Originally Posted by CyberCubed (Post 2024431)

Also you can all thank me for IDW putting out Tales V. 2 trades and continuing the Archie trades, last year I sold my entire Tales 70+ issue collection on ebay and all my Archie issues, in the hope IDW would reprint them soon in modern collections. I somehow worked my magic.

Originally Posted by ToTheNines (Post 2024391)

I feel like Tales vol. 1 has been collected and reprinted enough. They should have left those out, stopped at Tales #18 and called this “Tales of the TMNT: The Mirage Years 2004-2005” and stuck with that format until they hit 2010.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed (Post 2024431)

Also you can all thank me for IDW putting out Tales V. 2 trades and continuing the Archie trades, last year I sold my entire Tales 70+ issue collection on ebay and all my Archie issues, in the hope IDW would reprint them soon in modern collections. I somehow worked my magic.

Originally Posted by ToTheNines (Post 2024462)

This is a waste of time, but I was deeply pondering this on my nightly dog walk. They could have came out something like this:

Second book "Tales of the TMNT: The Mirage Years 2006-2007". #19-#41 and Raphael: Bad Moon Rising. 27 issues.

Third book "Tales of the TMNT: The Mirage Years 2008-2009". #42-#65 and Michelangelo: The Third Kind. 28 issues.

Fourth and final book "Tales of the TMNT: The Mirage Years 2010-Infinity" #66-70 and then you have to start playing around and getting creative. Donatello: The Brain Thief was late '09, but include that and you're at 9 issues.

Tales 71/"The Paradox of Chudnovsky" makes 10.

Eastman's "Ready, Set, Go" and Lawson's "Night of the Ninja Girl" for the 30th anniversary are a combined 11 pages.

"Monsters", "Gang Wars" and "Old Scores" from the 40th anniversary are a combined 24 pages.

That's still pretty light, so there would have to be a ton of bonus content, but that could be cool. Maybe include the 2007 prequel comics and adaptation? Not Mirage continuity, but an interesting forgotten relic that was written and drawn by the Tales Vol.2 bullpen.

Then instead of leading with Tales Vol. 1, close this one out with the Treasury Edition version with the new frontpieces and of course top it off with that epilogue of old man Donatello putting on the Coltrane record.

The end.



Thank you.

Originally Posted by rs_jr (Post 2024518)

You think if they do the image years that they might do them in black and white

Originally Posted by ToTheNines (Post 2024522)

I do. They did Volume 2 in its original colors and this Tales Omnibus is black & white.

The Sourcebook could be fun. I don’t know how much work was actually done, but I’m sure Tristan would be willing to continue where he left off.

Originally Posted by ToTheNines (Post 2024391)

Back to reality, “Spinal Tapped” is an interesting inclusion. Perhaps the final volume will include the Treasury Edition epilogue. It is one of the most important pieces of Mirage, but would kind of be missing context without those new frontpieces. We’ll see.

Originally Posted by DrSpengler (Post 2024680)

When I saw "Spinal Tapped" in the content list, I had the same thought. That exclusive content from the Tales Treasury Edition has been some of the rarest and most sought after Mirage stuff for over a decade.

While a part of me can't underestimate IDW's ineptitude and I can't put it past them to miss the new Frontispieces and Epilogue from the Tales Treasury (or to include the Epilogue without the new Frontispieces, which really seems like something they'd do), they've been surprising me a bit lately with some of their deep dives into the Mirage catalog. Like stories from the Mirage Mini Comic Collection getting reprinted. Or "The Paradox of Chudnovsky" popping up in that Best of Renet collection (with no fanfare, like they somehow both did and didn't know how rare that story was).

Originally Posted by DrSpengler (Post 2024680)

Or "The Paradox of Chudnovsky" popping up in that Best of Renet collection (with no fanfare, like they somehow both did and didn't know how rare that story was).

Originally Posted by rs_jr (Post 2024692)

Maybe you could approach them to hire to consult on these collection.

Originally Posted by ToTheNines (Post 2024522)

I do. They did Volume 2 in its original colors and this Tales Omnibus is black & white.

The Sourcebook could be fun. I don’t know how much work was actually done, but I’m sure Tristan would be willing to continue where he left off.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed (Post 2028096)

Any updates?