Jon Reads Comics

...and podcasts about them!

Welcome to Jon Reads Comics!

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This is the home of virtually all the podcasts produced by Jon M. Wilson! All shows on the site are listed below. Each show has a link to the list of episodes and a link to the individual show’s feed. (Right-click the feed link and copy to get the URL, then paste this into your podcatcher.)

Jon Reads Comics megafeed

Ninjas ‘n’ Bots (episodes feed)
Superman in Crisis (episodes feed)
Make Ours Marvel (episodes feed)
All the Pouches: An Image Comics Podcast (episodes feed)
Giant Superman (episodes feed)
The New 52 Adventures of Superman (episodes feed)
The Star Wars Saga Cast (episodes feed)
Avengers Inspirations (episodes feed)
Golden Age Superman (episodes feed)
Amazing Spider-Man Classics (episodes feed)
Teenage Wasteland: An Ultimate Spider-Man Podcast (episodes feed)

Ninjas 'n' Bots

163 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF Last Stand of the Wreckers HC

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Post date October 10, 2026
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Yes, Layne and Jon are doing a THIRD episode on IDW’s The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers, this time looking at the new story content included in the hardcover collection published in 2012! This includes the scenes cut from “Bullets”, collectively known as “Out of Bullets”, and the prose story “Zero Point”, as well as the short comics “Escape” and “In Word and Deed”.

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Tags Last Stand of the Wreckers, Transformers

Jon Reads Supergirl

16 Supergirl — Supergirl’s Darkest Day

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Post date October 9, 2026
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Jon reads Action Comics 263 (1960) and talks about it!

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Star Trek Reading Hour

003 Star Trek Reading Hour — Spock Must Die!

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Post date October 8, 2026
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Spock is duplicated in a transporter accident, and one insists the other must die. There are no indications of a puppy doing cosplay, though.

After that original novel, Jon and Blaine look at the next three collections of episodes adapted into short stories by James Blish.

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Babylon 5 Thirty Years Later

3.19 Babylon 5: Thirty Years Later — Grey 17 Is Missing

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Post date October 7, 2026
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Grey 17 is missing, but our coverage of the episode is not. Join Jon and Blaine as we look at a somewhat notorious episode of Babylon 5.

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162 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TMNT 60

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Post date October 3, 2026
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Layne and Jon pursue some foxy ladies with the second half of Fox Hunt in IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 60 from 2016!

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Jon Reads Supergirl

15 Supergirl — Superboy Meets Supergirl

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Post date October 2, 2026
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Jon reads Superboy 80 and an excerpt from Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen 44 (1960) and talks about them!

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Babylon 5 Thirty Years Later

3.18 Bablyon 5: Thirty Years Later — Walkabout

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Post date September 30, 2026
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Jon and Blaine decide to go walking until we find ourselves, but we talk about Babylon 5 along the way.

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Turtle Power Hour

48 Turtle Power Hour — Adventures 38 and TMNT 28

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Post date September 27, 2026
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Clinton, Layne, and Jon dive into the TMNT/Mutanimals crossover “United We Stand, Divided We Fall”! Find out what happens as we discuss Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures 38 from Archie Comics! Then we visit a poignant encounter between April and some river dwellers in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 28 from Mirage!

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161 Ninjas ‘n’ Bots — TF 31, Death of Optimus Prime

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Post date September 26, 2026
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Layne and Jon discuss the perplexing final issue of The Transformers by Mike Costa in issue 31, the epilogue to Chaos and basically to the entire IDW franchise to this point. Then they dive into the final issue of 2011 with The Transformers: Death of Optimus Prime!