do just one long burp, that’d about sum up this book. So Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cross-over again because I suppose the first one sold well enough!
James Tynion IV writes Donatello out of character by making him kinda dumb and kinda weak. Feeling insecure, Donny decides to irresponsibly ‘port over to Batman’s dimension for a pep talk from the Dark Knight, inadvertently zapping Bane, who was having a bath in a Lazarus Pit for no reason, into the Turtles’ universe. D’oh! Batman and the Turts gotta team-up to fight Bane, Bebop and Rocksteady. Guess who winz… snore…
Characters bumble around pointlessly fighting one another, some of them take venom (aka super-steroids), Bane’s trying to take over New York or something to do something dumb like give everyone venom… god, this is terrible. Batman’s basically a supporting character and Tynion completely mismanages a couple of subplots which get rushed through at the end like Splinter being healed in Gotham and taking out the League of Shadows’ ninja man-bats and Batman and Shredder having a rematch, both of which were covered in a single panel each!
Freddie Williams draws Bane, and everyone taking venom, in that hyper-exaggerated style where they’re utterly stupidly inflated and giant-sized, which looks awful.
Batman/TMNT II is six issues of the most tedious nonsense - don’t do it!
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