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Just in time for Valentines Day, we have the pungent bouquet that is Episode 115 for you, our lovely listener! In a little over two hours and ten minutes, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk Young Romance: The New t2 Valentines Day Special, Batman Odyssey by Neal Adams, Sylvester Stallone and Walter Hill, secret sideburns, the Marvel Jack Kirby Captain America Omnibus, Green Arrow, Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, OMAC, the Red Hulk's mustache and the proverbial much, much more. A skip week follows this so come back in two weeks for another brain-busting episode and remember, show notes are available at the Savage Critic website. As always, we hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

After a brief hiatus, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back with Episode 114. Topics discussed today include Green Lantern and the Rise of the Third Army, Superboy and the Last Boy On Earth story arc, Superman Family Adventures, Uncanny Avengers issue 3 and Avengers issues 3 and 4, the sixteenth issues of Wonder Woman and Flash, Dora The Explorer, Natalie Imbruglia, Chad Nevett, and much, much more--including answering questions posed by our listeners--in an episode with more than two hours of WTF Certified WTFness. Show notes are available over at SavageCritic.com and I heartily recommend you check them out so you can see the fine illustrative skills of Graeme at work. And as always, we hope you enjoy….and thanks for listening!

Welcome to semi-unlucky episode one hundred and thirteen. In spite of some vexing technical difficulties, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester team up to discuss comics news, give you some reviews, and answer a few more of listeners' questions. And remember, you can find complete show notes for today's episode over at SavageCritic.com! Stuff under discussion includes the second issue of New Avengers; the Death of the Family storyline in the sixteenth issues of Batman, Batgirl, and Batman and Robin; Captain America #3; Shako, the only bear on the CIA's death list; the wrap of Howard Chaykin's Black Kiss 2; season four of Misfits; Marvel solicits, Thanos Rising, The One Trick Rip-Off by Paul Pope; and our good old friend: much, much more! As always, we hope you enjoy….and thanks for listening!

It is time for Episode one hundred and twelve! And to answer some of the dozens of questions left by Whatnauts over at SavageCritic.com. Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester tackle what scientists would call a heap of questions, resulting in discussions about Spider-Man: Ditko or Romita? Bagels we have known and loved; the current line-ups of 2000 A.D., Shonen Jump Digital and The Phoenix; the darkness at the heart of Batman, Inc.; waffles; Star Wars; webcomics; Superior Spider-Man; retweeting; Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; and much, much more. Show notes are available over at savage critic.com for your edification, and, as always, we hope you enjoy and thank you for listening!

Welcome to Episode one hundred and eleven, the first podcast of 2013! As you may recall, Jeff Lester and Graeme McMillan have several dozen questions hanging over heads left by listeners last year. How many do we actually manage to answer in this two hour podcast? Write the number down on a piece of paper before listening and then check it at the end. You will be astounded! As always you can find our show notes over at Savage Critic Dot com, and considering we do not get around to discussing comics until the thirty-eight minute mark, you may want to check the show notes to make sure we talk about what you want to hear when you want to hear it! Because topics today include the Triumvirate of Cocoa: Cocoa Puffs, Cocoa Krispies, and Cocoa Pebbles; the first season of American Horror Story; the TV adaptation of Tommy and Tuppence; Misfits; Canadian Television; Amazing Spider-Man #700; Final Crisis; Batman and the Outsiders Annual #1; Sachie-Chan Good by Akira Toriyama and Masakazu Katsura; Flash #15 Prophet #32, and--as if we could avoid it--much, much more. As always, we hope you enjoy, thank you for listening…and Happy New Year!

Welcome to Episode one hundred and ten, our last podcast of 2012! Today Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester continue to answer questions from listeners, posed at savagecritic.com. Topics include Action Comics #15, overselling emotion in comics, spelling in American, Gail Simone and DC, at least one Elseworlds pitch, Alan Moore, Jeph Loeb, the Wait, What? drinking game, waffle cones, Matt Fraction, Teen Titans and a brief but annotated list of our books of the year. A very extensive set of show notes is available for your review over at savagecritic.com. Definitely feel free to use them as a helpful tour guide to help you traverse the winding streets of our two hour and ten minute podcast. As always, we hope you enjoy, thank you for listening…and wish you Happy Holidays!

It may not be the Mayan Apocalypse, but Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester give Episode One-Oh-Nine everything they've got anyway! Today we answer questions from listeners, asked via the Savage Critic website and Twitter. Topics include the worst avenger to get a gift from; our dream team for D-Man; the fate of Karen Berger; Stephanie Brown and the Scarlet Witch, Apple, pies, and apple pies; Avengers #1, Stumptown #4, Amazing Spider-Man #799, and the proverbial much, much more. It is almost exactly two hours of funny book babble-on, and, as always we thank you for listening and hope you enjoy! As always, we hope you enjoy…and thanks for listening!

Recovering from our triptophan induced comas, here comes Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester with Episode 108, over two hours and twenty minutes of funny book related talk and confusion. Topics under discussion this time around include the James Gunn controversy; comic culture--threat or menace; discussions of Bleeding Cool Magazine #1, Marvel NOW! books like the first relaunched issues of Captain America, FF, and the Indestructible Hulk, the second issues of Iron Man, All-New X-Men, and the Uncanny Avengers, the five hundred and ninety-eighth issue of Amazing Spider-Man, Bendis' last issues of Avengers, Grant Morrison's most recent issues of Batman Incorporated and Action Comics, Hikaru No Go; the first issue of Masks, Multiple Warheads #2, Flash #14, Angel and Faith, and much, much more. It is everything you would want in a comics podcast, unless you also wanted talk about Angus T. Jones and Two and A Half Men, because that, sadly, we decided to cut. As always, we hope you enjoy…and thanks for listening!

Before Turkey Day comes the turkey talk with Episode 107, more than two and a quarter hours of comic book headscratchery with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester. This time around, we dig into the launch of Marvel NOW with evaluative analysis of Uncanny Avengers #1 by Rick Remender and John Cassaday, Iron Man #1 by Kieron Gillen and Greg Land, Fantastic Four #1 by Matt Fraction and Mark Bagley, Avengers Assemble #9 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Stefano Caselli, and a long hard look at the first issue of All-New X-Men by Brian Bendis and Stuart Immonen. Also covered: A+X #1, AvX #6: Infinite, Saga #7, 2000 AD #1809 and the quasi-religious importance of hard work. Show notes are available over at savagecritic.com where comments are always welcomed and read. We hope you have a great Thanksgiving or other awesome feasting type holiday. Axnd as always we thank you for listening and hope you enjoy!

After the election but before the holidays, Graeme McMillan and I bring you Wait, What? Ep. 106, with more than two hours and ten minutes of comic book crosstalk. Today, we discuss the end of Hellblazer, the rise of Constantine, and the fall of Vertigo; an in-depth discussion on the current heights being hit by 2000 A.D., Action Comics #14, Willow Wonderland #1 by Jeff Parker and Brian Ching, Earth 2 #6, Stumptown #3, Captain America #19, Colder #1 by Paul Tobin and Juan Ferreyra; the Iceman series from 1984 by J.M. DeMatteis and Alan Kupperberg, and Ethan Rilly's Pope Hats. Show notes are available over at savagecritic.com where comments are always welcomed and read, and as always we thank you for listening and hope you enjoy!

Now with thirty percent less trick and at least half the US. Daily Requirement of treat, it is Episode 105, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester dressing up as semi-competent podcasters for Halloween 2012. Today, we break out the shovels and dig our discussions extra deep, with nearly half an hour on just the first issue of Multiple Warheads by Brandon Graham, as well as forty five minutes on the extraordinary Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe. We also ring the doorbells of the spooky porches belonging to Batman Inc. #4, Flash #13, and the first issue of Ghost, and Graeme details the razor blade apple that is Superman #13. At just a hair over two hours, this has enough ear candy for you to go to bed with a stomach ache until at least Thanksgiving. Nonetheless, we hope you enjoy...and thanks for listening!

Crashing through a brick wall just in time to punch out Hitler, it is Episode 104 with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester ready and willing to talk comic books until the cows come home, an image far less captivating than the one I opened with. Today, we have ourselves a good long talk about John Byrne and his career in the Eighties; news about the Superman litigation and the folding of Newsweek; a discussion about the new Valiant line, and review Archer and Armstrong issue #3, Batman #13, Marvel Now! Point Zero, Godzilla: The Half Century War #3, and the latest issue of King Cat Comics and Stories by John Porcellino. All this and a few surprises in just a little over two hours and compressed into handy pill-shaped form. As always, we hope you enjoy...and thanks for listening!

Episode 103 is on the scene, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester battling the twin demons of technical difficulties and abject poverty to bring you comic book news, reviews, and talk of cashews. Books under discussion this time around include the first issue of The Uncanny Avengers, the Justice League of America Annual #2 from 1984, Superior Spider-Man, the first two issues of Suicide Squad by John Ostrander and Luke McDonnell, the briefest mention of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe, Empire State by Jason Shiga, 120 Days of Simon by Simon Gardenfors, Hikaru No Go by Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata, Also discussed: Comixology Submit--threat or menace?--and the web series Mythomania. As is now standard operating procedure these days, you can find more complete show notes over at savagecritic.com. And, as always, we hope you enjoy...and thanks for listening!

You hold in your hot little ears Episode 102 with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester ready and semi-able to talk four-color news and issue funny book lamentations of the newest, strangest and saddest aspects of the comic book world. Today, we discuss the Uncanny Avengers and its twenty variant covers, compare comic book events both natural and unnatural, and rave over an excerpt of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe. We also review the thirteenth issues of both Batman and Action Comics, The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon, Pedestrian by Gordon Harris, Amelia Cole and the Unknown World by Adam Knave, D.J. Kirkbride, and Nick Brokenshire, the first two issues of Harbinger, Axe Cop: President of the World, Fatale #8, issues 7-10 of Star Wars by Roy Thomas, Don Glut, Howard Chaykin and Tom Palmer,and last but very far from least, the thirteenth issue of Watchmen. It's more than two and a half hours of comic book mythmaking we hope has a little bit of something for everyone. Drop by savagecritic.com to see our show notes, check out at least a page from issue thirteen, and drop us some comments. As always, we hope you enjoy...and thanks for listening!

Episode 101 is here to bring you into the naughty aughties, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk the latest zero issues for the DC New 52 and some of the stranger retcon choices being made thereby; the latest, ginchiest issue of Prophet by Brandon Graham and Farel Dalrymple; the stunning epic that is 2001: A Space Odyssey as adapted and re-conceived by Jack Kirby; and the ferocious pastiche that is Tom Scioli's Final Frontier. Plus, we handwring and kvetch about Seconds and Multiple Warheads, have a chat about the cult of the creator as it applies to Gilbert Hernandez, Matt Wagner, and Mike Allred, and manage to give you generous dollops of your favorite side-dish: a tasty plate of Much, Much More. At a little over two hours, this episode has everything a discerning Whatnaut might hope for, including show notes which you can find over at savagecritic.com. As always, we hope you enjoy and now, more than ever, we thank you for listening!