To the left are my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collections, the vast majority of which are from IDW. There are the first nine trade collections of writer Tom Waltz's run on the 2011-launched title ("Volume Five" of the Turtles' adventures), which is how long I stuck with it before I accepted that this particular reimagining just wasn't for me (Other fans obviously loved it, though, as Waltz kept writing the title for 64 issues after the last issue collected in Vol. 9). There are also all nine trade collections devoted to Sophie Campbell's run, which IDW relabeled as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Reborn for the trades. (These were much more my speed, but then, Campbell has been one of my favorite artists since I first encountered her work in 2006).
And there are some of the mini-series that spun out of IDW's main TMNT series, including Turtles in Time, Black, White & Green, Bebop & Rocksteady Destroy Everything and The Last Ronin. Oh, and some crossovers, featuring Batman, the Ghostbusters, the Power Rangers and the latest Usagi Yojimo pairing with Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo (2023's Wherewhen, written and drawn by Sakai himself).
Then there are IDW collections of older TMNT comics, like the two volumes of the Image Comics series ("Volume Three"), rebranded as Urban Legends and Usagi Yojimbo/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Collection, which collected every Usagi/TMNT crossover between 1987 and 2017 (and the title of which was rendered inexact by the later release of Wherewhen).
This shelf obviously seemed like the best place to put my other TMNT books then, like Mirage Studios' The Collected Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vols. 1, 2, 3 and 5, The Collected Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Challenges (a Michael Dooley original graphic novel).
Oh, and Bodycount (Kevin Eastman and Simon Bisley's crazy Raphael/Casey Jones team-up). It was originally published serially by Image Comics and was finally collected in 2018, not by Image nor IDW, but by Top Shelf (which was, by that point, an imprint of IDW, I guess).
I also stuck a handful of books from Mirage artists with the Turtles stuff. From Kevin Eastman, there's Fistful of Blood and Underwhere (both new collections of older material, repackaged and republished by IDW) and Kevin Eastman's Totally Twisted Tales (an anthology collection of short Eastman/Bisley collaborations published by Clover Press). And from Jim Lawson there's The Collected Paleo Tales of the Late Cretaceous, Dragonfly and the crowd-funded Box City Wallops (Of Lawson's three books here, Paleo is the best; a must-read for anyone who loves dinosaurs and comics).
To the right are a random assortment of other IDW trades. While Godzilla comics are the best represented, there's also the first volume of Jem and The Holograms (which is where I left off on the series; volume 2 is still on my to-read pile), Saved By The Bell, Tom Scioli's Go-Bots, IDW's repackaging of some old G.I. Joe and G.I. Joe/Transformers comics and, of course, all three volumes of Roger Langridge-written Popeye, which was an all-around incredible comic series. Oh, and IDW's gorgeous collection of Mike Mignola, John Nyberg and Roy Thomas' adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, originally published by Topps way back in 1992.
Finally, on the far right is more non-IDW stuff, which I had originally put there due to the size of the books. Now that this shelf is full, I guess these should be moved whenever I get around to reorganizing all these shelves.
These are five Street Angel books and Ronald Wimberly's excellent riff on Romeo and Juliet, Prince of Cats, all from Image (The publisher, as we saw before, didn't get its own shelf among these bookshelves, which were filled during my time in Mentor, roughly 2012-2024).
While not everything on this shelf is necessarily a great comic—I remember being pretty underwhelmed by Mars Attacks IDW and Mars Attacks: Classics Obliterated, for example—there are a lot of great ones on it.
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