Muck Amok, part 1 is the main story in TMNT: Amazing Adventures #11.
Solicit[]
Muckman thinks he may be finding his groove as a crime-fighting mutant. However, a new trash-collecting invention from Baxter Stockman may prove him wrong! Will the Turtles be able to intervene in time?
Appearing in part 2[]
Major characters[]
- Baxter Stockman
- Donatello
- Joe Eyeball
- Leonardo
- Michelangelo
- Muckman/Muckmech/Muckmonster
- Raphael
Minor characters[]
- Camerman
- Joan Grody
- Mousers
- Shredder
Species[]
- Humans
- Mutant eyeball
- Mutant fly
- Mutant garbage
- Mutant turtles
Main Locations, Objects and Vehicles[]
- Bō
- Katana
- Kusarigama
- New York City
- Foot headquarters
- Stockman’s lab
- Foot headquarters
- Mouser heads
- Nunchaku
- Sai
- Shellraiser
Synopsis[]
Open on Foot headquarters. Shredder is berating Baxter Stockman inside his lab. Tired of excuses, Shredder demands that Stockman-fly complete the creation of the super weapon he’s promised, or he’s finished. As Shredder storms out of the lab, he tells Stockman to clean up the candy wrappers. Talking to himself, Stockman states that he’ll finish the weapon but first he has to clean the lab. He quickly gathers some Mouser parts in order to make a perfect servant. After creating several of them, he goes to activate the Mousers. However, instead of cleaning they burst through the wall and make their escape.
Cut to the lair. Michelangelo is seated in the pit in front of the TV and calls out for his brothers to come check out Muckman on television. Raphael comments that it seems like Muckman is on TV at least once a week these days. They gather to watch as Joan Grody interviews Muckman. When she says that if seems like it was no contest for him to take down half a dozen armed and dangerous criminals, he brags that it was seven and it was easy. The reporter asks what he has to say to the criminal element of the city. Muckman states that his undefeated record speaks for itself, but he will say that criminals should beware because he’s the mighty Muckman.
Leonardo agrees with Raph that this is hard to watch. Suddenly the interview is interrupted as Grody reports that killer robots have arrived on the scene. Grody begins to say she’s going to try for an interview, but the broadcast goes off-air. The Turtles quickly take off in the Shellraiser to go and help their friend deal with attacking killer robots.
Meanwhile, Stockman is flying over the city, using a tracking device to try and locate his Mousers. He looks down and spots the Shellraiser, realizing that it’s the Turtles, so he starts following them. Inside the Shellraiser, Mikey asks if Donatello thinks that “Baxter Stuckman’s” behind this. Don tells him that’s a safe assumption, but the real question is what he would want with Muckman.
Outside of a deli, Grody and her cameraman film Muckman’s fight against the Mousers. When a Mouser head bounces off the wall next to them, Grody decides to follow up on the story later and she and her crew flee. On Muckman’s shoulder, Joe Eyeball chides his friend, telling him a true hero puts the safety of others first. Muckman replies that a little ducking never hurt anybody. As he turns back to the fight against the Mousers, he adds that he’s a little too busy busting ‘bots to pose for photos.
The battle continues, Muckman demands to know why Joe is on his case, because he stopped the earlier robbery in no time flat. Joe Eyeball tells him there’s more to being a hero than beating up bad guys and that true heroes don’t brag on TV. Muckman counters by claiming that he thinks they’ve been doing pretty good since they got turned into what they are. He then spews toxic vomit onto the Mousers.
Muckman starts to brag that there is nothing to these things when Joe points out that the Mousers appear to be enjoying it. When the Mousers leap up, Muckman has had enough and creates a garbage cyclone, which Joe Eyeball is unfortunately caught up in. While Muckman is distracted, a Mouser clamps onto his foot and another chomps down on his shoulder. Still another jams itself into his stomach and another leaps onto his head.
The garbage cyclone settles and Joe Eyeball peers around the corner into the alley, asking if Muckman is okay. He is shocked to see several Mousers attached to Muckman’s body. The one on his head speaks in binary just before Muckman becomes a living garbage cyclone and flies away. Muckman flies past Stockman, who realizes that with this “Muckmech” under his control, not even Shredder will be able to boss him around anymore.
Stockman takes off after Muckman while below on the sidewalk, Joe Eyeball is trying to keep up, running into the street in the process. He laments the fact that the machines have turned his Muckman into a muck-meal and begins sobbing. Suddenly he turns to see the Shellraiser coming to a screeching halt just barely inches from running over him. When Raph and Mikey look out to see who is standing in their path, they spot the little eye guy, who tells them to call him Joe.
Joining the Turtles in the Shellraiser, Joe explains what happened. He tells them the trash-eating machines took bites out of Muckman. Though Muckman tried to fight, his superpowers seemed to make them even hungrier. Don ponders trash-seeking killer robots and says he has a bad feeling that he knows where they’re headed. The Shellraiser approaches a sign which indicates that the City Dump is the next exit. Mikey stands up through the roof hatch with Joe Eyeball riding on his head. As Mikey points out the exit, Joe exclaims “Let’s get back our Muck, man!”
To be continued…
Trivia[]
Joe Eyeball addresses Muckman as Joe. Whether this is a mistake, and he was supposed to refer to him as Garson, or if this continuity's version of Muckman is named Joe, has not been clarified.
See also[]
- Comic gallery
- Comic transcript