Publication date: Fall, 1991
Story: Dean Clarrain (Steve Murphy)
Pencils: Jim Lawson
Inks: Dan Berger
Colors: Steve Lavigne
Letters: Mary Kelleher
Cover: Michael Dooney
“Dino A Go-Go”
Summary:
The Turtles continue their journey through the rain
forest with Jagwar as their guide. He
shows them a strip mining operation that threatens to destroy the ecosystem and
poison other ecosystems by washing chemicals down-river. However, there is nothing they can do to stop
the legal mining operation (which also uses forced labor, apparently).
Jagwar then takes them to a special place man does not
know about so that they can save some very special animals from the
deforestation. They come across a herd
of parasaurolophi… dinosaurs! The last
of their kind. He explains that they
have existed peacefully in the rain forest for millions of years, but humanity’s
greed and destructive impulses now threaten them.
The Turtles and Jagwar round the parasaurolophi up and
ride them to a tepui mankind does not know about. They take them through a secret entrance and
release them into the grotto so they can live peacefully once more in a place
where man can never find them.
Turtle Tips:
*The plot in which the Turtles journey with Jagwar into
the heart of the rain forest and discover a lost world populated by dinosaurs
is partially recycled from TMNT Adventures #15, which was published in October,
1990.
Review:
Do you feel guilty, yet?
Huh? I bet you thought a meteor
or an ice age or something like that killed the dinosaurs, didn’t you? Well you were WRONG! It was corporate-authorized deforestation of
the Amazon rain forest, using forced labor and poisoning the water sources with
dangerous strip-mining chemicals!
And it’s all YOUR fault.
It’s a good thing we have guys like Steve Murphy around
to tell us how awful we are, or we might be able to go five whole minutes
without feeling guilty about something.
Shame. Shame on us all.
Anyway, this concludes the only story arc in Welsh’s TMNT
Magazine: A 3-issue truncation of the South American tour arc that had recently
completed in Archie’s TMNT Adventures comic. If it weren’t for Sgt. Bananas showing up at the start of the trilogy, I’d have written the whole thing
off.
It’s still pretty bad, though. More of Murphy’s smug, self-satisfying admonishments of that nebulous entity known as “man” and the various awful things it does.
It’s still pretty bad, though. More of Murphy’s smug, self-satisfying admonishments of that nebulous entity known as “man” and the various awful things it does.
