Welcome to Installment 1 of Episode 39 wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discuss Fear Itself #2 and our expectations for event crossovers, generally. Careful listeners will also be able to find discussions of Journey Into Mystery #1, trailers for Green Lantern and Conan, and Graeme's latest dietary adventures. We hope you enjoy it, and, as always, thank you for listening!
This is Episode 38. In it, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discuss Russel T. Davies's The Writer's Tale, Dave McKean'Celluloid, Action Comics #900, Rob Liefeld's Shrink, Casanova, Brightest Day, the idea of Black Avengers, and the appeal of superheroes. We hope you enjoy it, and, as always, thank you for listening!
Believe it or not, this is Episode 37, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are here to talk about our expectations for Chester Brown's Paying for It and Dave McKean's Celluloid, as well as review Gingerbread Girl by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, FF #1,Superman #710, Fear Itself, Axe Cop Bad Guy Earth #2, One Piece, Secret Avengers and a title you probably haven't heard of that we've never discussed before: Final Crisis. It's ninety-plus minutes of rollicking comics action that may still be less...
Continuing our almost/not-quite-on-time schedule, this is Episode 36, an almost-didn't-happen shortcast, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discuss the Doomsday event, JLA, Dan Didio's Outsiders, Fear Itself, Green Lantern: Secret Origin, and Ultimate Fallout. Fortunately, the recording levels are a little more steady so we have that going for us. We hope you enjoy it, and, as always, thank you for listening!
Welcome to the slightly-delayed Episode 35, wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester do battle with the odd recording levels of my new headset, captured live for you in newly patented "Arghhh Audio." (We hope to have it worked out before too long.) Apart from the miracle of Arghhh, Audio, we also have discussions on Fear Itself #1, the upcoming Flashpoint, a critical re-examination of Fraction and Ferry's Thor, Paul Friedrich's Onion Head Monster: Catastrophic, as well as answering listener quest...
This is Episode 34, recorded the day before Wondercon. In it, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture, Vol. 1, Finder: Voice, Thor, Butcher Baker #1, Wonder Woman, Jimmy Olsen #1, and Marc Guggenheim's arc on Justice Society of America. And if you want to not listen to us talk about Graeme's brush with death, the comics material starts in at roughly the ten and a half minute mark. By the way, if you listen to this podcast on iTunes and it's something you enjoy, we wo...
This is Episode 33, and in it, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester decide to share the love and give you a podcast of strictly glowing reviews, untarnished by equivocation, on books and strips as diverse as Bakuman, Classic G.I. Joe, Jack Kirby's Captain America Omnibus, Superman #709, and Bucko. We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!
It's the conclusion of Episode 32, and Graeme McMillan and I continue talking comics new and old, including Jack Kirby's Captain America Omnibus, Ultimate Spider-Man, Daredevil and the Punisher, X-Force #5, James Stokoe's Won Ton Soup, Sean Chiki's Wunderkammer #3, and more. We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!
It's the first part of Episode 32, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester start off by examining reaction to one of Graeme's recent online articles, before going on to disscuss comics like Criminal and Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man by Dan Slott and Marcos Martin, Punisher Max issue 11 by Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon, James Robinson's two Jimmy Olsen specials, Aaron and Ahmed, by Jay Cantor and James Romberger, and other upcoming releases and news. We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!...
Welcome to Episode 31, an unofficial salute by Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester to crazy comics. We start by trying to map the Rat Pack onto the Justice League and end up--well, let's just say it's pretty hard to tell for sure where we end up. But along the way, we talk Martian Manhunter, Justice League Detroit, Takio, Michael Fleisher's run on Ghost Rider, John Romita, Jr., L'il Punisher and more. Skype gave Graeme some problems, my headset gave me some problems, but hopefully Levelator and nois...
Welcome to Episode 30, wherein Mr. Graeme McMillan and myself discuss the glory that is Mike Friedrich's Justice League of America, the mystery of cliffhangers, the future of slow-burns and subplots, Veronica Mars, Dave Roman's Astronaut Academy, and much more. Well, a little more. And this is our first podcast where we used Levelator and noise removal on the mixing. Can you tell the difference? Let us know! We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!
It's the third of three installments for Episode 29, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester finish answering questions from listeners on Twitter. We discuss comic book cliches we're tired of, Spider-Man as member of the Future Foundation and possibly X-Men, comic book continuity, the role of Superman in the DCU, the box office receipts of Kick-Ass and Scott Pilgrim, the Dungeons and Dragons comic, and much, much more. We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!
This is the second of three installments for Episode 29, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester continue to answer listeners questions as posed to us on Twitter. We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!
This is the first of three installments for Episode 29, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester start by discussing the passing of Dwayne McDuffie, before moving on to answer questions on Twitter--many, many questions. In this installment, we cover topics like teaching, the power of scientific thinking, Denny O'Neil and Justice League, the joys of Bob Haney's The Brave & The Bold, the first comics we ever read, and the secret of our own dumb-assedness. We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening...
This is our prologue to Episode 28, a non-comics extravaganza wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk about They Might Be Giants, Randy Newman, and the British TV comedy triumvirate of The IT Crowd, Father Ted, and Brass Eye. It's all the comics-free content you would want from a comics podcast...and then some! We hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!
This is Episode 28, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester finally settle in and talk comics at length and in detail. We talk about Iron Man #500.1, Power Man and Iron Fist #1, Wolverine #5 and 5.1, Chris Roberson's work on Superman:Grounded and Superman/Batman. It's fun, fun, fun until Daddy takes the longbox away. We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!
Episode 27 is a bite-sized pick me up podcast of a little more than half an hour, and Graeme and Jeff Lester talk Avengers Academy Giant-Size #1, technology and the mysteries of modern memory, and Abhay's Jimmy Olsen story from this year's Giant-Size Superman. It's much more of a snack than an actual main course, but we hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!
This is Episode 26.2--picking right up where Episode 26.1 left off-- and it is our all-curmudgeon episode. Yes, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester look right into the heart of darkness and dare to ask the scary questions: Are there too many creators in comics right now? What's so great about creator-owned comics? And what is with Stan Lee's mustache? We hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!
Episode 26 ran so long we had to break it into two parts. Join us now for Part 1, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discuss Siege, Dark Avengers, Lex Luthor, Flashpoint and Hot Pursuit, Joe Staton, Don Heck, and the webcomics Bucko by Jeff Parker and Erika Moen and Gingerbread Girl by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover. There's also several minutes of high-concept story-pitching but we promise we tried to make it as painless as possible. We hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!
It's Episode 25, recorded before last week's Wake, What? special: Return with us now to the halcyon days of yesteryear when Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discussed Netflix, the casting decisions for The Dark Knight Rises, Marvel's coming Thor relaunch, Batman, Inc. #2, and the discussion between Matt Fraction and Bryan Lee O'Malley in the latest issue of Casanova. We hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!
Welcome to a special "jumped the line" edition of Wait, What?--Wake, What?, wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester pay tribute to the career of the departed member of the Fantastic Four by barely bothering to talk about him at all. Instead, we cover candor in comics interviews and at comics companies, the state of comics journalism, and touch briefly on Achewood, Reid Fleming, and the curious case of Steve Englehart and his Vision and Scarlet Witch miniseries. We hope you enjoy it, and thanks f...
Welcome to Episode 24, where Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discuss the return of Mark Bagley to Marvel, Spider-Man (both Amazing and Ultimate) Spider-Man, the golden age of letter columns, Walt Simonson's Fantastic Four, and maybe Sammy Davis, Jr. And/or Satan. We hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!
In the conclusion of Episode 23, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk The Walking Dead, Fables, JLA, Wolverine: The Best There Is, and the allure (or lack thereof) of fantasy novels. We hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!
It's part one of Episode 23, and Graeme McMillan schools Jeff Lester in all the latest and greatest products of 21st century culture: Nicholas Cage movies, Brad Meltzer's Decoded and Jeff Parker and Gabriel Hardman's current run on Hulk. From there, we talk Steel which leads to Final Crisis, which leads to a discussion of Grant Morrison's Invisibles, which leads to Garth Ennis' The Boys and Preacher, and ending up...we're not entirely sure where. Nonetheless, we hope you enjoy and thanks for lis...
It's the conclusion to Episode 22, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk about nearly everything--Fear Itself, Green Lantern, our comic picks for 2012, John Byrne and Doc Doom, Darren Aronofsky and Black Swan, Aaron Sorkin and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip--in short, a little bit of something for everyone. Actually, considering this episode is an hour and forty-two minutes, it may qualify as having a lot for everyone. Let's just say if you wanted a podcast where the term "White Power Odin" wa...
It's part one of Episode 22 and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester ring out the old year and ring in the new with notes about their holidays Then, after the eleven minute mark or so, they cover the upcoming comic book schedule for March, Marvel's Point One initiative and other publishing strategies, more updates about Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Patton Oswalt's Wired article, and some musings about porn, comics, and porn comics. Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy, and welcome to 2011!...
It's our grand finale to Episode 21, and in it, Graeme McMillan and I discuss our favorite books of the year, Graeme gives you ten, I agree on four, and I throw in another three or so. Regular listeners may think they'll know our list before it even starts, but at least one title that turns up has never been discussed here at all. Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy, and Happy Holidays!
It's part one of Episode 21, In it, Graeme McMillan and I discuss topics vitally important to every Wait, What listener--such how the hell our numbering sequence works. And Graeme's cleanse. And the holidays. Annnd basements. But then! (At more or less the 22:30 mark...) We're off to the races with in-depth discussion of one of our picks for comics newsstory of the year. It's almost an hour and fifteen minutes of chocolate comicy goodness with a creamy nougaty center, perfect for holiday consump...
It's our concluding installment of Episode 20, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk about more of everything: X-Men's recent Vampires storyline, DC: Legacy and the 75th anniversary of DC; the state of Superman; the marketing acumen of Mark Millar; Tron: Legacy; and quick reviews of The Social Network, Redline, and The Informant! Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy, and Happy Holidays!
It's our first installment of Episode 20, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester jump in feet-first to talk recent comics: Paul Cornell's Action Comics Annual, the first arc of Matt Fraction and Pascal Ferry's Thor, the trade editions of 52, New Avengers #7, press releases from Marvel, and possible Wondercon plans. It's hour long comic book conversing in the mighty Wait, What manner! Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy, and Happy Holidays!
