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Hines In A Half-Shell: TMNT #9 Oct 15, 2025

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We are up to issue 9 of the original run of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comics. This is a stand-alone adventure in which the young turtled and splinter help an old man pass on the honoable samurai magic of his family to his grandson.

We are seeing Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird pull back from working on the comic. This issue they wrote and helped ink but did not do the pencils for. As the Turtles get more popular, this will be the pattern!

Next episode we go over the one-shot comics for Leonardo, Donatello and Michaelangelo.

For Loose Screws, Will talks about the Marx Brothers and Kevin talks about The Knives by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.

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Hines In A Half-Shell: TMNT #7 Oct 08, 2025

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We go over Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #7! This is the end of the "outer space" arc. It's a very busy issue with lots of exposition but the art is beautiful and the comic remains fun.

For Loose Screws, Kevin discusses two recent graphic novel biographies of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee!

Hines In A Half Shell: TMNT #6 Sep 24, 2025

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EPISODE 331 - We go over Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #6! This is a continuation of the epic "space" arc in which the Turtles meet Fugatoid, the Triceratons and the Federation (something like that?) The art is more ambitious than ever! The action is fun and compelling! The dialogue is... out of control with huge Stan Lee levels of exposition on almost every page! But the comic is fun!

For Loose Screws, we talk about staying in Christopher Reeve's house and also Spinal Tap! Now that's loose!

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Hines In A Half-Shell: TMNT #5 Sep 17, 2025

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EPISODE 330 - We go over TMNT#5. Stuff gets very wild as we meet Fugitoid and the Triceritons. Oh and the, er, Federations? Some human army. Anyway, the Turtles are in space and in the middle of a three-way battle for a scientist trapped in a runaway robot's body. Again, this is issue number FIVE.

Loose screws: Kevin talks Alien Earth and will talks Spaghetti Westerns.

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Hines In A Half-Shell: TMNT #4 Aug 27, 2025

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EPISODE 329 - We continue our coverage of the original run of TMNT comics! This week, we go over issue #4! We learn more about what's going on inside the alien organization TCRI!

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Hines in a Half Shell: Raphael One Shot Aug 20, 2025

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EPISODE 328 - We continue our coverage of the original run of TMNT comics! This week, we go over the Raphael one-shot, which came out between issues 3 and 4. This features the debut of Casey Jones!

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Hines In A Half-Shell: TMNT #3 - with Elliott Kalan Aug 13, 2025

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EPISODE 327 - We go over issue 3 of the original run of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics. Our guest is Elliott Kalan! Elliott is the co-host of the terrific podcast The Flophouse, as well as being an Actual Comics Writer, currently writing Harley Quinn.

In this issue, the turtles and April go on a 10+ page car chase! And... that's mostly it! but it's cool!

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Hines In A Half-Shell: TMNT #2 Jul 30, 2025

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We're on to issue #2 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! After issue one is a surprise hit, the creators scramble to come up with a second issue. We get a not-quite-as-good but still-pretty-good story! We meet April and a new villain Baxter Stockman. We learn that Donatello is tech savvy and that Splinter has an extensive book collection!

We also go over a survey Kevin ran to see just how much people know about the Turtles, even if they are not especially big fans!

And a brief loose screw segment where we chat about the Superman and FF movie. We plan to go over it even more in our sop-scriber episode next week!

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Hines In A Half-Shell: TMNT #1 Jul 23, 2025

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EPISODE 325 - We start our season on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with an in-depth look at the original issue #1. Famously created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, this issue was meant as a one-shot story. Not quite a joke, but not quite serious either, the creators had no idea they were creating a media empire.

The comic is good! We meet the turtles, Master Splinter and Shredder!

How much did Will know about the turtles going in (not much). But how much did he like the comic? A lot!

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Gamma Sops: Incredible Hulk #346 Jul 16, 2025

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Episode 324 - We end our Gamma Sops season with an issue that does not have the Hulk in it! Clay Quartermain is testifying before Congress, and Betty is dealing with carrying Bruce's baby! Todd MacFarlane only did breakdowns, but Erik Larsen delivers quality art. It's a fine issue to end our coverage on!

Next week: we start our coverage of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with issue one of the original Eastman/Laird run!

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