The Transformers

[upbeat music] Transformers.

More than meets the eye.

Transformers.

[upbeat music] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Heroes in a half shell.

Turtle power.

Hello and welcome to Ninjas and Bots, the weekly comic book podcast that talks about the IDW Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Okay.

So the Transformers 31, December 7th, 2011.

We're going to be finishing out another calendar year today with 2011.

There were three covers.

The bee cover from Casey Collar, who's our interior artist, and Joanna LaFuente, is a close-up of Ironhide's face looking older and grizzled.

And I often skip over the retailer incentives, but I wanted to mention it because it's It's a neat homage to the animated film brought to us by Trevor Hutchison, who used to do those All-Hill Megatron covers.

But the figures in this are our main cast members, like Optimus Prime and Bumblebee and such, who, honestly, people who saw the Transformers movie cover probably were expected to see Optimus Prime, and he's not on there.

So anyways, what do you think about our covers?

We're talking about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

We'll be talking about Transformers issue 31 and the 125th issue of IDW Transformers, which is no longer numbered 125, but is titled The Transformers Death of Optimus Prime.

So we will find out what all of that entails.

Technically, Death of Optimus Prime.