IDW Vol. 2 hardcore "The Mirage Years" (1993-1995) announced

[CyberCubed]

Looks like Vol. 2 is getting a proper hardcover collection next year, following the completion of the Vol. 1 compendiums:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D72JW6R4...s%2C142&sr=8-2



"After the original 62-issue run of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mirage continued the series with a new #1 in 1993 and it ran for 13 issues in total. This 13-issue run by TMNT veteran Jim Lawson is now known as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. 2.

Picking up after the events of “City At War" (collected in TMNT Compendium Vol. 3), Donatello and Splinter recuperate in Northampton while the rest of the Turtles are in New York City with April. Meanwhile, Baxter Stockman wreaks havoc in the desert at a top secret facility known as D.A.R.P.A. As the family drifts apart a killer robot controlled by Stockman has April in its sights and the boys have to come together to fight it off!"


Since they already put out the Image series in trades (although maybe they'll re-release that too?), and we know we're getting new Archie collections...hopefully after this we can FINALLY get Vol. 4 and Tales V. 2 trades.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Looks like Vol. 2 is getting a proper hardcover collection next year, following the completion of the Vol. 1 compendiums:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D72JW6R4...s%2C142&sr=8-2

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/...L._SL1500_.jpg

"After the original 62-issue run of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mirage continued the series with a new #1 in 1993 and it ran for 13 issues in total. This 13-issue run by TMNT veteran Jim Lawson is now known as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. 2.

Picking up after the events of “City At War" (collected in TMNT Compendium Vol. 3), Donatello and Splinter recuperate in Northampton while the rest of the Turtles are in New York City with April. Meanwhile, Baxter Stockman wreaks havoc in the desert at a top secret facility known as D.A.R.P.A. As the family drifts apart a killer robot controlled by Stockman has April in its sights and the boys have to come together to fight it off!"


Since they already put out the Image series in trades (although maybe they'll re-release that too?), and we know we're getting new Archie collections...hopefully after this we can FINALLY get Vol. 4 and Tales V. 2 trades.

Those Lawson-Turtles are the most Lawsonest of Lawson-Turtles ever. Like the architecture looks fine, but those Turtles man....

[Andrew NDB]

The question is obviously are they going to re-run the coloring it already received or strip it out and redo it all from scratch? And what about the Eastman and Laird covers?

[BornAgain]

Awesome. I love this run. It’s short and bizarre.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

The question is obviously are they going to re-run the coloring it already received or strip it out and redo it all from scratch? And what about the Eastman and Laird covers?

The recent compendiums reprinted all of Vol. 1 in black and white, there's no coloring, so I don't see why Vol. 2 won't have the original coloring.

[DexVcx]

Originally Posted by BornAgain

Awesome. I love this run. It’s short and bizarre.

Vol 2 is just too good. And it gives a taste of what to come from vol 4

[TurtleGurkle]

Cool to see this getting recollected. They definitely have room for more stuff if they wanted to make it the same size as the compendiums, but this is better than nothing.

I wish they added in Usagi #1-3, the Mirage Specials, Flaming Carrot, Savage Dragon, etc.

[CyberCubed]

The Image series already has two collections for all 26 issues, so I don't know if they're going to skip over them for now or re-release them again in hardcovers. Also remember most if not all of the Mirage short stories were collected in the last Ultimate Collection, the one that had most of the shorts from Shell Shock. Bodycount also has a hardcover.

I really hope this bodes well for Vol. 4 and Tales v. 2, taken together there's over 100+ Mirage issues right there they need to collect. A lot of those other obscure Mirage specials would be nice like Turtle Soup and so forth, but I'd rather the more important stuff be collected first.

[BornAgain]

Slightly related but is this not an AI generated cover?

https://tmnt-ninjaturtles.com/tmnt-j...turtle-hc-idw/

Look at the masks and Donatello’s hand. Gross.

[Powder]

The skateboard too. No shame, really.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by BornAgain

Slightly related but is this not an AI generated cover?

https://tmnt-ninjaturtles.com/tmnt-j...turtle-hc-idw/

Look at the masks and Donatello’s hand. Gross.

Originally Posted by Powder

The skateboard too. No shame, really.

Screw dem fools.

[oldmanwinters]

So… “Acky Bright” is apparently a big deal young Japanese manga artist. Could this TMNT cover be the beginning of a major scandal for his brand?

[Powder]

Wait, it actually appears that the bottom & right side of the image was extended, & those suspicious areas are just copy/pasted versions of the art they're apart of. In the case of Don's hand, Mike's arm/skateboard, anyway.

Other things appear to be style choices, giving the benefit of the doubt.

[frank_one]

Ouch! Shame, shame, shame!

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Powder

Wait, it actually appears that the bottom & right side of the image was extended, & those suspicious areas are just copy/pasted versions of the art they're apart of. In the case of Don's hand, Mike's arm/skateboard, anyway.

Other things appear to be style choices, giving the benefit of the doubt.

It is an expanded variant of Acky Bright’s variant to #146 from last year, but I think its more likely 146 covered up or cropped off the a.i. tells than it is that IDW/a.b. tried to use a.i. to expand upon a smaller cover: https://idwpublishing.com/products/t...47503331262763

Jennika’s Super Mutant nose, Leo’s katana-bandana, Raph’s chest buckled-harness that loses logic at close examination, Donny’s hydra bandana MIGHT all be style choices, but I doubt it.

[frank_one]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/...L._SL1500_.jpg

I'm a big fan of Lawson but, damn. This could be good for a panel, but for a cover? Not good enough. Also the coloring is just bad.

[CyberCubed]

The new covers Jim Lawson did for the tpb's of Volume 2 and Volume 1 on the classics collections were much better. Granted he drew those covers back in like 2015 so that was like 9 years ago now.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Powder

Wait, it actually appears that the bottom & right side of the image was extended, & those suspicious areas are just copy/pasted versions of the art they're apart of. In the case of Don's hand, Mike's arm/skateboard, anyway.

Other things appear to be style choices, giving the benefit of the doubt.

It looks like some use of the Magic Wand tool in Photoshop gone awry.

[Wentos]

Awesome, this is great to see. I would imagine we'll get reprints of more classic TMNT sooner rather than later.

Question for you guys: If/when IDW ends up releasing a new series of hardcovers for Volume 3, would you want it to feature the new IDW coloring or the original black and white? Normally I'm 100% in favor of original artwork, but I always thought the linework in Volume 3 was pretty flat/muddled and that the color helped the art pop a lot more.

[BornAgain]

Originally Posted by Wentos

Awesome, this is great to see. I would imagine we'll get reprints of more classic TMNT sooner rather than later.

Question for you guys: If/when IDW ends up releasing a new series of hardcovers for Volume 3, would you want it to feature the new IDW coloring or the original black and white? Normally I'm 100% in favor of original artwork, but I always thought the linework in Volume 3 was pretty flat/muddled and that the color helped the art pop a lot more.

I’d instantly buy a hardcover of volume 3 and I’d like to see it in color. It absolutely popped and I prefer it to the original black and white in this case. Definitely a step up from the coloring we saw in the “Color Classics”.