“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Volume 5: Krang War”

“Krang is my favorite character from the old cartoons because, well, he’s really bitchy. He’s always complaining about not having his robot body, then he gets the robot body, and it’s insane looking.

It’s like a mostly naked guy in a red Speedo and red booties with a tuning fork on his head and 3D glasses.

The design is, frankly, amazing. The robot body serves no purpose as far as hiding Krang’s identity. Not even on the level of The Thing, a multi-ton orange rock man, putting on a trench coat and being like, “That’ll fool Yancy Street.” A brain on wheels is weird, but the robot body with that same brain in its stomach is even weirder.

And why does the face on the robot body make expressions?

Is there any particular reason Krang is in the robot body’s stomach?

None of it makes sense, and that’s why it remains one of my all-time favorite Turtle things.”