Green-Grey Sponge-Suit Sushi Turtles

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Mike Martin’s Green-Grey Sponge-Suit Sushi Turtles attempts a difficult task: parodying a parody. This one-shot is a takeoff on Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a comic book concept that started off as a farce and ended up as a cultural phenomenon.

In this parody, the turtles are chased down by Shooter, a walking salad shooter who has invested his family fortune in Batguy (Batman) memorabilia, in an attempt to make the country “go ga-ga over anything batty.” Then, the ex-sushi chef plans to get rich selling Americans raw bat meat as a pop cultural delicacy. Meanwhile, the turtles themselves are under pressure to shed their easygoing cartoon image (best seen in Archie’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures) and go back to the sort of grim ’n’ gritty image that got them started (and which has worked so well for Batman).
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