Turtle Power Hour

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46 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 36 and TMNT 27
Today at 10:00 AM

Layne and Jon check in with the Mutanimals in issue 4 and are reunited with the Shredder and meet a new threat for the future in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 36 from Archie Comics! Then they learn a new side of Complete Carnage and Radical in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 27 from Mirage!


45 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 35 and TMNT 27
08/16/2026

Clinton, Layne, and Jon check in with Mighty Mutanimals 3 and then learn about the Black Stone of Mecca, and also why Cryin’ Hound is so obsessed with his name, in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 35 from Archie Comics! Then they go back in time for a final confrontation with the Bloodsucker and the Old Man of the River in the last part of “The River” in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 26 from Mirage!


44 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 34 and TMNT 25
08/02/2026

Layne, Clinton, and Jon search for the Charlie Llama in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 34 from Archie Comics! Then they visit Booder Falls to stop the Bloodsucker and save Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 25 from Mirage!


43 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 33 and TMNT 24
07/19/2026

Clinton, Layne, and Jon check in briefly with the Mighty Mutanimals for their issue 2 before running into Katmandu in Tibet in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 33 from Archie Comics! Then they judge the three Turtles for all ganging up on Raph and watching him pay the consequences in the first part of “The River” in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 24 from Mirage Comics!


42 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 32 and Tales 7
07/05/2026

Clinton, Layne, and Jon all go out for tattoos and sumo wrestling in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 32 from Archie Comics! Then it’s time traveling time back to the dinosaurs in the final issue 7 of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from Mirage Comics! And since we are now in the guest era, we give brief discussion of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 22 and 23!


41 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 31 and TMNT 21
06/21/2026

Layne, Clinton, Jon start turning Japanese as they discuss Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 31 from Archie Comics! Then it’s the final chapter of Return to New York, the final chapter of Eastman’s and Laird’s joint work on the Turtles, and the final chapter for the Shredder in Mirage’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 21!


40 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 30 and TMNT 20
06/07/2026

Clinton, Layne, and Jon complete their mission to Japan and meet some kaiju and gods along the way in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 30 from Archie Comics! Then it’s time to team up with a Triceraton and fight, punch, kick, and kill their way through the Foot Clan’s fortress on hunt for the Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 20 from Mirage!


39 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 29 and TMNT 19
05/24/2026

Clinton, Layne, and Jon are attacked by Ninjara and go after the Warrior Dragon in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 29 from Archie Comics! Then it’s time to Return to New York in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 19 from Mirage!


38 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 28 and Short Stories
05/10/2026

Clinton, Layne, and Jon set out for Japan in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 28 from Archie Comics! Then they look at four short stories, mostly published by Mirage: “The Crossing” from Usagi Yojimbo 10, “Choices” from Puma Blues 20, “Complete Carnage an’ Radical” from the second printing of TMNT 3, and “Not One Word” from the fifth printing of TMNT 1.


37 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 27 and TMNT 18
04/26/2026

Layne, Clinton, and Jon find themselves in the dark of a bizarre zombie-ish story in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 27 from Archie Comics! Then they look at a story from Kevin Eastman, Mark Bodé, Bruce Lee, and Chuck Norris in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 18 from Mirage! 


36 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 26 and TMNT 17
04/12/2026

Layne, Clinton, and Jon are captured by the Keeper in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 26 from Archie Comics before visiting feudal Japan for the delightful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 17 from Mirage!


35 Turtle Power Hour — Coming Out of Their Shells!
03/29/2026

Layne, Clinton, and Jon go where few Turtles fans have gone before, the live tour from 1990-91, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Coming Out of Their Shells Tour!


34 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 25 and Tales 6
03/15/2026

Layne, Clinton, and Jon have another showdown with Krang, the Shredder, Bebop, and Rocksteady, and all the rest in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 25 from Archie Comics! Then it’s time to meet Leatherhead in Mirage’s Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 6, I garontee!


33 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 24 and TMNT 15
03/01/2026

Layne, Clinton, and Jon run across a couple of very naked friends and take them to Earth in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 24 from Archie Comics! Then it’s over to the Mirage side to meet some old retired comics heroes, together for one last adventure in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 15, with brief thoughts on a time-traveling little girl in issue 16!


32 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 23 and Tales 15
02/15/2026

Layne, Clinton, and Jon are reunited with an old nemesis and meet a couple of new ones in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 23 from Archie Comics. Then it’s time to meet a fighting pair of supers, Complete Carnage and Radical, in Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 5 from Mirage Comics!


31 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 22 and TMNT 14
02/01/2026

Layne and Jon get trapped by the Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 22 from Archie Comics! Then it’s cow-hunting gangsta time in “The Unmentionables” in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 14 from Mirage Comics!


30 Turtle Power Hour — Mutanimals 3, Short Stories
01/18/2026

Layne, Clinton, and Jon finish up Mighty Mutanimals, the miniseries from Archie Comics before turning their eyes toward five short stories from Mirage: Word Warriors, The Road Trip, Ghouls Night Out, Fun with Guns, and 49th Street Stompers!


29 Turtle Power Hour — TMNT II Adaptation
01/04/2026

Layne, Clinton, and Jon take a detour from the comics to look at the film du jour in the Archie side of Turtle history, the comics adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze!


28 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 21, Tales 4
12/21/2025

Clinton, Layne, and Jon are confused by an odd threat who calls himself Vid Vicious in Archie’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 21. Then they are confronted a Monster who has a thing for rats in Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4 from Mirage Comics!


27 Turtle Power Hour — Mutanimals 2, TMNT 13
12/07/2025

Layne, Clinton, and Jon face an alien invasion in Mighty Mutanimals 2 from Archie Comics. Then it’s time to help an alien queen fight for her throne in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 13 from Mirage!


26 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 20, Turtle Soup
11/23/2025

Clinton, Layne, and Jon go to Chinatown and meet a kaiju-sized dragon in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 20 from Archie Comics and then explore several artists’ alternative takes on the Turtles in Turtle Soup from Mirage Comics!


25 Turtle Power Hour — Mutanimals 1, Tales 3
11/09/2025

Layne, Clinton, and Jon go into space with Raphael and the Mighty Mutanimals in the first issue of their new miniseries from Archie Comics, and then we have a Halloween adventure with Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 from Mirage!


24 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 19 and TMNT 12
10/26/2025

Layne, Clinton, and Jon meet Mr. Null and have David Bowie on their minds as they discuss “The Man Who Sold the World” in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 19 from Archie Comics and then the Turtles confront MAGA crap in Mirage’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 12!


23 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 18 and Challenges
10/05/2025

Layne, Clinton, and Jon meet a new skater dude named Mondo Gecko in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 18 from Archie Comics. Then it’s a jump over to Mirage for a collection of solo spotlight short stories called Challenges!


22 Turtle Power Hour — TMNT Adventures 17, Tales of the TMNT 2
09/21/2025

Clinton, Layne, and Jon go sea turtle surfing in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 17 from Archie Comics. Then they go back in time and run into Nobody in Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 from Mirage Comics!


21 Turtle Power Hour — Archie Adventures and Northampton Exile
07/06/2025

Clinton, Layne, and Jon get up to some teenage hijinks and pirate prognostication in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Meet Archie from (of course) Archie Comics. Then it’s time to see our Turtley family find some healing in their self-exile to the Jones farm in Northampton in Mirage’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11!


20 Turtle Power Hour — Lovers and Cousins (but not at the same time)
06/22/2025

Layne, Clinton, and Jon leave Dreadmon and Jagwar to their new special friendship in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 16 from Archie Comics. Then it’s time to meet Casey Jones’s no-good cousin in Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 from Mirage Comics!


19 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 15, Short Stories
06/08/2025

Layne, Clinton, and Jon meet Dreadmon in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 15 from Archie Comics and then traipse through several short stories from Mirage: “The Survival Game”, “It’s a Gas”, and “Terror by Transmat!”


18 Turtle Power Hour — Jagwar and Pieces
04/27/2025

Layne, Clinton, and Jon meet a new Amazonian friend in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 14 from Archie and see the Turtles’ lives fall apart at the hands of the Shredder in Mirage’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 10!


17 Turtle Power Hour — The End and the Return of Shredder
04/13/2025

Layne, Clinton, and Jon see the end of a storytelling era with the final conflict in Archie’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 13 and a bold new beginning in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series: Leonardo from Mirage!


16 Turtle Power Hour — Cherubae and Chort Chtories
03/30/2025

Layne, Clinton, and Jon meet Mary Bones’s real self Cherubae in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Adventures 12 from Archie and then look at four short stories from Mirage: “Night Life”, “New Comic Day!”, “Technofear!!!”, and “Crazy Man”.


15 Turtle Power Hour — THE REAL LIFE NINJA TURTLE MOVIE SHOW!
03/16/2025

Clinton, Layne, and Jon talk about the 1990 movie in comics form with the official adaptation Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and the official parody Green-Grey Sponge-Suit Sushi Turtles!


14 Turtle Power Hour — Sons of Silence and Short Stories
03/02/2025

Layne, Clinton, and Jon talk about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 11 and three short stories from Mirage: “Don’t Judge a Book…”, “D’ants Fever”, and “New York Ninja”.


13 Turtle Power Hour — Flatworms and Preteens
02/16/2025

Layne, Clinton, and Jon talk about mutated gross critters in Archie’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 10 and then take a peek into our heroes’ preteenage years in Mirage’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 9!


12 Turtle Power Hour — Chameleon and Kirby
02/02/2025

Clinton, Layne, and Jon meet the Chameleon in Archie’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 9 and then go on a Jack Kirby adventure with Donatello in that turtle’s Micro-Series issue from Mirage!


11 Turtle Power Hour — Wingnut, Screwloose, and Cerebus, oh my!
01/19/2025

Clinton, Layne, and Jon take a look at issue 8 from both Archie’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures and Mirage’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series!


10 Turtle Power Hour — Crisis on Secret Turtle Wars
01/05/2025

Layne, Clinton, and Jon talk about two Turtley trips through space. In Archie’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 7, the boys are whisked off to a bout of intergalactic wrestling. In Mirage’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a story arc going for the last half dozen issues comes to a close as the Turtles return from space and all the different story elements are brought together.


9 Turtle Power Hour — Gators and Trikes
12/22/2024

Issue 6 of both books! Archie’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 6 with Leatherhead and Mary Bones and Mirage’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with a bunch of Triceratons in an arena fight in space!


8 Turtle Power Hour — Happy Holidays
12/08/2024

Layne, Clinton, and Jon join the Turtles in celebrating America Day and Christmas! First, Archie’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 5 introduces us to Man Ray, who stops the Shredder from destroying the Statue of Liberty. And Mikey has a night out in the snow in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series: Michaelangelo from Mirage!


7 Turtle Power Hour — Turtles in Space
11/24/2024

Layne, Clinton, and Jon discuss the final adaptation issue of Archie’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures with issue 4 before original stories start next time! Then it’s space-hopping with the Fugitoid on the run from Triceratons in issue 5 of the Mirage series!