Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!, wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester read the sixteenth volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles! In Volume 16 of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles, the new kid, Garth Ennis, struggles to live up to the legacy of Wagner and Grant, while John Wagner shows the Judges struggling with the possibility of democracy, and Alan Grant struggles to get a steady paycheck! Yes, plenty of struggling, including our hosts as they struggle to say anything posit...
Jul 19, 2020•1 hr 59 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester stumble into July with only minor injuries and minor comic book jibber-jabber to match. In this two hour episode, we discuss the King in Black, the upcoming Marvel event that just got a trailer; Death Metal #2, the final issues of Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen; the current Batman run by James Tynion and a handful of talented artists; the comics of Tom Taylor; Empyre #0: Avengers by Al Ewing and Pepe Larraz; Secret Invasion by Brian Bendis and Leinil Yu; the American r...
Jul 12, 2020•2 hr 7 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester exit June heads in hands and hearts in mouth with a two hour episode talking about the latest revelations from the North American comics industry and the allegations against Cameron Stewart, Warren Ellis, and Brendan Wright. I mean, we also give you a first hour wondering about Dark Nights: Death Metal #1, Blue Flag, Justice League Europe, old letter columns, Interspecies Reviewers, and more before we spend a second hour being angry and disappointed. Comments on t...
Jun 21, 2020•2 hr 23 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!, wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester read the fifteenth volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles and the classic story America! In Volume 15 of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles, John Wagner gives us the aftermath of Necropolis and then hands the reins off to the new kid, Garth Ennis! But Wagner is still around as he helps launch The Judge Dredd Megazine with the classic story America, as well as, um, less classic stories like Black Widow and A...
Jun 14, 2020•1 hr 45 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester herald June with a two hour episode diving deep into the recent news of the DC terminating its distribution agreement with Diamond. We spend nearly ninety minutes telling you the news, speculating on the unspoken, and wondering what the future holds for Diamond, DC, and the Direct Market! And we may even find the time to talk about a comic book or two before the whole thing ends. (And by the whole thing we mean the podcast, not the direct market.) Comments on the ...
Jun 07, 2020•2 hr 5 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester wrap up May with a two and a half hour deep cut comic book conversation! Today we talk Iron Man and Stark Wars, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonist, the final issue of Superman Smashes The Klan and the first issue of Spider-Man and Venom: Double Trouble, Morbius the Living Vampire and the breakdown of the Marvel 70s system, Justice League Dark, the recently completed run of Justice League by Scott Snyder, Leviathan Hunt, comics news, a musical number, a...
May 24, 2020•2 hr 44 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!, wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester read the second volume of Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files! The first Restricted Files was far from a highlight of our read-through of the collected Judge Dredd! So how did we feel about volume 2: drokk or dross? Tiune in and find out! 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, Instagram...
May 10, 2020•1 hr 37 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester ring in May with a two hour discussion of the latest news and less-than-latest comics! Today we talk the DC First Issue Special collection, particularly the Walt Simonson drawn issue of Dr. Fate; Absolute Carnage; Amazing Spider-Man: Full Circle; Brightest Day; the trade collecting House of X and Powers of X; Tales of the Dark Multiverse and the recent livestream from Diamond CEO Steve Geppi. Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome yo...
May 03, 2020•2 hr 17 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back from a break with a long look at DC Countdown and its related tie-ins; the manga From The New World and Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku; the very latest in comics news regarding DC, Diamond, Marvel, and NoBrow Press; a Star War or two; and an assorted topic or couple in this two hour ten minute plus episode! 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 ...
Apr 26, 2020•2 hr 14 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!, wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester read the fourteenth volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles! After the events of The Dead Man, John Wagner, Will Simpson, and Jeff Anderson let us in on the turn of events that led to it, which leads in turn to....Necropolis, the Carlos Ezquerra drawn and colored mega-prog to end all mega-progs and the power punch that is a finale to a story years in the making! Dredd may never be the same again--heck, we may...
Apr 12, 2020•2 hr 19 min
Welcome to April, wherein April showers apparently bring podcasts of several hours! Yes, Graeme McMillan and I talk for very, very close to three hours about the 2005/2006 DC event miniseries, Infinite Crisis by Geoff Johns, Phil Jimenez, and many others, analyze the secret of Notting Hill, and try to make sense of the news of the week concerning ComicHub, Marvel, DC, and Diamond! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, a...
Apr 05, 2020•2 hr 55 min
The end of March is here, and with it comes news about Diamond Comics Distributors halting for two months in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester spend a full hour discussing the news, the rumors, and the ramifications of this challenging time for the direct market and the U.S. comics industry. Then, in our second hour we talk about our entertainment self-care regimen, including Breeders, Robocop, The Immortal Hulk, Justice League Detroit, Blissful Land and much mor...
Mar 29, 2020•2 hr 28 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! For the fourteenth episode of Drokk!, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester not only read the thirteenth volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles! but we also tackle the intertwined tale of The Dead Man by John Wagner and John Ridgway! Grant and Wagner put our favorite Mega City One lawman through his paces, but are those paces just a bit more rote than ever? Or is it the fallow season that precedes a creative spring? Join us and find out! Comments on the show are availab...
Mar 22, 2020•2 hr 17 min
Here is the first of our March 2020 episodes, and it begins with a very long discussion from Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discussing the postponement of Emerald City ComicCon, and our own recent health situations, before moving on to discuss Zenith by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell, Graeme reading League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest, Jeff reading Strange Adventures #1, DC Universe All-Star Games, old Gerry Conway comics, and our usual big bag of much, much more in this just-about...
Mar 08, 2020•2 hr 25 min
Here is our end of February episode with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talking about the biggest piece of recent comic book news in some time—the surprise departure of Dan Didio from DC Comics! We look back at the DC career of the writer turned editor turned editor in chief turned publisher, what it might mean for the future of DC, and when we might really learn what happened and why. And in our second hour, we talk about the upcoming The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures by Noelle Ste...
Feb 23, 2020•2 hr 7 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! This is the thirteenth episode of Drokk!, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester tackle the eleventh volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles!! Thirteen may not be the luckiest number for our favorite Mega City One lawman, as this volume finds the seemingly unstoppable duo of Wagner and Grant writing the character separately rather than together. If you ever spent a Beatles song wondering if it was written by Lennon or McCartney, you have an idea of the troubles in stor...
Feb 16, 2020•1 hr 57 min
This is episode 288, for those of you keeping track, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester back to talk about the first season of DC Unscripted over on the DC Universe streaming service, Animal World, a movie adaptation of Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji over on Netflix, the Marvel Hero Project on Disney+, and even a few comic book type things you can do not need a streaming service to enjoy, such as Justice League comics from the 80s and 90s, Invitation From A Crab by Panpanya, the current Fantastic F...
Feb 09, 2020•2 hr 35 min
Here is episode 287, with a very sick Graeme McMillan and a slightly illing me Jeff Lester bemoaning our health, rather than the health of the comic marketplace, for a change! We also talk up the upcoming Empyre event by Al Ewing, Dan Slott, and Valerio Schiti; Venom: The End, Miles Morales: The End, and The Boys: The Prequel; Noisemakers: 25 Women Who Raised Their Voice and Changed The World, the first volume of Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji by Nobuyuki Fukumoto, and much, much more in this two pl...
Jan 26, 2020•2 hr 18 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! This is the twelfth episode of Drokk!, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester tackle the eleventh volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles!! Changes are in store for the top lawman of Mega-City One, as the powerhouse team of John Wagner and Alan Grant finally split over a story choice, the judges reveal their true colors in the chilling four part Revolution, and it is Chopper for Oz in the twenty-six part mega-prog Oz, where Dredd finds not only the shadowy order known ...
Jan 20, 2020•2 hr 19 min
Welcome to our first episode of 2020, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talking about the newly released list of the best selling comics and graphic novels of 2019, the mysteries of the new DC timeline, the secret connection between Robert Kirkman, Mark Millar, and Brian K. Vaughan; the Three Loves of Galactus and the mystery of Marvel editing; a tearfully thorough analysis of the current Avengers run written by Jason Aaron and the classic JLA run written by Grant Morrison and much, much more...
Jan 12, 2020•2 hr 34 min
Welcome to the end of the year, and to Episode 285, a two and a half hour episode wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester give you our Best of Lists for 2019 (and Graeme his Best of for the Decade), a bunch of related comic book related topics ranging from Tom King to Incoming #1 to comic book entropy to the Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca run on Darth Vader, and also including a lengthy and very personal update about the changes in our lives in 2019! Comments on the show are available at wai...
Dec 29, 2019•2 hr 40 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Welcome to the eleventh episode of Drokk!, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester tackle the tenth volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles!! With volume ten, we move on from Dredd 101 to our first lesson in advanced Dredd Studies, as John Wagner and Alan Grant derconstruct Judge Dredd, Mega City One, and their relationship to one another in one brilliant and darkly humorous tale after another! Wagner and Grant are joined by stalwarts Cam Kennedy, Ian Gibson, Steve Dill...
Dec 22, 2019•2 hr 7 min
Episode 284 is here for the holidays, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester gabbing about Graeme and his trip to Brazil to attend Comic-Con Experience Sao Paolo. It is a very thorough breakdown of a very exciting show, but we also manage to work in discuss of The Dark Knight: The Golden Child by Frank Miller, Rafael Grampa, and Jordie Bellaire; have a spoiler-free discussion of the final issue of Doomsday Clock out this week; talk about what manga would make a best comics of the decade list from ...
Dec 15, 2019•2 hr 19 min
This is not an episode; rather, it is seventeen minutes of Graeme and Jeff talking about when you can hear the next episode and why. Enjoy!
Nov 24, 2019•17 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! This is the tenth episode of Drokk!, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester turning their attention to the first volume of Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files! From the very earliest days of Dredd to a story that catches up with volume nine of the Complete Casefiles, the Restricted Files show the evolution of Dredd across a collection of specials and annuals, with stories by Wagner, Grant and an uncredited writer or two, and beautiful color art by Mike McMahon, Carlos Ezquer...
Nov 17, 2019•1 hr 56 min
Episode 283 is here to greet you, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester gabbing about the arrivals in 2020 of The Best of 2000 A.D. and the international comics classic, Asterix. But we also leave room to talk about Wonder Woman: Dead Earth by Daniel Warren Johnson, voumes 9 through 16 of Initial D by Shuichi Shigeno, Terminator: Dark Fate, Legion of Superheroes #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Ryan Sook, Spider-Man: Life Story, Mark Bagley: Life Story, and much, much more in this two and a half ho...
Nov 10, 2019•2 hr 35 min
This is Episode 282, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester in a reflective mood, as we talk about The Year of the Villain, an idea for a DC crossover event that appeared in a dream, the upcoming big reveal in Superman, the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, two very surprising Jack Kirby comics, Batman Annual #4, the enigma wrapped within a riddle bound up in a douchebag that is Nikolai Dante, the Secret Origin of Lightray, the surprise that is Initial D the manga, and much, much more in...
Nov 03, 2019•2 hr 33 min
Welcome to the ninth episode of Drokk!, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester surf the midnight skies of Volume Nine of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles! John Wagner, Alan Grant, Cam Kennedy, Steve Dillon, Ron Smith, Ian Gibson, and others rebound from the nadir of Volume Eight with a blessedly strong outing of engaged compact stories spanning Mega-City One from its skies to its depths as we encounter The Midnight Surfer, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Nosferatu, and the extraordinary Letter From A ...
Oct 27, 2019•2 hr 5 min
Welcome to Episode 281, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester kinda sorta talking about the first issues of Superman Smashes the Klan, X-Men, and Undiscovered Country, and the new coffeetable book Spider-Man: From Amazing to Spectacular, but really talking about budgeting, obsessiveness, and possible reality shows people can pitch for the current DC Universe contest. Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite yo...
Oct 20, 2019•2 hr 23 min
With October comes Episode 280, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talking about New York Comic-Con 2019 and the DC timeline, the power of Giant Days, the appeal of Outer Darkness, being mystified by the season finale to The Green Lantern, and delighted by Lauren Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis, the twitter feed of Rob Liefeld, and much much more! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com...
Oct 13, 2019•2 hr 24 min
