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Layne and Jon the second half of IDW’s 80s crossover extravaganza with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters issue 3 from 2014 and issue 4 from 2015!
Layne and Jon help Bumblebee befriend a young human in Transformers: Bumblebee 3 and then rejoice at Thundercracker’s return and see the current situation on Earth through his eyes in The Transformers 4, both from IDW from 2010!
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!
Layne and Jon dive into their 1980s childhoods with a crossover between the Turtles and another favorite franchise! It’s time for issues 1 and 2 of IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters from 2014!
Dave returns to the show to help Layne and Jon start off Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers, one of the most beloved stories of the entire IDW run! In this episode we cover issues 1 and 2 from 2010!
Jon and Blaine take a look at the final issues of the official tie-in comic.
Layne and Jon wrap up New Mutant Order with a bit of a brawl in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 40 from IDW in 2014!
Layne and Jon start 2010 by finding out what Ultra Magnus is up to in IDW’s The Transformers 3 and watching Bumblebee struggle with human interference in Transformers: Bumblebee 2!
Layne and Jon celebrate 100 (nearly) weekly episodes with IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 39 from 2014!
Layne and Jon are back after a hiatus to cover the second issue of IDW’s The Transformers (2010), and the first issue of the Bumblebee miniseries, spinning out of the events of the main book!
Ivanova is accused of murder in the second Babylon 5 novel. Jon and Blaine accuse author Lois Tilton of being very good at her job.
Jon and Blaine discuss the next arc of the comic series, and have some positive things to say about Warren Keffer.
Layne and Jon dive back into New Mutant Order! Find out what Old Hob’s been up to in IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 38 from 2014!
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!
Layne and Jon take a look back at all that has come before in The Transformers: Continuum and then launch into the first proper ongoing series from IDW with The Transformers 1, both from 2009!
Layne and Jon continue to get bounced through time, meeting up with the Turtles on a pirate ship and then a few decades from now. It’s issues 3 and 4 of IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time from 2014!
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!
Jon and Blaine share all feedback received on or before June 8, 2025. (Sorry Douglas; your email will come in the next feedback special!)
It’s the end of an era as Layne and Jon discuss the final very final very very last issue of IDW’s The Transformers: All Hail Megatron from 2009!
Layne and Jon become unstuck in time, bouncing back to dinosaur times and then to feudal Japan as they talk about IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time 1 and 2 from 2014!
I appreciate the shout out. Excited to go back and check out this cast from the start. Props for the Megadeath intro/outro!
Love the dramatic reading Jon is like a podcast maniac, podcasting since the early 2000's, very knowledgeable and easy to listen to