Category: Comics

Vintage Mirage Photos

Hey gang,
So I’ve been building a relationship with ex-Mirager Bill Fitts over the last year or so (I’ve acquired quite a bit of art from him as of late). Anyway, along with my latest transaction, Bill was kind enough to send me an envelope full of photos from back in the day. Theres a myriad of various photos (see if you can name everyone in them!) You’ll even scope out a dashing young Stan Sakai!

Anyway, click the pic to go to the album of photos. Hope you get as big a kick out of them as I did. And thanks again Bill!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Special – “Coney Island Days” by Milton Knight (( 1993 ))

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures Special - "Coney Island Days" by Milton Knight // COVER (( 1993 ))

–>> Tokka still retains that the TMNT mythoes have been helped shaped in retrospect of a very short period of time by legendary artists and story tellers. ‘Coarse Turtles fans already knew this, but those outside of the know had given Tokk allot of guff about it since he was a kid.

Whatever-

Thanks to a tip from X –  “LEGENDARY” in all sincere senses of the word inspiring fine/pop-artist, animator, character designer, and comic book illustrator and cartoonist Milton Knight and his classy; 1-of – a kind ‘Terry Toons’ on crack style is brought back into this Snapper’s spotlights.

If you aren’t quickly recalling his excellent n’ wacky contributions to the “TMNT ADVENTURES” Specials ( Remember Extra Dimensional Farmer Louie and his famous  floating-farm, Oxy Moron, Kid Cortex, the villainous swine monster Sooey Generis, and a particular Baby Cleaver who had a really bad sinus problem and used to sneeze out demons and all sortsa crazy critters – it was up to the Green Teens to save him from some twisted Clansmen !! !! )  !!

All over the map, Milton has crossed artistic Pop-paths from the famous to the most imfamous.  Character and animation designs on the cult film “Cool Wold”, Felix  the Cat, The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog , Heavy Metal Magazine, Work in the publications of Fantagraphics & Nickelodeon Magazines, Gallery artist and educator. This doesn’t even “SCRATCH” the surface.

When exploring **Milton’s site ( being aware of some of his more risque Adult art that may not be suitable for the younger set ) you will encounter Milton’s final TMNTA story contribution.

“Here’s the last Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles story I did (with a little credited help from my friends). It remains unpublished because Archie Comics halted the series soon after it was finished. From 1993 (concurrent with my Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog work).”

CONEY ISLAND DAYS! marks the return of Hallocat ( better known as  “Scratch “ and his frightening Mutant-Monster pals Nocturno the Owl and Nevermore the Scarecrow. The Uncanny Trio’s ‘Blows the Turtles Minds’ literally and two somewhat “Honey Mooner – ish” Brooklynites adopt the 4 teens temporarily for a Wrestling exhibition of a much different kind than the Turtles had encountered before. And one that’s more local as they become an attraction at N.Y.’s  famous Coney Island !! The insane tale also seals the final fate ( ? ) of the Uncanny Trio as the Turtles Rock  the Fun House !!

So in case you hadn’t seen this –


** CLICK HERE TO  READ – ” CONEY ISLAND DAYS ! “ IN IT’S ENTIRETY OF MILTON’S SITE !! **

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STORY / ART © 2010 ** Milton Knight

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Nevermore the Scarecrow created by Dan Berger, Hallocat ( Scratch ) and Nocturno created by Ryan Brown

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and all related titles, logos and characters ©/ ™ 2010 of Viacom International Inc.

Is TMNT: Tournament Fighter Archie Heavy?

cover-4.jpg picture by Jesterangelo

The TMNT:TF face-off of my dreams.

Sorry it’s been awhile, but I was thinking today, as a fan of the Archie Comics, and going through the rosters from all 3 TMNT:TF games, gosh the roster is Archie heavy.

Of course you have the Turtles and Shredder in all 3 versions. Casey is in the NES and Genesis versions. Karai is also in 2 versions. April shows up on the Genesis, but look at the other playable characters:

NES:
The only other playable character is Hot Head, a character from the Playmates toy line, but also based more on the Warrior Dragon from Archie.

SNES:
War is one from an arc in the Archie comics, that also involved the Mutanimals. Wonder where Death, Famine, and Pestilence are? That makes 2 Archie characters.
Aska was created just for the game…lets skip her.
Chrome Dome was a character from the series and the toy line. So heck the toy-line ties with Archie so far. 1 for the series.
Wingnut was in the Archie series, an episode of the show, and the toy-line. Maybe my original premise was off…3-3-2.
Armaggon was only in Archie! Oh how I wanted a figure…curse you Playmates!! 4-3-2
Rat King is playable only with Game Genie…I think. He was in the Mirage Books, the OT, the toy-line, and Archie. Wow, the first aside from the main cast to hit all 4 Turtle mediums of the time. 5-4-3-1.

Genesis:
Ray Fillet is an Archie and Toy character. 6-5-3-2 (NO, I don’t count Ray from that one episode…)
Sisyphus was also a game exclusive…
Triceraton was in Mirage, the show in one episode, and even a toy! 6-6-4-3
Krang is in all but Mirage…well at least in canon.

Ok…so maybe I was wrong…it’s not so Archie heavy. But then again the toy-line had 3 universes to pull from.

Any thoughts as to why there were so many Archie characters?

Greetings True Believers!

I’ve always wanted to say that! Anyways, I just got back from a couple shops on this fine Free Comic Book Day.

The first shop Heather and I hit up is one of the greatest comic stores on the face of the planet; Comics Factory. CF didn’t have anyone signing today, but it is my LCS, so I have to come by. Oh, and holy crap was it packed.

I picked up a slim smattering of the books they had for free (I have been really looking forward to this MouseGuard)

Comics Factory was having a 3 for 2 sale on anything in the store as well, so I picked up some books 🙂

I picked up the copy of Yokai cause I was soon going to be off to see Stan Sakai, and I wanted to make sure I had it incase Things From Another World didn’t. Speaking of TFAW…let’s go!

Zoooooooom!!!!!

Things From Another World had a really cool Usagi shrine thing set up:

Saw the world famous Cynthia while we were there. Hi Cyn, sorry your photo is blurry!!

Annnnnnd here is Stan signing stuff, and pictures of him and I with the cool new Usagi plush I got there. Why yes, that IS the worst picture of me ever.

All together, I had Stan sign 4 things. A copy of Yokai, my copy of Shell Shock, and two of the comics he was giving out that I will in turn give away on here in the next day or so. So Watch out!

Usagi drove home.

Happy Free Comic Book Day!

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Other Peoples FCBDs!

1. Amanda sent in this picture of Hastur’s Hobbies!

2. Richie of Mutantooze.org said this:

Over in St. Louis, artist Lorenzo Lizana (blog) was at Comic Headquaters doing sketches of people’s favorite characters. My wife and I went through the line and watched him sketch out Dark Phoenix and also a bad ass Aquaman. While waiting we looked through his sketch book and seen concepts for his next project Little Lost Angels and asked for one of the Little Angels for our baby’s nursery. After our trip to Comic HQ we stopped by 3 other comic shops (1 ended up being closed) and we got a ton of free comics at the other two. So all in all it was a great Free Comic Book Day and only 365 more days until the next one!

3. Cynthia sent in her own pics of the Stan Sakai signing:

Happy Free Comic Book Day!

Now get out there and support your local LCS! Send any pictures you take of the shops you visit or the people you see and send them to us to have them put up on the site! Stephan@GoGreenMachine.org

We are also going to try to get a few items from Stan to give out for those of you who can’t be in Los Angeles today. I’m sure we will come up with a silly contest of some sort. 🙂

Talk to you soon!