Pizza Nightmare! is a Fleetway comic, published in TMHT Adventures #61 in May, 1992.
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A battle is about to begin on the streets of New York City – Turtles against Geeks! Shredder orders Bebop and Rocksteady to attack, but the Turtles don’t wait, they charge forward to meet their enemies. Donatello trips up Bebop with his bō and Michaelangelo ducks under Rocksteady’s laser blast, before head butting the rhino. Rocksteady falls in front of Shredder who trips over him. Raphael shouts at Shredder to give up and throws a sai at him. However, Shredder uses his sword to deflect the sai, so Leonardo rushes to Raph’s aid and confronts the metal faced menace.
Leo swings his katana and knocks the sword from Shredder’s hand. Unfortunately, the sword flies straight at Mikey’s head. Mikey’s only choice is to dive out of the way and hits head first into some very full trash cans. Shredder sees that the other Turtles are rushing to the unconscious Mikey’s aid and uses the opportunity to escape. Raph says that Mikey doesn’t look well and appears to be in dreamland.
His voice echoes in Mikey’s head. His dreams fill with images of Splinter, his brothers, the Technodrome, the city, April O'Neil, Shredder, Footbots and the two mutant menaces. Then Mikey’s eyes slowly open and he wonders where he is. A smell waifs past him, one he recognizes. Mikey suddenly realizes he’s surrounded by pizza – pizza trees, pizza rocks, pizza everything. He has somehow travelled to a Pizza Planet. Mikey proceeds to start eating whatever he can grab and is soon flat on his shell in a pizza stupor.
Suddenly, someone asks him what he’s doing and Mikey answers that he’s enjoying his favorite food. He then wants to know who’s asking. He looks up to see a group of angry Pizza People. One of them yells that eating their planet is not allowed and Mikey must be punished. Mikey tries to explain that he didn’t know eating pizza was wrong, but is told that excuses are not allowed either. Then the Pizza Person shouts for the Pizza People to seize Mikey. Since they won’t listen to him, Mikey decides to martial art them and proceeds to battle the Pizza People. He soon has them all lying flat on the ground and decides to leave with a snack. However, when he turns, he finds himself confronted by another group of Pizza People.
This time there are too many of them for him to fight. The Pizza General orders he be brought with them so that Mikey can suffer for his crimes. Soon they have Mikey trussed hand and feet to a long pole and march him into Pizza City. All Mikey can think about is that he’s hungry again, so when Pizza People begin throwing chunks of pizza at him, he’s grateful and tells them to keep it up. The Pizza General tells him to be warned because his next stop is Pizza Court.
The next thing he knows, Mikey is standing in the docks before Judge D.P. Pan at Pizza Court. Mikey notes that everything in the room, even the furniture, is made of pizza. The Judge orders silence and turns to the Pizza People of the Jury, telling them that Mikey was caught eating pizza and is clearly guilty. Mikey asks what about ‘innocent until proven guilty’? The Judge once more shouts for silence and then asks if the jury has reached a verdict. The head juror says that they have and find the accused very, very guilty indeed. After this pronouncement, the Judge says that he will now pass sentence. For crimes against ‘pizzamanity’, he orders Mikey to be pizzared.
Deciding he doesn’t like the sound of that, Mikey starts eating his way out of the dock. The Judge calls for the guards to stop him, so they fire their weapons, hitting Mikey full on with pizza toppings – one weapon being filled with fudge ice cream and the other with banana jelly. Mikey is pulled to his feet by the guards and taken to a room where a giant pan of pizza mix is sitting. The Judge explains that being ‘pizzared’ means Mikey gets throw in to the pan. Mikey tries to resist and manages to push the guards away, but the Judge shoves him into the pan. Delighted, the Judge welcomes Michaelangelo, former Turtle… now a Pizza Person. Mikey climbs out of the vat and finds that his body is now made of pizza. He screams for help, saying he wants to eat pizza, not be one. Mikey begins calling the other three Turtles, pleading with them to get him out of this!
Leonardo sets a calming hand on Mikey’s shoulder as he comes to in the lair. His brothers help him to his feet and Raph explains that they carried him back to the lair when he was knocked out. Mikey tells them he had a nightmare that he was on a Pizza Planet, going on to tell the entire experience and how he became one of the Pizza People. Don comments that it’s enough to put him off pizza for life. In an aside to Don, Leo says that luckily they are out of pizza. But then, Splinter and April walk in carrying several boxes of takeaway pizza. Mikey has stepped out of the room and the other three Turtles rush to Splinter and April and tell them to take the food back because Mikey’s anti-pizza at the moment. However, Mikey comes rushing forward and grabs one of the boxes off the stack that April is carrying. Leo says he doesn’t understand because he thought Mikey would hate pizza now. Mikey responds that there is not a chance of that – it would take more than a nightmare to ruin his appetite.