Much Speculation, now... confirmation
 

#8 will be reprinted in all it's Cerebus-y glory in this year's collected edition/omnibus/book thingy. So says Dan!

You da man, Tristan! Thanks for giving us the confirmation!

Woohoo! That's kicks tons of ass! I wonder if #8 will go up on the website.

Glad they could work things out, if that's what happend.
Also glad you decided to come back Trist! ;)

Sweet. Not that I don't already own the issue, but its nice to see Laird step down off his high horse even in the slightest.

Didn't they already have Lawson redraw the issue, though? Wasn't it printed in some Spanish collection a year or so ago?

I wonder if we'll ever see that version, if only out of morbid curiosity.

I have a scanned copy of the Spanish version (the redraw) if someone can host it/translate it, I could supply it.

Thanks V, I'll be in from time to time. Moving around a lot these days with lots on my plate, but if things come up like this, you guys'll be the first to know.

I'm still deciding if I'm bothering to buy these re-issue trades since I have them in color and the original b/w trades.

This was the right thing to do.

Well, if the sales figures on this are good then the likelihood of City At War being collected is higher. I know it sounds like some sort of blackmail situation, but from what I've been hearing around the traps, this year really is a big push for the comics, and if things don't go well this year... well... there might not be a next. Right now everything is hinging on sales, especially with the cartoon wrapping up.

In this case, a little advertising couldn't hurt...

I hardly ever saw Turtle Toy adds on TV outside of the Fox Box. One 25th anniversary add, for the comics, old show DVD's, new show DVD's and new movie shown on all the channels couldn't exactly hurt things.

How many folks even knew there was a Volume 4 outside of comic geeks, let alone the new TV series?

If they want to be serious about sales, they'll put the TPBs in bookstores. Period.

Agreed. I think sales would be so much higher if at least one TPB were released in stores.

Everyone knows this, but the dealing's been done. I don't know when the contract expires or what the agreement Gary made entails, but I'd say there's slim chances of it appearing in bookstores unless something drastic happens between now and DCD's ordering period. Unfortunately the only thing I can suggest is people making sure they get orders in at the comic shops.

YAY. Now to see if It'll also include Fugitiod 1. Just for the fun of it.

You know, I've always been mad fugitiod didn't get his own series..

"The Dealing" would've gotten Gary arrested if he'd done it at a publicly traded company, whether your talking about the Master Book License or his decision not to sell to bookstores directly.

I'll be supporting this, but the fact is that Gary needs to go.

I plan on buying them if only for this fact. I also really, really want to see Volumes 2 and 4 be collected.

Abso-freaking-lutely. Imagine a casual reader coming to see whats up with Batman, only to see "Hey, there's a TMNT comic book!" and be exposed to the Mirage universe. The TMNT need that.

Word.

Gary isn't just a selfish low-life; he's an evil, evil man.

At this point, given the day to day of mirage is Gary and most of the direction is Gary, I'm actually wondering if someone he's talked to is looking to "aquire" the turtles once mirage is in bad enough shape.

If this and the Universe Guidebook (which I was told is clocking in at 184 pages!) went to bookstores then it'd be a major boost for the comics, but as I said, unless something happens quicksmart then it probably isn't going to happen :(

Volume 2 really does need to be collected, as do more stories from Vol.1.

If it were up to me, I'd be putting select issues of Tales together as well. For instance, all of Dan's Leatherhead stuff, all the City at War stuff, all the Pre-TMNT stuff, all the Vol. 2 stuff, etc.

It'd be cool to see the Vol 4 related Tales stories slotted in with Vol. 4 when/if it does get collected.

This really creates curiousity. So what exactly is Gary's role with the tmnt, and why so much hate?

Well, Gary definitely knows the company is starting to nose dive and is making selfish decisions that are not in the best interest of the company in order to secure is own personal financial cushion as much as possible. I don't know what Gary would gain from the company being sold, though; Peter owns it 100%. And Peter has to be the only person on the planet dense enough to think Gary's going a good job, so a new boss would surely fire Gary immediately. Although I'm sure he'd find a way to give himself a comfortable retirement if such a deal ever happened. Of course, no one else employed at Mirage would share in such benefit.