Originally published in: TMNT New Animated Adventures #17
Publication date: November 12, 2014
Story: Paul Allor
Art: Billy Martin
Colors: Heather Breckel
Letters: Shawn Lee
Edits: Bobby Curnow
“Casey the Raccoon”
Summary:
Sparring, Casey and Mikey tumble into Donnie’s lab and
hit a desk with a vial of mutagen on it, causing an explosion. When the smoke clears, all Mikey can see is a
small raccoon wearing Casey’s hockey mask.
Thinking Casey has been mutated, he chases the raccoon down the sewer
tunnels, hoping to get him back.
As Donnie recovers, he finds Casey looking for all his gear that got scattered in the explosion. He and the other Turtles
then get to cleaning up the mess, wondering why Mikey isn’t there to help.
Elsewhere, Mikey corners the terrified raccoon and
carries him back to the lair to deliver the terrible news to his brothers. Seeing Casey is still human, he quietly lets
the raccoon go.
Mikey laments that he was wrong about the situation, only
to see Casey rifling through a garbage can (actually looking for his lost
hockey puck). Now re-convinced that
Casey’s DNA has been scrambled with a raccoon’s, Mikey goes to the kitchen to
make him a pizza topped with garbage.
Turtle Tips:
*The story continues in TMNT New Animated Adventures #18.
Review:
Oh Mikey, you’re so stupid. That’s, like, the long and short of your
characterization half the time. You are
mentally handicapped.
Anyway, considering how action-heavy the main story in this issue was, this light comedy relief back-up was perfectly fitting if not
exactly hilarious. There’s a bad
lettering error on the second page where Mikey asks himself if he’s
alright. Along with two-eyed Tiger Claw
in the previous story and the incorrect names on the credits page, I think the Quality Control Department at IDW was on a coffee
break when this issue went to the printer.
Anyway, I don’t really want to grade these kinds of droll
comedy strips anymore, so…
