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Are you sure Rick Veitch was withholding Bloodsucker? Veitch had no problem with IDW reprinting the entire Mirage TMNT River trilogy. It seemed to me like the Creep was less about not using Bloodsucker, and more about someone's desire to shoehorn a Jason Voorhies reference, just like other shoehorned references to Aliens, and Terminator, and other 1980s classic horror films. But the episode involved, "Within the Woods", wasn't that well-written either way.

I actually did like "A Foot Too Big", but not for its primary Bigfoot plot&mdash;that was just fluff. I actually rather liked its Apritello subplot, and it was the last episode where Raph had a good "big sister" moment of any kind, effortlessly grokking April's feelings even as he's busy playing video games. The other turtles can understand April as a person, but Raph seems to understand April intuitively in a broader sense as a woman even while exhibiting zero interest in her. Even in the possibility that Raph isn't intuiting how April feels specifically as a woman, it's at least true that he exhibits an affinity for how she feels about men, which strongly suggests that Raph himself has similar inclinations. Raph can see things about April that Donnie and Leo couldn't, and Raph could see things about Karai in particular that none of his brothers could.