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• Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #119
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• Writer: Sophie Campbell
• Artist: Nelson Daniel

The trouble-free days for the heroes in a half-shell appear to be over. April has been run out of New York City by Baxter Stockman who is taking measures to see she never makes it back to Manhattan to share the information she learned about his secret mutant program using the Slithery’s offspring.

Elsewhere, the young weasels and Lita head out on their own looking for trouble to prove themselves true ninjas, and end up finding more than they can handle, and the big rally has arrived which Old Hob and his Mutanimals take dangerous steps to remove any and all competition from running Mutant Town. The issue closes will all hell about to break loose between Hob’s minions and the locals who the Turtles have been training.

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• Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #116
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• Writers: Kevin Eastman, Sophie Campbell
• Artist: Sophie Campbell

Spurred on by the arrival of the Lita from the future, Jennika puts together a heavy metal band to compete against Bebop and Rocksteady with control of Mutant Town (and the future) on the line. It’s also worth noting that Jenny finds a way to find peace with the injured Karai as putting toghether the band seems to heal something in the troubled turtle.

Most of the issue revolves around Jennika putting together the band and it slowly coming together. The members prove to be an interesting mix with the former enemies Diamond and Koya, the large Tusk, Jay, and Jo. The search for the members has an the old Magnificent Seven feel towards it. And if some of the choices appear unusual, the band is a nice mix of older and newly introduced characters.

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• Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #114
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• Writers: Kevin Eastman, Sophie Campbell
• Artist: Sophie Campbell

The Turtles get some unexpected visitors. A helicopter going down leaves an injured Karai, Koya, and Bludgeon in the Turtles’ care, and two extremely large mutants Rahzar and Tokka are set loose within the city. The pair are much like the weasels being very childlike, but far more vicious and dangerous as the Turtles discover firsthand. Oh, and Bebop and Rocksteady are also wandering around looking for Karai and the missing mutants.

The other visitor is a version of Lita from the future who has traveled back after stealing a time scepter in hopes of preventing a dark future that destroyed her family.

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• Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #112
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• Writers: Kevin Eastman, Sophie Campbell
• Artist: Jodi Nishijima

Whereas several of the previous issues have focused on how well things are going for the reunited Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #112 shifts to examining the cracks in Mutant Town. Picking up on the pain of rejection Mona Lisa felt after revealing her mutation to her parents, this month’s issue continues to feed that theme by introducing the sullen Jay whose mutation into a venomous frog has made it impossible for him to touch another living soul.

All of this leads into a mutant support group for those struggling with their new lives where tempers flare over injustices, the Mutanimals, and even the Turtles. It also provides one of the more humorous panels of the series attempting to sum up the Turtles’ bizarre history.

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