"Bottoming Out"

Splinter sends a drunk man on a vision quest to encourage him to attend literacy programs in a story written for the fundraiser above. It's elevated by an ending in which Splinter obliquely refers to both the Turtles and the man as "sons."

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Vol. 1

The series undergoes its first little transition, delving into more serialized plots and further defining the Turtles' personalities, in the best issue since (and maybe even better than it). This is also the last of the two-tone covers.

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