Jon Reads Comics

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!

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.

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!

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!

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!”

Layne and Jon learn more about both Kup and Perceptor in the penultimate issue to IDW’s Transformers: All Hail Megatron from 2009!

Layne and Jon start into a new story arc! Krang and the Shredder have a long-awaited first meeting in the first chapter of New Mutant Order from IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 37 from 2014!

Jon and Blaine take a detailed look at the Markab for the first and last time.

Layne and Jon learn whatever happened to Sunstreaker and Galvatron in IDW’s The Transformers: All Hail Megatron 14 from 2009!

Jon and Blaine take a look at Larry DiTillio’s final episode of the series.

Layne and Jon find Splinter’s and Leonardo’s newly-healed relationship put to the test in IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 36 from 2014!

John Sheridan and Jon Wilson learn that Mr. Morden was on the Icarus for the mission that left Anna Sheridan presumed dead, and now he’s on the station.

Layne and Jon enter the Coda phase of IDW’s The Transformers: All Hail Megatron, with issue 13, focusing on Ironhide and Starscream, from 2009!

Jon and Blaine have great seats to watch as ISN does a report on the station.