Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester ring in the new with our first podcast of 2015! We talk about Sandman Overture #4, The Image Expo, IDW's purchase of Top Shelf, Superman #37, our upcoming Fantastic Four read-through, the Ant-Man trailer, Rogue Trooper: Last Man Standing, and much, much more. Semi-speedy show notes await you at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!...
Jan 12, 2015•2 hr 32 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester break out the brooms and sweep up after 2014, with a two and a half hour episode covering issues #275-300 of Avengers; the pluses and minuses of Dr. Doom; whether Marvel has an equal to Superman and whether Superman is equal to Superman; the article title that will make Graeme flip over the Internet, our predictions for 2015, and much, much more. Semi-speedy show notes await you at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodca...
Dec 29, 2014•2 hr 31 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have a sprightly two hour episode talking about our lists for the best books of 2014, as well as all the many reasons you should not trust our lists for the best books of 2014! Books discussed today include: The Wrenchies; Wild's End, Transformers vs. G.I. Joe, It's Oh So Quiet, Copra, Mighty Avengers, Grayson, Very Casual, Batmanga by Jiro Kurwata, Southern Bastards, and so very many more. In fact, we had so much we bumped our final installment of our Aven...
Dec 15, 2014•2 hr 2 min
Today, it’s a a two hours and thirty minute adventure into digression, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester spend over an hour talking non comic book stuff like the new Star Wars teaser, the charms of Chris Pratt, the dangers of Baz Luhrmann, the secrets of Live, Die Repeat, the legacy of Scritti Politti, the problems of The Wolverine, and much, much more. Then it’s on to a no prisoners taken conversation on Multiversity: Pax Americana by Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly, Annihilator by Grant Morr...
Nov 30, 2014•2 hr 34 min
Today, it’s a a two hours and ten minute whatstravaganza, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester tackle a few things very briefly—books we forget to get at the comic store, Kirkmanitis, the five most powerful comic book writers in Hollywood, the Secret History of Wonder Woman—and a few topics at length; the Curious Case of Captain Marvel in the Sales Charts; Avengers #251-277 by Roger Stern, Mark Gruenwald, John Buscema and Tom Palmer; and the remarkable read that is Farel Dalrymple's The Wrenchies ...
Nov 17, 2014•2 hr 12 min
Today, for more than two hours and fifteen minutes, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester break open the comic book bag for some old school tricks and treats, including Star Trek comics, the original Transformers series from Marvel, Justice League Detroit, Secret Wars, Harvey Kurtzman, and Bob Haney, as well as more contemporary material like Amazing Spider-Man 2, Captain America The Winder Soldier, Gotham and the announcement of the upcoming Marvel Movie Slate. Semi-harried show notes are now availab...
Nov 03, 2014•2 hr 20 min
Today, for two hours and forty-five minutes, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester storm the chapel perilous that is comic book pop culture with lengthy discussions about Batgirl #35; Klarion #1; Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #3; Avengers #227-250 by Roger Stern, Al Milgrom and Joe Sinnott; and much, much more. Plus, we also talk TV, including the shows Manhattan, Twin Peaks, and New Girl, AND we have the hilarious winners in our Are You Feeling The Feeling that I’m Feeling contest. More semi-bleary show ...
Oct 20, 2014•2 hr 49 min
Today, in nearly two and a half hours, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester call the square dance that is comic book pop culture with discussions about the Kirby Family settlement with Marvel, the Death-Defying Dr. Mirage, the first issue of Godhead featuring Green Lantern and the New Gods; Grayson #3; Ms. Marvel; Dr. Who The Eleventh Doctor #3; The Hospital Suite, Gotham and Gotham Academy and much, much more. Semi-bleary show notes are now available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments ...
Oct 06, 2014•2 hr 30 min
Today, in just a little over two hours, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester wrestle to the ground the lightning fast leopard that is 21st Century Nerd Culture. Among the topics discussed today, Multiversity: Society of Super-Heroes by Grant Morrison, Chris Sprouse, and others; Batman Future's End and Batman and Robin: Future's End; the MacArthur Genius Grant; Scotland; Annihilator by Grant Morrison and Frazer Irving; Wonder Woman vs. Superman and Wonder Woman; Jason Shiga, George Perez, and of cours...
Sep 21, 2014•2 hr 15 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have read some might fine comic books and are here to tell you about them. Discussed in our two-plus hour podcast are: The Spirit by Will Eisner, Grayson: Future's End by Tom King, Tim Seeley and Stephen Mooney; Batman 66 #14 by Jeff Parker, Paul Rivoche and Craig Brousseau, Steve Englehart's ten issue run on Justice League of America, Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #2; She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, Scooby-Doo and the Super Friends, and the first arc of The Fuse by Anto...
Sep 08, 2014•2 hr 11 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester try our best to overcome depressing times with the help of our good old friends comic books. Today we discuss Avengers #175-200 by David Michelinie, John Byrne, George Perez, Dan Green, Steven Grant and others; The Multiversity #1 by Grant Morrison, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado; The Fade-Out #1 by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips; Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland; God is Dead Book of Acts Alpha, Teen Titans #2, Grayson, Batman and Robin, the mind-exploder than is...
Aug 25, 2014•2 hr 14 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff get intergalactic planetary as we discuss Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers by Joe Casey, Nathan Fox and Jim Rugg, the Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy, Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, plus Terminal Hero, The Devilers, Nightworld, The Spirit Archives by Will Eisner, Grayson #2, and much, much more. Show notes crafted with care are now available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we i...
Aug 11, 2014•2 hr 29 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are enduring the trauma of San Diego Comic Con from the privacy of their own home and they’re dying to tell you about it. Yes, for more than two hours and forty-five minutes, we talk Comic Con, the Image Expo, Marvel trying to blow our minds, Captain Victory by Jack Kirby, Seconds by Bryan Lee O'Malley,G.I. Joe vs. Transformers, Supreme: Blue Rose, Afterlife with Archie, and roughly an hour on Avengers issues #152 through #178 by Jim Shooter, George Perez, ...
Jul 28, 2014•2 hr 50 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back, and we have the winners of the Oily Comics Summer Bundle giveaway to announce! We also have two hours and twenty minutes of pop culture insanity, with an absurdly long discussion about Paul McCartney, Prince comics, Zero #9, Batman, the Jiro Kuwata batmanga, the pre-SDCC news announcements, Shutter #3 and 4, The Life AFter, Meteor Men, The Wicked and the Divine, and, of course, SpongeBob Comics Annual-Size Super-Giant Swimtacular #2. Semi-hasty sh...
Jul 14, 2014•2 hr 28 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back, and we are bringing the Oily Comics Summer Bundle giveaway with us, thanks to the mighty Charles Forsman and Oily Comics! Listen for your chance to win! Also, listen as we dig deep into the final issues of the Avengers run by Steve Englehart and George Perez, scrutinizing their treatment of the Beast, the secret origin of the Vision, Hellcat, The Squadron Supreme, as well as looking at the end of an era at Marvel Comics. Plus, we also talk the fir...
Jun 30, 2014•2 hr 32 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return for two plus hours of funnybook funny talk with today's topics: Alan Moore's Miracleman and his Captain Britain Omnibus; Infinity Man and the Forever People #1 by Dan Didio and Keith Giffen; the DC weekly series Future's End; and almost an hour devoted to a dozen issues of The Avengers by Steve Englehart, Bob Brown, John Buscema and Dave Cockrum. Semi-hasty show notes are now available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWh...
Jun 16, 2014•2 hr 14 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have returned to launch the second volume of their podcast with this, Episode One Point What Now! Topics today include the superlative Mega-City Confidential storyline from last month in 2000 A.D.; Trees by Warren Ellis and Jason Howard; the finale of Forever Evil and Justice League #30; Flash Gordon by Jeff Parker, Evan Shaner and Jordie Bellaire; and a long discussion about the past work and present passions of Mr. Alan Moore, among many other fine and frenzied ...
Jun 01, 2014•2 hr 8 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return to bring you episode 150, the most earth-shattering installment yet! Come for the world-changing news, but please do stick around for nearly three hours of discussion about Free Comic Book Day, the casting of Star Wars Episode VII, changes to the Comixology app, Very Casual by Michael DeForge, Batman Eternal, Empire by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson and Avengers #101-113 by Roy Thomas, Steve Englehart, Rich Buckler, and more. Show notes are now available at sav...
May 05, 2014•2 hr 53 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back with the discount Easter candy that is Episode 149, two hours and twenty minutes of comics and pop culture audio-clutter. Today, we tackle Avengers, issues #75-100 by Roy Thomas, the Buscema Brothers, Neal Adams and Barry Smith, as well as the first two issues of Batman Eternal, the treatment of women in comics both on and off the page, Young Men issue #24, the first issue of Shutter, and our best friend, good old much, much more. Show notes are now avail...
Apr 21, 2014•2 hr 23 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have delivered unto thee episode 148, two and half hours hours of comics and pop culture chatter. Topics discussed today include Amazing Spider-Man; Tom DeFalco; the joys and perils of the Marvel Unlimited app; Detective Comics by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccalleto; Snowpiercer, District 14, Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Pretty Deadly, Letter 44, Starlight, Star Wars and, of course, much much more. Show notes are now available at savagecritic.com, and we always welc...
Apr 07, 2014•2 hr 35 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return with episode 147, three terrifying hours of comics and pop culture scrutiny. Topics discussed today include Ms. Marvel, Batman, Aquaman, Batman and Aquaman, Murder She Wrote, the inking career of Death Himself, the Veronica Mars movie, and more than ninety minutes of ruminating over Avengers issues #51-75 by Roy Thomas and mostly John Buscema. Show notes are now available at savagecritic.com, and we always welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodc...
Mar 24, 2014•3 hr 12 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return with episode 146, a two hour-plus podcast that covers all the best things in life, as long as your definition of best is claustrophobically tiny and your definition of life is terrifyingly reductive. Topics covered today include Forever Evil #6, the first issue of IDW's Rogue Trooper, the Marvel Unlimited app, Revenge by Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill, Vandroid, the Batman/Superman Annual, Afterlife with Archie #4, Nijigahara Holograph by Inio Asano, Magnu...
Mar 09, 2014•2 hr 16 min
After an unintentional delay, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back with episode 145, a two hour-plus podcast triathlon in the fields of movies, comics, and nerd talk. Topics today include non-ironic fun comics, the works of Kyle Baker, the Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer, the movie Prometheus, the Titan storyline from 2000 A.D., the Avengers by Stan Lee, Don Heck, Roy Thomas and John Buscema get a twenty-five issue takedown, along with our usual pile of much-much more Show notes are now avai...
Feb 23, 2014•2 hr 8 min
Here comes episode 144, our second of 2014, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discussing a whole mess of comic books, as well as some comic books that are wholly messes. Topics today include an theory of the recent issues of Shaolin Cowboy by Geoff Darrow, a theory that is extensive but not nearly as well-supported as it would like, reviews of the Fox by Dean Haspiel and Mark Waid, the Silver Surfer by Mike Allred and Dan Slott, the Power of Warlock, Constantine and Justice League Dark, and t...
Jan 27, 2014•2 hr 11 min
This is episode 143, our first of 2014, and in it Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discuss the last interview of Alan Moore, Image Expo 2014, Detective Comics #27, Marvel, Dark Horse, and Star Wars, Misfits, the Man of Steel and much, much more in this not-quite two hour installment. Show notes are now available at savagecritic.com, and we always welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com. As always, we hope you enjoy, and thank you for listening!
Jan 13, 2014•1 hr 57 min
Today, Graeme McMillan joins Jeff Lester for our last podcast of the year, a two and a half hour exblabaganza to talk new comics, old comics, the highs of 2013 and the mysteries of the future. Topics today include Slayground by Darwyn Cooke, Avengers Endless Wartime, Batman and Two Face #26, Saga, the Walking Dead, Jeff presents his best of list of 2013, Graeme gives additions and annotations, we announce our new podcasting schedule for 2014 and much, much more. List-heavy show notes are now ava...
Dec 23, 2013•2 hr 32 min
Today, Graeme McMillan joins Jeff to talk comics, whether with Batman-related or otherwise, and ends up talking movies, both Hunger-based orotherwise. Among the subjects touched on: Forever Evil, the Wonder Woman casting, Sin Titulo by Cameron Stewart, the Tony Daniel issues of Detective Comics, the first Hunger Games movie, Letter 44, Rogues Rebellion, the New52 trade of Batman Inc. by Grant Morrison, the second Hunger Games movie and more. Some slapdash show notes are at savagecritic.com, and ...
Dec 09, 2013•2 hr 1 min
Today, Graeme McMillan joins Jeff Lester for a pre-Thanksgiving ninety minute installment where comics are read, TV shows are recapped, and trash is politely talked. Among the books covered today: Harley Quinn #0, Scooby-Doo Team Up #1, Afterlife with Archie #2, Sex Criminals #3 and other comics that don’t fit into that coincidental and convenient numerical sequence like American Barbarian, Batwoman #25, Essential Captain America Vol. 7 and more! The show notes are fast and furious—or at least f...
Nov 25, 2013•1 hr 31 min
Today, Graeme McMillan joins Jeff Lester to have recovered memories of the lost podcast from last week, and also to discuss the Joy of Comics, a beast blessedly different from both the Joy of Sex and the Joy of Cooking. While the actual numbers of recent comics discussed is very light, the level of meandering critical discourse is high, covering artists like Mike Golden, Paul Pope, Neal Adams, Dan Jurgens, Jim Steranko, Chris Ware, Al Milgrom, and topics like reading comics in a foreign language...
Nov 18, 2013•1 hr 32 min
For a touch over two hours, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester make with the mouth noises on all things comic book. Topics today include a trio of new releases from Image Comics: Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios; Velvet by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting; and Sex Criminals from Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. Other topics we besiege you with include: Justice League of America; Cross Manage from Shonen Jump Alpha; The Death of the Family trade paperbacks; the Secret Origin of Tony Sta...
Oct 28, 2013•2 hr 9 min
