Podcast MWC

MWC stands for Married with Cybertron, as Jon M Wilson joins the Schaefer-Hames on their journey through the IDW Phase 2 Transformers comics. On this episode, we cover issues 12 of RID and MTMTE. The Lost Light Crew battles a group of rogue Decepticons and fights to save the lives of some of their own, while back on Cybertron, Megatron's return is …

Ryan Daly from the Fire and Water Podcast network mentioned in passing that we should watch the cartoon, Bluey for a Married Watching Cartoons. Ryan was right! Join, Ryan, Maggie, and I as we talk about 3 episodes of what could be the best show of any medium currently running.

It's #JLMay once again! This time around, podcasts from all over the 'sphere have gotten together to cover 2007-8's The Brave and The Bold #15, featuring two characters that Maggie and Jon have never covered before and only know all that much about one of them. So, in true Brave and the Bold style. #JLMay2023 #JLMay Follow the Event with all of the…

Jon, Jon, Layne, and Clinton cover chapters three through six in book two of Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Jon and Maggie. Layne stops by to help us cover the Batman: TAS episode, Christmas With the Joker and sticks around while we cover Frank Capra's classic Christmas movie, It's a Wonderful Life.

Deep Dive is back as Layne, Clinton, and the two Jons cover Chapters one and two of Book Two of Dragons of Autumn Twilight.

Minisode alert! It's Married with College time again as Maggie helps Jon with one of his Library classes as they review Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence and write love letters and breakup letters to some of their favorite (and not so favorite) books and other media, including The Magician's Nephew, The Magicians, Bullet Train, Atlas Shrugged, An…

The summer side project continues into the late fall, as Jon, Layne, and Clinton cover the last part of book one of book one. You read that right. Tolkein broke up his books into books, and so does Dragonlance. You gonna tell us that Tolkein was wrong? I don't think so! The heroes face Onyx, the black dragon in a final battle, the gods come back to…

The two Jons cover Robots in Disguise #10 with a cover and timey-wimey plot that will amaze you but nowhere near as much as the last page of Robots in Disguise #11 will. Things are about to kick into gear in IDW Phase 2!

The Summer of Dragonlance draws to an end but we have more book to cover! Join Jon, Jon, and Layne as we continue through chapters 17 and 18 of Dragons of Autumm Twilight. Then stick around as Jon interviews Ben Riggs, author of Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons and Dragons as they discuss Weis and Hickman's time at TSR as well as so…

The Summer of Dragonlance continues as Layne, Jon, and Jon discuss chapters 13-16 of Dragons of Autumn Twilight! With discussions of the logistics of hauling around a giant wicker dragon, unintential dark humor while describing a scene where a character gets bathed in acid, and complex relations between people and gods reduced to the poem "Footprin…

The Rod Pod returns! TFG1Mike stops by to discuss More Than Meets the Eye #s 9-11, the Shadowplay Saga with the two Jons. This one has an absolutely jaw-dropping finale and a last page you won't believe, so don't miss it!

Summer side project continues as Jon, Jon, and Clinton take on chapters 9-12 of Dragons of Autumn Twilight! This episode has everything! Really bad puns by one Jon and Clinton threatening to drive the other Jon out of his mind? Yep! Misuse of the word "Thee" in the text coming close to finishing the job? Oh yes! Jon literally moved to tears while r…

The whole gang is here! The two Jons, Clinton, and Layne cover Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Chapters 5-8, as well as an exerpt from the AD&D Module, Dragons of Mystery. The companions survive near drowning and flying arrows only to fall headfirst into combat with creatures from beyond their experience. Will the quest be over before it begins? Sent f…

The Summer of Dragonlance continues, as my friends join me for a discussion of one of my lifelong favorites, The Dragonlance Chronicles! Layne and Clinton join me for a discussion of chapters 1 and 2 and a readthrough/discussion of 3 of Dragons of Autumn Twilight! Check out Clinton's stuff: http://coffeeandcomicspodcast.blogspot.com/ Check out Layn…

Inacurrately Titled Summer Side Project Alert! Jon M Wilson, Clinton Robison, and eventually Layne from Batman Books: A Dark Knight in Prose podcast join me for a deep dive into one of Jon's childhood favorites. (The use of the word "Daily" is for alliterative purposes and will not imply the rate of release!)…

New Rod Pod! It's two Jons for the price of one as Jon M Wilson joins me as we cover RID Annual 2012. With more esoteric nostalgia than you can possibly imagine!

In the final of our book talk minisodes, Jon and Maggie chat about Weird Westerns! Discussing Territory, by Emma Bull, Six Gun Tarot, by R.S Belcher, Karen Memory, by Elizabeth Bear, Silver on the Road, by Laura Anne Gilman, and River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

You've received a new transmission from the Rod Pod! Anthony Brucale from Transformers University joins Jon and Maggie for a deep dive into the 2012 MTMTE Annual!

Jon and Maggie talk about Foundation by Isaac Asimov, Old Man's War by John Scalzi, Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir, and The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers.

Maggie helps Jon with one of his librarian classes as they discuss mystery books and TV shows before she reads him an Encyclopedia Brown mystery! Can Jon match wits with the world's smartest 10 year old? Can you? Download it now! Timestamps: Intro: 0:00 Mystery Book Talk: 3:00 Encyclopedia Brown and The Case of the Electric Clock: 27:30 Books menti…

New episode! Join Maggie and Jon as they read through and review issues 7 and 8 of IDW's More Than Meets the Eye comics series. We meet the DJD who is scary as hell, and their leader Tarn, who could be the nastiest Decepticon in the series. We talk about the ramifications of eons-long warfare, good and evil in terms of the same, and the occasionall…

Spoon! Maggie brings the Tick vs Pineapple Pokopo to the episode and to help us out with it, Ryan Daley from The Fire and Water Podcast Network stops by. We call him Speak, because that is what he does! Grab your surfboard and shark repellant and your taste for pineapple dishes as we discuss 90s ennui, the fallacy of the undistributed middle, monke…

It's Halloween and that means Mephisto is up to his old tricks again, forcing us and 3 other podcasts to mix it up. This time around, Al Sedano from Resurrections: An Adam Warlock and Thanos Podcast joins us to cover the most unlikely crossover that you will ever love: My Little Pony/Transformers: Friendship in Disguise. Join us as we cover the epi…

In Married Watching Cartoons, Jon and Maggie take turns introducing the other to a cartoon they may not be as familiar with. This episode, Sean Ross from Secret Wars and the Bat Pod basically wouldn't let us do this episode without him, so here he his! We talk about quoting lines from cartoons as a means of seduction, muse about what Sean's basebal…

Jon and Maggie dust off their comic books and remind themselves how to appreciate static images as they cover Fantastic Four #s 334-336 which serves as both the end of the Acts of Vengeance storyline as well as the debut of Walt Simonson's run on the series. We are a Proud Participant in the Merry Marvel MARCHing Society 2021 event! Check out all t…

Jon and Maggie are watching cartoons while remaining married the entire time! Maggie's favorite thing ever is Pokemon while Jon knows it mostly as a collectible card game that he never played but complained about a lot. How will Jon feel about The Fortune Hunters? How many Pokemon can Maggie name in 30 seconds? Prepare for trouble. Better make it d…

Join Maggie and Jon and they match wits with the world's greatest (10 year old) detective! Maggie reads Jon The Case of The Two-fisted Poet. Will Leroy lose Sally forever to a snobby kid who went to school in England? Then Jon reads Maggie The Case of the Wounded Toe where the weird kid who keeps teeth in a jar gets shot n the foot. The 1960's ever…

You have received a new transmission from the Rod Pod. Jon and Maggie are trapped in a spacecraft shaped like Rodimus' head with only their cats and occasional issues of IDW's Transformers comics that the Autobot Sky Lynx periodically drops by. No one knows why any of this is happening. This month, Sky Lynx has brought Robots in Disguise issues 7 t…

Welcome to our new format! Jon and Maggie are taking turns introducing the other to cartoons that the other may not be as familiar with. On our debut episode, Jon introduces Maggie to the Smurfs! Take time out of the craziness of real life for some escapism. Jon brings in King Smurf, an episode which *checks notes* shows the Smurfs descend into ful…

We close out 2020 and this phase of our podcast with the comic that we nearly started with. Listen for one last comics hurrah before we change over to covering cartoons in 2021. Reed Richards and Sue Storm get married but not before having to deal with Doctor Doom's nefarious wedding gift and a blind guy driving a bomb into New York Harbor. Listen …

Happy Holidays from Married with Comics! Clinton Robison from Coffee and Comics as well as Fanfilm Fridays stops by to discuss one of his favorites and ours, the cleverly named, He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special! Celebrate the holiday of your choice while we dive into this 55 minute long toy commercial in which the Evil Lord of Destruction get…

It's Halloween, so that means Mephisto has compelled us into a spooky crossover yet again, this time with Tim Price and Sean from Secret Wars and Beyond podcast. We cover Tomb of Dracula #44 and Doctor Strange #14 as the Lord of Vampires and Sorcerer Supreme fight to the death! Stick around as we veer off into tangents about Brahm Stokers' novel, G…

Jon matches wits with everyone's favorite 10 year old detective, and almost gets too distracted by how violent life was for the youth of the '60s to solve the case. Will he recover in time?

New episode! Mephisto casts the dastardly Spell of Comics Apathy on us and only Tim Price, the Podcrasher can save us with one of our favorite comics of all time, Bone #10. You'd be a stupid, stupid rat creature to miss this one!

Jon reads an Encyclopedia Brown mystery to Maggie and she tries to solve it. Jon remembers this one from childhood and thinks the clue will be too obscure for Maggie to solve. Is he right, or will Maggie's repeat viewings of QI win her the day?

The world may be a garbage fire, but at least there's a new Rod Pod! Jon and Maggie read through and discuss IDW Transformers More Than Meets the Eye #6: Interiors, where we deal with severe PTSD, depression, and someone accidentally getting shot in the head. MTMTE is the funny on purpose one, remember. In Robots in Disguise #6 Syndromica, Orion Pa…

Maggie Reads Jon an Encyclopedia Brown mystery and he tries to solve it. Can you solve the case of the Balloon Man, a case that has perplexed even the Chief of Police of Idaville before Jon can? (I wouldn't get too worked up. Chief Brown is stalwart and true, but his deductive reasoning skills are dangerously lacking, considering his job).…

This is it! The final chapter of The Wounded Sky, read by all three of us followed by a discussion of the book. Thank you so much for putting up with the various delays and we hope you had as much fun listening as we did reading and recording it. Layne appears courtesy of http://thebatmanuniverse.net/ Buy Diane Duane ebooks at bit.ly/EBD50PctSale F…

We're almost to the the end of our Doses of of Star Trek, Daily or otherwise. Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Jon reads chapter 15, where we say hello to a new univ…

We're back with everyone's favorite inaccurately named Daily Dose of Star Trek! Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Layne reads chapter 14, in which the Enterprise crew…

We're back with everyone's favorite inaccurately named Daily Dose of Star Trek Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Maggie reads chapter 13 in which we find out why God …

We're back with everyone's favorite inaccurately named Daily Dose of Star Trek Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Jon reads Chapter 12 as the crew comes face to face w…

We're back with everyone's favorite inaccurately named Daily Dose of Star Trek! Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Layne reads chapter 11, it's an absolutely beautiful…

We're back with everyone's favorite inaccurately named Daily Dose of Star Trek! Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Maggie reads chapter 10 where we learn along with th…

We're back with everyone's favorite inaccurately named Daily Dose of Star Trek Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, until we have the whole thing read. Jon reads Chapter 9 and things are getting really rea…

It's a double dose of Married With Comics as this episode gets you not one, but two entire married couples, a total of four people! We learn that the Baileys had once planned to start a podcast with the same name as ours, but we got there first, so the four of us have no choice but to fight to the death to determine who is truly married with comics…

Layne, Maggie, and Jon discuss the first half of The Wounded Sky.

It's your (increasingly inaccurately named) daily dose of Star Trek! Maggie and Jon are joined by Layne from Batman Books: The Dark Knight In Prose podcast to read through Diane Duane's amazing Star Trek novel, The Wounded Sky, one chapter at a time, releasing episodes (roughly) once a weekday until we have the whole thing read. Layne reads Chapter…

Maggie takes a break this episode so Delvin stops by to talk with Jon about Sam Wilson: Captain America 1 and 2, a completely not in any way controversial comic. We then spend some time talking about how not controversial it is. Then Paul Hix shows up from Australia! Give it a listen. Listen to Paul Hix's podcasts here: https://www.waitingfordoom.c…