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Grex Comics Item 66: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Entered by pez on Sun Apr 18 19:58:19 UTC 1999:

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are one of the main reasons I collect
comic books today.  I started with the Archie "TMNT Adventures" book,
then picked up a lot of the darker, more adult Mirage publications.
Now they've moved to Image and I have yet to buy an issue due to
monetary problems at first, then i couldn't find it and now i look 
at the cover and the characters look so unfamiliar i don't even bother.
Does anyone else here have fond memories or news about the Turtles?
Feel free to post them, or anything really, cuz this conference is
in desperate need of life. Thank you kindly.

8 responses total.

#1 of 8 by losttoy on Tue May 18 06:41:33 1999:

Now I haven't read many issues of TMNT. Although I must say that there was
this one-shot put out at Lightning just before the book went to Image. It was
crossover with CreeD. I really enjoyed Trent Kanuga (sp?) interpurtation of
the turtles. I must admit it was a CreeD story with the turtles, but I thought
they were drawn well and protrayed nicely, unlike the pizza craving shit.

#2 of 8 by wompaman on Sat May 22 22:46:36 1999:

Hey man, wanna lend me that book (hah hah hah.)

#3 of 8 by poopon on Thu Jun 10 02:49:11 1999:

tmnt #8 guest starred a kevin eastman rendered cerebus the aardvark. that
issue alone was what launched me eternally into the comic book world

#4 of 8 by lumen on Wed Jun 16 08:19:40 1999:

Julie has the first TMNT novel, which I still think is great.  I think I
managed to read the first 4 novels.  Anyway, I can see why issue #1 was
reprinted four times, but I just can't picture it in black and white-- I guess
I feel the color is appropriate enough.

#5 of 8 by dade on Thu Mar 23 02:58:34 2000:

 I collect comics. I only collect independent comics though. They are the only
ones with good plots. Most other comcis are boring. Scud: The Disposable
Assassin is probably my favorite comic book series. That or Akira....

#6 of 8 by pez on Wed Apr 5 20:05:38 2000:

I also collect comics.  I collect them from all over the place though.
I read a ton of Marvel stuff because of a love for the characters more
than anything, and MArvel really is trying to have good talent on all
their books. I also pick up Astro City, Steampunk, Spyboy, Transmetropolitan,
and would pick up LOTS of other stuff too if i wasn't a poor college
student.

#7 of 8 by lumen on Thu Apr 6 00:13:25 2000:

Yes, I agree.  Marvel sometimes falls hard, but Stan Lee did well in 
getting excellent characters established-- some of which are his own 
creations, most notably Spider-Man.

#8 of 8 by pez on Thu Apr 6 17:45:17 2000:

Yeah, however, Marvel editorial has done little to improve quality on 
the Spider-Man titles lately. The art is okay, but Howard Mackie and John Byrne
are doing a horrible job on plotting it.  It seems like they are trying to
redo what made Spider-Man great in the first place and it is coming
off very very badly.

Paul Jenkins is a great new writer and will soon be taking over the
Peter Parker: Spider-Man title, but I fear that will not be enough.
Removal of Mackie and Byrne is what's necessary.

Busiek/Perez's Avengers is kicking butt however, if you're into
that kinda thing.  And the Marvel Knights line is good stuff.

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