Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return to gab about the best titles of Free Comic Book Day 2017, the movie Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, the first season of the TV show Legion, the first trade of the new Power Man and Iron Fist series, Lazarus by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark, Battle Angel Alita: Last Order by Yukito Kishiro, the Suicide Squad movie and much, much more in this two and a half hour episode. Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and quest...
May 07, 2017•2 hr 39 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are here to report from the front lines of Marvel and DC, as Marvel announces its Marvel Legacy program and publishes Secret Empire #0, DC announces Dark Metal and published Batman #20, the first part of The Button, a crossover event with The Flash. We discuss those books, Civil War II: The Oath, Batman #15-20, and much, much more in this two hour episode. Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPod...
Apr 23, 2017•2 hr 4 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester continue their look at one of the defining runs on FF and the 80s, that of writer-artist John Byrne. This time around, we cover issues #261 through #270, with the Trial of Reed Richards,the handling of the Messiah, the fallout from Secret Wars, the return of a beloved supporting character, and much, more more. Show notes await at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome...
Apr 16, 2017•2 hr 16 min
Today, instead of our regularly scheduled Baxter Building podcast, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester devote more than ninety minutes to covering the current Marvel P.R. controversies of the last few weeks. What did those working for Marvel do and say, and what can they do and say now that they have done and said it? Show notes are available 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 Patre...
Apr 09, 2017•1 hr 44 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are here with a sprightly sequel to our previous episode, with follow-up discussions about the West Coast Avengers Run by Steve Englehart, an overview of the current Suicide Squad arc by Rob Williams and John Romita, Jr., Hostage by Guy Delisle as well as a look at the DC/Hanna Barbera crossover specials, the uses of fanfic, the possible mea culpas of Marvel, a full spoiler discussion about the movie Logan…and much, much, much more! Show notes are available at wai...
Mar 26, 2017•2 hr 20 min
The dam of blabbity-blab breaks in episode two hundred and twenty as Graeme McMillan and I spend two point five hours jumping on all of the furniture in the House of Ideas. Yes, it is a largely focused romp as we look at All-New Wolverine, Amazing Spider-Man #25, the last six months of both Captain America titles, the classic run on West Coast Avengers by podcast fave Steve Englehart, the Marvel book that is not a Marvel book…and much, much, much more! Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast...
Mar 19, 2017•2 hr 32 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester continue their look at one of the defining runs on FF and the 80s, that of writer-artist John Byrne. Join us for issues #248 through #260, as tumble through the Negative Zone, chaperone Galactus through the cosmic equivalent of a late afternoon lunch, gladhand Gladiator, and much more in a run of issues somehow simultaneously larger and smaller than the ones pr...
Mar 12, 2017•2 hr 16 min
In the aftermath of episode two hundred and eighteen emerges the hero known as...episode two hundred and nineteen! Yes, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back to talk about Jaws some more, to complain about Marvel some more, to give away more movie spoilers, to salute the new Nobrow catalog, to worry about the future of the direct market, and to wonder about the current state of Image Comics. Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPod...
Feb 26, 2017•2 hr 28 min
After a brief hiatus we are back with episode two hundred and eighteen, two and a half hours of Mr. Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discussing all kinds of things, including a half-hour on the nature of snow, the best comic book adaptations of movies, Super Sons #1, Looney Toons vs. DC, Inhumans vs. X-Men, The Wild Storm vs. newuniversal, and much vs. more! Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to l...
Feb 19, 2017•2 hr 34 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester continue their look at one of the defining runs on FF and the 80s, that of writer-artist John Byrne. Join us as we look at issues #238 through #247, as Byrne really kicks his run into high gear with super-compressed mini-epics featuring new status quos for Galactus, the Inhumans, Dr. Doom, Ben Grimm, and much, much more. But are these issues really better than ...
Feb 05, 2017•2 hr 24 min
You are listening to episode two hundred and seventeen, a two and a half hour episode wherein Mr. Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester ruminate on bad Dr. Strange comics, excellent Legion of Super-Heroes comics, the Cullen Bunn run on Aquaman, the Chris Claremont/Dave Cockrum run on Ms. Marvel, what it would take for us to care about the X-Men again, a long sonic side-eye at the series finale of Sherlock, and oh so very much more. Show notes with purchasing links are available at waitwhatpodcast.com,...
Jan 22, 2017•2 hr 32 min
This is episode two hundred and sixteen, our first Wait, What? episode of 2017, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back to give you the skinny on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, casting calls for The Inhumans TV show, the end of Civil War II and the beginning of the Unbeatable Wasp, Justice League vs. Suicide Squad, re-reads of the Grant Morrison New X-Men run and the original Son of Satan series (provided your own air quotes around original if you want), Hookjaw, Jabberjaw, Tom Scioli-jaw, a...
Jan 15, 2017•2 hr 47 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! After dozens and dozens of rocky issues, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester finally come across the desert island that is the start of a lengthy run written, drawn and inked by a fella by the name of John Byrne. IJoin us as we look at issues #232 through #237, the first six issues of the Byrne run, in which Reed, Sue, Ben, and Johnny encounter the one thing the FF haven't encountered in some tim...
Jan 08, 2017•2 hr 9 min
This is episode two hundred and fifteen, our final episode of the year, and in it, Graeme McMillan and Jeff give you our best of lists for 2016, as well as a most okay list and a list of the books Jeff most regrets not reading. Join us for two and a half hours as we talk The Flintstones, digital manga services, 2000 AD, the untitled trilogy by Tom King, the 2016 Gwenpool Holiday Special, We Told You So: Comics As Art, and oh so very much more! Show notes with purchasing links are available at wa...
Dec 18, 2016•2 hr 35 min
This is episode two hundred and fourteen, our penultimate episode of 2016, and in it, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have a leisurely comic book talk about Batman issue #12 by Tom King and Mikel Janin, the first several collections of Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye and Transformers: Robots In Disguise, Champions by Mark Waid and Humberto Ramos, Shadoweyes by Sophie Campbell, the first two volumes of By The Numbers, The Abominable Mr. Seabrook, and much, much more in this two-plus hour po...
Dec 11, 2016•2 hr 13 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester go for superhero adventure in bulk, as we tackle issues #215 through 231 of the Fantastic Four, by Sinnott, Wolfman, Mantlo, Byrne, Byrne, Marcos, Moench and Sienkiewicz! It is a hefty dose of overstuffed storytelling, out of sync decisions, oddness, and through-the-looking-glass doldrums and we rev through it just in time to end our second year of the podcast ...
Dec 04, 2016•2 hr 11 min
Welcome to episode two hundred and thirteen, a two and a half hour episode bursting to the brim with comic book talk, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discuss Captain America Steve Rogers #1 and the first four issue of Karnak, all recently available on Marvel Unlimited, scheduling snags and the coming Wild Storm, the first issue of Betty Boop by Roger Langridge and Gisèle Lagacé, Batgirl, Wonder Woman, New Talent Showcase, licensed comics, Garth Ennis comics, Greg Pak comics, and oh so much mo...
Nov 27, 2016•2 hr 37 min
As you might have heard, the United States held an election, and Jeff and Graeme have to take the first hour of this two hour episode to process, before moving on to discuss the strange comic book companion on the Hawaiian cruise recently undertaken by Jeff; Super Powers by Tom Scioli; the third issue of Doom Patrol; pop music biographies, The Flintstones, the mystery of Goblins Lair and much, much more. Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at W...
Nov 20, 2016•2 hr 12 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester go from the cosmic ray frying pan to the cosmic ray fire, as we read and endure Fantastic Four issues #201-213, by Joe Sinnott, Marv Wolfman, the Buscema brothers, Keith Pollard, and John Byrne. Join us for the multi-part space opera epic that reverses all of the good will Fantastic Four #200 instilled us...and then some! The return of the Sphinx, the re...
Nov 06, 2016•1 hr 51 min
It is All Hallows Eve, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back to talk about our birth years,and superheroes and comic book adaptations on TV in a free-wheeling, nearly two hour long discussion that includes the original Star Trek, the Batman TV show, Luke Cage, and much more. Show noteswill probably be available 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!
Oct 31, 2016•1 hr 58 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester team up to take on Giant Size Super-Stars #1, Giant-Size FF issues #2, 3, and 4, and FF Annuals #11, 12, and !3 by Joe Sinnott, Rich Buckler, John Busceme, Sal Buscema, Keith Pollard, Pablo Marcos, Gerry Conway, Len Wein, Bill Mantlo, Roy Thomas, Chris Claremont and Marv Wolfman. Tune in as we catch up with comics over a five year span of the premier sup...
Oct 23, 2016•1 hr 51 min
This was recorded on October 22, 2016, the day we found out Steve Dillon died. This short, nineteen minute episode briefly discusses the amazing career of this artist who will be greatly missed.
Oct 22, 2016•19 min
After a two week hiatus, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back for a deep discussion on what a comic book collection is truly worth, the life and times of a reporter on the run at NYCC, and the link between Swords of the Swashbucklers, Spawn, and Sex Criminals. Join us for two hours of talk about Spider-Man, Starslammers, Scooby-Doo and other S-words (of the Swashbucklers). Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, an...
Oct 16, 2016•2 hr 2 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester team up to take on Fantastic Four issues #184 through #200 by Joe Sinnott, George Perez, Sal Buscema, Keith Pollard, Pablo Marcos, Len Wein, Bill Mantlo, and Marv Wolfman. Tune in and hear a bad streak of comics be broken as there is surprising agreement about what is so fun about the witches of New Salem, Klaw and The Molecule Man, The Texas Twister, th...
Sep 25, 2016•2 hr 37 min
Technology run amok renders our episode today a bit shorter than usual, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester spend a lively hour and twenty minutes talking Tom King, Alan Moore and the press interviews regarding his new novel, Moon Knight, the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, The Fix, a Batman story from 1963, and much, much—but sadly not that much—more. Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for ...
Sep 18, 2016•1 hr 24 min
For the next two hours and twenty minutes, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discuss the latest uproar over the direct market; CW shows leaving Hulu; what makes Spider-Man Spider-Man; Archie Comics; the future of Marvel Unlimited; underrated and overrated Fantastic Four runs; and much, much more as they wrap up their award-winning trilogy of questions from supporters on Patreon. Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, an...
Sep 04, 2016•2 hr 22 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester put on the sparring gloves over Fantastic Four issues #171 through #184 by Roy Thomas, George Perez, John Buscema, Ron Wilson, Sal Buscema, Gerry Conway, Bill Mantlo, and the ever-steadfast Joe Sinnott. Yes, one of our hosts thinks there is a lot of fun here in this batch of issues with admittedly a poorly timed dud issue...and the other person thinks th...
Aug 28, 2016•2 hr 7 min
Make way for Episode Two Hundred and Seven with the second part of a multipart session in which Graeme McMillan and Jeff answer questions posed to us by our listeners on Twitter and Patreon. Over the next two hours we discuss the Legion of Super-Heroes (a lot!), Jack Kirby, manga for a newbie, sexuality in the Wolfman/Perez run of Teen Titans, Tim Seeley and Tom King, Spawn/Batman or Batman/Spawn, Steve Ditko, The Flintstones, and much, more! Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we w...
Aug 21, 2016•2 hr 14 min
Time for Episode Two Hundred and Six with the first part of a multipart session in which Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester answer questions posed to us by our listeners on Twitter and Patreon. Over the next two and a half hours we discuss the Legion of Super-Heroes, Bob Haney, Metamorpho, Death Note and Platinum End, which graphic novels we’d teach in high school, Kamandi, Kamala Khan, and much, much, much more. Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and question...
Aug 07, 2016•2 hr 31 min
Episode Two Hundred and Five finds Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester live and in person right where we belong: in a Portland basement arguing about San Diego Comic-Con! Topics in this shortish hour and fifteen minute podcast include the career of Rachel Talalay, the Wonder Woman trailer, Batgirl Rebirth by Hope Larson and Rafael Albuquerque, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Super Powers by Tom Scioli, Crafstman Bolt-On System Saves the Justice League, and more! Show notes are available at waitw...
Jul 31, 2016•1 hr 15 min
