Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! It is the quarter-centennial of Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester tackling volume 25! John Wagner, the conclusion to The Pit, the return of Judge Death in stereo, John Smith brings Dredd to the darkside, Alex Ronald, Tom Staples, Trevor Hairsine, Lee Sulivan, and the almighty Carlos Ezquerra give us sky sharks, bongo wars, chair men and oh so much more! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we ...
May 09, 2021•1 hr 42 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discuss the first issue of The Nice House on the Lake, BRZRKR #2, the forgotten 80s Wagner/Grant/Cam Kennedy series Outcasts, the Disney Must Pay movement, Robin #1, 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 Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Patreon!
May 02, 2021•2 hr 5 min
April showers bring Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talking for hours as we spend a shockingly long time talking about Below Decks and the pleasures of reality television, plus the Craig McCracken created Netflix show, Kid Cosmic, the long-running manga Detective Conan, the past three years of Judge Dredd, and some DC/Marvel side-eye, recent works by Tom King, and a surprisingly saucy discussion of Geiger #1! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at...
Apr 18, 2021•2 hr 19 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Volume 24 of Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files is here! You have Robbie Morrison, Dan Abnett, Pat Mills, Mark Millar, John Smith and Andrew Cartmel as writers and you have Steve Yeowell, Colin MacNeil, Maya Gavin, Cliff Robinson, Paul Marshall and others on art, but first and foremost you have John Wagner at the helm taking readers into a whole new world of future crime and punishment by bringing Judge Dredd into...The Pit! Join Jeff and Graeme as they...
Apr 11, 2021•1 hr 46 min
For the closest thing we have to an April Fools episode, these two fools Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are joined by Chloe Maveal to for a two hour episode discussing the recent—and amazingly enough—real news about Marvel and Diamond, the Round Robin series pitch bracket from DC, three hundred thousand copies of Aliens #1, and much more. Plus we also talk about John Wagner, Alan Grant, and Robin Smith and their Bogie Man: Return to Casablanca, Kong vs. Godzilla, the poor vs. the rich in the tr...
Apr 04, 2021•2 hr 15 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are here with episode 315--Wait, What is Grey, a two hour episode discussing the Zack Snyder cut of Justice League currently playing on HBO Max for the first half, and spending the second half discussing the premiere of Falcon and the Winter Solider currently over on Disney+ as well as both seasons of The Green Lantern by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp currently playing on comic books! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your quest...
Mar 21, 2021•2 hr 13 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Jeff and Graeme tackle Volume 23 of Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files! John Wagner shares the spotlight with not only Garth Ennis and Pat Mills but a new generation of Dredd writers, even as artists like Tervor Hairsine and Chris Weston step up to join John Higgins and Carlos Ezquerra. But will too many cooks spoil the Mega-City Soup? Tune in and find out! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatP...
Mar 14, 2021•1 hr 54 min
We are pleased to bring you episode 314, a two hour episode that is one part spoiler-filled discussion on X of Swords and the MCU TV series Wandavision, and one part analysis of the possible intersections of taste, criticism, fanservice, online criticism and the career of one Graemeothy Jehoshophat McMillan. 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, and Pat...
Mar 07, 2021•2 hr 3 min
The last day of February brings you episode 313, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talking Infinite Frontier #0, the Nick Spencer run on Amazing Spider-Man, what the hell is a linearverse, Magic Mike, The Brave and The Bold, Richard Dragon Kung Fu Fighter, and an extensive reappraisal of not only the Joss Whedon cut of Justice League but the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern! All this and much more in this 2.5 hour installment! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome y...
Feb 28, 2021•2 hr 30 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Jeff and Graeme dive into Volume 22 of Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files! John Wagner is still in full effect, but seems committed to breaking some of the habits accrued through years of writing Dredd with stories like The Exterminator, Escape from Kurt Russell, and some hilariously dark takes on Mega-City One. But there is also Morrison and Millar on a Crusade to craft big, dumb power riffs with our number one law man. We talk about all this and more ...
Feb 21, 2021•1 hr 55 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester welcome you to February with a two hour episode talking about not one, not two, but three classic Marvel events written by Brian Michael Bendis: Age of Ultron, Civil War 2, and House of M. Throw in a discussion of the Nick Spencer written Secret Empire, a deep dive into both Kill Bill movies, and a discussion of the Superman Kryptonite Nevermore storyline from the 70s and we feel comfortable saying Wait, What is the Fogeyest of the Old Fogey comics podcasts bar no...
Feb 07, 2021•2 hr 18 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Jeff and Graeme start 2021 with Volume 21 of Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files! And staring them in the face is the gift horse of Wilderlands, a 200 page megaprog written entirely by John Wagner and drawn mostly by Carlos Ezquerra! It seems too good to be true? Find out how good we actually find it after a reread or two--the answer may surprise you! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@...
Jan 24, 2021•2 hr 3 min
The second week of January 2021 has come and gone, leaving Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester wandering among the wreckage. But whatever else future generations must grapple with about this week, they still will not have done the same level of grappling about the seventh and final issue of Death Metal that we do. Yes, our bete noire comes to a open-quote rousing close-quote open-quote conclusion close-quote and we spend eighty minutes of our two hours talking about the big wrap up to the Scott Snyd...
Jan 10, 2021•2 hr 18 min
Wonder Woman 84! As the kids used to say--thats it, thats the tweet. Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester start the new year with an hour-plus minicast dedicated specifically to discussing Wonder Woman 84, currently in theaters and on HBOMax. We spoil the whole dang thing here, soup to nuts, stem to stern, ashes to ashes, funk to funky. So please do not listen if you have not seen or do not care to see the movie. And either way, join us again in just a week for a full-fledged regular-length episode o...
Jan 03, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Happy holidays!! It is the last podcast of the year, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are here to give you best of lists, reasons for the best of lists, podcasting recording problems and solutions, and just generally a two-plus hour episode of scattered toys, coal, and good cheer. 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, and Patreon!
Dec 20, 2020•2 hr 30 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! It is 20 for 2020, as Jeff and Graeme reach the twentieth volume of Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files! But can they make it through the Cursed Earth of non-Wagner 2000AD stories before making it to the refuge of the largely Wagner written Megazine installments? Join us 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, ...
Dec 13, 2020•1 hr 58 min
First podcast of the last month of the year is here and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester bring as much holiday cheer as we can squeeze out of the end of 2020! Join us as we talk about appropriate holiday movies, the recent news about HBO Max, the early word on the Future State event from DC, the perils of selling your used bidet on Nextdoor, The King in Black and the Marvel career of Donny Cates, The Flash by Mike Baron, Jackson Guice, and Larry Mahlstedt, The Immortal Hulk, The Book Tour by Andi...
Dec 06, 2020•2 hr 30 min
Today is the last podcast of November and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester make it a two and a half hour chatstravaganza! In it, we discuss graphic novels like Paul At Home and Gerard—Five Years with Depardieu, comics like the second issue of Friday by Ed Brubaker and Marcos Martin, and tackle news about Dan Slott, Wonder Woman 1984, Alan Dean Foster, and much, much—and I cannot stress this enough—much more! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at W...
Nov 22, 2020•2 hr 36 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!, wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester read the third volume of Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files. Time for another collection of B-Sides, as we read through the stories pulled from specials, annuals, poster books from 1990 through 1993. John Wagner inspires, Alan Grant does pretty much the opposite, and a new wave of Dredd writers incouding Robbie Morrison, Simon Furman, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning and John Smith try to secure their place of the craggy sh...
Nov 15, 2020•1 hr 36 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester open their November door on the day Joe Biden clinched the Presidency, and so unsurprisingly spend a full forty-five minutes discussing the last week, the last four years, art, satire, comic books, superhero movies and what might happen to them now. We also talk about the current run of Avengers written by Jason Aaron, the current run of Batman written by James Tynion, news and open quote news close quote, and much, much more! Comments on the show are available at...
Nov 08, 2020•2 hr 23 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester wrap up their October round of podcasts with a two and a half hour mega-chat with spoiler-free conversations of the finale of Three Jokers and the upcoming Death Metal: New God; the new Werewolf by Night; Dracula Motherfucker; Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Man: Aporkalips Now; the comics of Dan Slott; Icon, Irredeemable, and Invincible; how superhero comics change to handle change; the upcoming DC event Future Tense and other comics news and much, much more...
Oct 25, 2020•2 hr 38 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!, wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester read the nineteenth volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles. Garth Ennis says goodbye, but Mark Millar, Grant Morrison, and John Smith are the Boys of Summer come to say hello in this, the nineteenth volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles! Morrison has Inferno, Smith has The Giggler and Millar has a lot to shrug off later, even as stalwart John Wagner brings back Mechanismo and a batch of something tha...
Oct 18, 2020•2 hr 5 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester come into October swinging with a 2.25 hour episode! In it, we talk comic cons, real and virtual, the simple pleasures of the movie Aquaman and the slightly more, uh, complex ones of Spice World; Graeme brings us up to date yet again on Death Metal; Jeff knocks us out of time yet again with discussions of Bloodstone and the Legion of Monsters, a horny Chris Claremont comic from 1975, and the first Conan comic he ever read! All this plus a discussion of the Milesto...
Oct 11, 2020•2 hr 17 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!, wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester read the eightten volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles. Garth Ennis and new guy Mark Millar dominate the first half of Volume 18 of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles but John Wganer and Pat Mills own the back of the volume, and Wagner has big-ass can of Mechanismo to open on us. What did we think of the volume? Tune in and find out! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome yo...
Sep 27, 2020•1 hr 53 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are on fire—thankfully only metaphorically, at least for now—and ready to talk about some of the stuff we have been already talking about except more so! Yes, if you remember the previous episode where we talked Aliens,Death Metal Trinity Crisis, and Bill and Ted, you will be delighted to put that memory to use as Graeme talks Alien: Covenant, Jeff talks the first issue of Bill and Ted Are Doomed and his reactions to Death Metal Trinity Crisis, and also talk about...
Sep 13, 2020•2 hr 16 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester find themselves on the verge of an American holiday weekend talking about work challenges in the year 2020; the first issue of Batman Three Jokers, the comic Blade Runner 2019; the films Bill and Ted Face the Music, Aliens, and Bram Stokers Dracula; Death Metal Trinity Crisis; The Last of the Atlases; Empyre; new comics from Abhay; free comics from Marvel and much, much more in this two hour episode! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we we...
Sep 06, 2020•2 hr 3 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!, wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester read the seventeenth volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles and the first Batman/Judge Dredd crossover: Judgment on Gotham! Garth Ennis holds sway over nearly all in Volume 17 of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles as a team of not-quite-ready artists and not-really-prepared editors help the then-twenty-two year old stage the first non-Wagner written megaprog since The Cursed Earth, Judgement Day! How do we ...
Aug 30, 2020•1 hr 56 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have episode three hundred and one for you, wherein we finish up answering questions asked on Patreeon, email, and twitter! And in addition to talking about our favorite intercompany crossovers, the most overlooked characters and creators in comics, non-Dredd 2000AD comics to recommend, and what parts of the past three hundred episodes of which we are proudestf, we also spend the half-hour discussing the recent news of the massive layoffs at DC and what that might...
Aug 16, 2020•2 hr 46 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are here with our three hundredth episode, which appropriately enough is just a whisker shy of three hours, to answer your questions and challenge our own life decisions! Topics discussed include how to feel good about comics; the secrets to Supterman; our favorite anniversary issues and the all-important question: who would we pick to play us in Wait, What? The Movie? Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhat...
Aug 09, 2020•2 hr 57 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester put July in a sleeper hold with our latest episode! In just a smidge more than two hours, we break down the breakdown that was Comic-Con at Home; give color commentary to the announcement of color reprints of The Walking Dead; test our dying mettle with Death Metal #2; and do something that sounds like what we are talking about when we discuss Portland in 2020, reading superheroes, writing biographies, and much, much more! Comments on the show are available at wai...
Jul 26, 2020•2 hr 9 min
