This Monday the 26th, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Guys are playing at the Muse. The concept itself is hilarious: they are playing the Turtles' Pizza Hut album from 1990-ish. My good friend is Splinter (on the Keyboards no less) and I have witnessed two rehearsals and I must say that they truly do that masterpiece of an album justice. Please come on out to the Muse Monday night @ 7 and support this onslaught of Turtle Rock! Where else are you going to hear the hits "Pizza Power" and "Walk Straight" performed with this much total rock power?

oh my god thats awesome. i will be there. i wonder if i still have that album memorized...

the teenage mutant ninja turtles? are you fucking serious? i just might have to be there.

Casey Jones would want you to be there. Mondo Gecko would give you his skateboard if you came. Bebop and Rocksteady would beat up a Creed fan if you sang along to a song. Viva los "turtles"...

Let's all meet at 12th and Porter tonight, and eat, drink, and be very merry. What a great night. Let's celebrate.

just wanted to second digsy's account of the awesomeness of the turtles band. i too witnessed a rehearsal and those boys definitely weren't playing around. come check them out. i'm all ready for some "skipping stones."

i could go for some usagi yojimbo right about now. ray davies can tell you, i went through a brief ninja turtles phase last year after buying a few episodes at random thrift stores. the should have mousers running around at the show. it would be cool if the rat king were in attendance.

I was a TMNT junkie growing up and thanks to that habit, I recorded quite possibly the funniest thing known to man: The Turtles on the Oprah Winfrey show. Oh yes...the Turtles in all their animatronic-costumed glory sharing the stage with an early 90s Oprah (big hair big thighs etc) and performing (yes PERFORMING) their "hits" "Walk Straight" and "Count On Us." The performances are reminiscent of NKOTB but with masks and shells. The 8 year olds asking questions, April talking about her "inter-species relationships", kids dissing Splinter, the tape has it all. Hilarious every time.

And hey, if people are up for some Turtle action, Monday night is the place to be. As of now I think I'm going to brave the interstate (for the first time yes, I'm pathetic) for it.

My girlfriend found an old teenage mutant ninja turtles kids pajama top at a thrift store. It was one of the coolest things that I had ever seen. It had Raphael on it. She wears it as a shirt. I was very jealous.

I used to have some really cool TMNT shirts when I was little but I of course threw them away. My ex-girlfriend found a Gambit pajama top at a thrift store and she hung it on her wall. I was very jealous. I think she's thrown it away since though...

that's a shame. gambit was always my favorite, folowed closely behind by nightcrawler.

Yes, I was always a Gambit/Nightcrawler/Rogue kid. As any friend of mine knows, I'm an X-Men fiend who owns 1600+ comics and spends 15 dollars on t-shirts on ebay. One day I hope to be on Beat The Geeks as the X-Men Geek....who says I don't have goals?

I was the kid that liked whoever everyone else liked. The ki dthat doesn't really want to decide for himself because he is to lazy, so he gets someone else do do it for him? That was me.

I was an X-Force kid. Weird, I know.

X-cutioners song is still the best crossover story ever.

Will

Hell yeah man! X-Force is by FAR the best comic team EVER. I have every single issue up until John Francis Moore left (100). Domino is defnitely in my top 5 fave characters. And X-Cutioner's song is the best crossover ever. Peter David is a genius writer, Fabian Nicieza is awesome, Scott Lobdell was writing great. The art...everything. Man, yeah YEAH you are so dead on. The New Mutants were equally awesome too.

I'm weird because I actually consider Cannonball, Siryn, Boomer, Warpath, Rictor, and Domino my childhood friends. Dang those were some bloody amazing comics. Good times...good times that were ruined by John Alred and Peter Milligan.

(Edited by DigsySlattery at 9:08 pm on Aug. 25, 2002)

Wow. I definitely always thought I was alone on this. All of my friends as a kid mocked my X-Force enthusiasm. Its good to see that other people cared...

Will

I always liked the X-offshoots more than the actual main X-Books. X-Force's complete run and Peter David's X-Factor should mock the X-Books in the 90s (especially 98-current). But that's me being geeky.

How bout the Age of Apocolypse storyline? I was a big fan of that, if it had lasted any longer than 4 issues though, I may feel different

AoA was actually one of the best storylines of the 90s (I would rank it second after X-Cutioner's Song). The fact that that group of writers and artists managed to create a new world and a whole new batch of costumes so quickly and with the quality that they were was pretty amazing. But I do agree that anything past 4 months would have been too much, as evidenced by the X-Man series and the other AoA characters who have been ruined since (except Blink. Exiles is a great book).

I was a New Mutants kid and then got into X-Force, but pretty much got out of comics around their 20th issue or so. Bill Seinkewitz's issues of the New Mutants have such amazing art.. not comic-like at all. I love it. If I could find a Seinkewitz-drawn New Mutants poster, I would proudly display it, even though I don't read comics anymore.
Warlock was my favorite comic character of all time.

Well I attended the Turtles show last night and let me just tell you that the turtles are genious. So much rock.... and homo-erotic over tones all rolled up into one classic album from good ole PIzza Hut. I was dissappointed that I didn't see more people there. Thanks to all who did come...especially my favorite homeless person and his dog. BAH!!!

True that. Warlock got messed up in the 90s though...death and Douglock. No character deserves that.

yes yes, the show was excellent. there were definitely some rocking tunes and hilarious moments. donatello taking off his shoes after surfing the sewage, splinter getting temporarily kicked out of the band for being to gay, some mad keyboard action....what more could a girl ask for? glad to see some of you came!