Ninja kick the damn rabbit!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 27

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #27 Signature
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 0969112002
Owner: Turtle

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Ninja kick the damn rabbit!
Date Added: 5/26/2010
Research: Currently not available

Owner's Description

9.8.....Top Census Universal Grade<br />2........Universal Copies in Top Grade<br />9.4.....Top Census Signature Series Grade<br />1........Signature Series Copies in Top Grade<br /><br /><br />First Printing: November, 1989<br />NUMBER OF STORY PAGES: 36<br />COVER:.........Michael Dooney<br />STORY:..........Michael Dooney<br />PENCILS:.....Michael Dooney<br />INKING:.........Michael Dooney<br />TONING: ......Michael Dooney<br />LETTERS:.....Mary Kelleher<br /><br />NOTES: <br />"Dreams of Stone"<br />Not only do I love Dooney’s art, but he brought back some characters that I was happy to see again...Radical and Complete Carnage. They first appeared in Tales of the TMNT #5 and hadn’t been seen since. Dooney was able to develop the characters a bit more and give them a more prominent role in the Mirage Universe. If nothing else, Radical becomes a very important part of Leonardo’s life much later. <br /><br />SOURCE:<br />This was signed by Kevin Eastman at the San Diego Comic Con in 2009 and graded before I bought it. Unfortunately for me, Michael Dooney was at the show but the seller was unaware. Can’t win ‘em all.<br /><br /><br />SYNOPSIS:<br />As the issue begins, Donatello's dreams are being disturbed by a disembodied voice, questioning the distressed Turtle about how he can sleep while the voice's granddaughter is struggling. On the following page we find ourselves inside of Don's dream, where he sits as a giant upon a mountain in the forest. By the mammoth Turtle's side is an equally gigantic Native American chief, who floats cross-legged in the sky.<br /><br />"W-what?" Don asks.<br /><br />The Chief continues, "Well, are you listening little shellback? The Spirit is everywhere! Can you hear it in the rivers? Do you feel it in the wind? Tell me, can you hear the wind in your city? Or are you made of stone... made of brick and steel... man made... like him!"<br /><br />We then see an even larger muscled, caped monster in battle with a beautiful Native American woman.<br /><br />"Complete Carnage!" Don shouts.<br /><br />"And my granddaughter, who you call Radical." finishes the apparition. The two first appeared in Tales of the TMNT #5.<br /><br />Radical then explains that she has done her best to battle CC in the Dreamscape, in effort to prevent damage to the earth... but Carnage is growing stronger and wiser in his abilities, so the fight looks like it will be brought to the real world. She then disappears, telling the guys that she'll be bringing Complete Carnage back with her when she returns.<br /><br />Radical travels to the Dreamscape and finds CC quickly, and taunts him into chasing her to the spot where the Turtles are waiting. A long battle ensues and Complete Carnage seems to have the upper hand. Donatello works frantically carving symbols into the power-drenched earth, attempting to help Radical win the lop-sided fight. CC grabs Radical and pulls her towards the pavement... Radical cries out to Don to remember the Coyote. Don has a revelation, "That's it! Coyote the Trickster!" and he quickly scribes a symbol into the ground, just as both CC and Radical disappear into the road! As Raph admonishes Don for failing, Leonardo notes that the blacktop is turning into water...<br /><br />Radical bursts up from the street, which has suddenly become a river! She then captures Complete Carnage with a giant fist made of stream water, which pulls the beast to its depths. Carnage struggles but cannot break the water-fist's grasp. A stunned CC cries out - he doesn't understand what happened - he could have sworn the road was made of rock. As he realizes that he's been duped, he evaporates into the water and disappears... and the entire stream also drains away to leave a dry and empty riverbed behind.<br /><br />Radical explains that the Coyote has an odd sense of humor, so things may not be as they seem - but it looks like the great spirit changed the rock to water just as Carnage was attempting to absorb its power into himself, thus causing him to become water and dispersing his atoms, perhaps for good.<br /><br />Later we see Donatello seated alone on Buffalo Rock, which overlooks a lake. Raph approaches and tells Don that they need to get going. As Donatello prepares to leave, he hears the old shaman's voice once again.<br /><br />"Tell me, little shell-back... tell me what you hear..."<br /><br />Just then Radical flies overhead to say goodbye and thanks.<br /><br />Donatello looks to the clouds, smiles, and answers the shaman, "I hear the spirit of the wind!"
  
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