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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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!
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Layne and Jon cover the final proper chapters of Police Action and Chaos, but where do they leave us, and what promise does tomorrow hold? We find out in IDW’s The Transformers 29 and 30 from 2011!
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Layne and Jon continue to barrel toward the end of Phase One of IDW’s The Transformers! In issue 27, Prowl, Streetwise, Ultra Magnus, and Bumblebee interrogate various captured parties; in issue 28, the Primes head down toward Vector Sigma to stop Galvatron from doing the unthinkable as Megatron powers up to confront D-Void the Deceptigod! (Yes, that name is utterly ridiculous, and we should laugh at it, but everything else is pretty cool!
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Layne and Jon welcome Maggie and Jon back to the show to begin our look at the beginning of the end of Phase One! In IDW’s The Transformers 25, Police Action gets underway as Prowl begins investigating Spike Witwicky and the death of Scrapper. Then in The Transformers 26, the fit hits the shan as the Autobots deal with Galvatron’s attack on Cybertron!
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Layne and Jon head for a Cybertron they’ve not seen before in the first chapter of Chaos in IDW’s The Transformers 24 from 2011 before wrapping up the somewhat lackluster ending to Transformers: Hearts of Steel with issue 4 from 2006!
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Layne and Jon have had a delightful visit to the ancient history of Optimus’s and Megatron’s bromance/frienemiship, but it’s time to wrap it up with IDW’s The Transformers 23 from 2011! Then it’s time to push the Decepticon train down the track in Transformers: Hearts of Steel 3 from 2006!
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Layne and Jon learn about Megatron’s and Optimus’s pre-war relationship as they discuss Chaos Theory in IDW’s The Transformers 22 from 2011. Then John Henry and Bumblebee have a little meet-cute in Transformers: Hearts of Steel 2 from 2006!
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Layne and Jon put a wrap on Space Opera and get a glimpse of the upcoming Police Action with IDW’s The Transformers 21 from 2011. Then they roll back the clock to the 19th century and pick up 2006’s Transformers: Hearts of Steel 1.
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Clinton is back with Layne and Jon to have a look at the third live-action film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon from 2011!
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