Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-38858299-20190319055439/@comment-38858299-20190320034544

Gilgameshkun wrote: This is the source for the ordering.

http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=36475

What makes that one so official? That's not meant to come off as rude, it's just that everyone seems to have a different version of the read-order for these comics, and no one says why their chronology is better or why they have theirs ordered like they do. I've tried looking for an official timeline, but the closest there is is a really vague picture of the Trade Paper Backs, with a handful of the side series pointing vaguely at some of the volumes.

This dude:

http://tmntentity.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-idw-tmnt-continuity-timeline.html

Also has a timeline, and it's reference by the TMNT subreddit, and it's almost completely different. Unfortunately they haven't added some of the newer releases, but that's besides the point. Their order is different, and supported by a fairly significant TMNT community.

So, who am I suppose to believe in this? I can't just jump in on my own, I won't know what is going on. The story pacing will be ruined, and the jumping around will make it hard to understand the story.