The Forever War is coming
 

Just to make sure this gets a lot of exposure:
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080609-TMNT25th-02.html

:D

I think this is fantastic news! The Archie comics where the first comics I've read of the TMNT. And Chris Allan and Dean Clarrain are back too! :D

Huh-za! Finally, how long have we been waiting for this? I just wish it'd be in color, but beggers can't be choosers.

Aw man, it's creeping up on me!

I just finished completing my Archie collection but never got around to reading all the issues (I think I got sidetracked at #20 or so). Finishing my Ghost Rider collection distracted me.

I'd better get reading.

See I tell the people who've been waiting for 3 years for Ultimate Hulk vs Wolverine 3 to come out that they've got nothing on the 14 year wait for Forever War. I need a Tardis so I can travel to May 09!

Woot!! Less than a year for Future Turtles (the proper ones), Ninjara, Shredder, Armaggon (hopefully), Hitler's brain (maybe), Mezcaal (hopefully), Manx (no longer evil...remember that folks), Leo's students (everything's better with Monkeys...as Leo can attest since he's got a mutant baboon as one of his students. :lol:), April's Great-Granddaughter (no annoying Cody here! ), and of course environmental stuff that proves that Al Gore was right (cuz it can't be TMNT Adventures without at least one "If we don't save the environment we're doomed!" speach). :D

If you have yet to read through TMNT Adventures, you must do so NOW :D

Or yesterday... whichever came first.

I have all the specials and minis and annuals...the whole shabang. I was pretty thorough when I was collecting.

I'll just ignore the specials and annuals for now, since trying to figure out where they all fit into continuity would be really annoying (save for the Mutanimals mini, which I already read...not sure where each issue of the Mutanimals on-going fits in).

Heeyyy...maybe I'll write a guide as I read em all. Something a little more in-depth than the one at the official site (AKA, more than just issue summaries).

Hmmm...

The Mini-Series, Specials and Mutanimals Series usually tend to be seperate. Though, one issue of the Mutanimals Series does a cross-over with TMNT Adventures.

The 3 issue mini series of the mutanimals also continued a storyline used in the regular Archie series. And Raph was a guest star :)

Well yes, there is that. And the Mutanimals Main Series had a bit of build-up to the cross-over.

I read this earlier when I was at work and wanted to jump out of my chair!
I am just so glad we are getting to hear about the 25th anniversary and I am really excited about Forever War, I was actually working on the gaps in my archie collection recently and I have been re reading them.

That's awesome news, I can't wait!

I,too, have gotten into the Archie comic series and love it dearly, and I've been looking forward to this arc for a while.

It seems like such a long wait, but I know time will fly by so I'm not worried.

Oh man, sooo exciting :D

I was hoping they'd specify which issues would be in the trade. Hopefully mostly the later issues, because those seem to be the hardest to find.

The trade will contain issues that help tell the story of the forever war. Because the forever war contains the future turtles, it will be likely that the later issues will be in the trade. I'm guessing (and hoping) that the future shark trillogy will be included. In here, the future turtles make their first appearance. Pretty sweet! :D

The report pretty just confirmed what we all expected about the Archie trade(s); that they're gonna be in black and white.

Hopefully, the price will reflect the downgrade in presentation. I'll be pretty disappointed in Mirage if they demand $20 bucks or more for a collection of fifteen year-old comics, reprinted in black and white when they were originally in color. Unless maybe there's a dozen issues in the trade. Otherwise, they're just being cheap and gauging the audience.

Only complaint with me remains the lack of color in the Forever War stuff itself. Couldn't they just bend the rules this once, for this?

Murph and I tried, I offerd to color the entire series for free and Peter still said no.
He just doesn't feel that it's worth what it would cost.

Ah well. Sucks, but we shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth too close... he didn't have to greenlight this at all.