Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have a hefty two-plus hour episode covering the latest comics news, and discussing the latest comics including Metal #5 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, Doom Patrol/Justice League of America #1, the first part of the Milk Wars storyline from Young Animal, Motherlands #1, the first issues of Black Dahlias, Abbott, and Silencer, volumes one, two, and five of Duet of Beautiful Goddesses, and much, much more. Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodca...
Feb 04, 2018•2 hr 27 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have a hefty two and a half-hour installment where we cover the recent spate of comics news, a look at the first few parts of the No Surrender storyline in Avengers, Mister Miracle by Tom King and Mitch Gerards, a discussion of characters as opposed to takes, the Netflix adaptation of The End of the Fucking World by Charles Forsman, a very spoiler-filled discussion about Star Wars: The Last Jedi and our good old pal much, much more! Comments on the show are...
Jan 21, 2018•2 hr 27 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Join Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester for issues #328-333 of The Fantastic Four, as Steve Englehart finishes his run with a storyline that puts the meat in meta and the gas in pass-agg! What might have been becomes what most certainly is not as the Fantastic Four and the Frightful Four meet the Fantastic Faux in a storyline you need to read to believe (although if you want to just hear us disc...
Jan 14, 2018•1 hr 58 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester greet 2018 and each other with warmth, weariness, and two hours of comic book chitter chatter! Among the topics discussed are Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles by Mark Russell, Mike Feehan, Mark Morales, and Paul Mounts; Hawkman Found by Jeff Lemire, Brian Hitch, and Kevin Nowlan; the upcoming year for DC and the year that passed for Marvel; the grand designs of Chris Claremont; the recounting of a very fevered dream about the short-lived Seventie...
Jan 07, 2018•2 hr 11 min
Today, in a special bonus episode, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester bring you a quick (for them) round-up of the best comics and their favorite reads of 2017! 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, and Patreon!
Dec 24, 2017•58 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Join Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester for issues #322-327 of The Fantastic Four, as Steve Englehart rushes through two name changes, one event tie-in, and dozens of possibilities! Mantis! Kang! The Silver Surfer! Plant ninjas! Englehart, Keith Pollard, and new inker Romeo Tanghal bring you all of that, plus the return of two team members you never thought you would see again (if you were Steve...
Dec 24, 2017•1 hr 54 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester continue our December run by hitting a technical icy patch leaving an almost two hour podcast in our wake, and a discussion covering Batman #36, Justice League #34, the first issues of Fence, John Wick, and Ninja-K, Rock Candy Mountain #6 by Kyle Starks, the 2000 AD 2017 Christmas Special, and a truly amazing recounting of The Invasion of the Deathless Brain from Worlds Finest #251 by Bob Haney, George Tuska and Vince Colletta! Comments on the show are avai...
Dec 10, 2017•1 hr 49 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester hit December running with another two and a half hour podcast! Today, we discuss revisiting something old and something from Grant Morrison, Batman Annual #2 by Tom King, Lee Weeks, Elizabeth Breitweiser and Michael Lark, what will come after The Doomsday Clock, Cinder and Ashe, 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 Twitt...
Dec 03, 2017•2 hr 28 min
Welcome to Baxter Bungalow, the bonus episode where Graeme McMillan walks you through tie-in issues of The Thing! Straight from the pages of Patreon comes the complete collection of Baxter Bungalow. For all the Ben Grimm completists out there, here is what the Thing was doing when he wasn't part of the FF! Show notes await 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!
Nov 26, 2017•1 hr 12 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester convene a special one hour minicast to talk about the last few weeks in comics, with a special focus on the man who will be the new Editor In Chief of Marvel, C.B. Cebulski, and what it might mean for Marvel, the Direct Market, and you. 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, and Patreon!
Nov 19, 2017•1 hr 8 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return to experience issues #344-321 of The Fantastic Four, as Steve Englehart joins forces with Keith Pollard and Joe Sinnott to reinvent the Fantastic Four and the Marvel Universe! You get the Inhumans, Dr. Doom, Morbius the Living Vampire, The Beyonder, Comet Man, and an offbeat adventure spanning the far corners of the Marvel Universe, both well-know and ju...
Nov 19, 2017•2 hr 11 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester finish up answering questions asked by our awesome Patreon supporters in this two and a half hour podcast! Topics discussed today involve our picks for Marvel teams on DC books, the about-face of Brian Michael Bendis that might make some of our picks come true, measuring Valiant by pitch and by hook, what will happen to our digital comics, and mucho, mucho mas! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatP...
Nov 12, 2017•2 hr 38 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester come correct with almost two and a half hours of answers for questions asked by our awesome Patreon supporters! Topics discussed today involve our superpowers, merged universes, what happened to DC continuity, Finder, the early days of NuMarvel, licensing comics, and, of course, the right way to love Batman. 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...
Nov 05, 2017•2 hr 29 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return to experience issues #304-313 of Fantastic Four, with the debut of new FF scripter Steve Englehart! Join Graeme and Jeff as one of their all-time favorite comics writers takes on a title in disarray, gives the FF a mystifying hair-rising ride to the very edge of rationality (and well past the edge of good taste!), and breathes new life into the term prob...
Oct 22, 2017•3 hr 3 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return with two hours and forty-five minutes of comic book chit-chat, including a twitter interview conducted by Jeff with the talented and generous Gisele LaGace of Menage a 3; a New York Comic Con report by Graeme; Marvel and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Convention; discussion about third issues of Metal and Mister Miracle by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo and Tom King and Mitch Gerards, respectively, and much, much, really very much more. Com...
Oct 15, 2017•2 hr 46 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back with a two and forty-five minute episode with a very long descent into grim and gritty as we talk about the current state of the US, as well as discussions of Marvel Legacy #1, Harley Quinn: A Celebration of Twenty-Five Years, Kamandi Challenge #9 by Tom King and Kevin Eastman, Audobon, On The Wings of the World by Fabien Grolleau and Jérémie Royer, and much, much more! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your ques...
Oct 01, 2017•2 hr 47 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return to visit issues #296-303 of Fantastic Four, featuring the aftermath of the legendary run by John Byrne! Join Graeme and Jeff as they examine the twenty-fifth anniversary issue of the FF, the run up to the three hundredth issue, and the mighty struggles of Roger Stern, John and Sal Buscema, and Roy Thomas to master a story arc they neither agree with or f...
Sep 24, 2017•1 hr 58 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return with two hours of post Rose City Comic-Con blabbity blab! Please ignore whether or not one of us is drunk, and focus instead on the big picture instead: us discussing the convention itself, Mister Miracle #2, Micronauts by Bill Mantlo, Michael Golden, and a score of others; the Tom King interview on the Slate pdocast; Captain Phasma, Jaws on the big screen, and much, much more! Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments...
Sep 13, 2017•2 hr 1 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return with yet another a two and a half hour chatstravaganza about topics big and small, hypothetical and Concrete (although there is strangely not talk whatsoever of the comic Concrete.) We do however discuss the first issue of Metal by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, My Pretty Vampire by Katie Skelly, Doomsday Clock, the Ballad of Halo Jones, Spider-Gwen #23 by Hannah Blumenreich and Jordan Gibson, The Unbelievable Gwenpool by Christopher Hastings and Gur...
Sep 04, 2017•2 hr 33 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back with a two and a half hour superpunch kick of content as we dig deep into the enigma that is Star Brand: the New Universe comic created by Jim Shooter and then destroyed by John Byrne in one of the strangest, pettiest, most ambitious and deranged comics in existence. But first, we discuss the recent Defenders miniseries on Netflix, and the even more recent Adam Wingard U.S. film adaptation of manga classic Death Note! Show notes are available at wa...
Aug 28, 2017•2 hr 37 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return to visit issues #285-295 of Fantastic Four, featuring the end of the half-decade run of Mr. John Byrne! Yes, we have hit the end of one of the most remarkable runs on The Fantastic Four! Does John Byrne go out with a bang, or a whimper? Or something in between...some kind of bimper, if you will? The answers you need are here! Show notes await at waitwhat...
Aug 20, 2017•2 hr 20 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back after a two week absence to talk about what happened at San Diego Comic Con this year, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew, X-Men: Grand Design, the latest piece on Marvel by friend of the podcast Brian Hibbs, plus discussions of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Manga Poverty by Sato Shuho, and much, much more. Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite...
Aug 06, 2017•2 hr 5 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return for the fifth podcast in five weeks to give you a pre-SDCC mix of meandering memory, agreeable disagreements, and punchy punch-drunkness. Sit back for the next two and a half hours as we discuss Dark Days: The Casting, the amazing City of the Damned storyline collected in the Judge Dredd the Complete Case Files Vol. 8, Rocket #3, the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, the most reliable creators of Image as compiled by most unreliable us, and m...
Jul 16, 2017•2 hr 31 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return to visit issues #278-284 of Fantastic Four, written and drawn by Mr. John Byrne, featuring the exquisite inks of Jerry Ordway and Al Gordon! The return of Dr. Doom...or is it? The debut of Malice...or is it? The end of The Invisible Girl...or is it? Jeff and Graeme talking, anaylzing, kvetching, and complaining for almost two and half hours...or do they?...
Jul 09, 2017•1 hr 58 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back and once again bring almost two and a half hours of comic book hypno hustle for your enjoyment! Discussed today are the current controversy over an Image comics cover; a comparison and contrast of a wide range of erotic comics, money in comics and the lack thereof, an update on the seeming car crash that is Marvel Legacy, and a discussion of the first ten issues of Alpha Flight by John Byrne! Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welc...
Jul 04, 2017•2 hr 29 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have two and a half hours of comic book madness to analyze, including the high oddness that was the Marvel Legacy gif announcements, the inspired loony tooniess of the DC Loony Toon crossovers, deep dives into the current Batman run written by Tom King, the Doom Patrol Volume 1, Brick by Brick by Gerard Way and Nick Derington, and the delightful madness of Manga In Theory and Practice by Hirohiko Araki. All of this and our good old pal, Much, much, much mor...
Jun 25, 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 return to visit issues #271-277 of Fantastic Four, written, drawn--and in one case lettered--by Mr. John Byrne! The She-Hulk vs. paparazzi! The Thing vs. iconic monsters! Reed Richards vs. his childhood! Sue vs. her haircut! And Johnny and Alicia vs. common decency! All of that is waiting in store for you in these Byrne-drenched issues! Show notes await at wait...
Jun 18, 2017•1 hr 58 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester pull up in the invisible jet to discuss everything from the amazon princess to Amazon madness. Yes, in this two hour-plus podcast, we talk Wonder Woman, the motion picture as well as the comics, the virtual fire sale Marvel is having on Amazon, Batman and Bill on Hulu, and comics like Deadpool: Bad Blood, Punisher Born by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, Moon Knight, 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, Spencer and Locke, X-O Manowar, and much, much more. Show notes a...
Jun 04, 2017•2 hr 19 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester team up to mourn the passing of Rich Buckler, discuss the odd transition of the comics industry in the early Eighties and the possibility of lost works, the unlikely transcendence of Chris Claremont; the cancellation of Black Panther and the Crew, the one hundredth birthday of Jack Kirby, the return of Twin Peaks, Volume 1 of Darth Vader, the new X-O Man of War series, Vampirella, Namwolf, Medisin, old issues of The Brave and The Bold by Jim Aparo and Bob H...
May 21, 2017•2 hr 33 min
Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester swerve from their look at the defining runs of John Byrne on FF to cover five Annuals and What If #36. Join us as we are rendered punchdrunk by the return of the Salem Seven, the threat of the Prime Ten, and the creative sideswipe that is the debut of Dragon Lord! Show notes await at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast...
May 14, 2017•1 hr 58 min
