Jon Reads Comics

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26 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 20, Turtle Soup Nov 23, 2025

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Clinton, Layne, and Jon go to Chinatown and meet a kaiju-sized dragon in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 20 from Archie Comics and then explore several artists’ alternative takes on the Turtles in Turtle Soup from Mirage Comics!

117 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF 8, Ironhide 3 Nov 22, 2025

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Layne and Jon are shocked and appalled at the deeds of Spike Witwicky in The Transformers 8! Then they meet an old and unexpected face in Transformers: Ironhide 3! Both from IDW in 2010!

3.03 Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later — A Day in the Strife Nov 20, 2025

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Jon and Blaine have a challenge for our readers: develop a proof for the Riemann Hypothesis. If you succeed, we will share untold secrets. You don’t want to fail.

116 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TMNT Mutanimals 1,2 Nov 15, 2025

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Layne and Jon detour from the defeated Donnie to follow Hob and his Mutanimals into the machinations of Null in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutanimals issues 1 and 2 from IDW in 2015!

3.02 Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later — Convictions Nov 13, 2025

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Jon and Blaine look at a mad bomber and a life-or-death situation for Londo and G’Kar.

25 Turtle Power Hour — Mutanimals 1, Tales 3 Nov 09, 2025

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Layne, Clinton, and Jon go into space with Raphael and the Mighty Mutanimals in the first issue of their new miniseries from Archie Comics, and then we have a Halloween adventure with Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 from Mirage!

115 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF 7, Ironhide 2 Nov 08, 2025

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Layne and Jon catch up with the Decepticons in IDW’s The Transfomers 7 before finding out a little bit more about what’s going on with Ironhide in The Transformers: Ironhide 2, both from 2010!

3.01 Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later — Matters of Honor Nov 06, 2025

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Jon and Blaine are back for the third season of Babylon 5, looking at the introduction of Marcus Cole and the mysterious new ships that have been seen.

114 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TMNT 44 Nov 01, 2025

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Layne and Jon find tragedy at the end of Attack on Technodrome in IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 44 from 2015!

2.22 Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later — The Fall of Night Nov 01, 2025

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Jon and Blaine look at the season two finale.