Dave, Matt, and Erik are back in the DC Animated Movie Universe with sharp takes on Terra, Deathstroke, Nightwing, Starfire, Beast Boy, Damian Wayne, and Brother Blood. They discuss the movie’s most uncomfortable relationship, and zero in on the action scenes, family dynamics, and comic lore that make this one feel more like reading a comic book than watching an animated movie.

Key discussions:

• Why this movie feels more brutal and more sexually charged than its rating suggests
• How the team compares this adaptation to the original comic story and other DCAMU entries
• Why Beast Boy, Starfire, and Nightwing stand out here
• The panel’s thoughts on Brother Blood, Damian Wayne, and the movie’s most uncomfortable scenes

Links:

• Watch Teen Titans The Judas Contract
• Read the comic story the movie is based on
• Brother Blood (comic book history)
• Titans (current series Dave references)
• Kevin Smith's Podcast

Dave, Matt, and Erik revisit Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, along with the surrounding issues in the collected edition. They discuss the dystopian future ruled by Sentinels, Kitty Pryde’s role in the story, and how this classic two-parter helped shape X-Men time-travel stories. The conversation also gets into what still works—and what doesn’t. The hosts praise the story’s influence and fast-moving plot, while debating its heavy narration, the extra material in the collection, and character choices that feel uncomfortable today.

Links:

• Bobby Drake's Sexuality
• Read Days of Future Past
• Watch Days of Future Past (it's the only good Fox movie)
• Chris Claremont's X-Men Run Reading Order

Forty years later, Transformers: The Movie is still an animated gut punch. We revisit the 1986 cult classic to unpack why it hit so hard, why it still hits, and how a toy-driven cash grab accidentally became one of the boldest kids' movies ever made. What starts as a nostalgic celebration quickly turns into a deeper conversation about childhood, shock, and what the franchise means to us and so many others.

We dig into the movie's stacked cast, its unforgettable soundtrack, and the wild choices that made it feel bigger, darker, and way more emotional than anyone expected from a cartoon based on selling toys.

If you grew up with Transformers, love 80s animation, or just want to hear three fans argue passionately about why a robot movie can feel like childhood trauma and triumph at the same time, hit play and roll out!

Links:

• Transformers episode of The Toys That Made Us
• Energon Universe from Skybound/Image Comics
• Watch the movie here
• Transformers Action Figures
• IMDB