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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ongoing Compendium #1
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Compendium, Vol. One
Read IDW’s entire epic TMNT ongoing comic series in three easy-to-collect volumes for the first time! Each volume will contain over 1,000 pages of content!
In 2011 IDW launched an ongoing series that would go on to be the longest in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles history, spanning 150 issues. Now is your chance to start from the beginning with these massive omnibuses that will collect 50 issues each! From the beginning, this series told a sprawling tale about family, heroism, and tragedy of epic proportions. TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman plotted out storylines with original series writer Tom Waltz and then Sophie Campbell, who took over on issue #101. Joining the writers were artists Dan Duncan, Andy Kuhn, Ben Bates, Mateus Santolouco, Cory Smith, and more, who crafted a new style that distinguished it from previous iterations while at the same time adhering to what made the original comics so great.
The first arc begins with Raphael alone wandering the streets of New York City while his brothers and Splinter search for him. As the story progresses, the new origin of the TMNT is revealed! See the first appearances of April, Casey, Old Hob, Baxter Stockman, Krang, Shredder, and more! Read major storylines like “Krang War,” “City Fall,” “Northampton,” “Attack On Technodrome,” and “Vengeance,” which concludes the first 50 issues of the series with a battle that changes the world of the Turtles forever!
These omnibuses offer the perfect opportunity for new readers to catch up on the series and give fans an easy way to collect all the ongoing issues in just three volumes!
In 2011 IDW launched an ongoing series that would go on to be the longest in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles history, spanning 150 issues. Now is your chance to start from the beginning with these massive omnibuses that will collect 50 issues each! From the beginning, this series told a sprawling tale about family, heroism, and tragedy of epic proportions. TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman plotted out storylines with original series writer Tom Waltz and then Sophie Campbell, who took over on issue #101. Joining the writers were artists Dan Duncan, Andy Kuhn, Ben Bates, Mateus Santolouco, Cory Smith, and more, who crafted a new style that distinguished it from previous iterations while at the same time adhering to what made the original comics so great.
The first arc begins with Raphael alone wandering the streets of New York City while his brothers and Splinter search for him. As the story progresses, the new origin of the TMNT is revealed! See the first appearances of April, Casey, Old Hob, Baxter Stockman, Krang, Shredder, and more! Read major storylines like “Krang War,” “City Fall,” “Northampton,” “Attack On Technodrome,” and “Vengeance,” which concludes the first 50 issues of the series with a battle that changes the world of the Turtles forever!
These omnibuses offer the perfect opportunity for new readers to catch up on the series and give fans an easy way to collect all the ongoing issues in just three volumes!
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1240 pages, Paperback
Published May 5, 2026
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Tom Waltz
731 books55 followersTom Waltz is the Senior Staff Writer and Editor in IDW Publishing, better known as the writer of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles titles.
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July 16, 2026
Technically this is run is one of the earliest American comics I've ever read, many moons ago when I was 9 or something I got the first couple of Dutch localised Dark Dragon Books TPBs. So I have a decently long history with this run, and I would say it is pretty important to me. I'm really glad they finally released them in such affordable Compendiums.
From my experience in this series though, I was kind of afraid this series would focus more on the "edgy" side of the turtles, which is a side I can appreciate like in the Mirage run, but I don't really love outside of that so far. And I also don't love too cartoony turtles, I love all the non live actions shows obviously, and I love Archie turtles, but they're certainly not my favourite iterations of the characters. Which makes me glad to report that this series eventually does strike a perfect balance between everything TMNT, it does not take itself too serious but seriously enough to keep me invested (except with Hun I guess). Genuinely could not have wished for a better homage to all things turtles that is also not afraid to introduce so much of its own.
I feel like the first 20 issues are spent spent speedily setting up this world, laying down the bricks of old and new, but from there it uses that foundation to tell one of the best stories I've ever seen in this franchise. Not to say that after speedrunning the TMNT mythos in the first 20 issues that they stopped introducing TMNT icons, they were certainly not done after introducing us to Fugitoid and heavily surprising us (or at least me) with the neutrinos. They just took a more elegant approach than bombarding us with stuff like in those first 20 issues.
I really like the issue Kevin Eastman did, only real one-shot in this run so far and it really felt like I was reading Mirage again. What I also appreciated was that he did an alternative cover for all issues (pretty sure, they didn't put his alt at the end of 2 issues) and he even drew characters introduced in the cartoon which was very surprising. I don't know if it was in my head, but it did feel like he was avoiding them a bit in some covers, but he actually did it.
I will say the artstyle changing so much was a bit jarring to me, and always took a bit too get used to, but all of the artists who worked on this series are clearly very good, so I can't really complain.
Overall just a very surprising experience, that's why I keep repeating that word. Surprisingly good. Surprising characters, like the fucking Rat King, they brought him back and he is actually kind of a good villain now?? I'm probably a bad person to talk about the Rat King because I only know him from 87' but this is a step up from some guy in the sewers wrapped in bandages. Hob and Slash are surprisingly fun, Old Hob in general is just a very interesting character to follow. Surprisingly interesting new dynamics because of new characters and old characters in new positions. And most surprisingly of all, wtf was Leatherhead doing there at the end. I mean actually it hasn't been confirmed if that was Leatherhead, but like come on.
I've been watching a lot of 87' recently so I imagined the voice of every character from there in here like their cartoon counterparts, which was a bad idea
From my experience in this series though, I was kind of afraid this series would focus more on the "edgy" side of the turtles, which is a side I can appreciate like in the Mirage run, but I don't really love outside of that so far. And I also don't love too cartoony turtles, I love all the non live actions shows obviously, and I love Archie turtles, but they're certainly not my favourite iterations of the characters. Which makes me glad to report that this series eventually does strike a perfect balance between everything TMNT, it does not take itself too serious but seriously enough to keep me invested (except with Hun I guess). Genuinely could not have wished for a better homage to all things turtles that is also not afraid to introduce so much of its own.
I feel like the first 20 issues are spent spent speedily setting up this world, laying down the bricks of old and new, but from there it uses that foundation to tell one of the best stories I've ever seen in this franchise. Not to say that after speedrunning the TMNT mythos in the first 20 issues that they stopped introducing TMNT icons, they were certainly not done after introducing us to Fugitoid and heavily surprising us (or at least me) with the neutrinos. They just took a more elegant approach than bombarding us with stuff like in those first 20 issues.
I really like the issue Kevin Eastman did, only real one-shot in this run so far and it really felt like I was reading Mirage again. What I also appreciated was that he did an alternative cover for all issues (pretty sure, they didn't put his alt at the end of 2 issues) and he even drew characters introduced in the cartoon which was very surprising. I don't know if it was in my head, but it did feel like he was avoiding them a bit in some covers, but he actually did it.
I will say the artstyle changing so much was a bit jarring to me, and always took a bit too get used to, but all of the artists who worked on this series are clearly very good, so I can't really complain.
Overall just a very surprising experience, that's why I keep repeating that word. Surprisingly good. Surprising characters, like the fucking Rat King, they brought him back and he is actually kind of a good villain now?? I'm probably a bad person to talk about the Rat King because I only know him from 87' but this is a step up from some guy in the sewers wrapped in bandages. Hob and Slash are surprisingly fun, Old Hob in general is just a very interesting character to follow. Surprisingly interesting new dynamics because of new characters and old characters in new positions. And most surprisingly of all, wtf was Leatherhead doing there at the end. I mean actually it hasn't been confirmed if that was Leatherhead, but like come on.
I've been watching a lot of 87' recently so I imagined the voice of every character from there in here like their cartoon counterparts, which was a bad idea
September 9, 2026
Goes absolutely nuts, such a great book to dive into. All of the turtles are so well represented here and Casey Jones is goated. The whole cast is excellent. I loved so much about this. I did not know about this run’s overarching plot until they started setting it up with the Rat King and the Kitsune in here, and I am incredibly intrigued by what they are cooking. Farm arc post city-fall remains my favorite I think just messed with the vibes so hard but there were for real no misses, very much looking forward to breaking into the next compendium
August 29, 2026
Primer compendium de la "ongoing" de IDW. Recopila 50 issues (#1-50), trece TPs (#1-13). Tomo 1 de 3.
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