Uh...not quite.

[agoodmusekickin]

Either the Cracked Countdown I just read is one I'd previously seen, but forgotten about, or you people are slipping!

SLIPPING, I TELL YOU!

Or, you know, something.
Anyway, I happened to be on Cracked today and lo and behold what is the article being advertised on their bottom menu link footer thing?

"Seven Shockingly Dark Origins of Lovable Children's Characters"

And coming in at number seven, Turtles.

For those of you that know me that DON'T know about this, seriously...do we not talk or something? Because come on people.

Anyway, it's a cute little summation that I really very much enjoyed, until the last sentence:

Nearly all of the early Turtles books were absolutely filled with the kind of ultraviolence that would make Alex DeLarge dry-heave stomach bile onto his loafers.

Uh...no. No not quite. At all, actually.
Turtles #1 was/is a parody of Frank Miller's early work, so yeah it's dark. But it's hardly ultraviolence. Unless somewhere along the line ultraviolence got a PG-13 rating.

At any rate, this amused me, and so I share.