Mikey Max is the comic in the twenty-sixth issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles published by Panini Comics.
Appearing in Mikey Max[]
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Locations[]
- New York City
- Ice Cream parlor
- Lair
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Synopsis[]
Much to Donatello’s dismay, Michelangelo has once again entered his lab and approached his new experiment. Mikey is drawn to the device, which has a light that flashes with every word he says. Don quickly explains that it’s a collection device and he believes he’s discovered a new kind of energy and wanted to study it closer. Mikey wants to name it “Donatricity” and keeps talking so that it will flash. His brother fusses at him to get away before…
He's too late with the warning as Mikey is suddenly zapped by an electrical charge. Don rushes over to see if he’s all right and Mikey answers that the feedback was probably sparked by an interruption en route to the main circuit board. Don is stunned because Mikey is right. To Mikey, that was totally obvious.
Worried, Don asks if he’s okay, what day is it, and for the square root of a hypotenuse. He’s just kidding about the last question, but Mikey provides the correct answer. Don is stunned and then Mikey assures him he’s fine and clearer than ever, with so many new things coming to him. He tells Don to ask Raphael and Leonardo to meet them in the dojo.
The Turtles all meet in the dojo and Mikey tells them he has a theory that he needs the to help him prove. In his head, Mikey performs a calculation based on knowledge of how his brothers move and angles of a moving baseball. He then tells his brothers to come at him and he won’t even try to dodge. The other Turtles happily oblige him, but when they charge, Mikey throws the baseball. It bounces off the wall, strikes Don’s shell, then hits Raph’s foot. Raph bashes into Leo and both fall, leaving Don still moving towards Mikey with his bō upraised. Mikey doesn’t move because he knows the still flying baseball is coming at Don. The baseball strikes one end of the staff causing the other end to strike Don’s head.
All three of the attacking Turtles wind up in a pile on the floor. Splinter approaches his son and asks him to explain. Mikey does so, telling his father that the energy that he was zapped with made his brain faster than a supercomputer. He was able to calculate the right angle and speed to throw the baseball to mess with his brothers’ usual moves.
Splinter is of the opinion that it has an element of overthinking, but as he’s about to continue, Mikey interrupts and grabs Don’s arm. He drags his brother back to the lab, saying he’s got ideas about building things. Raph and Leo agree with a smart Mikey is too weird.
In the lab, Don helps Mikey to create a new gadget. Don asks Mikey what they’re building, but Mikey only tells him that he’ll see. Minutes later, Mikey is wearing a helmet looking device, with a visor that fits over his eyes. Shortly thereafter, the Turtles are running the rooftops and Mikey is still wearing his gadget. Leo wants to know that they’re doing and Raph wants to know about the hat. Mikey tells them it’s a fully mobile spectrographic analyzer. It can see the moving parts of energy, including the funky alien mojo of the Kraang.
Through his visor, Mikey sees a rainbow view of the city landscape, across which run several energy fields. Because of those energy fields, Mikey has led them to an ice cream parlor. Leo is sure they are being punked by Mikey, but the younger Turtle insists it’s also a secret Kraang lair. To prove it, Mikey throws a shuriken and the elephant sign above the parlor door and its eyes shoots lasers with disintegrate the metal star.
Mikey jumps down from the roof and tells his brothers to follow him. Leo is not pleased that Mikey is now giving orders. Inside the ice cream parlor, the Kraang want to know what has set off the alarm on their secret research station’s outer walls. Another of the Kraang identify it as a metal projectile and Raph quickly tells them it’s called a shuriken just before he stabs a Kraangdroid in the face. Leo attacks with his katana and the Kraang open fire, determined to end both the physical violence and the insults.
Off to one side, Mikey urges his brothers to hurry because there’s more of the place to get through. Raph wants to know if Leo’s tired of Mikey giving orders and his brother says he has no idea. As the Turtles go farther into the facility, Raph wants to know what they’re looking for and Leo says they need a plan. Mikey says he’s got the thinking covered and for the others just to keep watch for more Kraang.
Mikey says he’s going to seal off the Kraang’s way to Earth and then spots a familiar looking energy signature. They enter a room and see a much larger “Donatricity” device in a Kraang lab. Mikey tells his brothers there is a change in plans as he attacks and smashes a Kraangdroid. They now need to shut down the device first, before anything else. As Mikey stands at a computer console, Don tells him they need to figure out how to access the computer, but Mikey already has. He then sees that the Kraang found this energy accidentally through a dimensional crossrip and that Don must have gotten a little spillover.
Don starts to say that’s not how energy works, but he is grabbed by a Kraang. Mikey is still talking, explaining that he doesn’t want to think about what the Kraang could do with the stuff and how bad it would be. He quickly writes a virus that will worm through the Kraang’s systems and destroy any info they have on this energy. He finishes that and is about to move on to mess with their collection device when a Kraang shoots the console.
Raph smashes the Kraang and tells Mikey to find another computer, but that was the only one hooked directly to the machine. Mikey decides he’ll have to something more drastic and proceeds to use his wooden nunchaku to break the circuit. The wood does provide him some protection as he strikes the device, but he still suffers a severe zapping, and is knocked unconscious.
He comes to with his brothers standing over him. Mikey sits up and asks how he got home and was he dreaming the whole thing. Raph complains they had to carry him and Leo tells Mikey that he set off a chain reaction that destroyed the Kraang’s lab. Don tells him he took another blast of Donatricity and give him a math problem to solve, but Mikey says the second zap brought him back to normal. He then says he’s happier that way, but Don is just excited to be the smartest Turtle again.
Don hugs Mikey and says he has no idea how hard it is to deal with someone that’s so much smarter…he stops himself and blushes, admitting that his brothers just might have some idea. Mikey asks Splinter if he’s bummed about him losing his super smarts. Splinter tells him that “super smarts” are a good tool, but this tool was altering his perspective. He says that the way Mikey sees the world is valuable and unique and he would hate to see Mikey change. Mikey attempts to take advantage of that by interpreting it as his not having to always clean his room, but Splinter says that maybe a little change would be good.
Trivia[]
- The title of this comic could be a callback to Mighty Max, a Mattel toy line that debuted in the early 90s and its tied-in cartoon series.