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Monday, January 4, 2010
The Mirage Comics continuity timeline
As you may well know, a very healthy portion of the Ninja Turtles stories published by Mirage Studios were not written in anything approaching a coherent chronological order. The primary TMNT volumes were, of course, but even then, you have to weed out the non-canon "guest" issues from the purely canon "in-house" issues before you can get a reliable reading order. Then there's the matter of both volumes of Tales of the TMNT, each telling stories that take place at different points across the Turtles' timeline, having to be slotted in-between issues of the primary TMNT volumes. And lest we forget, there's also a metric ton of back-up strips printed as bonus material in trade paperbacks, as guest content in other indie books and as episodes in various anthology publications, including those from Mirage.
The Mirage Comics Ninja Turtles continuity is anything but linear. However, that doesn't keep some of us from trying our damnedest to make sense of the whole thing. In April of 2007, after completing my collection of all Mirage Turtles publications under the sun (or at least, so I thought at the time), I decided to take it upon myself to spread all the pieces of the puzzle out before me and assemble them into a competent, chronological timeline. It proved a daunting task and far beyond the means of a single mortal. So I made this thread over at The Technodrome forums and soon dozens of helpful Turtles fans came to my aid, pointing out inconsistencies in my timeline, offering recommendations and alerting me to any hyper-obscure pieces of Turtles fiction I was unaware of.
Later, Mirage freelancer Tristan Jones took my timeline and asked if it could be used for the then-upcoming "Mirage Universe Sourcebook" publication. After much fuss and hard work, we hammered out an even more thorough chronology to be used in an actual Mirage guidebook. Then Laird sold the Turtles to Viacom and the "Mirage Universe Sourcebook" got cancelled. Bummer.
Regardless of that, the timeline still stands three years later. And after all this time, it continues to be improved upon by helpful fans at The Technodrome forums who are still finding minute inconsistencies in story placement. The Timeline below is subject to change as new material is written or as new inconsistencies are discovered, so don't feel like you're losing your mind if issues move from place to place while you were busy blinking. The goal is to make this as complete and accurate as possible, and perfection is not something that can be achieved overnight (no, it takes three years and two dozen nerds for that).
White: Officially verified Mirage canon from in-house creators, freelancers and guest contributors.
Red: Guest stories published between TMNT (Vol. 1) #21 and #45 and other guest stories that are not officially verified or are considered "non-canon" despite no contradictions in content.
Green: The Image series.
†: Indicates back-up strip, short comic or anthology installment.
The Mirage Comics continuity timeline
Tales Vol. 2 #44 – The Amulet (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #50 – Threads † (review)
Big Bang Comics #10 – Galahad † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #25 – My Hero! † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #38 – Triptyche (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #38 – Awww... rats! † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #44 – The Lessons † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #13 – Loops, Part 1 of 1 (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #14 – Loops, Part 2 of 2 (review)
Shell Shock – Bottoming Out† (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #4 (2nd printing) – The Survival Game † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #2 – Seeds of Destruction (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #9 – The Passing (review)
Tales Vol.2 #1 – Not Forgotten (review)
TMNT Adventures! – New York Ninja † (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #6 (2nd printing) – It's a Gas † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #35 – The Pantheon (review)
TMNT Book I – Night Life † (review)
Shell Shock – Junk Man † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #52 – The Mission † (review)
Tales Vol.2 #55 – A Day in the Life (review)
Hero Comics 2012 #1 - Ready Set Go! † (review)
Creed/TMNT #1 – Dream Stone (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #1 – The Turtles' Origin is Told (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 2 #4 – Fifteen Years Later... † (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #2 – TMNT Vs. the Mousers (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #3 – The Great Chase (review)
Raphael (microseries) #1 – Me, Myself and I (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #4 – Rescuing Master Splinter (review)
Fugitoid (microseries) #1 – The Fugitoid's Origin (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #5 – Teaming Up with Fugitoid (review)
Grimjack #26 – D'Ants Fever † (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #6 – The Triceraton Homeworld (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #7 – All is Revealed (review)
Grunts #1 – The Lesson † (review)
TMNT Guide to the Universe – Terror by Transmat! † (review)
Tortugas Ninja Vol. 2 – The Paradox of Chudnovsky (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #3 (2nd printing) – Complete Carnage an' Radical † (review)
Raphael (microseries) #1 (2nd printing) – Fun With Guns † (review)
Bodycount #1 – Bodycount, Part One (review)
Bodycount #2 – Bodycount, Part Two (review)
Bodycount #3 – Bodycount, Part Three (review)
Bodycount #4 – Bodycount, Part Four (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 1 #1 – Apparition † (review)
TMNT & Other Strangeness – Don't Judge a Book... † (review)
Michaelangelo (microseries) #1 – The Christmas Aliens (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #1 (5th printing) – Not One Word † (review)
TMNT Book I – New Comic Day! † (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #8 – Team Up with Cerebus (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 1 #1 – Turtle Soup and Rabbit Stew † (review)
Usagi Yojimbo (Vol. 1) #10 – The Crossing † (review)
Shell Shock – The Treaty † (review)
Usagi Yojimbo (Vol. 2) #1 – Shades of Green part 1 (review)
Usagi Yojimbo (Vol. 2) #2 – Shades of Green part 2 (review)
Usagi Yojimbo (Vol. 2) #3 – Shades of Green part 3 (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 1 #1 – Turtle Dreams † (review)
Donatello (microseries) #1 – Kirby and the Warp Crystal (review)
Gobbledygook (Vol. 2) #1 – Crazy Man † (review)
Gobbledygook (Vol. 2) #1 – Technofear!!! † (review)
Tales Vol. 1 #5 – Complete Carnage and Radical (review)
Anything Goes! #5 – The Road Trip † (review)
Tales Vol. 1 #7 – The Return of Savanti Romero (review)
Tales Vol. 1 TPB 2007 – Spinal Tapped † (review)
Shell Shock – Meanwhile... 1,000,000 B.C. † (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 2 #3 – Sweat, Sweat, Sweet Renet † (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 2 #2 – Raphael: Snapper † (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 1 #1 – The Howl † (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #5 (2nd printing) – Ghouls Night Out † (review)
Tales Vol. 1 #3 – All Hallow's Thieves (review)
Leonardo (microseries) #1 – What Goes Around… Comes Around! (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #10 – Silent Partner (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #11 – True Stories (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #33 – Credo † (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 2 #4 – Thoughts on Paper † (review)
Tales Vol. 1 #1 – A Tale of the TMNT (review)
Challenges – Origin † (review)
Challenges – Splinter † (review)
Challenges – Michelangelo † (review)
Challenges – Leonardo † (review)
Challenges – Donatello † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #30 – The Mother of All Anger † (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #12 – Survivalists (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #13 – The People's Choice (review)
Mirage Mini Comics Collection story #11 – Casey Jones, Private Eye † (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #14 – The Unmentionables (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #15 – Dome Doom (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #17 – Distractions (review)
Tales Vol. 1 #2 – Nobody's Fool! (review)
Tales Vol. 1 TPB 1989 – "untitled Nobody story" † (review)
Tales Vol. 1 #4 – I, Monster (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #19 – Return to New York, Book One (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #70 – Zog (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #20 – Return to New York, Book Two (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #21 – Return to New York, Book Three (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #3 – The Worms of Madness, Part One (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #4 – The Worms of Madness, Part Two (review)
Digital Webbing Presents #24 – Digital Webbing Presents
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #26 – The Value of Gold (review)
Casey Jones #1 – North by Downeast, Part One of Two (review)
Casey Jones #2 – North by Downeast: The Conclusion (review)
Tales Vol. 1 #6 – Leatherhead (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #37 – Casey in Point (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #25 – Kung Fu Theater † (review)
TMNT Book III – 49th Street Stompers † (review)
Challenges – Raphael † (review)
Muscle & Faith (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 2 #3 – The Ring of Death † (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 2 #1 – The Name is Lucindra † (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #44 – The Violent Underground (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #45 – Leatherhead, Too (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #8 – Virus (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #23 – Attack of the Replicants (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #34 – Splinter Cell (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #30 – Circle of Darkness (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #21 – A (Bull) Wrinkle in Time (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #7 – You Had to be There † (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 2 #3 – Bearing the Burden † (review)
TMNT (Vol. 1) #33 – Turtles Take Time (review)
The Savage Dragon #2 (review)
The Savage Dragon/TMNT #1 – Enter the Savage Dragon! (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #11 – The Quick and the Dead (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #50 – World's Deadliest (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #63 – Monster Island (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #24 – The River Part 1: Down to the River (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #25 – The River Part 2: River Hymn (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #26 – The River Part 3: Old Man River (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #28 – Sons of the Silent Age (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #27 – Dreams of Stone (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #29 – Men of Shadow (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #30 – Sky Highway (review)
Shell Shock – O-Deed † (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 2 #1 – The Purpose of Fear † (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 2 #3 – Crack in a Hard Heart † (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 2 #1 – Donatello: The Ring † (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #37 – Twilight of the Ring (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #42 – Juliet's Revenge (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #43 – Halls of Lost Legends (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 2 #1 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Attack!!! Part 1 † (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 2 #2 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Attack!!! Part 2 † (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 2 #3 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Attack!!! Part 3 † (review)
Turtle Soup Vol. 2 #4 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Attack!!! Part 4 † (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #46 – Masks Part I (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #47 – Masks Part II (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #19 – A Ghost Story (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #22 – Change of Power (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #48 – Shades of Gray, Part One of Two (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #49 – Shades of Gray, Part Two of Two (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #50 – City at War, Part 1 (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #51 – City at War, Part 2 (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #52 – City at War, Part 3 (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #53 – City at War, Part 4 (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #54 – City at War, Part 5 (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #55 – City at War, Part 6 (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #56 – City at War, Part 7 (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #46 – Temps (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #57 – City at War, Part 8 (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #58 – City at War, Part 9 (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #59 – City at War, Part 10 (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #60 – City at War, Part 11 (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #61 – City at War, Part 12 (review)
TMNT Vol. 1 #62 – City at War, Part 13 (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #20 – The Trophy † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #41 – Fathers and Daughters † (review)
TMNT Vol. 2 #1 – Memories of the Future (review)
TMNT Vol. 2 #2 – Winds of Change (review)
TMNT Vol. 2 #3 – Evolution (review)
TMNT Vol. 2 #4 – Intruders (review)
TMNT Vol. 2 #5 – Death Race (review)
TMNT Vol. 2 #6 – Killer on the Loose (review)
TMNT Vol. 2 #7 – Confrontations (review)
TMNT Vol. 2 #8 – Face Off (review)
TMNT Vol. 2 #9 – Victory? (review)
Donatello #1 – The Brain Thief, Part 1 (review)
Donatello #2 – The Brain Thief, Part 2 (review)
Donatello #3 – The Brain Thief, Part 3 (review)
Donatello #4 – The Brain Thief, Part 4 (review)
TMNT Vol. 2 #10 – Descending into D.A.R.P.A. (review)
TMNT Vol. 2 #11 – The Rescue (review)
TMNT Vol. 2 #12 – The Escape (review)
TMNT Vol. 2 #13 – The Battle (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #49 – Mined Games (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #33 – The Bait (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #48 – The Decider! (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #43 – The Proposal (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #20 – The Cure † (review)
TMNT/The Savage Dragon #1 (review)
The Savage Dragon #22 (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #36 – To Serve and Protect (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #56 – Hun (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #59 – Expose (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #61 – Sometimes They Come Back (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #48 – One's Shadow! † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #64 – The Burning Man (review)
Shattered Image #2 (review)
The Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck #1 (review)
Mars Attacks Image #1 (review)
TMNT (Vol. 3) #24 – TMNT vs. Spawn † (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #1 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #2 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #3 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #4 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #5 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #6 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #7 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #8 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #9 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #10 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #11 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #12 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #13 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #14 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #15 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #16 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #24 – Conflict Resolution † (review)
The Savage Dragon #41 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #17 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #18 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #19 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #20 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #21 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #24 – Christmas Past † (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #22 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #23 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #25 – Practical Jokes † (review)
TMNT 30th Anniversary Special – Rest in Pieces † (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #24 (review)
TMNT Vol. 3 #25 (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #9 – Community Service † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #57 – Gangs All Here (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #67 – Schooled (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #51 – Night of the Living Gingerbread (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #53 – Alien Invaders (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #65 – Cold, Cold Ice (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #68 – A Klunk Adventure † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #9 – The Path (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #3 – Green † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #5 – Blind Faith (review)
Tales of Leonardo #1 – Blind Sight, Part 1 (review)
Tales of Leonardo #2 – Blind Sight, Part 2 (review)
Tales of Leonardo #3 – Blind Sight, Part 3 (review)
Tales of Leonardo #4 – Blind Sight, Part 4 (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #35 – Secret Spirit † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #10 – Kaddish (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #20 – The Rippling † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #24 – Rock of Ages (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #32 – The Eye of Aga-Moo-Tou (review)
Michaelangelo (microseries) #1 (2nd printing) – A Christmas Carol † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #53 – Ghosts of Christmas Past † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #69 – Dark Shadows (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #7 – Darkness Weaves (review)
Raphael #1 – Bad Moon Rising, Part 1: The Calling (review)
Raphael #2 – Bad Moon Rising, Part 2: The Taking (review)
Raphael #3 – Bad Moon Rising, Part 3: The Catch (review)
Raphael #4 – Bad Moon Rising, Part 4: The Win (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #6 – Scars (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #15 – Hell's Blacktop (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #28 – Channeling † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #42 – The Curious Case of Mr. Jones (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #66 – There's No Place Like Home (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #1 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #2 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #3 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #4 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #5 (review)
Michelangelo #1 – The Third Kind, Part 1 (review)
Michelangelo #2 – The Third Kind, Part 2 (review)
Michelangelo #3 – The Third Kind, Part 3 (review)
Michelangelo #4 – The Third Kind, Part 4 (review)
Michelangelo #4 – Life on Earth † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #16 – Sins of the Past (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #54 – Mere Appendix (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #62 – Adventures in Bunnysitting (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #18 – The Blue Hole (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #12 – Paris Nocturne (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #28 – Shanghaied (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #29 – Soul Survivor (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #45 – Rocks (review)
Go Green Machine TMNT Tribute (unpublished) – Slash! † (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #6 (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #47 – The Secret Origins of the Super Turtles!!! (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #7 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #8 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #9 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #10 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #11 (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #17 – Wrong Turn (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #52 – The Crystal at the Heart of the World (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #58 – All Tomorrow's Yesterdays (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #39 – What Wolves Wear (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #12 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #13 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #14 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #15 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #16 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #17 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #18 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #19 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #20 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #21 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #22 (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #53 – This Mortal Shell † (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #23 (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #60 – Nobody Does it Better (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #24 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #25 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #26 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #27 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #28 (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #27 – White Horses (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #29 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #30 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #31 (review)
TMNT Vol. 4 #32 (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #4 – The Grape † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #6 – The Raisin' † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #8 – The Risen † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #10 – The Question † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #14 – First Mud † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #15 – Apocalypse Vow † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #18 – Altered Fates † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #25 – The Doors of Deception † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #68 – Heroes in a Half Cell (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #31 – Reflections (review)
TMNT 30th Anniversary Special - Night of the Ninja Girl † (review)
The Collected Gizmo – King for a Day (review)
Gizmo and the Fugitoid #1 (review)
Gizmo and the Fugitoid #2 (review)
Plastron Café #1 – Old Times † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #40 – Silent Night (review)
The Puma Blues #20 – Choices † (review)
Tales Vol. 2 #41 – Swan Song (review)
Tales Vol. 1 TPB 2007 – Frontispieces and Epilogue † (review)
The Mirage chronology for the most part holds up fine, thanks to the episodic nature of much of the storytelling. However, there are continuity errors that cannot be rectified by even the cleverest of story placement. In such cases, those instances must simply be overlooked in absence of a better option. Additionally, many TMNT stories that could easily work with Mirage continuity, and indeed, have been published by Mirage, have been the work of outside "guest" creators, making their canonicity questionable due to Peter Laird's opinions toward Mirage stories not written by in-house Mirage staffers. Additionally, some stories that were canon when they were written were later retconned out of continuity at Laird's behest. These stories have been included for the sake of completion, but with proper notations indicating their canon-status. The following is a detailed account of these discrepancies and incongruities as well as rationalizations for various timeline placements.
*PETER LAIRD'S QUOTE ON CANONICITY: So just to clear up the facts, here is Peter Laird's personal quote on what counts from the letters page of TMNT (Vol. 4) #9: "The current Mirage TMNT comic, which we refer to as volume 4, is a continuation of what I call 'Mirage continuity' -- which is basically the issues of the original comic series that Kevin Eastman and I worked on, along with about a dozen other issues, the TALES OF THE TURTLES series, the short-lived color TMNT series, and some various short stories that appeared in different publications".
*THE EARLY YEARS: These stories take place before TMNT (Vol. 1) #1, dealing with various points in the Turtles' childhoods. They've been arranged by ages given in the issues or just by "eyeballing" the size and intelligence levels of the Turtles. So far as discrepancies are concerned, there are a few that should be noted to prevent confusion. Karai is much, much older than the Turtles in this continuity, thus her origin story takes place first. "Loops" brings together four Leonardos from four different points in the character's timeline. However, since the primary perspective is from the youngest Leonardo, the story is slotted into this era. The back-up strips printed in "Shell Shock" and other books could conceivably take place just about anywhere in the Turtles' timeline, but have been placed here for lack of a better idea. They're all mostly goofy and fun stories and fit well with the more carefree days of this era.
*LIVING WITH APRIL YEAR ONE: This era covers their first year living in April's apartment as well as their space adventure with the Triceratons and the Utroms. It ends with the Michelangelo (microseries) #1 issue, as it is established as taking place during a different Christmas from the one seen in TMNT (Vol. 1) #10 (which is established as being their second Christmas with April). Many of the Raph/Casey adventures that lack definitive evidence for timeline placement have been grouped here to illustrate their time spent bonding as friends. Stories like "The Lesson" and "Terror by Transmat!" also lack definitive evidence for placement and have been grouped here for the sake of theme. Some stories, such as "Fifteen Years Later" and "D'Ants Fever" take place between pages of actual issues and as such have been placed below the issue in which their events transpire.
*LIVING WITH APRIL YEAR TWO: This era covers their second year living in April's apartment. Only the first and third Usagi Yojimbo crossovers offer timeline placement evidence, showing the Turtles living in April's apartment. The other Usagi crossovers were grouped here for sake of theme. Various horror-themed back-up strips with no concrete evidence for placements were grouped around the Halloween issue, "All Hallow's Thieves", for sake of theme.
*EXILE TO NORTHAMPTION: This era covers their banishment from New York at the hands of the resurrected Shredder. Most of these stories were specifically written to take place in this era with others simply being placed here due to location and theme. As TMNT #10 takes place on Christmas 1986 and TMNT #19 takes on Christmas 1988, the Exile spans a full two years in story-time. Issues #16 and #18 have been skipped as they were guest stories not written to work with the continuity of the series. The Tales (Vol. 1) stories that take place in this era have been placed primarily based on the seasonal settings.
*RETURN TO NEW YORK: This era covers the Turtles' return to New York City following their exile and the subsequent defeat of the resurrected Shredder. This is where things start to get tricky. To keep the Turtles from constantly bouncing back and forth between Manhattan and Northampton, the stories taking place in those locales have been separated where applicable. Additionally, the story "Leatherhead" has been shuffled down the line to undo a rather infamous continuity error (at the end of that story, the Turtles give their sewer lair to Leatherhad, yet they are repeatedly shown living in their lair later with no Leatherhead in sight). Additionally, several short strips featuring the Turtles battling sloppy and pitiful groups of Foot Soldiers have been placed here, as established by "City at War", the New York branch of the Foot became pathetic and disorganized following the death of the Shredder, despite their lame attempts to obtain vengeance on the Turtles.
*RETURN TO NORTHAMPTON: This era covers the Turtles' return to Casey's farm in Northampton and the adventures they encountered while staying there. Again, these stories were separated by location. As color-coded, a large number of these stories were written between TMNT (Vol. 1) #21 and #45, thus making their canon status questionable.
*CITY AT WAR: This era covers the massive "City at War" epic. It includes "Change of Power" and "Shades of Grey" as they were both written as prologues to the event. The Tales (Vol. 2) story, "Temps", takes place between TMNT #53 and #54, but features April back in New York before she fully decided to return following her father's funeral in #57. Due to the lack of snow on the ground and the Turtles' water tower base being intact (it was attacked in #56), the story cannot take place after #57. April was possibly just "visiting" New York at the time, if one must explain away the continuity glitch.
*VOLUME 2: This era covers the events of Mirage's Volume 2 series as well as those written around them. At this point, stories are slotted into this era either by theme or solely by judgment of Shadow's age. Following TMNT Vol. 1, her growth would play a major factor in determining how many years have passed between stories and thus where a story should be placed.
*THE GANG WARS: This era covers the events of the Gang Wars. Unfortunately, due to the Viacom buy-out and the cancellation of Tales of the TMNT (Vol. 2), the Gang Wars arc never received a conclusion, leaving this era rather open ended.
*MIRAGE "VOLUME 3": This era covers the stories retroactively written to fill the void between Mirage's Volume 2 series and Mirage's Volume 4 series. There was no actual Mirage Volume 3 (hence the quotations), as the official Volume 3 was published by Image and, as per Laird, that volume is no longer canon.
*IMAGE VOLUME 3: This era covers the events of Image's TMNT series. When the Image series was originally written, it was the official continuation of the Mirage storyline, even covering several plot threads that Laird and Eastman had established in their previous volumes. The volume was canon until the publication of Mirage's Volume 4 series. By that point, Laird had decided he did not approve of the direction Image's Volume 3 had taken the series and chose to ignore it completely with his new volume, thus retconning it out of continuity. However, as it was canon once, it has been included here for posterity.
*PRELUDE TO VOLUME 4: This era covers the years taking place just before the beginning of Mirage Volume 4. As has been stated, the chronology of Mirage "Volume 3" is determined primarily by Shadow's age. However, there is a wide gulf of years between those stories, as Shadow is written as either a little girl or a teenager/young adult. Her teenager/young adult stories must take place several years away from her "Volume 3" stories and almost directly before Volume 4. As such, they have been grouped with stories that pertain directly to the events of Volume 4 and have been dubbed a "prelude" to that series.
*VOLUME 4: This era covers the events of the Volume 4 series. Due to scheduling conflicts and, it seems, a lack of interest, issues of TMNT (Vol. 4) were first delayed and then put on an "indefinite hiatus" status by Peter Laird. The volume is currently incomplete with no indication that the hiatus will be lifted. Several Tales of the TMNT (Vol. 2) stories were written to elaborate upon or continue plot threads within this volume due to the series itself being postponed indefinitely. Additionally, issue #5 of the series featured a six month gap in the narrative to allow for the Utroms and other aliens to establish their presence on Earth and integrate with the masses. Stories placed here feature a heavy alien-on-Earth presence or major cooperation between the TMNT and the Utroms. The short, "This Mortal Shell", was a guest story specifically noted in the opening editorial to be "non-canon". However, the actual content of the story contradicts nothing in the series.
*POST VOLUME 4: This is a precarious era to place stories since, as of this writing, Volume 4 has not been concluded. However, these particular stories simply don't fit snugly anywhere during the Volume 4 storyline and aren't far enough in the future to qualify for being in that era, either. We'll just have to wait and see on these stories.
*THE ADVENTURES OF PROFESSOR OBLIGADO: This "era" simply contains all the Professor Obligado back-up stories. They do not interact with the TMNT in any fashion and could conceivably take place during the six month gap or after the events of Volume 4 or sometime long afterward. Due to a lack of interest, the storyline was never completed by Stephen Murphy.
*THE FUTURE: This era covers stories specifically written to take place in the vague and possible "future" of the Mirage TMNT. Tales (Vol. 2) #69 establishes that all these future stories are merely "potential" outcomes and may not all even be related to each other in the same timeline. So with that in mind, determining chronology for these stories is difficult. Some can be placed due to how old the Turtles appear, where they're living, references to the events in other stories or, in at least Donatello's case, how depressed they are. The "Gizmo and the Fugitoid" miniseries has been placed here since the Gizmo series by Michael Dooney takes place in Earth's future. Additionally, the miniseries ends with a glimpse of an Earth-like street corner populated by humans and aliens, fitting in with what we know about Volume 4 and the Mirage future. For reference's sake, the stories "Loops", "A Christmas Carol" and "Dark Shadows" also feature looks into this future of the TMNT, but the primary narrative of these stories is set in the past or present, hence why they are not included in this era.
*The Volume 1 "guest era": Between TMNT (Vol. 1) #21 and #45, the book was handed over to a series of guest creators with little to no regard for continuity. Stories like "Spaced Out" and "Soul's Winter" are too bizarre (each in their own way) to possibly be part of the Mirage timeline, while others are simply too contradictory or silly. Several stories, however, were written to function with the Mirage continuity of the day. However, Peter Laird has stated that with the exception of "Dreams of Stone" and "Sons of the Silent Age", all stories published during this period are of dubious canonical status, if not outright non-canon. This is partly due to creator ownership rights, as Mirage does not own any of the characters created for these stories by the guest artists. Oddly, this non-canonocity decision also includes "The River" trilogy, which is directly referenced in "Sons of the Silent Age", a canon story. For the sake of posterity, all stories written during this period which are non-contradictory to the Mirage canon have been included, but with proper notation of canon status.
*"Turtle Soup": The "Turtle Soup" series was an anthology title containing short TMNT related stories by both in-house creators at Mirage and guest contributors. Many of the guest contributions were too "out there" to qualify for inclusion in the Mirage timeline, while others were either harmless or prologues to stories written during the TMNT (Vol. 1) "guest era". All stories capable of existing within this timeline have been included and color-coded where applicable.
*"Bodycount": The "Bodycount" storyline, written by Kevin Eastman, was originally intended to be published by Mirage as "Casey Jones & Raphael". The first issue was released, but when publishing of the TMNT series was shifted to Image, the series was retitled "Bodycount" and finished release under that publisher. Although it was primarily published by Image and boasts at least one Image-exclusive element (Casey's star-spangled hockey mask), the fact that it was penned by a franchise co-founder and initially intended for publication under Mirage lends it credence for primary Mirage canon status.
*The Savage Dragon crossovers: Likewise the same can be said of the Savage Dragon crossover. Both two-part crossover arcs were co-published between Mirage and Image and before the publication of TMNT comics became strictly the duty of Image. The events of the first crossover are referenced in TMNT (Vol. 2) #3, while Radical's depowering in the second crossover is referenced in Tales of the TMNT (Vol. 2) #41. This, as well as involvement from Mirage in-house staffer Michael Dooney, would appear to make these crossovers Mirage canon.
*The back-up strips: short TMNT comics have been published within anthology books, reprints of old material, trade paperback collections, other indie publications, role-playing game guidebooks and just about everywhere else under the sun. Some of them are important to the narrative of several storylines, while others are merely comedy relief filler. Most do not offer any evidence as to where they take place in the Turtles' timeline due to their brief length. For the purposes of this timeline, those with evidence for placement have been slotted in where they belong. The remainder have been dropped in where they "feel" best, carry on a theme or simply can do no harm. Back-ups that were too silly or contradictory have not been included.
38 comments:
- Adam said...
Mighty impressive body of work here.
- 1/04/2010
- ADZ said...
I totally agree Adz #1 would have taken ages!!
Now if only Someone would publish them in that order.
- 1/05/2010
- John Pannozzi said...
"Now if only Someone would publish them in that order."
Yeah. It would be cool if whoever gains eventually gains the right to reprint TMNT comics would collect all the Mirage stuff in this order, and have each collected book contain one of the eras in your timeline (though some eras, particularly, volumes 3 and 4, would take at least 2-3 books to contain them in a good, affordable package). The only real problems I could see would be the issues of vol. 1 short stories (plus "Muscle and Faith" and the Casey Jones"Down by Downeast" by Rick Veitch and maybe a few other freelanced material I missed) that were gone by guest creators, as they contain characters owned by those particular guest creators (I could see Rick Vietch possibly giving permission to use his stories, but I can't find ANYTHING whatsoever on Lucidna creator Rick Arthur, so who knows if anyone else can?) and the cameo-heavy Shattered Image, Mars Attacks Image and Savage Dragon #41 (but those crossovers contributed virtually nothing to the TMNT's story, and Erik Larsen doesn't even really consider Shattered Image to be part of the Savage Dragon universe, so they could easily be skipped).
- 2/15/2011
- John Pannozzi said...
Oh, and would the TMNT's crossovers with Flaming Carrot (both in issues #25-27 of FC's Dark Horse-published comic, and later in a 4-part full color miniseries published by Mirage with story by FC creator Bob Burden and art by Jim Lawson) count, seeing as how you included Savage Dragon #41, which FC also appears in?
I hear that the Turtles were in a book called Phantasy Against Hunger and in issue one of Shadow of the Groundhog, but I don't know in what context. It might be in your best interest to find out.
There's also the second and third Last of the Viking Heroes Summer Specials, which I don't own and and have only seen a few scans of on Go Green Machine.com. It seems the Turtles's outfits are color coded like in the OT in these books, so they're probably not meant to be part of the Mirage canon, though for I know they maybe could with some fudging.
- 2/15/2011
The Phantasy Against Hunger, and Shadow the Groundhog cameos can be seen here:
There's also scans of the TMNT magazine and 2 of the cereal comics and some possible Mirage comic called 'TMNT Street Collectors Edition' that I've never heard of.
- 3/23/2011
Thank you so much dude, you´ve got no idea of how much Im enjoying re-reading my turtles comics following your timeline (I´m such a geek hehe). It´s been years since I last saw them and if it weren´t for you they would be lost in an old box in my basement.
- 5/11/2011
i just wanted to say thanks! this wood have taken me ages you see i have been colecting them all so i can put them all into a cbr and put it on pirate bay so people who are fans can download. i am almost done i am just getting the last ones so if anyone has wanted to collect every tmnt movie, comic, and tv show go to pirate bay in a fuew weeks it will be there. So thanks for putting this list up it made it all possable.
- 7/28/2011
HEY that web sit www.flickr.com/photos/49309780@...well it does not work it says file not fownd and i was looking forward to the tmnt cereal comics if someone has another link that wood rock thanks
- 8/09/2011
I must say fantastic work. I have been following your guide without missing an issue, and just finished TMNT vol 1 issue 7. What an amazing story it has been thus far. I was just wondering if you are still working on this and adding new releases as they appear.
- 12/12/2011
- John Pannozzi said...
"This is partly due to creator ownership rights, as Mirage does not own any of the characters created for these stories by the guest artists."
Actually outside of Rick Veitch's stuff and Rick Arthur's work with Lucindra (in which Arthur owns the new characters established in the stories but otherwise did as work-for-hire), the only guest written stories in this timeline which Mirage didn't own the characters from are "Apparition" and TMNT Vol. 1 #43: "Hall of Lost Legends" (and in the latter's case, A.C. Farley signed away his rights, but Paul Jenkins didn't).
- 10/17/2012
- Rowerowe Fightthepower said...
I doubt I would ever have gotten into reading the original TMNT comics as much as I have if not for this page, which laid out a coherent style for doing so. It's not quite a "reading order" (I for one find it awkward to go from reading 1980s Vol. 1 stuff to Tales Vol. 2 stuff done 20 years later), but as a chronology it's indispensable and has helped me greatly in the formation of my own "personal" canon/reading order.
- 10/22/2012
- Mark Pellegrini said...
@Rowerowe Fightthepower,
That's a good point. I'll be rereading The River trilogy soon. I'll see if the references contradict then and whether I should move #27 or not.
- 10/22/2012
Hey Mark, amazing body of work.
i've been collecting all of the mirage turtles and putting them into correct order according to this and i am missing just a few and its driving me nuts. i've googled the shit out of it and come up dry.
i'm hoping to find scans of the following:
Tales v2 04 - The Grape
Tales Vol. 1 TPB 2007 - Spinal Tapped and Frontispieces and Epilogue
Tales Vol. 1 TPB 1989 - "untitled Nobody story"
Casey Jones North by Downeast (#1-#2)
as you can imagine, having all but 6 out of over 300 stories is very frustrating for the ocd in me.
i dont know where else to look as the wife wont let me buy them lol.
Help me, Mark, you're my only hope!
thank you for your time
-Spencer Kapp firstname.lastname@example.com
- 11/26/2012
- Industrialoco said...
Tortugas Ninja Vol. 2 - The Paradox of Chudnovsky (review)
te confundiste, te olvidaste de traducirlo jaja
muy buen blog, felicitaciones!
- 1/22/2013
- Rob Luther said...
Thank you so much for this! How long did it take you to research and organize this timeline? Very impressive!
- 7/03/2013
- Kinasin said...
This body of work is incredibly impressive. Thank you.
- 7/19/2014
- Unknown said...
Great list, thanks!
Though some of early stories are just flashbacks, while the issue itself takes place somewhere later. Would you be so kind to put those stories where they belong with notes to the certain point the flashbacks refer to?
- 12/31/2014
- Unknown said...
if i was to read it in this order would it make sense? or is this just a timeline based thing?
- 1/03/2015
- Unknown said...
if i read it in this order will it make sense? or is this just a chronology. i want to read the comics in the best way possible.
- 1/03/2015
- Mark Pellegrini said...
@Fokai Yoface
It's more a timeline than a preferential reading order, yeah.
I would personally take the issues from "The Early Years" era and seed them throughout the rest of the timeline to where they fit in best thematically.
Starting anywhere other than with TMNT (Vol. 1) #1 is kind of the wrong way to go.
- 1/04/2015
You need to add the link to the Gizmo: King for a Day review.
- 3/08/2015
This might be a very stupid question for you guys ... but I'm only just starting my collecting.
Are the IDW comics considered part of the canon by Peter Laird? It seems Kevin (Eastman) has his hand in that .. but uh .. I'm confused.
The IDW and Mirage Vol4 are being made seperately and are considered seperate?
Thanks a lot ...
- 4/06/2015
- Mark Pellegrini said...
The IDW series is a reboot, so it's a separate continuity from the Mirage series.
When Peter Laird sold the rights to the TMNT to Viacom, he retained the rights to continue producing Mirage Volume 4 issues until he feels like stopping (since he never finished the story). So far, I think he's only produced 1 issues since selling the rights.
- 4/06/2015
- Wim Naessens said...
Thanks for clearing that up Mark!!
- 4/15/2015
So, where would TMNT: Odyssey go?
- 8/08/2015
Congratulations on accomplishing this list man. I tried putting one together like this ages ago and it took me a really long time too but I took the wrong approach and miserably failed. I would probably approach it in a completely different way if I tried to make one today but I lost the will to do it, lol. Mostly because of the time it had already consumed. I'm glad you were able to finish yours. I think I have a fair notion about how hard something like this can be and I just wanted to say: Awesome job man, my hat's off to you.
- 12/22/2015
- Dermot Mac Flannchaidh said...
In Ask PL #15 at Peter Laird's TMNT blog, I asked him what the canonical significance of the ("non-canon") River trilogy is in the Mirage timeline, because their events are referenced in ("canon") Sons of the Silent Age. He replied that the River trilogy actually fits nicely in the Mirage timeline, but also clarified that this is only his own opinion. He seemed to imply that he's no longer the authority to ask about is or is not considered part of the official Mirage TMNT timeline. I honestly did not expect to be told this, since I'd been assuming he still decides Mirage's TMNT canon since the terms of the sale to Viacom still allow him to keep publishing TMNT comics. Our correspondence is in the Ask PL #15 thread. How would you say this affects the "canon" status of the River trilogy in your list?
- 5/03/2016
- Dan said...
I have been using your list, and I have to say it has helped immensely! I have adapted it to how I see fit, though, leaving out all the non-canon stuff (especially the vol. 1 guest era and Turtle Soup - I actually can't stand most of those), a lot of the cross overs and some back-up stories that bear no real relevance. I am now on volume 3, and so far I have to say, my favourite parts have been the canon issues at the start and end of vol. 1, and Tales of the TMNT vol. 1 and most of the Tales of the TMNT vol. 2 (at least, what I have read so far, given your continuity order). I have no regard for volumes 2 and 3 whatsoever, and can honestly see why it was cancelled after 23 issues of vol. 3 under Image.
- 8/21/2016
- Unknown said...
I have just begun reading tmnt comics, should I also read the minor titles and 'tales' along with the main issues? Or could I be alright to just read the main issues?
- 8/24/2016
- Mark Pellegrini said...
@Blaise Bell
My timeline is a comprehensive chronology, but not necessarily the best reading order.
I think your best bet is to read Volume 1, the Micros and Tales Volume 1 together first. You'll get a much more concise but still complete story and it's a great read.
If you dig that, then I'd recommend exploring all the other material. That way you aren't too overwhelmed with excess minutia.
- 8/25/2016
Gonna add Bebop and Rocksteady destroy everything?
- 10/09/2016
- Ogrebear said...
This is fantastic work and really, really helpful!
I was wondering if there was a version with the in character dates on the stories/event please?
- 10/22/2016
- Dermot Mac Flannchaidh said...
Recently, I asked Peter Laird about how many underground lairs the turtles had. By your timeline, there would have to be at least three. However, the lair they live in after the events of "Return to New York" and before the events of "City at War" is never shown being discovered or abandoned, whereas there are events depicting the abandonment of the first lair (after the second issue) and discovery of the third lair (at the beginning of volume 2).
And I realized something else: What if the stories that take place in the second lair...actually take place after the events of volume 2, and there really were just two lairs instead of three? Mr. Laird genuinely didn't seem to know the answer, which makes me think that if there was a "second" of a presumed three lairs, then the events involving its discovery and abandonment may not even have been mapped out.
And so I'm thinking, what if there is something to this idea of more stories you assume take place before volume 2, actually taking place after it instead? Like, they might not have even met Leatherhead until after volume 2 was over. This may also imply that there weren't two separate Northampton periods as you suggest, but just one; they may have returned temporarily to New York during "Return to New York", but they may have simply continued living on the farm after the Shredder's death, not leaving until "City at War". But if this theory is plausible, then would it break anything else?
- 7/22/2017
- Anonymous said...
Will TMNT: Odyssey ever be added?
- 2/13/2018
- Mattkind said...
I found out that the TMNt show up inissue 4 of Hamster Vice just fyi
- 1/01/2019
- Dusty-Rune said...
What year is it in-universe for the turtles when their adventures begin? I'm not asking for the publishing year, rather what year is it for the turtles in their universe. I can't find that bit of info anywhere. And what are the ages of the turtles when they met April?
- 2/27/2020
- Mark Pellegrini said...
@Dusty Rune,
Peter Laird's story "Old Times" places the events of TMNT Vol. 1 #1 as 1985. As for ages, the Turtles are said to be 15 when TMNT #1 happens (and presumably TMNT #2 since they happen successively) as per the story "15 Years Later" by A.C. Farley. Hope that helps!
- 2/27/2020
- carlos del bosque said...
where i can read all the TMNT comics, only find some of them
- 10/20/2020


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Album Rating: 3.5Tenth review, tell me what you guys think. Please explain your opinion though.
I kinda find it funny that you put the original album under the recommended section. To be honest, I don't really like the sound of this idea. I may have to listen to a couple songs, though, just to see how different it is.
Great review Pos'd
Album Rating: 3.5thanks, yeah i just edited some of the little grammar ad spelling mistakes
This is especially evident in "Selkies: The Endless Obsession," as it starts with an almost punk-influenced intro.
Great review, very well done. You have been Pos'd.
Album Rating: 3.5idk when i listen to the intro of selkies i for some reason think of some of papa roach's songs.....This Message Edited On 10.29.08
why is this album under the recs?
Album Rating: 3.5recs?
oh! no this is the instrumental version, thats the original album.This Message Edited On 10.29.08
oh, wow I didnt know they released an instrumental version, I might check it out
the intro of Selkies is NOTHING like Papa Roach, you crazy mofo
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Album Rating: 3.5im not saying its like papa roach, im just saying i thought of papa roach when i listened to it, and it is punk influenced
i think i heard this once, made some pretty sweet beats outta it tbh
Album Rating: 3.5haha, their much better without vocal tbh
punk influenced, nahhh
Album Rating: 3.5well i think so
How in the hell is it punk-influenced? It's more of a progressive rock type of riff. Punk isn't really known for it's use of synth and odd time signatures.
Review was really fanboyish.
id only be curious to see if BTBAM's music is good enough to hold my attention without vocals. Even if their vocals aren't as good as they probably should, they do have a strange appeal to them.
Review is alright, and it is your best so I am glad you have shown a bit of improvement on sputnik.
Album Rating: 3.5good review Mr. Fang, I agree mostly. I got this album because I like Btbam's sound but the vocals ruin it for me.
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Editors note: Mark Wahlberg currently has four movies in production, but he still finds time to play golf. The actor played in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic and AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am , and this week hes in Tampa for the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am . Wahlberg sat down recently with a PGA TOUR media official for this Q&A.
PGATOUR.com: How did you get started in golf and what's your handicap?
WAHLBERG: I'm a 5. I got started playing with my cousin. The first golf course I ever played was Riviera, and unfortunately I didn't know the rules, so I was driving the cart everywhere. But it wasn't a game that I was really interested in. I grew up playing baseball, football, hockey, contact sports and didn't think it was much of a challenge until I actually tried it and I said, okay, I'm going to focus all of my attention on this game and be determined to figure it out. Obviously, I still haven't yet, but you know, some days it just all works for me. Some days, you can't get it going. No, its the best thing that's ever happened to me, aside from God and my family.
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WAHLBERG: Maybe playing with Ernie (Els) in Hawaii. I shot even a couple of times ==that was pretty big. I have one hole in one == that was pretty big. I would have to say playing here. I love playing this event.
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WAHLBERG: Every chance I get. Even with my baby and stuff -- my daughter and her mom usually sleep until like nine. So I'm at the golf course at six o'clock in the morning, first one out, buzz around for an hour and a half, then I'm home to wake them up.
PGATOUR.com: What's your best score and where did you shoot it?
WAHLBERG: Best score? I shot even a couple of times. My home club Wilshire (Country Club), I shot 73. Wilshire is tough. The handicap never seems to go up, though, it only goes down, which is tough. I'm consistently in the 70s now, which is good.
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WAHLBERG: Augusta. And Pebble, I am going up to Pebble for the AT&T (Pebble Beach National Pro-Am) this year. Although, after walking four days, yesterday, I was like, I dont know if I can do this again. This morning I took a couple Advil and actually, you know, towards the back stretch and the back nine, I had a little hop in my step.
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WAHLBERG: Whatever was the most difficult the day before is the easiest the next day. I've had two of the elements working at once, maybe three at the most. I hit the ball a long way. If I'm hitting it good off the tee, I'm hitting greens, I'm not really making too many one putts. But I scramble. I can get it all going, just not at the same time yet.
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The rental exhibits gallery includes a variety of workstations with locking doors for storage, product shelves, and monitors. The arch-shape and flat canopies add an attractive design element to many rental design options. Most of the inline rental exhibits pack and ship in one crate and are easy to set up. For your peace of mind, we stage and photograph every exhibit before shipping to ensure your graphics look great and fit perfectly.
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1. Cost
Plain and simple, renting displays costs less.
2. Invest Wisely
Renting displays allows you to spend more of your budget on your trade show graphics and messaging.
3. Flexibility
Different trade shows appeal to different attendees. Renting displays offers the flexibility of changing your display and graphics from show to show.
4. Overlapping Trade Shows
Don't choose between attending two important trade shows. Renting displays means you can have an effective presence at both shows.
5. Upgrading
Flexibility is important to every business or organization. When you rent your exhibit, you can change your display quickly because your resources aren't tied up in the structure. This gives you the freedom to target your marketing messaging and graphics for specific trade shows. Plus, renting means you can move into a larger space if and when you need to.
6. Installation & Dismantle Included
When you rent, install and dismantle can be included, eliminating one less hassle.
7. No Storage Expense
Storing a display can be expensive, prepping it can be time consuming, and shipping it can be confusing. When you rent, there is no storage expense and there are no delivery or prep hassles.
8. Testing
Renting offers the benefit of testing a trade show display before you invest in its purchase. When you make the decision to purchase, you will know you have made the right choice.
Renting an exhibit is the ideal choice in this situation. Renting is affordable, typically 30-40% of a purchase, and we have an extensive gallery of island and inline rental designs.
If you don't see something you like, no problem. About 50 percent of our rentals are new designs or modifications of existing designs. If it makes sense for you, and it makes sense for us, then we're happy to create a unique configuration that meets all your trade show marketing requirements.
Just give us a call so we can begin designing the exhibit that matches your budget and marketing needs.
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Classic Exhibits Inc. warranties the performance of its portable, modular, and custom hybrid systems during normal use, excluding excessive wear and tear, as per the instructions. This covers the workmanship and locking systems as long as the exhibit has a useful life. All remaining parts are covered against defective materials or workmanship as long as the exhibit is in service. The warranty is transferable should the product be sold or assigned to another party.
The manufacturer cannot be held responsible for damages due to abuse, misuse, or shipping damages. This warranty does not cover laminate cracks and chips, wood crate and roto-molded case damage (excluding workmanship), aluminum extrusion scuffs, mars, and scratches from normal use, and graphics wear and tear or misuse. The manufacturer is not responsible for lost or missing parts once the owner has assembled, accepted, and used the product.
Should there be any questions regarding the warranty, please contact your local Classic Exhibits Distributor.
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I'll appearing, along with Gary Morton and Barry Wood, in the Comedy & Magic Society show at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn. We'll also have two excellent close-up magicians performing before the show and during the interval.
Tickets for this intimate 99-seat theatre max out at $15 - an incredible bargain for live entertainment of this quality.
It is going to be a great show so tell your friends, bring your family and come out and see entertainment as it was meant to be seen, live and in person.
The Gaithersburg Arts Barn is located at 311 Kent Square Road, the Kentlands, Gaithersburg, Maryland. For tickets, please call the Arts Barn at 301-258-6394 or go to https://recxpress.gaithersburgmd.gov/recxpress/Start/Start.asp .
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Equity futures are higher this morning prior to the open, but so is the dollar, and bonds are just a little lower. Oil is slightly higher, gold is lower, silver is flat, and most food commodities are surging again, some are back near recent ridiculous highs (still waiting for the margin increases here).
Let's face it, with multi-Billion dollar daily POMOs behind them, good news in the market is read as good news, and bad news is still read as good news. This is exactly the type of logic that was occurring late in 2006, only then the markets didn't have the risk of liquidity being pulled as the market does now. Fluff is the result of that mentality, and the fluff in the market right now is extreme. Valuations? Ridiculous that people can even make the arguments they do! Today's "valuations" are based upon accounting fraud, plain and simple. Remove Mark-to-Model and other accounting nonsense and the true valuations would be readily apparent.
YEAY! What good news! There was only 409,000 people filing initial Jobless Claims in the past week! LOL, that figure is astronomical, it shows yet again that our economy is still shedding jobs, much less keeping up with the growth in our population. Still, it is "better than expected," as if the "experts" have some magical power to price the market. Look, it's been YEARS with extremely elevated jobless claims, and you need to see this figure less than 350k just to show break even. It's testimony to the failed policies of the "Fed," that despite wasting Trillions, job growth has NOT returned. Here's Econospin for the Alice in Wonderland read:
Weekly initial jobless claims are still over 400,000 but they came down very substantially in the May 14 week to 409,000, for a 29,000 fall following the prior week's 40,000 decline (prior week revised 4,000 higher to 438,000). Stock futures are rising in reaction to this report.
Auto and weather effects were no more than isolated in the week's data which sees the four-week average only very slightly higher at 439,000. A decline in next week's data would push the four-week average down for the first time since early April.
Other readings show an 81,000 decline in continuing claims in data for the May 7 week to 3.711 million. The unemployment rate for insured workers is unchanged at 3.0 percent.
Existing Home Sales, the Philly Fed, and "Leading Indicators" will be released at 10 Eastern this morning and will be presented in the market thread below this post. More importantly, things are deteriorating rapidly at Fukishima, we will also be discussing events there.
Until further notice, good news is good, and bad news is good too because it means our money will be debauched further!


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BANGKOK – Asia's major stock markets logged slight gains Thursday but smaller indexes slipped after U.S. corporations reported mixed earnings and orders for U.S. durable goods fell.
The U.S. government reported Wednesday that orders for long-lasting factory goods fell more than economists expected. That added to concerns that global growth is slowing. Orders for durable goods declined 5.7 per cent in March following a 4.3 per cent gain the previous month. The March figure was the biggest dip in seven months.
"A weaker than expected reading for March US durable goods orders maintained a run of weaker than expected US data releases, reinforcing concerns of an economic slowdown over coming months," said Mitul Kotecha at Credit Agricole CIB in a market commentary.
Japan's Nikkei 225 rose 0.1 per cent to 13,862.86. Hong Kong's Hang Seng advanced 0.3 per cent to 22,257.63. South Korea's Kospi advanced 0.5 per cent to 1,944.03. But benchmark indexes in mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, and the Philippines fell. Markets in Australia and New Zealand were closed for public holidays.
Stocks in Europe posted gains Wednesday investors grew more hopeful of an interest rate cut from the European Central Bank after another weak business survey for Germany, Europe's biggest economy.
The Ifo Institute said its main index of business optimism fell to 104.4 points from 106.7 in March. Market analysts had expected a more modest decline to 106.2.
European markets have also been buoyed in recent days by progress in Italy to produce a government after inconclusive elections in February.
On Wall Street, however, disappointment over durable goods order was compounded by quarterly results that included a subscriber slump at AT&T and a weak profit forecast from Procter & Gamble.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.3 per cent to close at 14,676.30. The Standard& Poor's 500 index was flat at 1,578.79. The Nasdaq composite rose marginally to 3,269.65.
Benchmark oil for June delivery was up 45 cents to $91.88 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract jumped $2.25, or 2.5 per cent, to finish at $91.43 a barrel Wednesday on the Nymex.
In currencies, the euro rose to $1.3046 from $1.3021 late Wednesday in New York. The dollar fell to 99.41 yen from 99.51 yen.


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A Guide to the Roy P. Benavidez Papers, 1943-2007
Biographical Note
Roy P. Benavidez was born on August 5, 1935 in Lindenau near Cuero, Texas. He enlisted in the United States Army in June 1955 and served in Germany, Korea, Vietnam, and the United States.
On May 2, 1968, in an area west of Loc Ninh, Republic of Vietnam, Staff Sergeant Benavidez was monitoring a twelve-man Special Forces Reconnaissance Team, as part of the Detachment B-56, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces. The team came under heavy enemy gunfire and requested emergency extraction. Staff Sergeant Benavidez volunteered to return to the area and assisted with extracting the troops. Under considerable automatic weapon and grenade fire, and severely wounded in the head, legs, abdomen, and back, Benavidez redirected the troops, retrieved classified documents from the dead team leader, and helped load the dead and the wounded on a helicopter that minutes later crashed due to the pilot becoming mortally wounded. Despite his life-threatening injuries, Benavidez secured the safety of the soldiers and began calling in aircraft for another extraction attempt, which was finally successful. Because of Benavidez's feats of valor and bravery beyond the call of duty, the lives of at least eight men were saved. On July 24, 1968 Benavidez was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for valor, the Army's second highest honor. Upon learning that his Commander had twice recommended him unsuccessfully for the Congressional Medal of Honor, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez and his supporters supplied the Department of the Army with additional eye-witness testimonies of his actions on May 2, 1968 and with the support of other military personnel and elected officials, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez was finally awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor on February 24, 1981 by President Ronald Reagan.
During and after his career in the military, Benavidez was active in veteran issues. After receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor, Benavidez was in great demand as a speaker to schools, military and civic groups. He was honored throughout the country and received letters from students, service personnel, and citizens throughout the world. He was the subject of numerous articles and his life and experiences were chronicled in three books. Medal of Honor Recipient, Master Sergeant Roy P. Benavidez died on November 29, 1998 at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 63.
Scope and Contents
The Roy P. Benavidez Papers contain correspondence, photographs, topical files, military documents, honors and awards, writings, printed material, LP albums, and memorabilia documenting his career in the United States Army and his receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in the Vietnam War. The bulk of the collection contains documentation regarding his interest in veterans' affairs and career as a public speaker after receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor and includes programs from public appearances and dedications, awards, articles about Benavidez, fan mail, and other tributes. Of particular interest is the documentation and correspondence on behalf of Benavidez from elected officials, military service personnel, and citizens in support of his being awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
The arrangement closely reflects the filing system and manner in which Benavidez categorized and filed documents. The Correspondence and Subject Files listed by state contain letters of support from citizens of that state, as well as arrangements for public appearances in that state.
Forms part of the Institute for Studies in American Military History.
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
The Benavidez (Roy P.) Papers, 1943-2007, The Institute for Studies in American Military History, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
Detailed Description of the Collection


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DIY Photography Equipment List
OK, so anyone who has ever ventured in doing some photography work realizes that whether you're in at as a hobby or looking to work at it in a professional capacity, photography can be quite expensive.
Naturally you need a camera, film/memory card, batteries to power your unit and the absolute basics. And even these alone will likely run your at least $500 minimum. And that doesn't even include all the other things you'll need to invest in for portrait photos and any other spot of shooting you may wish to undertake.
So, here's a list of photography tools you can make on your own or make use of other objects to provide the same effect.
Head to the craft store and pick up solid white foam board. You can also spray paint it with metallic silver or gold for additional color options. You can also buy a car window visor and use that.
Lens Cleaner
Don't pay extra for a "photo specific" cleaner. Get yourself a travel-size spray cleaner of eye glasses. It will probably cost you a ton less.
You can buy muslin from a fabric shop and dye it however you choose. Or, you can use heavy, lager blankets or think sheets.
Backdrop stands
Get some PVC pipe (very cheap) and put one together on your own.
Diffusers and Gels
As mentioned in earlier posts, white medicine bottles and color copies on transparencies can fulfill both these needs effectively and for much less than the typical retail price.
Happy shooting!


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Nine out of ten Australian consumers use online media to discover more about products and just over 50% have used a smartphone or tablet to price compare.
These findings come from Nielsen's latest research study, which was conducted in partnership with eBay and PayPal.
Over 3,000 adult Australians were surveyed as part of the study in an effort to better understand how Australians are using their mobile devices – something all the more pertinent, given the recent revelation that mobile is seeing rapid growth across the region.
Consumer discovery
Mobiles and tablets are facilitating consumer discovery by allowing shoppers to research products and services anytime, anywhere. It is very clear from the study that personal computers are still leading as the most popular form of technology used to discover products and complete transactions, but mobile devices are making a surge forward, with 47% of consumers saying they use their smartphones to discover products.
Other key highlights include:
- 32% of consumers saying that they use their mobile to take a photo of a product or service
- 30% of respondents search for the location of the nearest store/supplier for specific products and services
- 21% check product or service availability from suppliers
- 20% of mobile users read online reviews via their handsets
- 18% compare prices directly using their phone
- 12% of mobile users directly watch videos about products or services
These results reinforce the notion that shopping is no longer a simple process.
No longer are catalogues or TV ads the main source of product information, now consumers are actively looking online to find out more about what they are buying – and often they are doing it physically from within a store.
In fact, research shows that 95% of online Australians said they use online media for their research or discovery, but perhaps more importantly, this leads to 75% then progressing to make an in-store purchase and 71% making an online purchase.
Melanie Ingrey, Nielsen's Research Director, emphasises how important it is for marketers and businesses to take advantage of this:
This is a valuable proposition for today's marketers as mobile devices provide a range of opportunities to support consumer's discovery of what to buy and where to buy it from; not to mention facilitating a means of purchase.
Path to purchase
Just over 30% of Australian consumers have now used a mobile device to make a transaction, a figure which has grown rapidly over the past 18 months.
There are a variety of triggers that set off a consumer's path to purchase, ranging from a search engine find, to an eDM, to a tweet, to a Pinterest picture, to an app.
During the research, qualitative comments from respondents regularly emphasised and enforced the strength of mobile (and the potential it has) to facilitate consumer discovery and move shoppers along the path to purchase, which supports the parallel rise of mobile use among consumers in general.
In January 2011 only 12% of Australians were using their mobiles to make transactions and Ingrey attributes this growth to recent attitudinal shifts towards convenience shopping, as well as an increase in smartphone saturation.
Ingrey stresses that the path to purchase is no longer a simple and linear process, explaining that this is why it is so important to understand consumers, their behaviours and what is triggering this behaviour:
Price comparisons, locating retailers, reading reviews and checking product availability are the most common activities overall.
Mobile phones are particularly popular to support searching for retailer locations and taking photos of products to help in the decision making process.
Devices can play complementary roles throughout the customer journey – yet another opportunity for savvy marketers to play to the strengths of each device.
Moving forward
The ecommerce landscape is in the middle of a huge upheaval and transformation, and Ingrey believes the continued shift in consumer attitude, along with the rapid adoption of smartphones, will continue to drive change in this area.
The mobile nature of smartphones and tablets provides opportunities for these devices to trigger and influence consumer behaviour at any stage along the path to purchase.
Already mobile behaviours are being triggered by a variety of stimulus that empowers consumers to discover and transact anytime, anywhere, thereby driving in-store as well as mobile purchases and making smartphones and tablets the perfect shopping companion.
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When I was first learning to can back in the 1970's salsa was not on my radar at all. That might be because the canning books I followed didn't have any recipes for it. Fast forward to the 21st century and there are lots of salsa recipes in the canning books. Salsa is a form of relish and is as easy to make as pickles. It does require some chopping, which I do with a knife; although some people prefer to use a food processor. I can salsa for use later and include vinegar, as you would for other relishes. Recipes for salsa to consume fresh might not include vinegar.
The recipe I use is for Zesty Salsa that I found in the Ball Blue Book from 1998. You can find the same recipe here. The main ingredients are tomatoes, peppers, and onions which I have in my garden. The vegetables you see in the first photo are the ones shown chopped in the second photo—all of which made the 6 pints of salsa in the last photo. Besides tomatoes, peppers, and onions, the recipe calls for cider vinegar, garlic, cilantro, salt, and hot pepper sauce (optional). I always have garlic available from my garden. Instead of cilantro, which I don't grow, I used celery leaves and parsley from my garden. One of the reasons I like making salsa is that it is so colorful when you have everything chopped up together.
Although the recipe includes both green sweet peppers and hot peppers, I am not into hot so I used sweet peppers only and no hot sauce, although I have added some mildly hot peppers in the past. You have to be careful with canning recipes. You can sometimes make substitutions, but you need to do them wisely. The salsa was canned in a hot water bath which is used for high acid foods, so care must be taken to maintain the acidity. Tomatoes are high acid foods, but onions and peppers are not. Vinegar in the recipe contributes to the acidity. You can substitute different kinds of peppers, such as sweet for hot, but be careful to not have more than the total amount of peppers called for in the recipe. The same goes for onions. They could be any combination of red, yellow, or white, but the total should not exceed the amount in the recipe. The Complete Guide to Home Canning has great information about this and other substitutions. You can find it online at the National Center for Home Food Preservation website as a free download or order your own hardcopy at Purdue Extension's Education Store.
Besides tacos, salsa can be used as an addition to many foods, including potatoes and eggs. Of course, it can be eaten as a dip just as it is. I grow cowpeas out to dried beans, store them in jars in the pantry, then cook them as needed. We have found that salsa goes great with those cooked cowpeas. If you are growing your own staple crops, salsa and other relishes can add interest and taste to your meals. Last winter friends gave us two jars of relish. One was corn relish, but I don't remember the name of the other. It was all delicious on cowpeas. If you are putting up pints for your table, make sure to can some half-pints (jelly jar size) to give as gifts. The time, energy, and produce that went into making the salsa now will be appreciated by the recipients when gift-giving time rolls around. It will also make your life easier to have something on hand to share with your friends anytime the mood strikes. If you are wondering about those white lids on my canning jars—they are reusable lids. I like to use them on high acid foods and only on jars that I won't be giving away. I'll have to make another batch with regular lids for gift jars.
Salsa, canned in jars, is a convenience food for me. I have not tried fermenting it, but according to Sandor Katz in The Art of Fermentation, you could do that. Reduce or eliminate the vinegar and use plenty of salt. Tomatoes, peppers, onions, and garlic are available at the farmers markets now. If you haven't grown your own, you could still do this. The 10 Day Local Food Challenge is coming up in October. If you plan on taking part, having a supply of salsa put up will enhance your meals. The 10 Day Local Food Challenge allows ten exotics in your diet, which are items not local. For me, that would be the salt and vinegar in the recipe. I haven't made vinegar, but I suppose you could make your own from local apples. Then vinegar would be off the exotic list. Maybe you could find a vinegar maker and saltworks within your local food shed. It is something to think about.


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I RECENTLY spoke to a couple who have both been freelancing at home since the recession. They explained that a lack of reliable broadband prevents them from working at the same time.
They can't both be online together – so the husband has to work in the morning and the wife in the afternoon.
They could try to solve the problem by moving house, but a recent property survey found that homes without access to decent broadband speeds are worth an average 20 per cent less than those with faster speeds.
The market has come to consider broadband as just another utility service. The internet is as essential to pupils doing homework or householders shopping online, as it is to freelances working at home or, indeed, businesses needing to grow.
But this is the most rural county in the South East, so we have to be pragmatic in trying to extend the social and economic benefits of broadband. Let's not forget that if the commercial market had been left to its own devices, only 70 per cent of premises in Oxfordshire would have any form of broadband.
Prime Minister and Witney MP David Cameron (centre) with County Council leader Ian Hudspeth (2nd left) after switching on a Better Broadband cabinet in Alvescot
The county council's "Better Broadband" programme has now got under way, two years ahead of national estimates. It aims to ensure that by the end of 2015 more than 90 per cent of premises in Oxfordshire can access so-called superfast broadband – that is, at least 24 megabits per second (mbps) delivered through fibre-optic cables.
We are also pushing for more investment from our local and national partners – the district councils and the Government – to raise this target to 95 per cent of premises, with the remaining five per cent having speeds at least fast enough to use Skype or watch BBC iPlayer.
The broadband programme involves BT laying fibre cables in an underground duct from your local telephone exchange to a new fibre-enabled cabinet which is built next to the existing green roadside cabinet.
These cabinets are then connected to each other, and broadband is delivered to your home or business down the existing copper telephone lines.
Although BT was not due to start upgrading cabinets until April, our project is delivering early. Four cabinets have already been enabled, serving around 1,000 premises in south and west Oxfordshire.
BT's survey work is also ahead of schedule, with complex network design plans determining where new cabinets will go.
Homes and businesses in rural areas are already benefiting. Alvescot in West Oxfordshire, for example, recently celebrated being one of the first villages to be enabled through the county council project. One of the many beneficiaries is the local pub, The Plough, which was quick to recognise the business boost with facilities like fast card payments for customers.
We recently announced that work has begun to upgrade cabinets which had previously been deemed commercially unviable in the exchange areas of Chipping Norton, Carterton, Wallingford, Witney, Kidlington and Summertown.
The timing of these roll-outs will depend on factors such as finding access to power sources for new cabinets in rural areas, but this means that by the middle of 2014 people living in some of these areas will be able to order fibre broadband.
As the county council programme progresses we will keep everyone updated via our new (and award-winning) website and ensure that people know when broadband becomes available to order in their areas. Please bookmark the website betterbroadbandoxfordshire.org.uk By the end of 2015, more than 64,000 more homes and businesses in Oxfordshire will be able to use fibre broadband.
And the couple freelancing at home, whom I mentioned earlier, will at last need to buy a second computer!


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Mrs Cambridge attended a reception tonight at the National Portrait Gallery in London wearing an empire waist dress in eggshell blue. It's decided then: longer hemlines without a coat, shorter hemlines with a coat on top.
It's great to see her looking so healthy and strong, especially the way this pregnancy started. I love how animated she is in these photos. In some of them she seems like she's actually greeting someone with a "HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII OMG it's SO GREAT to see you!" the way a commoner might. Cute, non?


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Investigators say Keyes got thrill from killing people
Keyes confessed to killing Bill and Lorraine Currier; identified them by name
Investigators believe Israel Keyes worked alone and no one, not even his girlfriend, knew what the Alaskan contractor was doing in his criminal cross country travels.
He was finally caught after robbing a bank in Texas and brought to Alaska to face murder charges
While he was there he spent dozens and dozens of hours detailing his crimes telling investigators his story his way.
"There is no one who knows me or has ever known me who knows anything about me, really," Keyes said in an audio recording during an interview with investigators.
Keyes goes on to say, "They're going to tell you something that doesn't line up with what I tell because I'm two different people basically. And the only person who knows about the kind of things I'm telling you is me."
FBI investigators interviewed Keyes while he was awaiting trial in Alaska in the slaying of 18-year-old barista Samantha Koenig.
Koenig's body was discovered beneath a sheet of ice on a frozen lake.
"We tried to ask him his different motivations and maybe Israel Keyes will be the only one who ever knows that, but at one point, he did respond to us on it wasn't why, but why not," Chief Criminal Investigator Kevin Feldis said.
As soon as he was in custody in Alaska, Keyes confessed almost immediately to the Koenig killing.
And when he did, investigators knew she wasn't the first person Keyes killed.
"He showed no remorse for what he had done. There appeared to be adrenaline to be in his body when he was telling us what he had done, but it wasn't a sense of remorse," Feldis explained.
A week later, they went back to Keyes to press him for information on other murders.
That's when he identified Bill and Lorraine Currier by name and confessed to killing them.
"We confronted him about the fact that we thought he had committed other crimes and other murders and talked to him about how he might want to be in control of how the story was ultimately told," Feldis said.
He detailed how he meticulously picked their house based on its easy-to-read layout and using Google maps to show investigators where he took the Essex couple to kill them, an abandoned farmhouse on Main Street in Essex.
"Obviously we could never comprehend the heinous acts committed by Israel Keyes, but for him it appeared he got some sort of a thrill out of what he did," Feldis said.
Keyes grew up in Washington state and told investigators he had a relatively happy childhood with several brothers and sisters.
He joined the military, but never was in combat.
When he got out, investigators believe he may have lived for several months on his property in constable, N.Y. before moving to Alaska.


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For some of us, turmeric is just another spice or condiment added to give curry its flavor. For me, it is a must-have skin food. Existing for ages, turmeric has been noted to have a lot of benefits and it is used in ancient medicine. Known for its anti-inflammatory property, turmeric is being used for treating arthritis, heartburn and pain.
In this post, I am going to provide info on how I use turmeric as a facial mask.
Because of its anti inflammatory effects, turmeric mask can help fight acne, eczema, rosacea and dark circles. Some dark circles were caused by disrupted blood vessels under the eye. Turmeric constricts blood vessels, reducing inflammation and redness.
Curcumin is the responsible chemical which gives turmeric its yellow color. It is also an antioxidant agent that helps fight free radical in our body. It is more potent than other antioxidants like vitamins C and E. Antioxidants prevent skin aging and formation of wrinkles. Leaving you with younger looking skin.
Turmeric can leave a yellow stain. Be sure to wear clothes that you no longer need. You can also use a salon cape to protect your clothes in case the mask drips. You should also do this if you don't have plans going out the following day. It can stain your face, which lasts for 2 days. In my case, it doesn't stain at all.
How to make turmeric mask?
In making the mask, you need the following ingredients:
- 1 tsp Turmeric
- As discussed earlier, it contains anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties
- 1 tsp Yogurt
- The same with turmeric, it has anti-inflammatory properties as well as antioxidants. It minimizes acne, wrinkles and pigmentation.
- It also acts as a moisturizer.
- 1 tsp Organic Honey
- It has anti-bacterial and anti-septic properties so it is helpful to broken skin. It also prevents breakout-causing bacteria from accumulating in your skin.
- Honey has pore-cleansing enzymes.
- Get a container and mix the ingredients together. If you want to brighten your skin, you can add a natural bleach such as lemon juice. I sometimes add olive oil to the mixture because it contains a lot of antioxidants.
2. Make sure that you get a paste that will stick to your face. Make sure that everything is mixed well and evenly. You don't want to see some white stuff and yellow powder when applying it.
Prep your skin!
Now, you want the mask to be as effective as possible. You need to make sure that you apply it to a clean face. Wash your face first with warm water. Warmth can dilate your blood vessels, which then facilitates faster absorption of the mask's nutrients.
After you have cleansed your face, get a facial spatula or a facial brush and evenly apply the mixture on your face. Be sure not to miss the spot under your eyes since you also want to get rid of dark circles. Be careful not to apply too much because it may drip and leave yellow stains.
Wait 20 mins or until it dries on your face. After, you can go ahead and rinse with tap water.
Now you can enjoy a soft, smooth and less inflamed face! 😀
Have you tried turmeric mask? Do you also have other natural, DIY mask that you can recommend? Let me know by leaving your comments! 🙂