The Best Comic Collections Coming Out This Week - January 8th

In a new series at Comic Frontier, we’ll be going over some of the most exciting collections coming out each week - from trade paperbacks, manga, compendiums, to omnibuses! So without further adieu:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Untold Destiny of the Foot Clan TP - Erik Burnham, Mateus Santolouco, Shawn Lee, Marco Lesko, Santtos (Collects Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Untold Destiny of the Foot Clan #1-5) - IDW Publishing - 17.99 USD

Shining a spotlight on Oroku Karai and her gaining control of the Foot Clan, the book follows the titular villain as she learns more about The Foot and discovers she’s not the only one who wants to control the ninja organization.

Paul Smith's The Uncanny X-Men - Artist's Edition HC (Collecting Smith’s iconic work on X-Men and related titles) - IDW Publishing - $150 USD

Paul Smith is a legendary artist known for his work on Uncanny X-Men. In this gorgeous new oversized artist’s edition, you can see his art in its full glory printed in its original 12×17 size. With pages from X-Men, his covers, and special foldouts, the hardcover is the ultimate way to see the process behind Smith’s iconic work.

StormWatch: The Road to the Authority Compendium TP - Warren Ellis, Wildstorm FX Gina Going-Raney, Gina Going-Raney, Randy Elliott, Bill O'Neil, Tom Raney, Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary (Collects STORMWATCH (1993) #37-50, STORMWATCH PREVIEW #1, and STORMWATCH (1997) #1-11) - DC Comics - $59.99 USD

With The Authority coming to James Gunn’s DCU, the team’s beginnings before forming are getting reprinted in a massive compendium that comes at a reasonably affordable price considering its more than 650 pages. If you want to see the introductions of iconic characters like Midnighter, Apollo, and Jenny Sparks, this compendium is the perfect jumping-on-point for them.

RuriDragon Vol. 1 - Masaoki Shindo and Sara Linsley (Collects RuriDragon #1-6) - Viz Media - $11.99 USD

The Masaoki Shindo series is a slice-of-life manga about a high schooler who finds out their father is a dragon and she’s inherited some of his genes, which are starting to impact her day-to-day life. Unfortunately, she deals with her new dragon traits as she navigates the challenges of high school.

New Avengers Omnibus Vol. 1 - Brian Michael Bendis, Frank D'Armata, Leinil Francis Yu, Danny Miki, Alex Maleev, Richard Starkings, Albert Deschesne, and Comicraft (Collecting Avengers #500-503, Avengers Finale, New Avengers (2005) #1-31 and Annual #1, and several one-shots) - Marvel Comics - 150 USD

After printing the New Avengers Vol. 1 more than a decade ago and never publishing a second volume, Marvel is offering the sought-after omnibus once again. With a wide cast of characters and a refreshingly different roster of heroes, New Avengers remains some of the best superhero work of Bendis and Finch’s storied careers.