Volume 2 is the equivalent of the first post-high-school season of a teen TV show it’s like the decent Season 4 of “Buffy” coming on the heels of the outstanding Season 3. While the story seems less essential than “City at War,” Lawson gives us a nice sense – especially in the early issues - that we’re moving into a new chapter. That’s not to say that Volume 2 is all bad. If it sounds like I’m making pre-emptive excuses for Lawson, well, I am - he had delivered some great stuff, and Volume 2 isn’t on that level. Lawson needed to be armed with long-ranging story ambitions. And although it would eventually run 13 issues, the same length as “City at War,” it was originally intended to go further. “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Volume 2 (1993-95)Īlso, Lawson didn’t have the benefit of a long gestation period (E&L had the luxury of mapping out “City at War” while other writers were putting out monthly issues).
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