Podcast Maximus

The Letterer at the Beginning and at the End

In our special 50th episode we interview Tom B Long, former IDW staffer, freelancer, letterer of thousands of comics and appreciator of art and eggs. Join us as we move through the craft and work involved in getting Lost Light #25 fit to read and mull over Tom's personal philosophies on lettering layout and craft, as well as how badge placement is done and the sad state of the comics industry. Guest-starring one hungry cat.

Tom's autobiographical comic, 'Comic Book Nobody Volume 1' is available on Comixology.

Theme tune is ‘Resuscitation’ by Hazeltron. (CC BY-NC 2.0)

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2021-03-01

It was the winter of 2005.

We say a sad goodbye to stalwart host and inspiration Marian and limp on with a discussion of Stuart’s new mega-project: Revisitation. He is going to review every issue of the original IDW Transformers comics, starting with Infiltration in the bewilderingly distant past of 2005. Has the pitch of ‘The Ultimates, but Transformers’ aged well? How does this old relaunch compare to any of the several other relaunches we have lived through since?

Theme tune is ‘Resuscitation’ by Hazeltron. (CC BY-NC 2.0)

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2021-01-08

Thanks for traveling with me.
As 2020 finally falls we spend a little time discussing which Transformers make the best friends, spouses, mentors or enemies. Thanks to a reader survey we have plenty to work with, ranging from naked thirst, heartfelt vulnerability and irreverent daydreams.  

Big thank you to everyone who filled out our survey and to everyone for watching and supporting over the years. 

Theme tune is ‘Resuscitation’ by Hazeltron. (CC BY-NC 2.0)

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A video version of this show is on YouTube and features the artwork of Alex Milne, Jack Lawrence, Nick Roche, Hayato Sakamoto, Sara Stone, Guido Guidi, Geoff Senior and Angel Hernandez. Colours were by Josh Burcham, Joanna Lafuente and Priscilla Tramontano.

Join the PodMax crew as they pore over issues 19-24 of the IDW mainline Transformers comic!

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

TRANSFORMERS: 13-18

TWO DISTINCT FLAVOURS OF ENERGON POOP - Living in a resource-depleted police state on the brink of political collapse, Marian, Stuart and Tom catch up with IDW's Transformers Galaxies comic.

Podcast Maximus review the first 12 issue of the new IDW ongoing!

Podcast Maximus Episode 42 END OF AN ERA A very special episode that's been 12 months in the making (don't ask). The team got together at the end of 2018 and talked UNICRON and the end of the IDW continuity.

The HOLIDAY SPECIAL!

LOST LIGHT 25: How to say goodbye and mean it (part 2)

LOST LIGHT 24: Crucible VI (A Spark Among Embers)

Lost Light 23: Crucible V

Podcast Maximus talk TFNation 2018

Lost Light 19-22: an epic 4 issue review!

The team look at Lost Light #18: The Everlasting Voices III

The team look at Lost Light 16 & 17: The Everlasting Voices 1 & 2

TRANSFORMERS: REQUIEM OF THE WRECKERS. The beginning and the end.

Podcast Maximus interview Nick Roche, Transformers Wreckers scribe extraordinaire, a few days before the release of his new book, Requiem of the Wreckers.

Transformers 2007: Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me. Stuart reunites with Becka as they go back in time to 2007 to bring the rain to the first Michael Bay film, looking at its strengths and weaknesses and asking if it still stands up.

TRANSFORMERS: LOST LIGHT 14-15. Foraging For Facts. The team look at the Final Ever Scavengers story and try to spot the forest from the trees as we ask: where do babies come from?

TRANSFORMERS: LOST LIGHT 13 (Sardines) Parlour games: Marian, Stuart and Tom talk about worst fears, surrealism and everybody who has been inside Roller in their look at Lost Light #13. Also - the Universe is ending and how is everyone going to cope?

TRANSFORMERS: LOST LIGHT 10-12 (The Plotters' Club) The Pod Max crew go method as we cover the Mutineers' Trilogy whilst turning on each other.

TRANSFORMERS: LOST LIGHT 7-9 The team look at life after Megatron, and take a trip to Troja Major where we say a final farewell to the departed, make some new friends and run into an old enemy. All whilst asking: isn't it magnificent?

TRANSFORMERS 5: THE LAST KNIGHT Knight of the Long Knives. Stuart and special guest Becka look at the cogs within wheels of Michael Bay's latest Transformers film and ask: How many plots does one film need? Spoilers aplenty!

Podcast Maximus talk TFNation 2017.

JAMES ROBERTS TFNATION 2017 INTERVIEW Podcast Maximus interview James Roberts, writer of IDW's More than Meets the Eye and Lost Light at the 2017 TFNation convention. Spoiler warnings for Lost Light and More than Meets Eye!

TRANSFORMERS: LOST LIGHT 1-6 Terrible punning! Pop culture references nobody gets! Rodimus bashing! Predestination, isolationism and Ctrl X + V warfare! It must be a James Roberts book review.

THE TRANSFORMERS 2017 ANNUAL: Podcast Maximus Unfiltered! The team meet in London for the Robots exhibition at the Science Museum and take the opportunity to talk Transformers Annual over dinner. Special guest appearance by Denyer! Perhaps.

Till All Are One - we talk about Scott and Pitre-Durocher's run on Transformers: TAAO

TFCON CHICAGO & TFNATION: Podcast Maximus is joined by TFNation to talk TFCon, drapes, and how to say "douchebag" in Japanese.

COMICS CATCH-UP: Terome, Mort and Dalek catch each other up on the first TFNation, IDW's Revolution.and Titans Return.

Podcast Maximus interview James Roberts, writer of IDW's More Than Meets The Eye series (and soon Transformers: Lost Light) at the inaugural TFNation convention in 2016.

TRANSFORMERS: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE #55. Chekhov's Fusion Cannon! A series of decisions is made in a confined space as Stuart, Marian and Tom investigate MTMTE #55.

TRANSFORMERS: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE. Podcast Maximus Unfiltered! Hit hard by Brexit, the team meets in the cafe of the Science Museum in London to do some proper strategising and talk about MTMTE #54.

TRANSFORMERS: SINS OF THE WRECKERS 4 & 5. Netflix and Kill! The crew look at the concluding two issues.

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: Stuart, Marian and Tom complete a thorough autopsy of a certain Turbofox before the sun sets sifting through Chromedome and Rewind's relationship, Baldrick's poetry and what Rodimus was thinking with that present for Megatron.

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: Terome, Mort and Dalek make their surprise full page arrival to talk about issues 51 and 52, narrowing down the identity of Tarn to the 500,000 most likely candidates and going dreamy-eyed at Drift's smile.

SINS OF THE WRECKERS: With the series due to kick back off, the Triumvirate reflect on the first three issues and why nobody can quit Prowl.

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: Despite several accidents with a nudge gun and a white hole, issue #50 got released for Terome, Mort and Dalek to chew over and expound on. Nobody touch that thing again, okay? Despite several accidents--

HOLIDAY SPECIAL: Dalek and Terome kill Christmas and your childhood as they look back over the first IDW seasonal celebration issue in an episode recorded in January. There are a few audio problems at the beginning.

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: An extended episode in which Terome, Mort and Dalek have a lot to say about the recent Getaway and Skids/DJD flashback story arcs as things Ratchet up towards the event of the 50th issue.

CONQUERORS: Mort, Dalek and Terome look at the most recent arc of the comic formerly known as RID to find out if it's still on Track(s), and ask if it's possible to grow a beard during a Blackrock speech.

SCAVENGERS: Terome and Dalek are joined by Mort as they unpack the complexities of the fan-favourite 'Cons in More Than Meets The Eye #45-46.

INFILTRATION: Ten years on, how well has the first IDW story arc held up? And more importantly where the hell did those ten years go?

WINDBLADE: In which Dalek and Terome discuss the first and second Windblade series, and Terome is outed as John Barber in a wig.

TOY CHAT: Mixing both hosts and subject up a bit, join Clay and Hound on the other side of the pond as they talk about all things Transformers in the plastic crack dept.

CHAOS THEORY: Dalek and Terome look back at this initial two-parter by James Roberts, discussing the script, the early timeline of IDW continuity and transitioning from fan writing.

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: Stuart and Tom get together with honorary UK-er Hound to give their take on #44 and the IDW More Than Meets The Eye comics in general.

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AUTOASSEMBLY 2015: Terome talks about what it was like to be a first time convention attendee at the last Auto Assembly and we ask whether James Roberts can crush a man's skull with his mighty hands.

We're sorry about the sound problems with this episode.