Jon Reads Comics

Layne and Jon get to know the new and improve (and HUGE) Megatron in the second part of “Revenge of the Decepticons” in The Transformers 15 and then help Galvatron fight some zombies in The Transformers: Infestation 1, both from IDW in 2011!

Layne and Jon take a trip to the Southwest to work on their friendship while looking for some elder gods in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Casey & April 1 and 2 from IDW in 2015!

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!

Layne and Jon see the fallout to Bumblebee’s near assassination in The Transformers 14 and get hints of crossover things to come in the Transformers portion of Classified Secrets to Infestation, both from IDW in 2010!

Trey Hooks returns to help Jon and Blaine discuss a non-military coup right on Babylon 5.

Layne and Jon see the final shocking conclusion to Vengeance in IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 50 from 2015!

Jon and Blaine discuss, well, a whole heck of a lot, involving everything from bacon and eggs to hidden Shadow vessels to martial law.

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!

Layne and Jon see the final chapter of Drift’s origin story in Transformers: Drift 4 and then take a little ride into space with Rodimus in The Transformers 13, both from IDW in 2010!

Jon and Blaine look at a new kind of alien presence on the station.

Layne and Jon have doubled their episode count for the seventh time! But today, Karai has something to say to Splinter about the whole conflict between the Hamato and Oroku families. It’s time for IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 49 from 2015!

Jon and Blaine discuss G’Kar’s drug use and Bester’s involvement.

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!

Layne and Jon go with Drift to meet Decepticons in Transformers: Drift 3 and then see the traumatic end to the International Incident in The Transformers 12, both from IDW in 2010!

Jon and Blaine look at what happens when President Clark sends someone to the station to ensure all things conform to the messages sent from home.

Layne and Jon are attacked by Mouser drones and Flyborgs in IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 48 from 2015!

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!

Layne and Jon see a new side to Thundercracker in part 3 of International Incident in The Transformers 11 and then find out what the new Crystal City is all about in Transformers: Drift 2, both from IDW in 2010!

Layne and Jon bemoan Casey’s familial plight as Hun continues to make himself annoyingly known in IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 47 from 2015!

Jon and Blaine take a look at John Vornholt’s second Babylon 5 tie-in novel, which feels like a direct sequel to season one’s “Parliament of Dreams”.

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!

Layne and Jon revisit The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers via the TPB collection from IDW, which includes a new prose story “Bullets” and the Mosaic comic “Dead Mean’s Boots” from 2010!

Jon and Blaine respond to feedback! There’s a lot of it this time around, so it will be split into multiple feedback episodes.

Layne and Jon are still reeling from last issue’s Metalhead reveal, but to be fair so are the Turtles. So it’s time to see what this new life is like in two issues that more or less happen simultaneously: IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 46 and the TMNT Free Comic Book Day issue, both from 2015!

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!