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Sound Off! part 1 is issue #1 of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Sound Off! published by IDW Publishing.

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A new batch of mutant villains are in town and they’ve mastered the art of noiseless theft! The TMNT are powerless to stop them, until they realize someone close to them shares a history with the bad guys: April O'Neil! Will she be able to overcome a case of stage fright and save the day?

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At the ice cream vendor Lactose Tolerant Inc, a mouse tries to eat a sleeping security guard's sandwich. Suddenly, the mouse notices absolute silence, including that the guard's snoring has stopped. Suddenly, a soundless explosion goes off, and in step three mutant crooks: The Silent G's. Their leader, Gned, turns on the sound long enough to tell the others, Gnarly and Gnatalie, to steal an ice cream truck. He then nullifies the sound again so they can get to work.

In the sewers, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Donatello try to elude a "shark", which turns out to be Raphael, as they are playing a training exercise game called "Shark Attack". As they return to the lair, April O'Neil is stressing about emceeing the Now That's Almost Like Music festival, afraid to speak in front of the crowd, ever since an incident that she alludes to but does not reveal.

The Turtles seek to enlist Splinter, the bravest person they've ever met, to teach her a lesson in fearlessness. Splinter then slides into the room, claiming to be more terrified than he has ever been in all of his life. The ice cream truck that typically visits the area did not show up on time. Leo dismisses Splinter's distress, but Raph wishes to solve the problem, and Donnie believes it is connected to a pattern of thefts he has been tracking. After being distracted for two hours by viral videos, Donnie shows them that The Silent G's have been stealing things from around the same area: construction site equipment, stereos from an electronic store, and the ice cream trucks. April remarks that the three crooks look familiar to her.

Splinter agrees to train April to boost her confidence while the Turtles leave for the surface to find the crooks. Donnie surmises a pet shelter, the Budget Animal Shelter, is the most likely target for The Silent G's to hit next. Suddenly, a soundless explosion occurs at the shelter. The Turtles go to investigate, only to find that their own voices have been muted when they draw close. They are then hit by a sudden blast of water.

Gned turns the sound back on to taunt his foes and Raph demands that The Silent G's return the dogs to their rightful place, but Gnarly blasts him again with a water jet from his horn. Mikey tries to strike Gned in retribution, but he is lifted off and dropped by Gnatalie. Fortunately, Donnie activates his flight shell and catches him.

As Leo engages Gnatalie, she hocks a purple loogie at him which soon after explodes and with the Turtles defeated at his feet, Gned mutes the area again.

Trivia[]

  • Just before Gned turns off the sound at Lactose Tolerant Inc, the television on the security guard's desk is playing the faux "Sippy Sun" commercial Warren Stone made in The Reunion Special!.
  • In this issue, the Turtles refer to themselves as the Mad Dogs for the first time in a Rise of the TMNT comic.

Errors[]

  • On multiple pages of this issue, Splinter's nose and tail are inaccurately colored the same pink as his limbs and inner ears instead of dark pink.
  • On multiple pages of this issue, Donnie's sclerae and teeth are inaccurately colored white instead of yellow.
  • On multiple pages of this issue, the sides the Turtles' carapaces are inaccurately colored the same color as the back of their carapaces instead of a darker shade of their plastrons.
  • On multiple pages of this issue, the faces on Mikey's kneepads are lined with black instead of red.
  • In a panel on page 10, Lou Jitsu is inaccurately depicted with pale skin, blonde hair, and wearing glasses with black frames and clear lenses instead of tan skin, black hair, and glasses with yellow frames and yellow lenses.
  • In a panel on page 11, Mikey and Donnie are missing the black beneath their plastrons.
  • In a panel on page 12, April's jacket is missing its '5' print on its back.
  • On page 12, 13 and 14, Splinter has a nick in his left ear instead of his right ear.

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Transcript[]

  • Sound Off! part 1/Transcript
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