The Underbase Podcast
The Underbase Reviews Angry Birds Transformers #2

Adam and Nicole are finally alone together. . . . what better to do than review Angry Birds Transformers issue #2 eh? Warning: Contains randomness, asides and the at least one gaming addict!

Direct download: AB_TFs_02.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:22pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews TF #36

Discussion on Jurassic Park takes over the podcast momentarily before we review Transformers issue 36! Who takes over the comic after that? The humans or the Cybertronians? Also a fair bit of chatter about where we might be going with Combiner Wars. [Explicit]

Direct download: TF36.mp3
Category:Transformers (was RID) -- posted at: 5:36am EDT

The Underbase Reviews Drift: Empire of Stone #2

Join Luffy, Temple, Charls and Adam as they go through the second, more conversational, issue of Drift. Huge thanks to the guys for giving their thoughts, and big props to Charles, for jetting over to Europe, just to be on the show. . . . or that's how we will play it!

Direct download: Drift_EoS_02.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:45pm EDT

The Underbase December 2014 News Show

Aimee and Adam dig into 3 months of Solicitations and talk everything else in-between for this weeks news show. Good things to come!

Priscilla’s DA Page

Kotteri DA Page

Flint Dille CBR interview

Best of 2014 Vote

Direct download: UB_News1214.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:52pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Transformers Vs GI Joe #04

Join host Ad8m and special guest Jeremy, from the Transmissions podcast, as they jump into Transformers vs GI Joe issue#4!

Transmissions podcast

Jeremy on twitter

End of 2014 Voting + a CONTEST click for details!

Direct download: TFvsGIJ_04.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:37pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews MTMTE #35

Never fear MTMTE is here to remind you “Everything is fine.” We may be a little late with this review but we still function as the functionist council has decreed. Join our reviewers Matt, Adam, and Dave as they discuss what is going on in this fine comic.

End of 2014 Voting! Enter to win a copy of TF Punishment, click any of the following links for more details! FHM | IDW fan forum | Our Facebook Page 

Links and reminders will be posted to our twitter account!

Direct download: MTMTE35.mp3
Category:MTMTE -- posted at: 4:18pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Angry Birds Transformers #1

Join your world-weary host Adam as he guides two lucky guests through the first issue of ANGRY BIRDS VS TRANSFORMERS. Warning, toilet-based chat, as well as some serious discussion, are contained within. . . . . . 

Direct download: AB_TFs_01.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:59am EDT

The Underbase Reviews Drift: Empire of Stone #1

Join Underbase debutants Luffy and Temple as they, along with your aged doddering host Ad8m, take on DRIFT: EMPIRE OF STONE #1! Great job by the new guys, hope you all enjoy!

And check out the previous Drift miniseries reviews done back in 2010!

Direct download: Drift_EoS_01.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:04pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews TF #35

Join the review team of the formally known as RID comic! Which character makes this issue? A table flipper, a certain bad human, or an insane alien? All this in issue #35! [Explicit]

Direct download: TF35.mp3
Category:Transformers (was RID) -- posted at: 12:33pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Primacy #04

So the regular team of Joe, Paul and Adam return for the finale of PRIMACY. Thanks to everyone for listening to us, and especially for Big C for his wonderfull intro. . . . . not sure who the artist guy is, but he has nice eyes.

Direct download: Primacy04.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:58pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews MTMTE #34

Welcome new regular reviewer Adam May (@Inhumanoids) to team MTMTE! Teased as being the issue where Autobots must make an impossible choice: kill or cure, find out what the outcome is and the consequences! 

Direct download: MTMTE34.mp3
Category:MTMTE -- posted at: 7:59pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Primacy #03

Load up your Yorkshire translators, folks, as Host Adam is joined by regular guest Joe Teanby and special guest Paul ("Pred" to you old MB2 members) to review Primacy issue #3!!

Wiki entry for the Rhubard Triangle

Ken Christiansen's Website

Direct download: Primacy03.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:05pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Robots In Disguise #34

What does the Covenant of Primus have to do with the IDW Universe? Find out in this weeks review of RID issue 34, (soon to be shortened to just "Transformers") as Dave, Gruffy and Turnbull discuss! Theories and explanations ahoy! Plus #browncrayon [Explicit]

Direct download: RID34.mp3
Category:RID -- posted at: 8:13pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Transformers Vs GI Joe #03

Listen to Adam and Joe as they get all kinds of silly about the latest offering from Tom and John!

LINKS:

TF Wiki Page for this issue

Chris McFeely Patreon Page

Untold Marvels: Collected PDF Version

Joe's Deviantart Page

Franco's Deviantart Page

Direct download: TFvsGIJ_03.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:03pm EDT

The Underbase October 2014 News Show

We talk Combiner Wars, Sales, upcoming trades and books to be on the look out for, conventions and reported artists attending, and the Solicitations for both November and December! Please check out the show notes with all links at: http://www.fullmetalhero.com/f85/

Direct download: UB_News1014.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:26am EDT

The Underbase Reviews Robots In Disguise #33

Thanks for your patience as Dave, Gruffy and Turnbull finally sit down to chat about RID 33 and make horse jokes instead. Saddle up to this excellent review of a Cybertron centric issue that brings back a favorite character we haven’t heard from in a year. [Explicit]

Direct download: RID33.mp3
Category:RID -- posted at: 7:02pm EDT

The Underbase reviews MTMTE #33

Matt’s back to lead the show and things turn very strange and stalk like, but never fear, its all entertaining chatter… mostly. (The legal papers have been served and therapy prescribed.) Issue 33 of MTMTE… it will blow your mind… our reviewers are here to give you their take on this second of a two part piece, Slaughterhouse! [Explicit]

Direct download: MTMTE33.mp3
Category:MTMTE -- posted at: 5:56pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Primacy #02

After grabbing a preview with hours to spare, Adam, Paul and Joe take on Primacy issue#2 in a rougher style than normal. . . . . and no, we don't know why Adam sounds like his dentures are falling out, either!

Direct download: Primacy02.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:28pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Transformers Vs GI Joe #02

Join Abbi, Rob and Adam as their planned serious discussion about TF vs GIJoe#2  gets waylaid with the sheer boundless fun of badly-timed update calls, motor-cross tricks, awkward polar fighters and the ultimate bling.

Direct download: TFvsGIJ_02.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:09pm EDT

The Underbase Season Two Discussion

Mikey's comic basement discussion series! He invites internet personality Vangelus to chatter and discuss in depth about MTMTE and RID Season Two! They talk characters and perspectives on what they are seeing and what they'd like to see in the future! Tune in for this two hour discussion while we have a comic break this week! [Explicit]

Direct download: UB_Season2Discussion.mp3
Category:discussion -- posted at: 7:45pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews MTMTE #32

Teased to be one that will make us cry, Team MTMTE reviews issue 32! Welcome to the House of Horrors! Tune in to catch this stunning issue and contemplate its consequences! Find out if Matt was right… [Explicit]

Direct download: MTMTE32.mp3
Category:MTMTE -- posted at: 7:58pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Primacy #01

With Transformers Primacy kicking off, it makes sense that the Underbase unites the team from Autocracy and Monstrosity: Adam, Joe and Paul. Listen as we take a more serious, discussion-based look at this first issue. . . . yet Adam still manages to potentially offend the artist, and cause Paul breathing issues.

Direct download: Primacy01.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:25pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Robots In Disguise #32

Three reviewers get into the depths of RID issue 32 and all it’s sneaky reveals. Find out what Thundercracker finds and hear the discussion on which human may be returning to the comics soon? All this and more in this weeks issue and review of Robots In Disguise! [Explicit]

Direct download: RID32.mp3
Category:RID -- posted at: 5:57pm EDT

The Underbase Classics Episode 010

A lost recording from last year's UNDERBASE CLASSICS, this unaired attempt to record a TRANSFORMERS:CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE book is 80mins of unashamed fun and laughter. Even if this is too long for your weekly commute, keep a hold of this for a day when you need a lift. Massive thanks to Gruffy, Joe and Paul for this.

The perils of Brandy delivering, the battle of Joe's vocal range and Paul trying not to die.

Direct download: UBC010.mp3
Category:classics -- posted at: 4:16pm EDT

The Underbase August 2014 News Show

Tune into our pre Auto Assembly news podcast with Aimee and Adam! We cover SDCC news, October solicitations, and a short review of Monster Motors available now! Don't miss out on this one shot!

Direct download: UB_News0814.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:51am EDT

The Underbase Reviews Robots In Disguise #31

Join Dave, Gruffy, and new comer Geoff as we review Robots In Disguise issue 31! Find out whats up with Jazz… and most importantly, PROWL!

Direct download: RID31.mp3
Category:RID -- posted at: 7:05pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Transformers Vs GI Joe #01

Join Adam, Rob, and Chris as they chatter about the beginning of what Transformers and GI Joe would have been like if Jack Kirby had done them back in the day, brought to you by Tom Scioli and John Barber! It's issue number one of the series!

Direct download: TFvsGIJ_01.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:36pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Windblade #4

It’s the final issue of Windblade and all the answers are here among the teases of what’s to come! GCRN’s The Pull Bag crossovers this final review with Team Angel! Thanks for listening and continue to follow Windblade this fall in Robots In Disguise! And in Summer 2015 she will return!

Direct download: Windblade4.mp3
Category:Windblade -- posted at: 7:40pm EDT

The Underbase July 2014 News Show

Aimee and Adam are featuring the NEWS this weekend! All the stuff from Botcon 2014, the September Solicitations, and all the little tidbits! September Solicits are at the end of the podcast to keep those avoiding spoilers from being spoiled! Enjoy! For Show Notes check out fullmetalhero.com

Direct download: UB_News0714.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:42pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews MTMTE #31

It's POST Botcon and Age of Extinction… don't worry we couldn't avoid talking about the delicious memories and destruction in the movie! And then MTMTE 31 is reviewed! [@29 mins in] It’s the Lost Light origins mystery show where they all play “patty cake!” See what Matt, Andy, and Chris have to say about it all! [Explicit]

Direct download: MTMTE31.mp3
Category:MTMTE -- posted at: 7:02pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Windblade #3

This review of Windblade #3 has 100% more Cyclonus in it… and he’s not even in this issue! Join Aimee, Heather, Nicole and Mike as they review this game changer issue! With one more issue in the series left to go, Windblade expectations have all been blown! Find out what our reviewers thought! (Kudos for Mike for mass editing!) [Explicit]

Direct download: Windblade3.mp3
Category:Windblade -- posted at: 5:52pm EDT

The Underbase - TransMissions Botcon Interview

The Underbase and TranMissions Podcasts mash up to interview John Barber, Mairghread Scott, and James Roberts on 30 years of Transformers Storytelling before Botcon 2014 kicks off! 

 

Don't forget to check out the TransMissions Podcast. Thanks for tuning in!

Direct download: Botcon2014interview.mp3
Category:Interview -- posted at: 3:45pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews MTMTE #30

This issue of MTMTE 30 features Bullet Bike, Guardians of the Galaxy, Space Balls, and a whistling transformer! It's not just explanations its entertainment with a slew of background characters to boot. Adam May joins the Matt and Andy team this week while McFeely is traveling abroad. 

Direct download: MTMTE30.mp3
Category:MTMTE -- posted at: 4:34am EDT

The Underbase Reviews Robots In Disguise #30

Team RID brings on guest Chris McFeely to review issue 30! Which character brings more pain? Prowl, Galvatron, or SkyLynx? Check out our review find out who takes the issue! And all the theories that fly in the end… [Explicit]

Direct download: RID30.mp3
Category:RID -- posted at: 5:46am EDT

The Underbase June 2014 News Show

Dave and Aimee sit down to talk all the news bits that we've been ignoring for the last few months! For all the show notes and links about the news please go to fullmetalhero.com.

Direct download: UB_News0614.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:52pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Dreamwave Generation One Ongoing part 1

It's the series that was never completed, Volume 3 of Dreamwave's Generation One series. Dave and Chris sit down and chatter about the first 5 issues. Jetfire, Sunstorm and Starscream and Bumblebee, oh my! It's the ins and outs that started it all, before it all came to a crashing halt! (This collection was never printed in trade, so you'll need to pull out your single issues, click here for the tfwiki.net entry.) [Explicit]

Direct download: DWepisode05.mp3
Category:Dreamwave -- posted at: 3:12am EDT

The Underbase Reviews Robots In Disguise #29

Dave leads the review of Robots In Disguise #29! Sadly this time Buster's favorite reviewer, Suzy does not join the team. Tune in find out what happens on Earth, what the Decepticons do, and the Autobots… and maybe a few shady characters in between! (WARNING: Spoilers of MTMTE's last issue within.) [Explicit]

Direct download: RID29.mp3
Category:RID -- posted at: 6:15pm EDT

The Underbase Windblade Interview

It's the Windblade interview we've been waiting to bring you! Issue #2 is out this last week and we sit down with both Mairghread and Sarah to talk about the creation of Windblade and how the series has gone so far. (WARNING: Spoilers, if you haven't read the first two issues you may want to hold off on this interview before tuning in.) And we may have some teasers on whats to come!

Direct download: Windbladeinterview.mp3
Category:Interview -- posted at: 6:57pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Windblade #2

 

Team Angel brings the Windblade review #2 to the Underbase! Once again TFG1Mike joins us from GCRN's The Pull Bag and we try our best to de-rail this review with tangents and geek references, among other bits of chatter. And lets not forget the amount of art and commission pieces we hope to see one day after this review. Or the comments on Metroplex's bowels, or the 4 minute review of Beast Machines. So many tangents, so many…[Explicit]

 

We are also on Stitcher now!

 

Direct download: Windblade2.mp3
Category:Windblade -- posted at: 11:06pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews MTMTE #29

It’s the middle of the 3 part arc of MTMTE Season two opener! Switches and changes and mysteries OH MY! Matt, Chris and Andy react to this months issue which lives up to its name, MORE than meets the eye! When will this madness end? [Explicit]

Direct download: MTMTE29.mp3
Category:MTMTE -- posted at: 12:53am EDT

The Underbase Reviews Transformers Vs GI Joe FCBD issue

Last weekend we got the first issue of Transformers verses GI Joe by Tom Scioli and John Barber! This weeks show is a review of that free comic! Join Adam, Matt, Rob and James as they give us their insight to this years FCBD offering and the kick off of the ongoing releasing next month! [Explicit]

Direct download: TFvsGIJ_FCBDreview.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:42pm EDT

The Underbase reviews MTMTE #28

The highly anticipated return of MTMTE! And another reviewer down, we have guest @inhumanoids to join Matt and Chris McFeely as they review MTMTE 28, the start of Season Two! We also celebrate our 200th week of podcasting this week! Making the episode count at 260! Good times! [Clean]

Direct download: MTMTE28.mp3
Category:MTMTE -- posted at: 7:25pm EDT

The Underbase Interview of Season Two

We welcome back the writer who writes More Than Meets The Eye, James Roberts to chat about Season One, Dark Cybertron, and what we all want to hear about . . . Season Two! 

 

We are now on Stitcher!

Direct download: S2_MTMTE_interview.mp3
Category:Interview -- posted at: 7:33pm EDT

The Underbase Review Robots In Disguise #28

RID is back and we have our Beast Hunters Team to review issue 28! But throw in the good ship Continuity, Josh Boyfriend, homemade brew, Buster, and moments of weirdness. Also the podcast is podcast bombed by Suzy. It's a cracking issue! [Explicit]

Direct download: RID28.mp3
Category:RID -- posted at: 5:04am EDT

The Underbase Talks Windblade 1

Windblade made its debut this week and what better topic to have as a discussion than more Windblade chatter for the weekend show!? Lets review some points, ALL NEW points mind, from two Underbase regulars who just couldn't resist a chance to talk about this new comic! [Explicit]

Direct download: Windblade1talk.mp3
Category:discussion -- posted at: 6:25am EDT

The Underbase Review Windblade 1

The wait is finally over, Windblade kicks off the beginning of our return from Dark Cybertron! (Besides having no comic for two weeks!) The Underbase presents a first podcast crossover in this first review of the long awaited series! It may just be the time of the night, the fact that we start art snobbing, or the comic itself… but we have a rolling good time! All while reviewing Windblade. But is it a buy or a pass? [clean]

 

Check out the Geekcast Radio Network The Pull Bag or subscribe to The Pull Bag via iTunes or RSS feed.

Direct download: Windblade1.mp3
Category:Windblade -- posted at: 6:16pm EDT

The Underbase Talks Retrospective Season One

Mikey and Chris sit down to have a retrospective talk on Season One of Ongoing MTMTE and RID. They talk their opinions, what stood out, strengths and weaknesses… and finally realize they bit off more than they could chew and may need to sit down to chatter some more at a later date! Until then, listen in and have a walk into their brains for an hour and a half! [Explicit]

Direct download: UB_retrospective2014.mp3
Category:discussion -- posted at: 5:36pm EDT

The Underbase Interviews Sarah Stone

Without an issue to review this week, we brought in a special guest who will be debuting in Transformers comics in another week! Sarah Stone, artist of Windblade, joins the Underbase for a chatter on her art and beginnings! Don't forget to get to your local comic shop next week and pick up the first issue of Windblade! [monsterboysandrobots.com]

Direct download: SStone_interview.mp3
Category:Interview -- posted at: 7:19pm EDT

The Underbase Talks Season 2

WARNING! The following unplanned, late night, discussion contains so many errors, it's a wonder we got our names right. . . . . but sometimes you just got to have a natter. . . . and Dave hasn't chatted to one podcaster in a while. . . .

Direct download: UB_season2talk.mp3
Category:discussion -- posted at: 5:34am EDT

The Underbase Reviews Dark Cybertron Chapter 12, round 2

It's round two of the Dark Cybertron wrap-up reviews! Team #1 gives their review followed by marks and their overall enjoyment of the whole event. And of course in regular discussion fashion expectations of what's to come in both the Ongoing and Windblade. We cover all bases this week. (Movie chatter in the outtakes, Winter Soldier teases, very cryptic talk as Matt hasn't seen it yet.) [Explicit]

 

Special thanks to @Timey2Wimey for the Shockwave voiceover contribution.

Direct download: UB_DC12.5.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:04am EDT

The Underbase reviews Dark Cybertron Chapter 12

It is the finale of Dark Cybertron and the A Team reviews the final chapter of the last 6 months! Does this event trump all events? Find out what Dave, Nicole and Aimee have to say about the series as a whole. [Explicit]

Direct download: UB_DC12.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:46pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Robots In Disguise #27

Here it is, Team RID is giving their last review of Dark Cybertron #11! And then on to the finale! (At which point we switch books!) How does Matt, Andy and Chris take the death of a hero? Well, tune in and find out! [Explicit]

Direct download: RID27.mp3
Category:RID -- posted at: 6:21pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews MTMTE 27

Its the last MTMTE review with Dave, Aimee, and Nicole! Dark Cybertron is quickly coming to a close and is it possible that we will learn of Shockwave's true intentions or will we be chilling at Swerve's waiting for the karaoke to start up? All this and more on this weeks podcast! [Explicit]

Direct download: MTMTE27.mp3
Category:MTMTE -- posted at: 12:40am EDT

The Underbase Reviews Dreamwave The Dark Ages

He's bad news and he's on fire… it's our first introduction into "the Fallen" from Dreamwave's The War Within, The Dark Ages! Dave and Chris review and discuss the story, the Fallen, his entrance into the movies, and everything else in-between! [Explicit]

Direct download: DWepisode04.mp3
Category:Dreamwave -- posted at: 10:36pm EDT

The Underbase Best of 2013 Show

This is the show a year and 2 months in the making! The Underbase presents our BEST of 2013! It is the podcast that pits the podcaster vote against the listener vote to find out just how much we are the same and how much we differ! Wrapping up 2013 lets walk down memory lane, with some new perspectives to boot! [Explicit]

Direct download: Bestof2013.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:03pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Robots In Disguise #26

It all kicks off between Titans and Primes in this reviewed issue of RID 26, Dark Cybertron chapter 9. Is it an ending or a beginning? Matt, Chris, and Andy give their opinions of what's going on and what may be!

Direct download: RID26.mp3
Category:RID -- posted at: 5:13am EDT

The Underbase Reviews MTMTE 26

Dave is playing referee to our two resident snipers… Aim and Nic! And along the way we review Chapter 8 of Dark Cybertron! (aka MTMTE #26) Along with quickly turning the comic to it's dark ends. Also a certain Superbowl video is discussed as well.

Direct download: MTMTE26.mp3
Category:MTMTE -- posted at: 8:48pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Robots In Disguise #25

Prepare to be entertained as we take a ride in the love shack! Matt, Andy and Chris get crazy busy and review the heck out of this issue of Dark Cybertron chapter 7! Check out the show notes and interact at Fullmetalhero.com!

Direct download: RID25.mp3
Category:RID -- posted at: 1:34pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews MTMTE 25

The longest podcast this year, first review of 2014 is a patchwork of tears and news reactions as well as a complete review of MTMTE 25! And don't forget to let us know… WHO WILL DIE? Cyclonus or Swerve… be sure to cast your vote on fullmetalhero.com!

Direct download: MTMTE25.mp3
Category:MTMTE -- posted at: 5:06pm EDT

The Underbase Reviews Timelines 8

Bringing back the whole gang again for a third year, we’ve got a Matt, McFeely, and Grufflock to chatter another Timelines Funpub Production from this last years Botcon 2013. It’s Timelines 8, titled “Termination.” They came, they saw, they reviewed it again and they may just have some entertaining things to say as well. (Explicit) Check out fullmetalhero.com for show notes and links.

Direct download: UB_Timelines8.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:42am EDT

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