Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles # 2 2011 Change is Constant: Part 2 pg 16 by Dan Duncan

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles # 2 2011
"Change is Constant: Part 2" pg 15
Writer: Tom Waltz (Signed bottom center)
Writer: Kevin Eastman
Layouts: Eastman
Pencils & inks: Dan Duncan (Signed lower left)

The Turtle brothers are separated! With one of their own lost, the Turtles struggle to train, fight, and find their own place in the world. A brand new villain seeks revenge and hints about the Turtles origin are revealed! A new mythology for Turtles in the 21st century is being built-and the story is just beginning to rev up!

Raphael has just barged in to stop an incident of domestic abuse from continuing. Raphael dukes it out with the drunk, belligerent man, eventually coming out on top. The drunk man gets in his care and speeds away. The man's son thanks Raphael for the help. He handles meeting a large mutant turtle very well.

Fifteen months earlier, April is studying for class in the Stockgen labs late one night when Splinter approaches her and attempts to draw her attention to the contents of a compact disc, containing information on Stockgen's involvement in illicit military research. Two ninjas break into the lab to steal samples and test animals and attempt to eliminate April. Splinter, acting quickly, pulls the fire alarm. In the confusion brought on by the alarm, April manages to attack one of the ninjas. Two security guards arrive and the ninjas flee. Unbeknownst to the ninja, Splinter has hitched a ride with them, and before they get far he attacks, seeking to protect the turtles. Splinter causes the ninja to drop the bag with the turtles and a vial of a strange substance, coating them all in it. An alley cat slinks out of the shadows and decides to make a meal out of one of the turtles.

Present day: Leonardo asks Master Splinter for reassurance that they'll find their lost brother, Raphael. Splinter tells him the reassurance he seeks must be within him already, as he has not yet given up the search. Donatello interjects, citing the incredible odds at finding a lone individual in city the size of New York. Michelangelo says that whatever happens, he prefers bumping heads with Old Hob, their mutant alley cat enemy, to wasting time searching for their lost brother. He realizes the callousness of what he's said and explains that he's merely frustrated at the seeming futility of their search. Splinter tells them all that their primary goal must be to reunite their family, so that they can face together the hardships he senses coming.

The drunk man's son introduces himself as Casey Jones, and Raphael tells him he can't remember anything about who he is or where he came from. Casey empathizes with him and explains that his dad became an alcoholic after his mother passed, and that's when the abuse started. Casey thanks Raphael for intervening. He invites Raphael to go get some food with him and have some fun along the way, donning a hockey mask and arming himself with a baseball bat.