TMNT: Saturday Morning Adventures / Usagi Yojimbo One Shot

[Heyowakka]

Everything I can find says vol. 7 will have issues 22-26 in it, so no Usagi one shot… the Halloween special was in vol. 3 from the looks of it.

[Chaotix12345]

Yeah, they collected the Halloween Special. The only issues that they left out of them were the Usagi crossover and the Endless Summer one-shot. (Which is apparently being collected in the upcoming "On the Go" reprints of the series, so that's a double dip for me, I guess.)

[Heyowakka]

Heh. How wild would it be if we eventually started getting Saturday Morning Adventures IDW Hardcover collections?

[ToTheNines]

Something else they need to collect is “What About Tomorrow?” from the anniversary special. That’s a great short.

[Heyowakka]

Now that I think about it, it’s been about eight months since the last special issue (this one, in fact) hasn’t it?
I wonder why? Surely issue #32 could have been a Christmas special issue to go along with the Halloween one? And there are plenty of characters like April who would be fun to give a special to as well.
It’s just odd to me.

[ToTheNines]

Info is out about TPB volumes 7-9. They’re definitely skipping this.

[Heyowakka]

Well, that sucks donkey-biscuits. Guess I’ll stick to the floppies for the foreseeable future with the hope of a hardcover collection actually collecting everything in order some day buried deep.

[ToTheNines]

Yeah, it’s unfortunate. Plenty of people only read trades, so there’s a ton of fans out there that might not even know this exists, and it’s easily one of the best issues.

They will probably do an Ultimate Collection hardcover series with all the stories intended reading order, eventually. Hopefully it’s in there.

[CyberCubed]

I was going to ask, there's no huge omnibus of Saturday Morning Adventures yet, right? Just the small 4-issue tpb's so far?

Going to hold out on this till we get huge omnibus collections then.

[Chaotix12345]

Guessing it's a whole licensing thing. Hopefully, they'll be able to include it in the compact "On the Go" collections like the also-skipped Endless Summer one-shot. (Which presumably wasn't included in the main trades due to it being the only SMA book not written by Erik Burnham.)

[Heyowakka]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Yeah, it’s unfortunate. Plenty of people only read trades, so there’s a ton of fans out there that might not even know this exists, and it’s easily one of the best issues.

Oh, they’ll definitely know it exists since the special is referenced in issue #17.

Spoiler:

It’s been said a trillion times, but the people in charge of these trades have never really had their act together.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Heyowakka

Oh, they’ll definitely know it exists since the special is referenced in issue #17.

Spoiler:

https://i.imgur.com/n6mBxcG.jpeg

It’s been said a trillion times, but the people in charge of these trades have never really had their act together.

I’ll be damned, I missed that. So the Usagi Special has to take place between #16 and #17.

[Heyowakka]

I personally place it between issues 14 and 15, since the Drago mentions the Pantheon spent months researching the turtles after Rat Queen brought them to attention at the end of 14, that gives a nice long timeframe for Usagi’s adventure to take place in.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Heyowakka

I personally place it between issues 14 and 15, since the Drago mentions the Pantheon spent months researching the turtles after Rat Queen brought them to attention at the end of 14, that gives a nice long timeframe for Usagi’s adventure to take place in.

Yes, you’re definitely right. That fits way better and is closer to release order. I don’t know why I thought Ogg-lympics led directly into Enter the Pantheon.

[Chaotix12345]

The crossover is finally being collected! Like I hoped, it'll be included in the second "On the Go" compact collection.

Happy to finally get this in trade form, even though it'll involve a bit of double-dipping on my part. (At least these volumes are a bit cheaper than the regular ones.)

[Heyowakka]

I came here to say that I just learned that the Usagi crossover is at least being printed in the On the Go! trades, but Chaotix12345 beat me to it by months and the forum didn’t even bother to let me know!
Still a pipe dream, but hopefully someday there’ll be a hardcover for SMA. Wishful thinking, but it’d make me happy. No matter what happens and no matter how many different versions of the characters I enjoy, these will always be my turtles at the end of the day.

[AlZarkovski]

Originally Posted by Heyowakka

Still a pipe dream, but hopefully someday there’ll be a hardcover for SMA. Wishful thinking, but it’d make me happy.

Yes, the people of Russia are a little luckier in this regard.

Spoiler:

[ToTheNines]

Man, you damn Russians got it made over there for reprints. This, all of Mirage in nice chronological hardcovers…

Your Archie run collections are probably way better than ours, and I’m willing to bet have been out for quite some time. We have another 2 years to get to #72/YotT.