Transformers AutoBook Club

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome back to Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! The return of Bob Budiansky, and a return to Cyberton this week! Things are looking dire for the Autobots, but intelligence about a transmission from Earth gives them renewed hope. Yet more new...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome back to Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! We're continuing and concluding the story of Buster's vision of the future this week! implanted in his mind by the matrix of creation, Buster has been having visions of the future....

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome back to Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! A short promotional preview comic called "The Special Teams Have Arrived!" which was handed out for free in toy shops in the U.K. gives us a glimpse into the future. A future in w...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome back to Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! Another strange story full of holes at first, including an insane power for Soundwave that was apparently there all along and Devastator proving not to be...The smartest. All this leads up...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome back to Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! This time Ratchet, Wheeljack and Prime all butt heads when it comes to deciding what's safe for their human friend Buster, who decides to take things into his own hands. I'm a bit b...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome back to Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! Bumblebee has a wild and sudden mood swing this week, brought on by events that didn't even happen, thanks to fill in writer for this issue, Len Kaminski. After a joy ride and dubious u...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome back to Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! This week, The I.I.I., and Bob Budiansky himself I think, realise that the general public's knowledge of the Transformers' presence on Earth and their civil war needs to be addresse...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome back to Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! Another curveball from Budiansky this week, which starts off heavy on interesting Transformers lore and character stuff, before sharply veering off into...Basically fan fiction, though not...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome to this week's episode of Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! An unusual episode this week, as you may recall, this story has been billed as "The weirdest Transformers story yet!" and it certainly is... Something. And t...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome to this week's episode of Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! A short story pulled from a Transformers Annual this time, leading directly on from Dinobot Hunt, with some redemption for Furman and an unusual, interesting structure...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome to this week's episode of Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! Picking up where we left off last week, this week we'll look at the final two parts of Dinobot Hunt which turn out not to be at all what I was expecting. 0:00 - 3:...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome to this week's episode of Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! We're staying in the U.K. this week, for the penultimate story in our little run of U.K. comics, "Dinobot Hunt!" This one is great, there are teams, tact...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome to this week's episode of Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! This week's episode covers both parts of our next U.K. story, "The Icarus Theory!" The strange story of a disgruntled Roxxon scientist who makes some wro...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome to this week's episode of Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! A three part U.K. story this week with multiple writers and artists! It's a wobbly one that has some questionable decisions made by certain characters (Or...Writer...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome to this week's episode of Transformers AutoBook club, a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics! I've got a real doozy for you this week, this story is just bizarre and full of bonkers decisions. It's a Christmas story, which is a bit unseasonable, given t...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! A bittersweet episode of TFABC this week, it's Justin's (https://linktr.ee/ironageofcomics) third and final episode for this three part residency, though I'm sure it's only a matter of time until I ask him to come back. This issue, Buster takes even more potential damage to his brain, Prime, rightfully, loses his temper, and, for all the smart moves...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Join us for episode two of Justin's (https://linktr.ee/ironageofcomics) three episode run! This issue features the "Crushing guilt" of Marvel comics, Buster very much living up to his name and Bumblebee!? More like Fumblebee, haaaa!00:00:00 - 00:04:07 - Greetings, Transformers news, TFABC notes.00:04:07 - 01:02:09 - Brainstorm!01:02:09 - 01:06:44 - He...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! This episode marks the beginning of Justin's (https://linktr.ee/ironageofcomics) three episode residency! Another bumper episode with some surprising conversations and realisations along the way, it's another that I think is a really good one! In this week's issue Huffer is homesick, Soundwave gets an extreme upgrade, and Bomber Bill charms his way into...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! This week's Transformers AutoBook Club features a very interesting guest, and I couldn't have hoped for a more perfect fit for the delicate subject matter in this issue! This time Josie Beller takes center stage, which would have been a cool, dramatic reveal... if they hadn't used it as the cover image. My guest, poet, teacher, author and comics scholar...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Welcome, Autobuddies and Deceptichums to another solo, U.K. story episode of Transformers AutoBook Club! Please excuse my very odd voice and possible wonky energy levels this episode, I was deep into a bout of what I think was bronchitis, but I still managed to put an episode together for you this week! This time the dinobots get revenge for Swoop, though not in th...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! Picking right up from last week's cliffhanger, we discover the fate of Swoop and the other Autobots after Shockwave took control of the ark and reprogrammed the gargantuan metal hulk, Guardian, to serve him. Ratchet needs an attitude adjustment, and Guardian, for some reason, thinks it can be stealthy!? All five tonnes of him!? 00:00 - 01:51 - Greetings, Patreo...

Bah Weep Granagh Weep Nini Bong! We're back in merry ol' England again this week for a solo episode covering the two part Marvel U.K. Transformers story, "Decepticon Dam-Busters!" This one is the closest to anything in the G1 cartoon we've seen from the comics so far, so close in fact that several shots and lines of dialogue are identical. Ratchet explains to the Dinobots why...

Welcome back Autobuddies and Deceptichums! It's a very special episode of Transformers AutoBook Club this week, my guest is a voice actor at Universal Studios, and though we can't tell you his exact role there, take a listen to his incredible voice and see if you can figure it out! He's also a musician and artist, it's the multi-talented polymath Johnny Schwinn! After some chat abo...

Join me in a solo episode this week for Transformers issue 7 "Warrior School!" An unexpected character becomes one of my favorites in the comics thus far, a strange and possibly homoerotic ritual is performed, and both the young human leads show signs of big things coming on the horizon. 00:00 - 02:28 - Greetings and the Blokees diaster. 02:28 - 38:34 - "Warrior School!" 38:34 - 39:58 - Outro, how...

Welcome back, Autobuddies and Deceptichums! Winter break is over, I'm back to work and back on track to roll out new episodes every week! In our first episode of Transformers AutoBook Club for 2026, Dan, the Detroit Destructicon, and I had front row seats to watch Shockwave and Megatron's inaugural grudge match! 00:00 - 05:15 - Greetings, TFABC plans for 2026 05:15 - 23:42 - Transformers c...