Welcome to a super-brief little trifle: Graeme and Jeff playing another round of My Four Manga! This is Round Two, following a Patreon-only round where Graeme properly guessed which of the four manga Jeff described was fake. Can he do it again? 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!
Feb 27, 2022•18 min
Welcome to our last episode of February! In it, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk about the updating of Comixology by Amazon and how much it changes the game for digital comics reading; the controversy—and the actual story behind the controversy—of the new limited edition printing of JLA/Avengers; the finale of Peacemaker; the first volume of The Savage She-Hulk Marvel Masterworks and much more in this 2.25 hour episode! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome yo...
Feb 20, 2022•2 hr 14 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Time for the Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 32! John Wagner is back to give us more of the same, which is to say by-and-large exceptionally well-crafted Dredd stories, mostly one-shots with art by Simon Fraser, Fraser Irving, Arthur Ranson, the mighty Carlos Ezquerra, Jock, Peter Doherty, Henry Flint, Cam Kennedy, and many more. Join Jeff and Graeme as they tangle with the quandry of consistent excellence turned...fine? Comments on the show are...
Feb 13, 2022•1 hr 34 min
February 2022 has its first episode of the month, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discuss the first issue of The Monkey Prince, Love Everlasting, the new wave of comics Substack newsletters including Grant Morrison and Mangasplaining Extra, trouble in the Amazon Comics store, the Official Image Comics Timeline, Made In Korea, Geiger 80 Page Giant and much, much more! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invit...
Feb 06, 2022•2 hr 6 min
Join us for a two and a half hour episode as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk volume one of Geiger, Jeffs spending and reading habits of 2021 and how they are already shaping 2022; The X Lives of Wolverine and a spoiler filled discussion of the recent Inferno event; the upcoming Spider-Man status quo shift, the reboot of the Milestone titles, New Guardians, Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and oh so very much more! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your q...
Jan 23, 2022•2 hr 30 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Graeme and Jeff are back on the Megacity One beat withJudge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 31! It has John Wagner, Alan Grant, Steve Parkhouse, Colin Wilson, Cam Kennedy, and the mighty Mick McMahon! So Graeme and Jeff are sure to love it, right? 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!
Jan 16, 2022•1 hr 40 min
It is 2022--or as some have said 2020, too--and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester return with 2.2 hours of comic book and pop culture blabbity blab! Join as we talk about a new newsletter from Graeme, the old Miracleman from Alan Moore and a talented team of artists, the Marv Wolfman written run of Teen Titans, the Nick Spencer written run on Amazing Spider-Man, and a lively to-hell-and-back-again discussion of The Matrix Resurrections! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we...
Jan 09, 2022•2 hr 16 min
It is the end of the year as we know it, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester feel fine! Although they are in different locations and recording at different times--Jeff is talking in a lonely room all by himself, Graeme is talking to the ever whipsmart Chloe Maveal, they have come together to give you episode 333, featuring their best of lists (and Strontium Dog and Christmas movies, in the case of Chloe and Graeme)! We hope you enjoy, we hope you are having a very merry holiday season, and we ho...
Dec 18, 2021•2 hr
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! I mean, Sneck! Yes, Graeme and Jeff take a break from their monthly ingestion of Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files to try something a little different--Volume 2 of Strontium Dog: Search/Destroy Agency Files, Vol. 2 by John Wagner, Alan Grant and Carlos Ezquerra! 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 Patreo...
Dec 12, 2021•1 hr 39 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester bring you an unconventional episode for Episode 332, one in which we discuss a singular volume: volume 5 of Classic G.I. Joe by IDW, collecting issues 41-50 of the 80s Marvel comic by Larry Hama and Rod Whigham. In addition to attempting to catalog the many, many charms of this volume, we also talk about classic Transformers, Micronauts, Rom Spaceknight and the golden heyday for licensed toy comics. It is not quite a two hour episode but believe me when I say—it c...
Dec 05, 2021•1 hr 58 min
Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are joined by powerhouse Chloe Maveal to talk a ton of non-comics pop culture—the second season of Ted Lasso, the recent film adaptation of Dune, the amazing hot mess that is Malignant, and Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. And after that ninety minutes of mighty chat, Graeme and Jeff mull over the Superman run of Brian Michael Bendis, the books of Tom King, and much, much more in this 2.25 hour podcast. Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welc...
Nov 21, 2021•2 hr 15 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Judge Dredd the Complete Case Files Volume 30 is a conundrum between covers! It is both one story, an epic 20+ part megaprog written by John Wagner and drawn by a cabal of top 2000AD artists, and it is also two stories, with two different protagonists, told across two different magazines! It is truly awesome and it is truly underwhelming! It is something Jeff and Graeme both agree about, and also kind of fight over? How is this volume such a riddle? Tune...
Nov 14, 2021•1 hr 39 min
November is off to an offbeat start with our first episode of the month, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester dig in deep to talk about the announcement of the unionization of the workers of Image Comics, mull over once again the Al Ewing/Joe Bennett run on The Immortal Hulk, dig up the old trades of Supreme: Story Of The Year and Supreme: The Return, and throw in some quality gab about Roy of the Rovers, Strontium Dog, and Die by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans. Comments on the show are availabl...
Nov 07, 2021•2 hr 20 min
Spooky is as spooky does, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are like two ghosts wearing bowlers in this, our last podcast episode for October. If we are not chilling your blood with recounting the announcements of DC Fandome, or freaking you out with our overview of the Scott Snyder books from Comixology Unlimited, we are doing the Monster Mash on the Jason Aaron run of Avengers, holding a Mad Monster Party for the finale of The Immortal Hulk, or throwing sheets over our heads and yelling boo ...
Oct 24, 2021•2 hr 14 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Judge Dredd the Complete Case Files Volume 29 has Wagner and Grant scripting separately, not together, and the ever-impressive art line up of John Burns, Alex Ronald, Henry Flint, Greg Staples, the mighty Cam Kennedy and many more! The volume is high-quality...so what are Graeme and Jeff disagreeing about so much? Join us and find out! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and w...
Oct 17, 2021•1 hr 39 min
October is well on its spooky way, and Graeme McMillan and I are here to help to help it out with some early treats, plus or minus a trick of two! Join us for a two hour plus episode as we discuss the return of Saga, Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, how long a reader can keep their emotions tied to a narrative on hiatus, Hectic Planet by Evan Dorkin, The Eternals by Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribic, The Outsiders in the 80s and 90s, another installment of My Four Manga and much, much more! Comments ...
Oct 10, 2021•2 hr 7 min
September has reached its end, but Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are not ready to give the month up without a fight! Join us for a two and a half hour episode talking about the Steve Ditko lawsuit, the early days of Venom, the finale of two Tom King miniseries, our experiences with the new Infinity comics on Marvel Unlimited and the Batman Family comics on Webtoons, Reinventing Comics, the next big blockbuster Muppet movie, and much, much more! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpod...
Sep 26, 2021•2 hr 34 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Judge Dredd the Complete Case Files Volume 28 continues the unstoppable run of John Wagner on Dredd, aided and abetted with exceptionally strong artwork from Carlos Ezquerra, John Burns, Trevor Hairsine, Alex Ronald, Kilian Plunkett, and others! Join us!ld, Kilian Plunkett and others! 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, ...
Sep 12, 2021•1 hr 24 min
September has started, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are here for you, as we play the game My Four Manga, talk about the news about Comixology and Amazon, gab about the future of digital comics, and discuss JSA, Infinity Inc., early Todd McFarlane, sixteen volumes of middle aged man comfort manga, 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, In...
Sep 05, 2021•2 hr 27 min
August is ending, September is near, and the awesome and wickedly smart Chloe Maveal joins Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester to gab about Judge Dredd, pride shaming, tech shenanigans, the 104th birthday of Jack Kirby, and a long and lively discussion about reality TV in general and Below Decks Mediterranean in particular! 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, Instag...
Aug 29, 2021•2 hr 8 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Volume 27 is all Dredd, and all John Wagner writing Dredd, which makes for a very happy return for Jeff and Graeme to Drokk! Throw in artwork running the gambit from satisfying to exquisite from Henry Flint, Alen Ronald, John Burns, Peter Doherty, Greg Staples, and many more this is an incredibly satisfying volume of Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files! So...why is Jeff troubled? Tune in and find out! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast...
Aug 22, 2021•2 hr 1 min
We return in mid-August with our first episode of the month, and it is a two hour exblabagazna, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discussing the big news about comics creators turning to Substack to publish comics and James Tynion IV stepping away from Batman to focus on his creator-owned work exclusively! We also talk about The Suicide Squad, the storied history of Substack, Inside by Bo Burnham, The Dreaming: Waking Hours, more Substack, Crunchyroll being acquired by Funimation, more Substa...
Aug 15, 2021•2 hr 13 min
Welcome to our final episode for July 2021, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester breaking out an in-depth discussion of Superman and the Authority by Grant Morrison, Mikel Janin, and Jordie Bellaire; Look Back, the one shot from Chainsaw Man manga-ka Tatsuki Fujimoto currently available at the Shonen Jump website, the first few issues of Crime Syndicate and Infinite Frontier, the nearly forgotten Peter B. Gillis run on New Defenders, the epic manga Fist of the North Star and much, much more in t...
Jul 25, 2021•2 hr 1 min
Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester welcome you back to Baxter Building, our Fantastic Four podcast! We return to join on the Shelfdust reappraisal of Secret Invasion by reading Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four a three issue miniseries by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Barry Kitson, Chris Sotamayor, and a plethora of inkers! We discuss how this miniseries ties into the Secret Invasion event, how it ties into our readthtrough of the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four, and what we have been up to i...
Jul 18, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Unexpected skip week--we just wanted to let you know! See you next week? 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!
Jul 11, 2021•1 min
It is Independence Day in the U.S., and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester exercise their freedom to catch you up on comics news, complain about Spawns Univere #1, pore over the memoirs of Steve McManus, trade memories about speedwriting summaries of new comics for newsletters, talk about Tenet, the Kid Detective, Drowning Love and so much more in this two hour episode! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite y...
Jul 04, 2021•2 hr 15 min
For our last episode of the month, Chloe Maveal joins Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester for a solute to Pride via the wondrous medium of comic books, and the even more wondrous achievement that is Enigma by Peter Milligan, Duncan Fegredo and Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh. Yes, in our three hour episode, we talk about this nearly forgotten queer classic, as well as the work of John Smith, what the the heck is going on with the X-Men, Substack and Nick Spencer, the secret lives of our pets, and much, muc...
Jun 20, 2021•3 hr 3 min
Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Volume 26 seems like it should be dominated by The Hunting Party, a mega-prog written by John Wagner with superb art by Henry Flint among others, as a rag-tag group of cadets accompany Dredd on a top-secret mission out into the Cursed Earth to uncover the secret of the sky sharks! But is it? 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 ou...
Jun 13, 2021•2 hr 3 min
Welcome to June, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester slide freely back and forth in time, talking Wasteland, Invasion and Time Masters from the late eighties/ early nineties, The Nice House on the Lake from just last week, the talent change happening on The Hulk in the near future, season two of Jupiters Legacy happening in the non-future, the unlikely trinity of Simonson, Severin, and Truman, and much, much more in this two hour plus episode! Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast...
Jun 06, 2021•2 hr 13 min
It is the next-to-final day of May and here is our final episode of the month! Episode 319 with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talking the very odd team-up of Warner Media and Discovery, the appeals of Loveless, the oddity of the Brother Voodoo Marvel Masterworks, Marvel Productions, Marvel Entertainment, and the cinematic and otherwise legacy of Geena Davis, Boys Run The Riot, Nightwing, Crossover Vol. 1, The Department of Truth and much more in this two hour plus episode! Comments on the show...
May 30, 2021•2 hr 20 min
