By Mark Rodriguez
This is what many people have been calling... 'the big one' and even though I have tried to avoid any spoilers back then, it was beyond impossible due to all the 'Is one of the TMNT really dead???' articles on Facebook. I was out of town and hit a bigger comic store but they were all sold out. Luckily, upon returning home, our comic shop still had my issue # 44 safely tucked away in my box.
The time has come to take the fight both to Krang and the Shredder, and we found out that Don was pretending to side with the Foot in order to have an army to stop Krang's forces. This was a trick to get Shredder and Krang to kill each other while they try to stop the Technodrome from working. Baxter and his Mousers and Flyborgs all got in the Turtles way, and with Krang having kicked Shredder's ass faster than expected, he was back to activate the doomsday device anyway. Shredder, having left Bebop and Rocksteady in charge of watching over Donatello while they were away, seen his plans go to hell and gives them the order to kill him.
Leo, Raph and Mike continue to fight Baxter's Flyborgs as Krang contemplates the Technodrome's terraforming beam creating a new Utronimon for his race. Leo tells the others that they need to get to Fugitoid since they need his help. Baxter wakes up from the bitchslap he got from Krang last issue and uses his Flyborgs to escape. The turtles get the Mousers away from Fugitoid and the robot tells them that he can disable the Technodrome but needs them to distract Krang. The Turtles attack and Krang starts the fight by firing a barrage of missiles at them.
Back to Donnie, Rocksteady tries to mash him with his sledgehammer and he jumps out of the way. Harold, via a computer monitor tells Don to run. Don smacks Bebop with his staff, but Rocksteady swings his hammer into him, sending Donnie flying into a support beam. Bebop gets ready to punch his lights out when suddenly a laser blast grazes his face.
Harold controls Metalhead to keep them busy while Donnie tries to get away. Rocksteady tosses his sledgehammer into him, sending the robot flying back. Don tries to make a break for it, but Bebop tosses the computer monitor at him, that smashes him against the back. He then bashes his face with the keyboard so hard it breaks in half. He then socks him in the face.
Rocksteady rips one of Metalhead's arms off, ignoring the laser blasts he's getting hit with, and tosses the robot turtle like it's a piece of junk. Bebop pins Don down as Rocksteady walks over with the sledgehammer. Rocksteady takes a deadly swing of his weapon.... and bashes it down on Donnie's shell. Bebop comments that he 'split him in half'. Karai messages them to leave right away since they are under attack. They head off happy that they succeeded while Metalhead crawls over to what's left of Donnie.
Krang is smacking the turtles around and Mikey wishes Donnie was there to help. The Fugitoid is trying to stop the Technodrome as fast as he can, but Krang is already heading over to stop him. Leo jumps in to block Krang's blade, and Raph jams a sai into the robot's mouth. Mikey trips up the robot body while Krang continues to dish out threats.
Karai has Splinter cornered, since Hob and the Mutinamals have abandoned him. Just then Nobody and Alopex appear to help out. Splinter stops them and tells Karai that he was also a member of the Foot, back when it was honorable before Saki corrupted it. He says his fight was never with the Foot, but with what it became under Shredder's rule. He tells her he can see that she also wants it to the way it was. Karai hesitates and escapes with a smoke bomb, to which the Alopex mentions that Hun also escaped. Nobody gets a call from Harold to head back to the lab NOW, and she has a bad feeling.
Outside of the Technodrome, Traag and Granitor continue to fight against Bludgeon and Koya. They notice that the Technodrome's terraforming process has begun and run off the beach, trying not to breathe. Bludgeon and Koya try to get to Shredder but struggle to breathe the Utrom's atmosphere. Krang's soldiers and the Foot Ninjas are all passing out. The mutants can't reach Shredder and consider him to be dead and escape off the beach. As they leave one of the Flyborgs swoops in and grabs Shredder. They fly across the city and dump in onto a boat. Shredder asks who saves him, and Baxter says he's his new partner.
Leo manages to kick Krang's robot head off, while Raph swings a handful of Mousers into Krang himself. All three Turtles kick Krang into the ceiling which has electric wires lining it, which fry him up. Fugitoid succeeds in shutting the Technodrome down. Krang screams in defeat, and Raph is eager to shut him up for good, but Fugitoid says the are will soon be contaminated by the Utrom's atmosphere too. He teleports them to safety. Krang tells Fugitoid that he has killed his people. Fugitoid says that he has killed no one, and all the victims of the day were not his people. He tells them that the island has been terraformed, so his race can live there peacefully, but he won't get to see that. He teleports himself and Krang back Dimension X with the Neutrinos that are ready to make sure he pays for his crimes.
The Turtles arrive but are surprised to find the lab destroyed, as well as Alopex and Angel looking sad. The Turtles soon see Donatello, basically bleeding out with Splinter holding onto him. Angel said they tried to help the most they could, but it was too late....
My Opinions-
Even after all the spoilers and pics floating around of both, the pages Rocksteady swings down the hammer, and the final page with the poor turtle basically bleeding out.... it's still shocking to see something like this happen to one of the turtles in the main series.
Now yes, this isn't exactly the first time we saw something like that
happen. The Image series of the 90's basically went insane with the
mutilations, with Donnie having his shell busted open (hmmm...). Leo
having his hand bitten off, Raph having his half his face blasted off
and Splinter becoming a mindless bat monster. It was a wild and crazy
time, but I don't know... those comics felt a bit more underground, so
honestly they could have gotten even more carried away and none of us
cartoon fans would have noticed.
The turtles finally get to take down Krang, and it was funny hearing them complain about his basic generic super villain babble. The whole 'I'm invincible and you're only delaying the inevitable' and all that jazz. My favorite part was Raph jamming his sai into the robot body's mouth, and then saying 'yeah, keep talking, I got another sai for that other big mouth of yours'.
Shredder was taken out last issue so he was just lying there knocked out all issue. Koya and Bludgeon did stand their ground and tried to rescue him, but they were near death and had to save themselves. I can only assume Shredder will label them traitors whenever he recovers. Though honestly, he woulda been dead before the Flyborg got to him after breathing in that Utrom atmosphere. But y'know... he's the Shredder and we can't be done with him yet. I am surprised Baxter opted to save him, but to what end? Dude... you're a mad scientist with no actual fighting skills. Once the Shredman is back in good health, you will be in no position to give him orders, or to have any sort of equal partnership with the man.
I am still surprised IDW had Bebop and Rocksteady almost putting Donatello down permanently. Now in the Image comics, Don ended up being fused to a cyborg and we'll soon see that something very similar happens to him here.
Here were our thoughts on this shocking event back in the day when the comic came out. Even Johnny got to read those pages.
This is what many people have been calling... 'the big one' and even though I have tried to avoid any spoilers back then, it was beyond impossible due to all the 'Is one of the TMNT really dead???' articles on Facebook. I was out of town and hit a bigger comic store but they were all sold out. Luckily, upon returning home, our comic shop still had my issue # 44 safely tucked away in my box.
The time has come to take the fight both to Krang and the Shredder, and we found out that Don was pretending to side with the Foot in order to have an army to stop Krang's forces. This was a trick to get Shredder and Krang to kill each other while they try to stop the Technodrome from working. Baxter and his Mousers and Flyborgs all got in the Turtles way, and with Krang having kicked Shredder's ass faster than expected, he was back to activate the doomsday device anyway. Shredder, having left Bebop and Rocksteady in charge of watching over Donatello while they were away, seen his plans go to hell and gives them the order to kill him.
Leo, Raph and Mike continue to fight Baxter's Flyborgs as Krang contemplates the Technodrome's terraforming beam creating a new Utronimon for his race. Leo tells the others that they need to get to Fugitoid since they need his help. Baxter wakes up from the bitchslap he got from Krang last issue and uses his Flyborgs to escape. The turtles get the Mousers away from Fugitoid and the robot tells them that he can disable the Technodrome but needs them to distract Krang. The Turtles attack and Krang starts the fight by firing a barrage of missiles at them.
Back to Donnie, Rocksteady tries to mash him with his sledgehammer and he jumps out of the way. Harold, via a computer monitor tells Don to run. Don smacks Bebop with his staff, but Rocksteady swings his hammer into him, sending Donnie flying into a support beam. Bebop gets ready to punch his lights out when suddenly a laser blast grazes his face.
Harold controls Metalhead to keep them busy while Donnie tries to get away. Rocksteady tosses his sledgehammer into him, sending the robot flying back. Don tries to make a break for it, but Bebop tosses the computer monitor at him, that smashes him against the back. He then bashes his face with the keyboard so hard it breaks in half. He then socks him in the face.
Rocksteady rips one of Metalhead's arms off, ignoring the laser blasts he's getting hit with, and tosses the robot turtle like it's a piece of junk. Bebop pins Don down as Rocksteady walks over with the sledgehammer. Rocksteady takes a deadly swing of his weapon.... and bashes it down on Donnie's shell. Bebop comments that he 'split him in half'. Karai messages them to leave right away since they are under attack. They head off happy that they succeeded while Metalhead crawls over to what's left of Donnie.
Krang is smacking the turtles around and Mikey wishes Donnie was there to help. The Fugitoid is trying to stop the Technodrome as fast as he can, but Krang is already heading over to stop him. Leo jumps in to block Krang's blade, and Raph jams a sai into the robot's mouth. Mikey trips up the robot body while Krang continues to dish out threats.
Karai has Splinter cornered, since Hob and the Mutinamals have abandoned him. Just then Nobody and Alopex appear to help out. Splinter stops them and tells Karai that he was also a member of the Foot, back when it was honorable before Saki corrupted it. He says his fight was never with the Foot, but with what it became under Shredder's rule. He tells her he can see that she also wants it to the way it was. Karai hesitates and escapes with a smoke bomb, to which the Alopex mentions that Hun also escaped. Nobody gets a call from Harold to head back to the lab NOW, and she has a bad feeling.
Outside of the Technodrome, Traag and Granitor continue to fight against Bludgeon and Koya. They notice that the Technodrome's terraforming process has begun and run off the beach, trying not to breathe. Bludgeon and Koya try to get to Shredder but struggle to breathe the Utrom's atmosphere. Krang's soldiers and the Foot Ninjas are all passing out. The mutants can't reach Shredder and consider him to be dead and escape off the beach. As they leave one of the Flyborgs swoops in and grabs Shredder. They fly across the city and dump in onto a boat. Shredder asks who saves him, and Baxter says he's his new partner.
Leo manages to kick Krang's robot head off, while Raph swings a handful of Mousers into Krang himself. All three Turtles kick Krang into the ceiling which has electric wires lining it, which fry him up. Fugitoid succeeds in shutting the Technodrome down. Krang screams in defeat, and Raph is eager to shut him up for good, but Fugitoid says the are will soon be contaminated by the Utrom's atmosphere too. He teleports them to safety. Krang tells Fugitoid that he has killed his people. Fugitoid says that he has killed no one, and all the victims of the day were not his people. He tells them that the island has been terraformed, so his race can live there peacefully, but he won't get to see that. He teleports himself and Krang back Dimension X with the Neutrinos that are ready to make sure he pays for his crimes.
The Turtles arrive but are surprised to find the lab destroyed, as well as Alopex and Angel looking sad. The Turtles soon see Donatello, basically bleeding out with Splinter holding onto him. Angel said they tried to help the most they could, but it was too late....
My Opinions-
Even after all the spoilers and pics floating around of both, the pages Rocksteady swings down the hammer, and the final page with the poor turtle basically bleeding out.... it's still shocking to see something like this happen to one of the turtles in the main series.
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The turtles finally get to take down Krang, and it was funny hearing them complain about his basic generic super villain babble. The whole 'I'm invincible and you're only delaying the inevitable' and all that jazz. My favorite part was Raph jamming his sai into the robot body's mouth, and then saying 'yeah, keep talking, I got another sai for that other big mouth of yours'.
Shredder was taken out last issue so he was just lying there knocked out all issue. Koya and Bludgeon did stand their ground and tried to rescue him, but they were near death and had to save themselves. I can only assume Shredder will label them traitors whenever he recovers. Though honestly, he woulda been dead before the Flyborg got to him after breathing in that Utrom atmosphere. But y'know... he's the Shredder and we can't be done with him yet. I am surprised Baxter opted to save him, but to what end? Dude... you're a mad scientist with no actual fighting skills. Once the Shredman is back in good health, you will be in no position to give him orders, or to have any sort of equal partnership with the man.
I am still surprised IDW had Bebop and Rocksteady almost putting Donatello down permanently. Now in the Image comics, Don ended up being fused to a cyborg and we'll soon see that something very similar happens to him here.
Here were our thoughts on this shocking event back in the day when the comic came out. Even Johnny got to read those pages.
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