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The co-creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles describe their equal 50/50 collaborative process on plotting, penciling, and inking, and recount how the book originated from a late-night sketch session while working on their unreleased Fugitoid story. They self-published the first print run of 3,000 copies using borrowed money and income-tax funds, sold out within a month, and grew to 50,000 copies by issue #3. They discuss how the book began as a parody of Frank Miller's Ronin and Daredevil but has evolved into a more straightforward adventure comic, and outline plans for a Fugitoid one-shot and Michaelangelo holiday micro-series.

Reader mail including an extended rebuttal from a fan challenging John Byrne's claims of ownership over Doctor Doom (in response to the CI #25 Byrne interview), praise for the Kevin Eastman/Peter Laird interview in CI #27, and editorial notes from DAK explaining the bi-weekly publishing schedule experiment the previous summer.

Langen, who won the 1990 WGA Award and Humanitas Award for The Wonder Years, discusses writing the screenplay for TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze, detailing its collaborative development with Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in Northampton. He covers the plot's focus on the ooze's origins, new characters Keno and Professor Jordan Perry, the physical limitations of the Turtle suits, and the challenges of on-set rewrites. Langen also reflects on leaving television to pursue a feature-film career.