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Apr 01, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Wait, What?
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Episodes
Wait, What? - Episode 355
Join Jeff and Graeme for the last episode of the year, and the last regularly scheduled episode ever! In a three-plus hour wrap-up, we dip our toes into doing a Randy Newman podcast, try to spitball our best of lists more or less on the fly, play two last rounds of My Four Manga, listener and friend of the podcast Skye gives us a round of My Four Webcomics, Jeff tries to get Graeme to sing, and so much more! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at ...
Dec 18, 2022•3 hr 21 min
Drokk! Episode 46
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! After reading forty volumes of Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester pull a victory lap and read the epic Day of Chaos! It is all John Wagner in these two collected volumes, with extraordinary art by Henry Flint and Colin MacNeil as well as Ben Willsher, Edmund Bagwell, and Leigh Bagwell. Together, they crafted the biggest megaprog to date showing Dredd reaping what he sowed thirty years earlier and fighting for the soul of ...
Dec 11, 2022•2 hr 36 min
Wait, What? - Episode 354
Chloe Maveal joins us in this, our first December episode, for a two hour conversational romp discussing the San Francisco FanExpo, the beard of Pat Broderick and the non-charms of Lootcrate; A Friend of the Family, Avenue 5, and Slumberland; the huge Vertigo drop on DCUI Ultra; 20222 comic buying and reading stats from Jeff; Spotify Wrapped; and much, much more! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you t...
Dec 04, 2022•2 hr 4 min
Wait, What? - Episode 353
It is our final episode for November and more than likely our final November episode ever! But do not fret: Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are here to answer your questions about what we will be doing post-podcast, our favorite wrap-ups for series and stories; the upcoming Dawn of DC; what can go wrong when dealing with press embargoes; what our next readthrough would have been; who our Marvel and DC podcasting equivalents are; favorite comic book events; must read recommendations, our early pi...
Nov 20, 2022•2 hr 56 min
Drokk! Episode 45
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester complete Operation: Drokk with this, the fortieth and latest (and final for our purposes) volume of Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Time for Total War as John Wagner and Henry Flint rewrite the map of MegaCity One with a megaprog that knocked our irradiated socks off! We also talk about strong work from Gordon Rennie this volume, a surprise from Alan Grant, and art from John Burns, Disraeli, Carl Critchlow, John Burns,...
Nov 13, 2022•2 hr 11 min
Wait, What? - Episode 352
November is here and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester trail in its autumnal wake! Join us for a two and a half hour episode as we talk about Mission Hill, comic creator interviews then and now, our time together in Portland, trick or treating, the most uncomfortable way to watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The Fuse, the first fifty issues of Spawn, and some uh big news about the future of the podcast! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatP...
Nov 06, 2022•2 hr 32 min
Wait, What? - Episode 351
Chloe Maveal returns to the podcast to join Graeme McMilland and Jeff Lester in talking about things scary, spooky, and altogether ooky! It is our first Wait, What? since New York Comic-Con, so there is a rundown on the highs and lows of that show, and lots of talk about films and shows watched for the Halloween season including Nightmare Weekend, His House, Baba Yaga, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Vampires Kiss, The Lair of the White Worm, as well as comics like Radiant Black, Big Dave, Punisher...
Oct 23, 2022•2 hr 4 min
Drokk! Episode 44
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester veer a bit off track from Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files to read volume 4 of Judge Dredd: The Restricted Case files and, in retrospect, maybe that was a mistake? Join us as we look at stories from John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra, Alan Grant, Henry Flint, Pat Mills, Shaky Kane, Gordon Rennie, Jim Baikie, Robbie Morrison, John Morrison, Si Spencer, Sean Longcraft, Alan Barnes, Trevor Hairsine, Jim Alexander, and many othe...
Oct 16, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Wait, What? - Episode 350
It is the spooky season, and part-time ghosts Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are here to talk about the things currently haunting us: New York Comic Con, Todd McFarlane, the career of Roy Thomas, Cross Play Love: Otaku and Punk, two comics series starring The Thing, a very dark corner of Star Wars fanfic, and of course...sheds. Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumbl...
Oct 02, 2022•2 hr 4 min
Wait, What? - Episode 349
Join Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester for our last episode of September, which finds us talking X-Men Red, Leviathan by Jason Shiga, Fantastic Four Full Circle by Alex Ross, the current comic events Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths and AXE Judgment Day but also much, much more in a handy two hour format. Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Patreon!...
Sep 25, 2022•2 hr
Drokk! Episode 43
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 39 is here, and it is the first volume to be released as the same year we record our companion episode! After the last smashing volume, one would think Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester would be delighted to encounter the stories here written by John Wagner, Alan Grant, Gordon Rennie, Si Spurrier and others, and drawn by Cam Kennedy, Henry Flint, Duke Mighten, Simon Coleby, David Roach, ColinMacNeil, and the legenda...
Sep 18, 2022•2 hr 1 min
Wait, What? - Episode 348
After some time away, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back with a hefty two and a half hour episode! Join us as we talk about Mike Deodato and Namor, Batman Earth One and The Batman, the ongoing soap opera of Geoff Johns and DC, Amazing Fantasy #1000, the latest Zeb Wells John Romita Jr. arc of Amazing Spider-Man, streaming services and a very substantial discussion of The Human Target by Tom King and the astounding Greg Smallwood, that touches on other books by King, the nature of criticism...
Sep 04, 2022•2 hr 30 min
Drokk! Episode 42
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 38 arrives to fire its autocannons, catching Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester in it sights! Sure, there are stories written by Alan Grant, John Smith, and Gordon Rennie, but somehow once again it is John Wagner who manages to do amazing things with the Lawman of Mega-City One, be that the done-in-one wonders of S.A.M., The Good Man, or A Finger of Suspicion, or the more sustained stories Shakedown, Cincinnati, or t...
Aug 28, 2022•1 hr 42 min
Wait, What? - Episode 347
It is the middle of August and our first episode in almost a month! Join Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester as we catch up on San Diego Comic Con, C2E2, the surprising spotlight panels on Chris Claremont and Todd McFarlane, how and why the undisputed masters of comics are now very much disputed, the first series of The Sandman on Netflix, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton, Brink, Book 5 by Dan Abnett and I.N.J. Culbard, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou and much, much more in this two-plus hou...
Aug 14, 2022•2 hr 19 min
Drokk! Episode 41
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 37 has come to town and with it, a handful of stories written by John Wagner and Gordon Rennie as well as the last Dredd story to date written by Garth Ennis! It also brings with it incredible talents like Carlos Ezquerra, Steve Pugh, Cam Kennedy, John Burns, Charlie Adlard, Ian Gibson, and a tour de force performance by John Higgins! Plus, there is the conclusion to not one but two major narrative threads, plus a...
Jul 17, 2022•2 hr 6 min
Wait, What? - Episode 346
July, 2022 brings many new things, both expected and unexpected, to our door, and one of them is this, our first episode of the month! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk for a hale and hearty two hours about Axel Pressbutton and Laser Eraser; the Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis era of Justice League; the current big swings being taken by DC creators these days; the first ten issues of the Alien comic by Philip Kennedy Johnson and Salvador Larocca; Eternals Vol. 1 by Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribi...
Jul 10, 2022•2 hr 1 min
Drokk! Episode 40
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 40 is here and it brings with it a lot of John Wagner, some surprisingly good Gordon Rennie, a little bit of Andy Diggle, and a killer line-up of artists like P.J. Holden, Carlos Eqzuerra, Mike McMahon, Jim Baike, John Ridgway and most especially Henry Flint, who illustrates the 100 page Dredd vs. Aliens story, Incubus! Join Jeff and Graeme as they look at what works, what does not, and what still manages to stun ...
Jun 26, 2022•1 hr 42 min
Wait, What? - Episode 345
In the middle of June comes our Pride Special 2022, with special guest Chloe Maveal joining Graeme McMillan and Jeff to answer questions, dispense wisdom, and talk about Swimming In Blood, the genre-tweaking first appearance of Devlin Waugh by John Smith and Sean Phillips. Come for the laughs, stay for the old straight guy confusion in this two hour and fifteen minute episode just about ready to start happening in your ears this very minute! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast....
Jun 19, 2022•2 hr 25 min
Wait, What? - Episode 344
When is a comics podcast even less of a comics podcast than usual? When it is the first podcast of June 2022, apparently, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are more than happy to talk about Star Trek, San Diego Comic Con, going to movie theaters, people who have threatened to punch us, unlikely doppelgangers, The Kids in the Hall, James Ellroy, and kinda/sorta there at the fringes, the departure of Joe Quesada from Marvel, and Garth Ennis writing the upcoming Battle Action Special! Comments on ...
Jun 05, 2022•2 hr 20 min
Wait, What? - Episode 343
Chloe Maveal joins Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester for a free-wheeling two hour conversation chatting about the Eisners, the fate of Conan at Marvel comics, the movies of David Cronenberg, the terrifying-sounding reality show Lovestruck High, Young Frances, Chihayafuru, that very frustrating She-Hulk trailer and of so much more in this comfortably over two hours episode! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invi...
May 22, 2022•2 hr 7 min
Drokk! Episode 39
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Look out forJudge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 35, wherein John Wagner, Robbie Morrison, Alan Grant, and Gordon Rennie team with John Burns, P.J. Holden, Carlos Eqzuerra, Kev Walker, Colin MacNeil, John Higgns and others to bring us to the cusp of the Modern Era of Dredd--reliable, unafraid of leaning on twenty-five years of history, and able to mix and match moods not just from story to story but page to page! Join Jeff and Graeme as they look at ...
May 15, 2022•1 hr 57 min
Wait, What? - Episode 342
Recorded on Free Comic Book Day 2022, this installment finds Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester ruminating on the deaths of George Perez and Neal Adams, their era of comics and the failure that was the first attempt at a JLA/Avengers crossover. And then we go on to talk about West Side Story, The Batman, new fanfic headcanon from Jeff about He Who Remains, the first issue of Hulk: Grand Design, The Death of Doctor Strange, some quality scrapping about the Jason Aaron written Avengers and Avengers F...
May 08, 2022•2 hr 30 min
Wait, What? - Four British Comics: The Revenge of Graeme!
Hey, all: you may remember on a previous skip week, we did two rounds of My Four Manga, one for the podcast and one for our Patreon. This week, Jeff was a little too wiped out from a crazy workweek, so Graeme decided to step up and turn the tables on Jeff with...Four British Comics! Three are real; one is a fake! Can Jeff tell which is which? This is the first round—listen to Jeff flail! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail...
May 01, 2022•17 min
Wait, What? - Episode 341
Our last episode of April lands right on Easter Sunday, as Easter chick Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester continue to gab about recent Marvel movies and even more recent DC rumors, as well as the comics Telepaths by by J. Michael Straczynski and Steve Epting. Goodbye Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto, embarrassing manga, the atypical career of John Smith, and much, much more in this two hour episode. Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmai...
Apr 17, 2022•2 hr 15 min
Drokk! Episode 38
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Welcome to Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 34, where the Curse of the Golden Rut continues! John Wagner, Robbie Morrison, and Gordon Rennie get a free boost when Garth Ennis returns with Helter Skelter, a 10 part mega-prog where the ultimate villain turns out to be...the house of Carlos Ezquerras! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for u...
Apr 10, 2022•1 hr 38 min
Wait, What? - Episode 340
A couple of days after April Fools, a couple of fools gather to ring in April! Join Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester to talk about movies The Eternals, Benedetta, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Videodrome, while also gabbing about the recent news about DCUI, recent newsletters from Grant Morrison and Tom King, and gab even yet more about The War For Earth 3, reading manga as simulpub releases, and much, much more in this two and a half hour episode! Comments on the show are availa...
Apr 03, 2022•2 hr 29 min
Wait, What? - Episode 339
Chloe Maveal joins Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester for a two hour episode talking about bad but horny movies, Fist of the North Star, Sam Keith comics, Moon Knight, volume 4 of Lawless, pacing in comics, Star Wars, and much, much more! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Patreon!
Mar 20, 2022•2 hr 13 min
Drokk! Episode 37
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Here comes the Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 33...with a batch of largely self-contained stories of such consistently high craft we cannot help but say....meh? Join Graeme and Jeff as they look at John Wagner, Robbie Morrison, Gordon Rennie, and Alan Grant writing our favorite Mega-City Lawman for Ian Gibson, Cam Kennedy, Colin Wilson, Duncan Fegredo, Jock and many others to draw! At three years in, have we hit too much of a good thing? Or are...
Mar 13, 2022•1 hr 26 min
Wait, What? - Episode 338
The first week of March is nearly over but Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are here, better late than never, to discuss NOT seeing The Batman, the remake of West Side Story by Steven Spielberg, the latest iteration of digital comics blues this time starring MangaPlaza as well as Comixology, the Legion of Super Heroes comics from the Nineties, The Nice House on the Lake, Avengers Forever, Justice League Incarnate and much, much more in this two hour and ten minute episode! Comments on the show ar...
Mar 06, 2022•2 hr 13 min
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