IDW Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Color Classics #1
 

From the previews today!:D I'm loving the cover.



Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird (w) • Eastman, Laird (a & c)
Relive the exciting origins of TMNT, this time in all-new full-color comics! This is where world-wide Turtle mania started! Detailing the entire origin of the Turtles and their first fateful encounter with the Foot Clan and the Shredder! This is your chance to get in on the ground floor of the entire Mirage Studios experience, with the most successful independent comic of all time. Don't miss it!
FC • 40 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
¥ The original series is back, this time in COLOR!

http://i39.tinypic.com/14k9wnm.jpg

Oh boy, ANOTHER reprint of the first issue.

Is Eastman doing the color this time around?

Nope. Notice the colorist's signature right next to Eastman's on that cover.

All together now: YAAAAAY!!

(still gonna buy it...)

Yeah, I'll probably have to flip through it and see if anything entices me to buy it up again.

I already own it in at least six different incarnations, which is probably on the low end among most TMNT fans on this Forum.

Ah, my bad. I just saw a&c next to Eastman (and Laird's) name and thought he might be doing it himself. I'll be curious to see how it compares to the first two attempts to officially colorized this issue.

Wait, so this isn't the same colored version from 2009?

I'll... have to get this, if it's an all new coloring job. I don't know why, but I feel this strange urge to see how the coloring was done THIS time around (it'll be the third colorization of #1 of it is a new job).

I'm a sucker.

Ah, Spengs, you can always justify the purchase by saying its "for the blog" and thus, "for the fans!"

After all, you do need to write a "Mirage TMNT#1 through its various reprintings" Feature Article.

I wouldn't say that. TMNT Vol 1 Issue 1 is the one #1 Turtles-wise I don't own. I don't even have a collected book that contains it.

Oh man. Everytime, I say to myself "this is the last time you buy this comic". But then it's not. I'm helpless.

You don't even have the free comic book day printing?

The only copy I have is digital.

Yeah, noticed the sig on the front, so not Lavigne's work then. Still have to find that colour edition myself, for a decent price at least. Have the graphic novels though. Did it say when it was due for release?

I believe it's due to be out in May.

Am I interpreting it right that this is a series that will reprint Vol. 1 issues in colour?

If that's the case I could actualy be on board with this. Although it kinda makes the IDW series a more than a little redundant.

No it doesn't. It's like apples and oranges.

I don't even know how many versions of the first issue I now own :tlol:

Still going to buy this when it comes out though :tgrin:

Yes, they will be doing the others in color. I'm not sure how many. And regarding the IDW series being ''redundant'', are you serious? I take it you don't read the comics.

I've always found that an odd phrase. They are both fruits so hardly the objects to highlight the major differences between two things.

I count myself as a big follower of the turtles in comic form. After a late start I've caught up with all the IDW issues bar the latest. Thus I feel comfortable enough to comment.

Despite the new twists it looks like the upcoming issues will cover the same ground as the early Vol. 1 issues. Mousers, Splinter kidnapped, Leo ambushed by Foot etc. Now we have the original version of the stories being released at the same time. In a way it's kinda neat but in another it does make one redundant.

Using that logic, the 4Kids series was redundant because it told the same stories as the comics, and also the 1st movie.

Good point but the 4kids series was not airing at the same time as the stories some of those episodes were based on were published.

Not to mention the 4kids series and the movies were designed to be watched by a larger and very different audience to those that had read the comics.

Here we've got two similar stories being published around the same time and in the same medium. You coiuld argue this would've happened anyway with The Ultimate Collection but that would be more expensive and being black and white would put a lot off so wouldn't step on the monthly book's toes.

And... here it is.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...1237346157.jpg

I already own all of Vol.1 so buying this would double up that series, which would be nice to have in color. However I don't know if I can talk my wife into letting me get this, she will raise the very valid point saying "don't you already own this?".

Bobby, Tom, someone, anyone, please help convince her that I need these!

Also, I am curious if these will reprint the letter columns or have new ones....

-ms

Will this new color classics series print each issue in order, I wonder? Or will it jump around a bit like the Collections?

The stories are different enough, though. If anything's redundant it's the colorized Mirage stuff, as they have been released before, and are even being released by IDW in the Ultimate Collections (though in black and white).

I will totally be picking this up as well as the issues that follow it.

I'd personaly prefer they were a little discerning about which issues they print but I could live with them printing all the issues in the order they were published.

I see your point but hopefully they reach "Return To New York". Who wouldn't want that done in colour? There's tons of Mirage stories from "Masks" to "Shades of Grey" and "City At War" that would be great to be available to a mass audience in the more appealing colour package.

Here's to hoping they skip the Hedden/McWeeny stuff (as well as a few others).

Not really liking the acid trip color job on the cover though, hopefully it's not indicative of what the interiors will look like.

Me. The color would take too much away from the fu*king stellar inking jobs by Pete, Talbot and Kevin. They set the tone for each of their respective issues brilliantly.

Other stories would look really good in color though. "Masks" like you said. That would be the one I'd most like to see colored.

Crazy thought... if this is somehow super successful and they continue, wouldn't it be wild to see Volume 2 in black and white? I'd buy the SH*T out of that.

Also, I think the Image run would look good colored.

A whole series of issues in color, eh?

Yeah, I'm down with that. The First Comics collections petered off into "Easter pastel" territory and I didn't care much for them, so I'd like to see a "do-over" on those issues.

After this comes out maybe I will do an article at TMNT Entity regarding the three different color jobs. I don't own enough printings of the black and white to do a proper edition comparison. For *that* article I'd need to buy the PBBZ reprint and my answer to that is NEVER!

Anyway, I'm excited for this. This is something I doubt I would have bought in trade form, but as a monthly release I'm oddly titilated. Dunno why.

Am I the only one disappointed by this? Instead of IDW putting out a new monthly series, like IDW's versions of Tales of the TMNT, we're already getting rereleases of stuff from the ultimate collection.

I know color is interesting to some, but what about the Archie and Image reprints we're all dying for? I'd hate to see low sales of this project wind up killing any hope of Archie and Image releases.

Oh, yeah, I'm crushed! I mean, we're only getting what... four different TMNT issues in the month of March?

:twink:

Also... *ahem*.
HT: Toby Barrett

Eh... I'll flip through it inside the shop. Not really interested right now in getting it. Eastman's coloring of the issue is the only one that matters. :p

Still, it might be fun to chalk up another issue to the #1 comparison scans:

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Wet blanket time: Anyone think they'll be crazy enough to... you know... ;)

No. No. No. That is not something any of us have to worry about. They would not insult the source material like that.

Just thought I'd put it out there, because I'm evil.

To which the correct response is "No hon, I don't. These are in color and released by IDW, not black and white from Mirage." :twink:

im excited !

Egggg-xactly! Besides, it's only $4.

If you're evil I'm Satan in the flesh. I brought it up immediately after hearing about their plans to color the OG stuff.

I was trying to remember what was being discussed when I heard that originally...

Hmmmm, now I know why you two are ''Team Red''.... I'm on to you two...