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Mirage 42 47.19%
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Old 01-16-2016, 06:40 PM   #1
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Mirage vs IDW (part Uno)

you know what, let's do it. let's have a vote of which was better between Mirage and IDW...though for this, it will only be part 1 of both series (Vol 1. Mirage vs Up to 50 of IDW)
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Old 01-16-2016, 06:42 PM   #2
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IDW started off slow, but by their first fight with Shredder I saw sold. Beyond RTNY I don't care for Mirage. In other words IDW wins this handily for me.
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Old 01-16-2016, 07:57 PM   #3
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I have to go with Mirage Volume 1.

IDW might be more consistently good, but the Eastman and Laird issues alone are the absolute pinnacle of TMNT to me.

That said, IDW is quite enjoyable and I've just begun rereading it today (read issue 1 earlier).
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Old 01-16-2016, 08:22 PM   #4
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Mirage, the origin of the Turtles... Eastman & Laird together. The more mature look of their Turtles (& most of the others drawing them in the later issues)...

IDW is a great read and a great mishmash of all previous incarnations, but it wouldn't be without Mirage.
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Old 01-16-2016, 08:53 PM   #5
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If we're speaking as a whole, IDW, but in terms of the best Mirage stories (#1-11, Return to New York, City at War, and maybe of the one-shots), than Mirage.
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Old 01-16-2016, 10:18 PM   #6
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If we're speaking as a whole, IDW, but in terms of the best Mirage stories (#1-11, Return to New York, City at War, and maybe of the one-shots), than Mirage.
He doesn't do it often, but by all that's holy, Cubed spoke MY EXACT OPINION. It's bizarre.

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Maybe Cubed is me from a parallel reality.
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Old 01-18-2016, 06:16 PM   #7
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Wow Allio, you really are a mad scientist. I just can't vote. I can't do it.
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Old 01-18-2016, 08:03 PM   #8
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Mirage, the Volume 1 stuff is just perfect TMNT.

I really liked IDW a lot in the beginning. Now I'm not as into it. Before it was a new take on the TMNT that I really dug. Now it is like they're trying to make a PG-13 version of the Nick toon.The art has gotten softer. Hoping that it starts getting darker with harsher artwork...if that makes any sense.
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Old 01-18-2016, 08:27 PM   #9
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Now it is like they're trying to make a PG-13 version of the Nick toon.The art has gotten softer. Hoping that it starts getting darker with harsher artwork...if that makes any sense.
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Old 01-19-2016, 09:41 PM   #10
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Besides that, you have to admit there was a lot of fluffy stuff before that. There was only 2 times that it went dark.

Mikey is way more OT style now. Before he was slightly funny, but not goofy, like he is now.

Duncan's early art had a Mirage vibe to it. It seems like a lot of the art now is very close to the Nick toon.
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Old 01-19-2016, 09:49 PM   #11
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The only stuff I'd consider somewhat cute would be Sophie's work, but the book hardly suffered for it (quite the opposite, for me). That style was perfectly suited to the mood/tone of it's time. Mikey's been like that since the beginning, I'd know because I used to ride Tom's ass about it off the jump. Like, the guy was just born & he's already talking like a bro & playing Game-Gear. The art itself is not close to the Nick toon at all, it's just that the turtles themselves have similar designs. Besides, that's not the case across the board. Ken Garing's stuff, the various crossovers, there have been more 'old school' looking turtles along the way. Even so, having a Nick inspired aesthetic hasn't prevented the art itself from being wonderfully detailed, or violent, it's the same as it's ever been in those respects. I don't really see the neutering you speak of.
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Old 01-25-2016, 07:41 AM   #12
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I think limiting Mirage to only Vol. 1 in this poll is unfair. Personally, I just can't find much in the guest issues that I would consider very good. I think excluding those and replacing them with Vol. 2 and Tales Vol. 1 makes for a much better comparison. Since we're only comparing Vol. 1 against IDW, I have to go with IDW.
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Old 01-19-2016, 01:11 AM   #13
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Wow, that's a very close poll. 19 - 18 with Mirage winning as I write this. Great testament for IDW, they're doing awesome things with the book. I did vote Mirage, I have a great love for those stories.
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Old 01-19-2016, 05:35 AM   #14
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My mind says IDW but my heart says Mirage. gotta go with Mirage
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Old 01-19-2016, 06:47 AM   #15
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Mirage anytime but not the guess era
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Old 01-19-2016, 12:00 PM   #16
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i had to vote Mirage Vol. 1, but both comic series are awesome!!!

reading some people's opinions on the subject... there are some very "interesting" points of view out there!!!
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Old 01-19-2016, 05:09 PM   #17
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IDW, but only by the slimmest of margins.

I guess what it really boiled down to was how I feel like IDW made sure that every central character felt fully realized, and still had a good deal of energy left over to roll over to secondary characters like Hob, Stockman, Angel, Slash and so on. Even Eastman & Laird admitted that while Leo, Raph and Don got their fair share of development, it took a while for Mikey to really get up to speed and stop being an auxiliary character who played off of his bros. And he was part of the main four!

Still, Volume 1 is still very much a classic. And there's nothing changing that!
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Old 09-17-2018, 08:33 PM   #18
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IDW, due to quality control preventing us from getting “Spaced Out”, Volume 4 issue 22, or the Flaming Carrot Crossover. For mixing elements so well it feels truly definitive. For the exciting new twists and turns, yet avoiding feeling as hackneyed as the Big Two.
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