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Some TMNT stuff was always meant for grownups. |
Channeling is a backup story published in Tales of the TMNT volume 2 issue 28: Shanghaied.
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Down in a sewer tunnel, Raphael faces off against a very large robot. Raph is clearly furious, but it is not the robot that has earned his ire, it’s Michelangelo. As he lays into the robot, his thoughts are on his brother, who had been making fun of him. He can’t believe that Mikey even said “the Mikester’s got this” as though Raph can’t hold his own. The more Raph thinks about it, the livider he becomes.
While he obsesses over his anger at Mikey, he continues battling the robot, as if he himself is on autopilot. The aggravation with his brother goes deeper; anger at Mikey’s tone, anger that Mikey thinks he’s such a big man. He’s sick of Mikey’s attitude; the jokes, the goofing around, the taunting, the back-handed compliments… just tired of Mikey’s crap.
The robot grabs Raph by the throat and lifts him off the ground, making him drop his sai. His mind still elsewhere, he just registers that the robot is coming at his face with a knife. So completely furious at Mikey, he doubles his fist and proceeds to completely trash the robot.
Suddenly, Michelangelo walks up behind him and asks if Raph wants to come back to playing Halo. He apologizes for making fun of Raph while they were playing; he was just kidding around. Raph, having gotten the anger out of his system, tells Mikey not to sweat it, that it was nothing.
As the pair head back to the lair, Mikey asks what the deal with the robot was. Raph responds nonchalantly that he doesn’t know and that they never do know who they’re fighting half the time. Mikey acknowledges that he has a good point.