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By Mark Rodriguez Originally written on Saturday 7/20/2013. Keep in mind, these were our thoughts as they were back in 2013 when the show was new and was written shortly after seeing the episodes after their initial broadcast. At the time we had zero way of knowing what to expect. I was finally able to watch this thanks to some friends. I missed the original airing due to us being at the Steel City Con (oooh yeah!!!). First thing I have to say, if you already seen our video on the TMNT season finale trailer is that Paige totally called it. Even so this episode still has several surprises.   'Operation Break Out' begins with Raph and Don about to spar. Raph says he'll go easy on him, but Don wants to impress April and says maybe he'll be the one going easy on him. At first it looks like Don took Raph down, but Raph gets up and hooks Don's hand with the prongs of his sai and treats him like a puppet. Splinter says it's enough. Later on, Don is angry that Raph ...

 By Mark Rodriguez After the events dealing with the simulated reality of The Arcadium, Peter, Miles and the rest of their friends and associated at the Coffee Bean have been meeting up for therapy. One of them, Juliet Marcos was in love with someone she admired from afar who didn't even know she existed. When the woman, Anna Romney, just so happened to visit the Coffee Bean, Juliet introduced herself to her. When Anna  didn't recognize Juliet.... Juliet suddenly turned into vapor... and then into water! Elsewhere, the female Electro was recently defeated by Spider-Man and Silk. Upon seeing this televised, the original Electro wants to teach her a lesson for 'cheapening his brand'. What will happen now?   "Strange Love Part 2 Gone Girl" opens with both Spider-Men swinging towards the Coffee Bean. Miles asks Peter if he has any idea on what to do about this, and Peter has none. Peter says it will be strange to walk into the cafe in full costume and Miles said ...

 By Mark Rodriguez Peter and Miles have decided to meet up once a week at The Coffee Bean to discuss their superhero lives and unwind. When the regulars started going missing, they uncovered a plot devised by Mentallo and Arcade, which was funded by Hammerhead, to use people's fantasies and dreams against them. After the Arcadium gained sentience and started to attack the heroes, all while the Jackal was leading an army of Vermin clones underground. Having defeated both threats (and the comic actually continuing instead of it being a mini-series), Peter and Miles now face a brand new adventure. Let's see what happens now.   "Strange Love Part 1 Triage" opens with Cedric Harrison, Shelly Conklin, Kenny Kong, Billy Shakes, Adam Blackveil, Juliet Marcos and of course, Peter Parker and Miles Morales going over recent events. Peter tells Miles that he got this and he starts to explain. We flashback to the arrest of Hammerhead and the Jackal, as both Spider-Men and Detecti...

 By Mark Rodriguez The Turtles enter a fighting tournament in Atlanta City where they meet the Street Fighters. Bison and Baxter are behind the tournament and have been kidnapping fighters behind-the-scenes, which include Raphael and Chun Li, to power up the Psycho Bomb. Raphael buys Chun Li some time so she can escape as the rest of the crew starts moving in on the bad guys. We find out that Shredder was one of Bison's projects and he just broke free!!   The issue opens with Shredder attacking all of the Shadaloo soldiers, and even their weapons aren't stopping him. Baxter says they aren't ready to defeat the Shredder now. He says they should retreat, formulate a plan and return to take Shredder down, but the nurse informs him that Bison walked out 20 seconds ago. Bison sees that his soldiers have captured Raphael. One of his troops ask if they're evacuating due to the Shredder. Bison says he is of no concern since his Psycho Power was already harvested. He says once h...