TMNT Adventures
 

So, this topic needs revived I think.

This ran for 72 issues right? I have a few of them, but what is the huge drawback on the trades from IDW?

Is it just coloring issues? I remember some great complaining about something.

I've been debating on tracking down all the issues or just going for trades.

The IDW Archie trades skipped about 5 issues in the middle because it dealt with Middle Eastern religion and had a page about Mohammed drawn. For some reason they didn't want to reprint those issues because of the religious overtones, so you would have to get those in single issues.

Okay cool. Thanks for that.

I understand why they didn't reprint some of those I guess. Not trying to be political at all, but I just get it personally.

Thanks!

I'd be interested to know actually which Mirage comics or stories have IDW skipped for the trades.

Anything by Rick Veitch, the Moo Mesa crossover (so far) and some shorter stories that didn't fit into full issues. Basically anything before the Image series that isn't in the copyright swamp has been reprinted.

They have included the Mutanimals 3-issue mini in the correct location (around issue 20 of TMNTA) and have also included 1 or 2 issues of the Mutanimals series where appropriate (though more would have been better). They recently included some Mutanimals backup stories in the correct locations as well. Finally, they have done a decent job of keeping story arcs within the same book, even if it has resulted in some inconsistent trade sizes (some 6 issues, some 5, some 4).

Sidenote: Don't ever apologize for touching a political topic. The discussion of ideas in a society is one of our dearest civil rights/responsibilities.

I was thinking more of a list of stories left out but thanks for that info anyway. :)

My unfiltered honest thoughts:

Our liberal culture scoffs at the notion of censorship just so long as nobody is threatening to blow up anything over it. Then everybody caves and says, "we can't do that!"

I abhor censorship. But IDW is a privately owned company and can print or omit whatever they want, for whatever reason they see fit. Don't like it? Don't buy their stuff.

That's just my point! I can't buy it if they won't print it!

I mean if you don't like how they run their business, don't support them at all.

It has nothing to do with IDW. They'd reprint all that stuff in a heartbeat if they were allowed to.

I think it had less to do with the loony fringe, and more to do with the fact that it's disrespectful to peaceful adherents.

Technically, Christians are supposed to be as against graven images as well.

Oh... Nick...

Again: don't like it? Feel free to not buy it.

If I'd have known then what I know now, I probably wouldn't have.
The issue lives bagged and boarded in one of my many long boxes, forever a reminder of a time when people were way less culturally savvy in their efforts to be inclusive.

So all the issues With Al'Falqa is not reprinted? Pretty weaksauce, I liked that guy.

Seems more sensible to just edit that iirc one panel of a guy in a turban that's supposed to be Muhammed then don't publish the storyline at all.

They skipped 6 issues, including the one they return to Stump Asteroid to fight in their wrestling costumes again. And that issue had no reason to be skipped at all.

Honestly? I'd prefer they either print it unedited with commentary, not unlike what Warner Bros has done to address issues with their older works, than have it reprinted edited in some way.

If the option is edited or no reprint, I'll take the no reprint option.

That part probably is IDW. Probably went like this:

IDW shows an issue of Adventures to Nick.

"Can we reprint this?"

"No."

"Oh, OK."

And it's just left at that.

Steve Murphy did bold (yet tasteful) work back in the day... and wisely used a nom de plume!