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Tales Of The TMNT vol. 2 #16 2005 Sins Of The Past pg 24 by Doug Rice & Hilary Barta

Artists: Doug Rice (Penciller) , Hilary Barta (Inker) , Steve Murphy (Writer) , Doug Rice (Writer) , Peter Laird (Writer)

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Title:	Tales Of The TMNT vol. 2 #16 2005 Sins Of The Past pg 24 by Doug Rice & Hilary Barta
Artist:	Doug Rice (Penciller)
Artist:	Hilary Barta (Inker)
Artist:	Steve Murphy (Writer)
Artist:	Doug Rice (Writer)
Artist:	Peter Laird (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
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Tales Of The TMNT vol. 2 #16
published by Mirage in October of 2005
�Sins of the Past� pg 24
Inks over pencil on Mirage Studios art board
Plot: Steve Murphy and Peter Laird (Signed lower left)
Script: Steve Murphy and Doug Rice
Pencils: Doug Rice (Signed top center)
Inks: Hilary Barta (Signed lower right)
Tones: Bonaia Rosado
Frontispiece: Sean Wang
Letters: Eric Talbot
Cover: Rice, Barta, Talbot
Letters page header: Dave White

Frontispiece: Staring intently at his computer, Donatello thinks about the things he�s read in books like The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, as well as the things he�s heard on National Public Radio. He comes to the ironclad conclusion that global warming is real and is the fault of mankind for mistreating the environment. Exasperated, Don grows weary of all the fools who refuse to accept the truth�

Along with the Fugitoid, Donatello has traveled to the Utrom Homeworld to study their data on global warming. He fears that mankind (who he refers to as a �malignancy�) will soon destroy the Earth with pollution and deforestation and wants to see if there�s any solution. Leaving the Homeworld with the data he�s collected, Donatello takes a new Utrom spacecraft for a spin. Recklessly, he speeds through the galaxy with the faster-than-light drive, worrying the Fugitoid and his Utrom chaperone, Vaschin.

The ship eventually arrives on the edge of known space; a restricted area as per all intergalactic federal laws. Suddenly, they receive a distress signal from a nearby asteroid and Don insists they check it out, much to Vaschin�s disapproval. Only sanctioned rescue ships are allowed to respond to distress beacons, but Donatello insists that sometimes it�s necessary to break small laws in order to right bigger wrongs.

Donatello, the Fugitoid, Vaschin and a unit of Utroms disembark on the asteroid and begin following the signal. They enter a cave where they find a ship that the Fugitoid says looks familiar. He thinks he�s seen pieces of its design in museums on D�Hoonib, but can�t be sure. Vaschin is nervous and insists they leave, but Donatello refuses to back down and they go inside.

After only a few minutes, Vaschin gets nervous and begins opening fire at shadows. Donatello asks why he�s so heavily armed for a rescue mission, but Vaschin says he�s just being cautious. The Fugitoid finds an Utrom skull and Donatello becomes even more suspicious. Suddenly, they�re attacked by several gelatinous, tentacled blobs which Vaschin recognizes as the J�Gel race. There�s a big fight and all the Utroms but Vaschin, and all the J�Gels but one, are killed. Before Vaschin can kill the J�Gel, the Fugitoid activates his translation programs and asks the J�Gel to tell its story.

According to the J�Gel, its race was a simple people concerned only with survival. They had the ability to absorb the knowledge of all they consumed, but their propensity for overconsumption and over-breeding nearly destroyed their homeworld and drove them to extinction. When the Utroms made first contact with them, the J'Gel absorbed their space-faring technology and began spreading across the galaxy, absorbing and destroying other worlds. The Utroms then began an operation of total racial extermination, hunting down and killing all J�Gels, then wiping all knowledge of their existence (and their activities) clean. His ship contained the last J�Gels and they were able to hide in the asteroid ruins of their homeworld (which the Utroms destroyed) for thousands of years.

Against Vaschin�s wishes, Donatello and the Fugitoid leave the J�Gel to live alone in peace. As their ship takes off, Vaschin separates in the escape pod. Donatello tells him to come back, but Vaschin uses Don�s own words against him, saying that it�s better to commit a smaller crime if it means righting a greater wrong. Believing the J�Gel are too dangerous to let even one live, he flies his pod into the asteroid, killing himself and the last J�Gel. Melancholy, Donatello and the Fugitoid return to Earth.

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