Welcome to Episode one hundred and ten, our last podcast of 2012! Today Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester continue to answer questions from listeners, posed at savagecritic.com. Topics include Action Comics #15, overselling emotion in comics, spelling in American, Gail Simone and DC, at least one Elseworlds pitch, Alan Moore, Jeph Loeb, the Wait, What? drinking game, waffle cones, Matt Fraction, Teen Titans and a brief but annotated list of our books of the year. A very extensive set of show notes...
Dec 17, 2012•2 hr 14 min
It may not be the Mayan Apocalypse, but Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester give Episode One-Oh-Nine everything they've got anyway! Today we answer questions from listeners, asked via the Savage Critic website and Twitter. Topics include the worst avenger to get a gift from; our dream team for D-Man; the fate of Karen Berger; Stephanie Brown and the Scarlet Witch, Apple, pies, and apple pies; Avengers #1, Stumptown #4, Amazing Spider-Man #799, and the proverbial much, much more. It is almost exactly...
Dec 10, 2012•2 hr
Before Turkey Day comes the turkey talk with Episode 107, more than two and a quarter hours of comic book headscratchery with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester. This time around, we dig into the launch of Marvel NOW with evaluative analysis of Uncanny Avengers #1 by Rick Remender and John Cassaday, Iron Man #1 by Kieron Gillen and Greg Land, Fantastic Four #1 by Matt Fraction and Mark Bagley, Avengers Assemble #9 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Stefano Caselli, and a long hard look at the first issue o...
Dec 03, 2012•2 hr 36 min
Before Turkey Day comes the turkey talk with Episode 107, more than two and a quarter hours of comic book headscratchery with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester. This time around, we dig into the launch of Marvel NOW with evaluative analysis of Uncanny Avengers #1 by Rick Remender and John Cassaday, Iron Man #1 by Kieron Gillen and Greg Land, Fantastic Four #1 by Matt Fraction and Mark Bagley, Avengers Assemble #9 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Stefano Caselli, and a long hard look at the first issue o...
Nov 19, 2012•2 hr 24 min
After the election but before the holidays, Graeme McMillan and I bring you Wait, What? Ep. 106, with more than two hours and ten minutes of comic book crosstalk. Today, we discuss the end of Hellblazer, the rise of Constantine, and the fall of Vertigo; an in-depth discussion on the current heights being hit by 2000 A.D., Action Comics #14, Willow Wonderland #1 by Jeff Parker and Brian Ching, Earth 2 #6, Stumptown #3, Captain America #19, Colder #1 by Paul Tobin and Juan Ferreyra; the Iceman ser...
Nov 11, 2012•2 hr 14 min
Now with thirty percent less trick and at least half the US. Daily Requirement of treat, it is Episode 105, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester dressing up as semi-competent podcasters for Halloween 2012. Today, we break out the shovels and dig our discussions extra deep, with nearly half an hour on just the first issue of Multiple Warheads by Brandon Graham, as well as forty five minutes on the extraordinary Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe. We also ring the doorbells of the spooky...
Oct 29, 2012•2 hr 10 min
Crashing through a brick wall just in time to punch out Hitler, it is Episode 104 with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester ready and willing to talk comic books until the cows come home, an image far less captivating than the one I opened with. Today, we have ourselves a good long talk about John Byrne and his career in the Eighties; news about the Superman litigation and the folding of Newsweek; a discussion about the new Valiant line, and review Archer and Armstrong issue #3, Batman #13, Marvel No...
Oct 22, 2012•1 hr 59 min
Episode 103 is on the scene, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester battling the twin demons of technical difficulties and abject poverty to bring you comic book news, reviews, and talk of cashews. Books under discussion this time around include the first issue of The Uncanny Avengers, the Justice League of America Annual #2 from 1984, Superior Spider-Man, the first two issues of Suicide Squad by John Ostrander and Luke McDonnell, the briefest mention of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean How...
Oct 15, 2012•1 hr 49 min
You hold in your hot little ears Episode 102 with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester ready and semi-able to talk four-color news and issue funny book lamentations of the newest, strangest and saddest aspects of the comic book world. Today, we discuss the Uncanny Avengers and its twenty variant covers, compare comic book events both natural and unnatural, and rave over an excerpt of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe. We also review the thirteenth issues of both Batman and Action Comics, T...
Oct 08, 2012•2 hr 41 min
Episode 101 is here to bring you into the naughty aughties, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk the latest zero issues for the DC New 52 and some of the stranger retcon choices being made thereby; the latest, ginchiest issue of Prophet by Brandon Graham and Farel Dalrymple; the stunning epic that is 2001: A Space Odyssey as adapted and re-conceived by Jack Kirby; and the ferocious pastiche that is Tom Scioli's Final Frontier. Plus, we handwring and kvetch about Seconds and Multiple Warheads,...
Oct 01, 2012•2 hr 9 min
Later than delivered, and longer than promised, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have for you the one hundredth episode of Wait, What?, featuring calls from listeners, absurd technical problems, theatrical asides, and, oh yeah, comic books. In fact, among the comics discussed are Amazing Spider-Man #700, the hiatus of Jughead, reviews of a handful of DC New 52 Zero Issues including Batman, Inc., DC Universe Presents, and Justice League. Also, we consider the very odd trajectory of Jennifer Blood ...
Sep 24, 2012•2 hr 35 min
You hold in your hot little ears Episode 99, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are doing our best to make you think it is already Episode 100 with over two hours and fifteen minutes of reviews, discussion, and comic related gab. Among the topics under discussion this time around: Minutemen #3, Justice League #12, the Flash, Superman, and Green Lantern Annuals, Rob Liefeld, some very odd Challengers of the Unknown talk, Vision and Scarlet Witch: A Year in the Life, The Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell...
Sep 03, 2012•2 hr 18 min
This is Episode 98, one episode closer to the triple digits and Graeme McMillan and I are ready to get into some four color monkey business in a little less than two hours. This time around we talk about Rob Liefeld vs. DC, Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes, The Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom, Amazing Spider-Man #692, Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan, Batman Inc. #3, The Siegel-Schuster lawsuit against DC, Captain America, the First Avenger, The Bourne Legacy, Battleship and Bunheads. We also have a qu...
Aug 26, 2012•1 hr 57 min
This is Episode 97, chasing at the heels of lucky podcast 100, and not even minor technical glitches prevent Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester from giving you two hours of funnybook babblespeak. Once again, we bend it like Bendis and start the comic talk super-early, discussing the heyday of the Incredible Hulk and the appeal of Herb Trimpe. Other topics include Four Panels That Never Work, the Fantastic Four that may no longer work, the Marvel NOW! announcements, the second Walking Dead lawsuit, ...
Aug 13, 2012•2 hr 3 min
Episode 96 has arrived and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk up a freaking storm for two hours and twenty minutes, with the first discussion of comics hitting with no preamble chitchat whatsoever. Blame it on the rain, blame it on Rio, but most especially blame it on Howard Chaykin and Black Kiss 2, true believer, because they are most definitely at fault. Other topics include Earth Two and the second wave of DC's New 52 books, Hawkeye #1 and Avengers Vs. X-Men #9; a long talk about scrutiny,...
Aug 06, 2012•2 hr 21 min
After our first-ever scheduled skip week, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back with Episode 95, two hours and two barrels of auditory comic book double-talk. Once again, extensive show notes are up at savagecritic.com and we advise you use them as a roadmap to our amorphous conversational landscape...especially if you like to know how far in you need to jump to miss the non-funnybook talk. But we can tell you that we do discuss Zaucer of Zilk by Al Ewing and Brendan McCarthy, Axe Cop: Presid...
Jul 29, 2012•2 hr 2 min
This is Episode 94, recorded at the beginning of San Diego Comic-Con from two guys who didn't go. Nonethless, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have plenty of things to talk about, and we highly recommend you check out the show notes over at SavageCritic.com to find out the complete list. But we will tell you that after a long half-hour chat about how to make it on the front page of time.com and what in the world is the appeal of Michael Bay, we do get around to talking about the comics, with a ta...
Jul 16, 2012•2 hr 11 min
Episode 93 finds Graeme McMillan and me back in our respective Skypespaces and ready to mix it up! Yes, this episode may be our highest number of largely polite disagreements and one of our most varied, careening from topics like the mascots of British comic magazines to reviews of the digital launch of Monkeybrain comics; Marvel NOW!, Waffle Window Then!, LOEG: Century 2009, Brass Eye, the fabulous Popeye #3, The Massive, New Deadwardians, the glory of Batman Inc. #2, creating new IP, anxiety d...
Jul 09, 2012•2 hr 10 min
Episode 92 brings Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester together again for the first time as we podcast together live from Graeme's attic in Portland Oregon. Topics discussed include Avengers and the oddness of its worldwide profits; The Amazing Spider-Man movie and its marketing scheme; Safety Not Guaranteed and a terrifying quasi-related Blair Witch Project story; our very favorite place on earth, The Waffle Window; Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty's The Manual: How to Have a Number One the Easy Way; B...
Jul 02, 2012•1 hr 43 min
This is Episode 91, the first episode in seven months to live or die on its own, without any help from listeners' questions. Do Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have the ability to carry on a conversation without twitter or the web page whispering like Cyrano from the bushes! The answer is a resounding 'kinda,' as we cover the weather in Portland; plans for our first "live" podcast; a long discussion about Casanova 3.4; Zaucer of Zilk by Brendan McCarthy and Al Ewing; Matt Howarth, Lou Stathis, a...
Jun 24, 2012•1 hr 46 min
This is episode ninety, wherein we follow up our final episode of answering your questions with an episode where we... answer your questions! Yes, like the proverbial killer from an eighties slasher film, this segment refuses to stay dead, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester uncover the questions from Twitter we had yet to answer...until now. Topics include buying second hand or torrenting; supporting Marvel; Skull The Slayer; favorite and least-favorite Englehart runs; Batman: Earth One by Geoff...
Jun 17, 2012•2 hr 22 min
Just in time for the start of summer, it' Episode 89, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester finally finishing off questions posed by you over a month ago...but not without some technical glitches. This episode starts off In Media Tech SNAFU, with Jeff answering a question posed by Graeme before Skype goes kaput and kills our first five minutes stone dead. Fortunately, for everyone, it's an answer that makes sense without the question--as opposed to most of the time with us when that is never the ...
Jun 11, 2012•1 hr 52 min
The Battle for The Answers continue in Episode 88, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester answer your comics-related questions, or at least we do after the first ten minutes spent talking about Robin Gibb and the Bee Gees, Damon Albarn and Blur, and Elliot Smith as the Hipster Tupac. But right after that, we talk which Alan Moore's universe we'd like to see continued; the recent first issues of Batman Inc., The Ravagers, and Superman Family Adventures; Erik Larsen and The Savage Dragon; digital cont...
May 28, 2012•2 hr 6 min
If you've got two hours, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have the podcast: Wait, What? Ep. 87! Oh, sure it starts with seven minutes of bitching and moaning about Skype but then we've got a lengthy (and spoiler-filled) discussion of the Avengers movie with only semi-continuous random-seeming comparisons to Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Then: a quick talk about Saga #3 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples; Avenging Spider-Man #7 by Kathryn and Sturart Immonen; the history of kitty cats; Sau...
May 21, 2012•2 hr 2 min
Episode 86 has arrived, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are along for the ride, answering not only questions asked by you but also stuff you most pointedly did not ask. Yep, for two hours and fifteen minutes or so, we discuss topics like San Diego Comic Con, Joss Whedon and the weather, trolling, Radiolab, Mark Ruffalo cheesestraws and Clark Gregg carmelized olives, the nicest people in comics, Scott Morse, Walt Simonson's Orion, The New 52 free comic book day comic book, Greg Rucka, Books o...
May 14, 2012•2 hr 13 min
Graeme McMillan and I have come here to do two things: talk comic books and chew bubble gum. And we are all out of gum. But actually, for the first fifteen minutes it seems like we are also all out of comic books as we instead talk about Graceland, Video Games, and TV theme songs. But then we get on to the good stuff as defined and regulated by law, with talk about Action #9, Earth Two #1, and Avengers Vs. X-Men #3. And finally, we start answering more of your questions from Twitter, with topics...
May 08, 2012•2 hr 3 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are kicking out the jams for Episode 84 of Wait, What? with an ever-popular and never-ending Q and A round. So kick back for the next hour and forty-five minutes, as we talk about our recommendations for DC Showcases and Marvel Essentials, both real and imaginary, the fall of the Sincere Age of Vertigo, Alan Moore and the plight of 1963, our Free Comic Book Day picks, the damning influence of Big Question Mark, event comics, follow-ups to articles discussed withou...
Apr 30, 2012•1 hr 46 min
After a slight delay, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back for Episode 83, just a shade more than two hours and twenty-five minutes of comic book reviews, gossip, and shop talk. We do our best to cover a lot of ground including Iron Muslim and Zombies vs. Fanboys from Boom Comics, Kirby: Genesis, the current state of comics and the comics internet including Chris Roberson quitting DC and David Brothers' amazing article over at Comics Alliance, Before Watchmen, Grant Morrison, Brian Bendis an...
Apr 23, 2012•2 hr 27 min
Welcome to the done-in-one Eighty-Second Episode of Wait, What? Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester jump right in with the comic book catch-up talk, starting with Action Comics #8, and we don't let up for the next two hours and twenty five minutes. Topics discussed include OMAC #8, the colorization of Scott Pilgrim, the battles behind the TV show Community, a blog post about the comics Internet, Casanova #3, Supreme #20, Fatale #4, Glamourpuss #24, Strike Force Morituri, and in this week's Listen to...
Apr 09, 2012•2 hr 27 min
Welcome to the done-in-one Eighty-First Episode of Wait, What? Hello, I'm Jeff Lester and welcome to the Eighty-First Episode of Wait, What?, a comics podcast for the Savage Critics website. Join poor old Graeme McMillan and I for two-plus hours of comic book audio chalktalk. Our topics this time around inculde The Silence of Our Friends by Nate Powell and Mark Long, Shooters by Steve Lieber, Brandon Jerwa and Eric S. Trautmann, Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks, digital comics and infinite ...
Apr 02, 2012•2 hr 15 min
