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FIGURE FLASHBACK: Playmates’ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

From ** Figures.com’s Pixel Dan :: Top 10 turtle toys… “In the early ’90s, there was one powerful force that dominated the entertainment world: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! That’s right, those lean, green, pizza-eating teens were all the rage with the kids of this era. I don’t have to tell you how cool this toy line was. You most likely already know that. I could sit here all day long and just show you all the fantastic things that came out of this line! But instead, I’m just going to go ahead and tell you all about my personal top 10 favorite TMNT figures. I’m sure everyone has their own opinions, and could make their own versions of this list. But to me, the ten figures listed below are the best of the best when it comes to Playmates’ TMNT toy line from the ’80s and ’90s! ..” .. ..

**Click here for the Top 10 to top ‘em all.. **

( ..much better than the frightening Top 10 pizza topping left-overs Michelangelo has moldin’ away in the back of the fridge. EEk !! )

– Comic Legend, Steve Bissette’s (Swamp Thing , Tyrant , Taboo , also TMNT related projects are included on this docket ) classic Horror tale ‘ Cottonmouth ‘ has been adapted to the “SLIVER” screen in a new short film by Chris Garetano !!

Bissette :: ” Cottonmouth the movie was prominent among the ’secret projects’ simmering on stoves kept tucked well out of sight for the past few years. It debuts online this Halloween; spread the word! Filmmaker Christopher Garetano’s labor-of-love short film adaptation of my 22-year-old horror comic tale “Cottonmouth”, which I’ve always jokingly referred to as “my period piece” (I say, I say, that’s a pun, bwah!), is the first film adaptation of one of my own stories. This makes it nearer and dearer to my heart than those theatrical features derived from my various activities in comics (as character designer, editor, publisher, co-plotter, and penciller): Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze (which incorporated my snapping-turtle villain toy designs into Tokka), Return of the Swamp Thing, From Hell (not my baby, mind you, but the first Taboo adaptation from a graphic novel I nurtured as editor/publisher and that might never have existed without Taboo), Constantine and Ben Coello’s short film adaptation of Wendy-Snow Lang’s Taboo Especial story “Want”, which is a gem. “Cottonmouth” was first published in Gore Shriek #1 (1986), which is where Chris Garetano first read the story at an tender and impressionable age. I slightly revised and expanded the story for Taboo #1 (1988), and it’s that version I consider the definitive one. Early on in our negotiations back and forth, two or three years ago, I sent Chris a copy of the Taboo version, but it’s the original Gore Shriek draft — sans the introductory page and coda page — Chris preferred and prefers, and that’s fine with me. It’s his movie, not mine, so I let Chris run with it. Everything I’ve seen thus far amply demonstrates Chris’s affection for my work and determination to bring the story to the screen with absolute fidelity to the original — a tough job, as he’s discovered. Comics and cinema are quite unlike one another, and storytelling devices that sing in one medium can easily fall flat in the other. ..

( Warning ::  NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH OR FAINT OF HEART ..this is a  Hard-core Horror freek-fest , Folks in the Bissette tradition !!  Not Kid’s Stuff   !! ~ t )

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