My Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan comic. The Full eighty Percent. In full.

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Time for Yarruhk to introduce herself.

And it wouldn't be a true TMNT story without PIZZA, now would it?

So Yarruhk is not Karai but she comes uncomfortably close to the real woman, so close that Karai HAS to step in.

Well, given the fact that Shredder was the head of a criminal empire, it's not that surprising that he would have money on tap and used it very much to have Karai catered to her every need.

In her moment of weakness, Tsunami had been captured by The Kraang, but she isn't going to make things easy for them.

- There's a couple of jokes with Tsunami's bad English. In Japanese the E and A are interchangeable, as are the R and the L. So the name "Leonardo" would be pronounced "Ray-oh-naah-doh" and Tsunami saying "Leo-Kun" came out very differently than she intended.
- "Kuso Utsujin" is Japanese for "Damn aliens"
- In my own native language of Dutch, the word for "Mohawk" is "Hanekam" which means "Rooster crown."

Karai finds out that she might have gotten rid of a couple of very embarrassing outfits before handing over her old suite and everything in it to Yarruhk... Gah, this scene was so much fun to do.

 

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For those who aren't aware of this series, Shredder's two right-hand men were Chris Bradford who was this corrupt martial artist action star who thanks to his celebrity legitimized the Foot Clan. And Xever Montez who was this street urchin who enforced Shredder's law through very dirty tactics such as arson, extortion and murder.

Xever and Bradford never got along, which is also what made their interaction so memorable. At the three minute marker, you can see Xever pickup up a snake fish, a few hours later him holding that fish results in him being mutated in THIS.


But all things considered, Xever still got the better deal at the end of the series, he walked away alive and well. The same could not be said about Bradford.

Anyway, time to have a reunion... sort of.

While Mikey and Rad Brad have successfully reeled Xever in, (Ha, fish joke!) on board the Technodrome, Tsunami and her guard have arrived at the gravity cell.

Now Ninjas are known for capitalizing on the element of surprise and even with her hands cuffed behind her back, Tsunami shows that she's the most gifted out of the Tanaka sisters for a very good reason.

I screwed up the third panel but people said that I should leave it in anyway.

So Yarruhk has been given a plane of 88 years old to do her mission with. But did the Utrom high council actually do her favor with that that plane? Perhaps they did after all.

Kendra is right, she now has a very legit reason to start shrieking.

 

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Yeah, I was looking for a reason to put in the Ghostbusters in this story, if only for a cameo. and Me being me, I used both incarnations, here's Egon Spengler from "The Real Ghostbusters" and Jessica Wray and Jake Kong from Filmation's "Ghostbusters"

Well, we've reached a milestone. Not even my Dragon Ball Z "Legend of Mr. Satan" comic reached the 200 pages mark.

And I knew that I had to make this page something special. So it's in full color but in keeping with how dramatic this chapter is, I went for very earthy, dark colors, using my "Batman adventures" comics as a guide.

So here's what Tsunami was so shocked about.

 

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So with all the drama in the previous chapter, I figured that we'd start the new one with something a little more light-hearted. So here's Karai making a selfie of her and Leo prior to the events of this story taking place. It's been a while since I depicted Leo as a turtle.

Remember what Tsunami said when she and Leo were sparring in the Tokyo Foot Clan Dojo, about how she's the number one protégé of Tatsu, who taught her how to sense aura without using here eyes?

Time for Tsunami to dish out the punishment, and she's not beyond fighting dirty. There is a reason why she described as what she was about to do as Tatsu's number one protégé, as being "Forbidden technique" And now, finally, I can reveal the reason why the Tanaka sisters were named after the Japanese comedian Tanaka Naoki. The Infamous "Tanaka Thai Kick." Type it in on Google or YouTube, and you'll see what that is.

 

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And so a new chapter starts. Here's Leo and Tsunami in the sewers, familiar grounds for the former.

This is my salute to a very famous scene from Uncanny X-men issue 276, where Gambit and Jubilee are in the same position. I'm not anywhere near capable of drawing the way Jim Lee does, but he's been such a big inspiration that I simply had to pay tribute to the man.

Left it in stark black and white, although the different hues show what marker pens I used to add texture to the whole frigging thing.

Well, as shown in the previous pages, Karai got messed up in the explosion very badly, now it's revealed just how badly she got hurt. Luckily, Yarruhk is on hand.

Been a while since I drew the all the Turtles in the story, time to make up for their absence.

As Raph and the others of the team face a tough decision on what to do with Karai, they decide that Leo is on a need to know basis, and he ABSOLUTELY needs to know!

But a subway cart isn't the best place to openly display feelings...

Yeah, I had some fun with naming the gang after Top Cat and his gang.

Here's Leo and Tsunami arriving at the location of the Second Time Around shop and find that the place is already heavily guarded, albeit invisibly.

Yeah, the Nisshin Maru, that's the name of that notorious Japanese whaling mothership.

While Leo and Tsunami make their way underground, back in Dimension X, the time differential made it that Karai went into labour, but with her spinal injury, actually giving birth would NEVER have been easy. Luckily, she has her clone, her teammates, and the Pulverizers on her side to help her get through it.

Thanks to modern day technology, Leonardo is made aware of the birth of his daughter, seconds after it happened.

But is it really all that wise on Konami's part for letting the news be known that soon?

 

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Here's a long overdue update.

I guess, I don't have to explain what I was going for.

It's my take on the iconic cover for the very first issue of the Mirage series TMNT comic, but I also referenced the current "White mask Turtles" comic from the ongoing IDW comic book series. In the turtles' actual positions.

"Creatures of the Night" is the title of one of the seminal albums by the Heavy Metal band Kiss, which also has the blue, black and purple color lay out. And is one of my personal favorite Heavy Metal albums.

This scene was so much fun to do.

I had Casey Jones mention it earlier in the story, villains tend to make boring, lengthy ego-filled speeches.

But when Kraang Subprime gets down to business, he doesn't hold back.

In case you forgot, Yarruhk is basically Baxter Stockman's reincarnation and if anybody has a score to settle with Kraang Subprime, it's her.

So it's Yarruhk against Kraang Subprime, that same Kraang Subprime who has the brute mechanical strength to lift up a truck and trailer with one hand. How does Yarruhk envision defeating him?

Well, as you might recall, Yarruhk received Baxter Stockman's actual eyes, so it would allow her access to Kraang tech via Retinal scan. Kraang tech which also includes Kraang Subprime's body.

I think I'm hitting a new stride here in the development of the story. It's quite exciting.

 

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Kraang Subprime is no longer an Utrom and without the aid of the robot body is far less a threat.

But that doesn't mean she's not dangerous...

 

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And so the prophecy of Tsunami dying young comes true.

The Tanaka triplets have been reduced to just two.

In case you've forgotten, Yarruhk can change into a snake, something none of the other Karai clones can do.

For Kraang Subprime that ability comes as a nasty surprise.

 

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Well, seeing as what happened in the last chapter, I knew I had to have Tsunami on the cover of this new chapter.

I initially had something among the lines of "Batman, death in the family" in mind, but it would be too bloody. Instead, I went for a dynamic drawing of Tsunami leaping from rooftop to rooftop, as that would showcase what kind of character she was.
I winged it here, just drew and what you see here is my first attempt, I didn't bother trying again, it was good the way it came out.
I was thinking of doing it full color, but in keeping with what just happened, decided to go with gray scale instead.

 

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Well, as the previous pages showed, Tsunami sacrificed herself to save Leo from being shot by Kraang Subprime, who hit her in the heart.

We take off where that scene ended.

 

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With funeral arrangements made, it's time for Leonardo to get on with other, much more delightful changes into his life.

But back in the ruins of the Second time About shop, trouble is brewing...

As Rad Brad told Mikey, there's no love lost between Kuro and Kraang Subprime, this flashback shows why.

I was inspired by that famous scene in Dragon Ball Z's "Android saga" when Vegeta faces off against Android 19 and he goes "So tell me, does a machine like you ever experience FEAR?!"

Yes, in the case of Kraang Subprime's robot body, that one DOES experience fear.

For the propeller heads among us, this is a Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/CH-46_Sea_Knight_Helicopter.jpg

Raph takes a good look at Leo and makes a judgement on the latter's capability to lead the team.

This is also the first time I drew Leo and Karai's little family together. Leo has something to fight for, and Raph recognizes that fact.

I wanted a simple and direct drawing of Kuro as the title page for the new chapter. But I drew it and colored it inverted, so the black portions were originally white, and the red portions were originally blue.

But it does what I wanted it to do. It's just so classic Shredder.