Jon Reads Comics
155 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF 25 and 26 (with Jon and Maggie!)
Layne and Jon welcome Maggie and Jon back to the show to begin our look at the beginning of the end of Phase One! In IDW’s The Transformers 25, Police Action gets underway as Prowl begins investigating Spike Witwicky and the death of Scrapper. Then in The Transformers 26, the fit hits the shan as the Autobots deal with Galvatron’s attack on Cybertron!
08 Supergirl — Supergirl’s Farewell to Earth
Jon reads Action Comics 258 (1959) and talks about it!
154 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TMNT 56
Layne and Jon are back in the main Turtles comics and it’s time to finally meet Leatherhead in IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 56 from 2016!
07 Supergirl — The Three Magic Wishes
Jon reads Action Comics 257 (1959) and talks about it!
Feedback Special 10 — Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later
Jon and Blaine respond to more feedback, but certainly not all of it. (We finish with feedback to 3.08: Messages From Earth.)
44 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 34 and TMNT 25
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!
153 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF 24, Hearts of Steel 4
Layne and Jon head for a Cybertron they’ve not seen before in the first chapter of Chaos in IDW’s The Transformers 24 from 2011 before wrapping up the somewhat lackluster ending to Transformers: Hearts of Steel with issue 4 from 2006!
06 Supergirl — The Great Supergirl Mirage
Jon reads Action Comics 256 (1959) and talks about it!
152 Ninjas ‘n’ Bats — Batman/TMNT commentary (with Clinton!)
Clinton once again deigns to join Jon and Layne to talk Turtle movies! This time we are giving a full in-film commentary for the animated film Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 2019! We’ve talked the comics! Now let’s talk the movie! So cue up your DVD or streaming device, and come give a listen!
05 Supergirl — Jimmy Olsen, Supergirl’s Pal
Jon reads Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen 40 from 1959 and talks about it!
Novel 5 Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later — The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name
Jon and Blaine discuss the novel, which is so far (and hopefully forever) the weakest piece of writing branded with the Babylon 5 name.
43 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 33 and TMNT 24
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!
151 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF 23, Hearts of Steel 3
Layne and Jon have had a delightful visit to the ancient history of Optimus’s and Megatron’s bromance/frienemiship, but it’s time to wrap it up with IDW’s The Transformers 23 from 2011! Then it’s time to push the Decepticon train down the track in Transformers: Hearts of Steel 3 from 2006!
Supergirl 04 — Supergirl Visits the 21st Century
Jon reads Action Comics 255 (1959) and talks about it!
150 Ninjas ‘n’ Bats — Batman/TMNT 5,6
For their sesquicentury episode, Layne and Jon come to the end of this delightful Batman crossover with Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 5 and 6 from DC Comics from 2016! But it’s not yet the end of this little side quest, so listen for an announcement at the end of the episode!
Supergirl 03 — Supergirl’s Foster Parents
Jon reads Action Comics 254 and an excerpt from Superman 130 (1959) and talks about them!
Feedback Special 9 — Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later
Blaine has finally had time to finish editing the feedback episode we recorded on March 1. Sorry about the delay! We’ll have more bonus content and more feedback out for you over the course of the summer.
42 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 32 and Tales 7
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!
149 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF 22, Hearts of Steel 2
Layne and Jon learn about Megatron’s and Optimus’s pre-war relationship as they discuss Chaos Theory in IDW’s The Transformers 22 from 2011. Then John Henry and Bumblebee have a little meet-cute in Transformers: Hearts of Steel 2 from 2006!
Jon Reads Supergirl 02 — The Secret of the Super-Orphan
Jon reads “The Secret of the Super-Orphan” from Action Comics 253 (1959) and talks about it!
148 Ninjas ‘n’ Bats — Batman/TMNT 3,4
Layne and Jon watch the stakes rise as Batman and the Turtles team up to stop the Shredder and try to get the Turtles back home! It’s all in Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 and 4 from DC and IDW from 2016!
Jon Reads Supergirl 01 — “The Supergirl from Krypton”
Jon reads “The Supergirl from Krypton” from Action Comics 252 (1959) and talks about it!
41 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 31 and TMNT 21
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!
147 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF 21, Hearts of Steel 1
Layne and Jon put a wrap on Space Opera and get a glimpse of the upcoming Police Action with IDW’s The Transformers 21 from 2011. Then they roll back the clock to the 19th century and pick up 2006’s Transformers: Hearts of Steel 1.
146 Ninjas ‘n’ Bats — Batman/TMNT 1,2
Layne and Jon are excited to embark at long last upon the first two issues of DC’s and IDW’s Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, from 2015 and 2016!
40 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 30 and TMNT 20
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!
145 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF Dark of the Moon
Clinton is back with Layne and Jon to have a look at the third live-action film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon from 2011!
144 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TMNT 55
Layne and Jon come to another end of an arc as Michelangelo returns forlornly to his family’s old home and tries to pick up the pieces of a former life. It’s IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 55 from 2016!
39 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 29 and TMNT 19
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!
143 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF 20, Heart of Darkness 4
It’s a week of endings as Layne and Jon join Rodimus and Wheelie for the last chapter of Space Opera in The Transformers 20. Then they breathe a deep sigh of wtf at Transformers: Heart of Darkness 4, bringing that series to a close. All from IDW from 2011!
3.17 Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later — War Without End, Part 2
Jon and Blaine discuss the game-changing end of The War Without End, because, you know, it ends.
142 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TMNT 54
Layne and Jon go after Mikey with the Mutanimals and say good-bye to a friend in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 54 from IDW from 2015!
3.16 Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later — War Without End, Part 1
Jon and Blaine start the second two part story, which has a surprising guest star.
Note: Blaine says that Babylon 5 was filming on a six day schedule. At this point in production, it was on a seven day schedule, and would remain that way until the end of season four.
38 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 28 and Short Stories
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.
141 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF 19 and Heart of Darkness 3
Layne and Jon go into deep space to catch up with Rodimus in The Transformers 19 and then watch Galvatron form an army to attack D-Void in Heart of Darkness 3, both from IDW from 2011!
3.15 Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later — Interludes and Examinations
Jon and Blaine look at one of those episodes that definitely marks a “before” and “after” for most of the characters involved.
140 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TMNT 53
Layne and Jon have been seeing all these attempts to pull order from chaos, and they just have one question: How’s Mikey doing? And they find out in IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 53 from 2015!
3.14 Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later — Ship of Tears
Bester returns, and G’Kar learns some very troubling truths about the past.
37 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 27 and TMNT 18
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!
139 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF 18, Heart of Darkness 2
Layne and Jon see Megatron’s final ploy in the Revenge of the Decepticons in The Transformers 18 before catching up with Galvatron’s investigation of the Dead Universe in Heart of Darkness 2, both from IDW from 2011!
