Usagi Yojimbo/TMNT: The Complete Collection Announced!

[AlZarkovski]

Spoiler:

The complete Usagi Yojimbo / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle story collection!

Comics master Stan Sakai has been curating crossover stories between his creation, Usagi Yojimbo, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for decades, and now every one of those stories is collected in one place! This beautiful tome is the perfect addition for any Usagi Yojimbo or TMNT fan!

While Usagi Yojimbo embarks on the warrior's pilgrimage throughout Edo-era Japan, using his samurai skills to help those in need, four teenage brothers in a half shell from the sewers of New York City protect their home from crime utilizing their ninja capabilities. Both fighting for good and prevailing over evil, it's only fitting that they meet up and join forces.

Paperback: 132 pages
Publisher: Dark Horse Books (October 9, 2018 )
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1506709508
ISBN-13: 978-1506709505

https://www.amazon.com/Usagi-Yojimbo...=ninja+turtles

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Nice!

Glad I haven't bothered to pick up a trade of the TMNT/Usagi IDW story yet... this will be a much better addition to the shelf.

[CyberCubed]

Does this include the Peter Laird drawn Usagi crossover, or just Stan Sakai's?

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Does this include the Peter Laird drawn Usagi crossover, or just Stan Sakai's?

It doesn't say, but I'm willing to bet it does.

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Does this include the Peter Laird drawn Usagi crossover, or just Stan Sakai's?

I didn't doubt it would. Now that you brought it up I'm questioning wheter or not I should buy that edition coming out this week.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by neatoman

I didn't doubt it would. Now that you brought it up I'm questioning wheter or not I should buy that edition coming out this week.

I'd wait. I actually held off on getting the previous editions because I didn't want to double dip if something better came along later. I'm not a huge Usagi fan, so I could wait.

[Powder]

If this really is ALL of them, then count me in.

[CyberCubed]

The listing is 132 pages so can't we figure it out? The recent IDW crossover was 40 pages, wasn't it? And a lot of the old Mirage crossovers were only like 10 pages each.

What else could be there besides sketch pages or stuff?

[DevilSpooky]

Paperback only?

[Andrew NDB]

Wait, so Dark Horse is putting this out?

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Wait, so Dark Horse is putting this out?

Makes me wonder if IDW and Dark Horse entered into a "we publish one, you publish one" agreement kinda like how IDW and DC have handled the various Batman/TMNT crossovers.

[TurtleWA]

This looks cool! Hopefully it offers something unique though. I’ve been wanting to get into reading more Usagi. Thinking about picking up the collected editions. I’m not sure why I would get this though. I think most of the TMNT stories are already collected in the currently available Usagi stuff. And I have the IDW crossover already. Hmm.

[Leebo]

At only 132 pages this is going to look small compared to the other books in this series, the previous volumes are all 500 or more pages. Maybe this is just the first of several smaller books for usagi.

[Nortock Diab]

We can expect :

- Turtle Soup vol.1 #1 short-story (Turtle Soup and Rabbit Stew)
[4 pages]

- Peter Laird Usagi Yojimbo vol.2 #10 back-up story (The Crossing)
[8 pages]

- Shell Shock TPB short story (The Treaty)
[6 pages]

- Usagi Yojimbo vol2. #1-3 (Shades of Green)
[3*20 pages]

- Recent crossover TMNT/Usagi Yojimbo (Namazu, or the Big Fish Story)
[~40 pages]

- Possible crossover pin-ups (one from the early days from Donatello Micro-series #1 and one from Tales vol.2 #25)

Regarding The Crossing, Stan Sakai would have said :
"Namazu will be printed in color but the other stories will be b/w. There may be some color pin-ups, but I'm not sure. The only story that readers may not be familiar with is The Crossing by Peter Laird, which, to my knowledge, has not been reprinted since it was published in Fantagraphics' UY #10."

To be confirmed, I was told of this and couldn't find where he would have said that.

[Mayhem]

The above came straight from Stan's mouth himself, so you can trust it

[Nortock Diab]

I bet you are the one who sent me this quote on Facebook .
Did Stan say this on Facebook as well? I would be curious to read the whole thread.
Thanks!

[Nortock Diab]

I did not notice the introduction by Peter Laird!
That's a really nice addition .

[Shargor]

According to Dark Horse, the book will include 1987’s “Turtle Soup and Rabbit Stew,” 1988’s “The Crossing,” 1989’s “The Treaty” 1992’s “Shades of Green” and “Namazu,” published in 2017 by TMNT license-holder IDW Publishing. It’s also said to include bonus material by Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai.

Officially confirmed: https://www.cbr.com/usagi-yojimbo-te...up-collection/

[Allio]

so aside from the Turtle Soup/Rabbit stew in the Namazu hard cover collection what else has been collected recently?

Or was that it?

[DrSpengler]

Originally Posted by Allio

so aside from the Turtle Soup/Rabbit stew in the Namazu hard cover collection what else has been collected recently?

Or was that it?

From what I can tell, there are four major editions of this thing.

1) Original floppy one-shot, just containing Namazu (from IDW)

2) Hardcover version of one-shot, containing Namazu and Turtle Soup & Rabbit Stew (IDW)

3) Special Edition hardcover of one-shot, containing Namazu, Turtle Soup & Rabbit Stew, and The Treaty (IDW)

4) TMNT/Usagi trade paperback that this thread is about containing Namazu, Turtle Soup, The Crossing, the Treaty, and Shades of Green 1-3 (Dark Horse)

Jeez. I liked the story and all, but these releases, all in rapid succession, all containing just a liiiiiiiittle bit more than the last release, really milked the hell out of things. I kinda like that Dark Horse cut IDW off at the pass and just released an edition with EVERY TMNT/Usagi crossover in it.

Otherwise, we probably could've looked forward to IDW putting out the Super Special Edition, featuring Namazu, Turtle Soup, The Treaty, and the Crossing, followed a month later by the Super Duper Special Edition, featuring Namazu, Turtle Soup, The Treaty, The Crossing and Shades of Green Part 1, followed two months later by the Hyper Super Duper Special Edition, featuring...

You can see where I'm going with this.