I like this - the spiritual side of the TMNT. It's particularly interesting how Raph reacts to death, given his previous comments about how, being turtles, he and his brothers are going to outlive all their friends, oh joy oh rapture. I also like how his immediate mental reaction to "What could be nicer?" is "Some whipped cream." I don't know whether he's being kinky or not, but I actually kinda hope he's not - it's nice to think of such a cynical character having an innocent pleasure like a love of whipped cream. (Of course, that may have something to do with the fact that I personally adore the stuff, but still.) The 'Turtle Island' bit is interesting, too - my take on the epilogue is that it's a somewhat dark bit of eco-pessimism. First we get this origin story for the Earth, and it's all nice and mystical and happy - then we cut to the 'real' story. The turtle (the Earth) is dying, or at least ill, its guardians (the beaver and the water beetle, the forces of nature), can do nothing for it - and this hurts the Creator, whose marvelous creation now seems to resemble a cancerous growth. And the cause of the turtle's sickness, and the Creator's discomfort? Us, of course, who misuse and abuse the bounties of Turtle Island, and by doing so, abuse the turtle, the mother, Mother Earth. The Earth has become a cancer in the Creator's side, and we're making it that way. Deep, dude. And depressing. And deep.