Book Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters

Book: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters (issues #1-4) by Erik Burnham and Tom Waltz with illustrations by Dan Schoening

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: April 14, 2015

Publisher: IDW Publishing

Description:

When a new invention goes haywire, the Turtles are sent to a whole new type of New York City. One with a whole lot more ghosts... and Ghostbusters! The two teams will have to learn to get along quickly, because a new foe from the Turtles past has followed them and aims to conquer NYC!


Rating: 3 1/2 stars

Review:

This was a pretty good crossover between the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Ghostbusters.

The story opens in the past with an immortal being tossed through a portal and becoming trapped in limbo. Meanwhile, in the present day New York City, Donatello had been working on a teleportation device but an accident occurred during a test sending the Turtles, April O'Neil and Casey Jones to another dimension. They wound up in another New York but they didn't show up alone, the immortal Chi-You was finally free and immediately started to cause trouble.

Help wasn't far away because the Ghostbusters (Egon, Winston, Ray and Peter) showed up. It didn't take long before the Turtles, April and the Ghostbusters teamed up to figure out a way to stop Chi-You. But they also plan to free all the people Chi-You has possessed and turned into his army (which also includes Casey Jones). Lastly, they were also working on a way to send the Turtles and their friends back to their own dimension.

I thought the authors did a good job with keeping these characters' personalities in tack as well as making the interactions between them not seem forced. I like this story but I do wish it had been longer since it felt a little rushed with only four issues. Some may or may not like the artwork since it has sort of a cartoony look to it but I think it goes with the story.