Wait, What?

Later than delivered, and longer than promised, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have for you the one hundredth episode of Wait, What?, featuring calls from listeners, absurd technical problems, theatrical asides, and, oh yeah, comic books. In fact, among the comics discussed are Amazing Spider-Man #700, the hiatus of Jughead, reviews of a handful of DC New 52 Zero Issues including Batman, Inc., DC Universe Presents, and Justice League. Also, we consider the very odd trajectory of Jennifer Blood by Garth Ennis, Al Ewing, and others; Stumptown 2.1 by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth, The Crackle of the Frost by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jorge Zentner, the original Rocketeer series by Dave Stevens, Bloodshot, Bandette, Shadow Cabinet, a long look at Jim Starlin's career at Marvel and, as always, much, much more. The echo was a bit heavy on this one and Graeme ends up sounding like Beelzebub at the end, but we worked our hardest and did our best to bring you two point five hours of funny book podcastery you'd be proud to have streaming from your ears. As always, we hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

You hold in your hot little ears Episode 99, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are doing our best to make you think it is already Episode 100 with over two hours and fifteen minutes of reviews, discussion, and comic related gab. Among the topics under discussion this time around: Minutemen #3, Justice League #12, the Flash, Superman, and Green Lantern Annuals, Rob Liefeld, some very odd Challengers of the Unknown talk, Vision and Scarlet Witch: A Year in the Life, The Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell, Prophet #28, Black Kiss #2, Emo Galactus by R.M. Rhodes and Meredith Burke, and much, much more. Also, if you would like your voice to be heard on our hundredth episode, listen close and leave a message on our secret Wait, What? related phone number. Our special phone is waiting under a cake glass for your call! As always, we hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

You hold in your hot little ears Episode 99, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are doing our best to make you think it is already Episode 100 with over two hours and fifteen minutes of reviews, discussion, and comic related gab. Among the topics under discussion this time around: Minutemen #3, Justice League #12, the Flash, Superman, and Green Lantern Annuals, Rob Liefeld, some very odd Challengers of the Unknown talk, Vision and Scarlet Witch: A Year in the Life, The Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell, Prophet #28, Black Kiss #2, Happy by Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson, Emo Galactus by R.M. Rhodes and Meredith Burke, and much, much more. Also, if you would like your voice to be heard on our hundredth episode, listen close and leave a message on our secret Wait, What? related phone number. Our special phone is waiting under a cake glass for your call! As always, we hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

This is Episode 98, one episode closer to the triple digits and Graeme McMillan and I are ready to get into some four color monkey business in a little less than two hours. This time around we talk about Rob Liefeld vs. DC, Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes, The Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom, Amazing Spider-Man #692, Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan, Batman Inc. #3, The Siegel-Schuster lawsuit against DC, Captain America, the First Avenger, The Bourne Legacy, Battleship and Bunheads. We also have a question for you the listener to answer and we invite you over to Savagecritic.com to do so, as well as check out our show notes. We hope you enjoy, and as always, thanks for listening! As always, we hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

This is Episode 97, chasing at the heels of lucky podcast 100, and not even minor technical glitches prevent Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester from giving you two hours of funnybook babblespeak. Once again, we bend it like Bendis and start the comic talk super-early, discussing the heyday of the Incredible Hulk and the appeal of Herb Trimpe. Other topics include Four Panels That Never Work, the Fantastic Four that may no longer work, the Marvel NOW! announcements, the second Walking Dead lawsuit, The Importance of Being Dredd, Joss Whedon, Archer and Armstrong, Godland issue 36, the sublime Bakuman vol. 13...and a DC/Marvel crossover that very well may blow your mind, as well as a visit from our good old buddy much much more. As is the standard, you can find show notes at savagecritic.com. And if you find the time and would like to leave us a review on iTunes, we would be very grateful. As always, we hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

Episode 96 has arrived and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk up a freaking storm for two hours and twenty minutes, with the first discussion of comics hitting with no preamble chitchat whatsoever. Blame it on the rain, blame it on Rio, but most especially blame it on Howard Chaykin and Black Kiss 2, true believer, because they are most definitely at fault. Other topics include Earth Two and the second wave of DC's New 52 books, Hawkeye #1 and Avengers Vs. X-Men #9; a long talk about scrutiny, self-scrutiny and Mark Waid's opinion of Newarama; Richard Stark's Parker: The Score by Darwin Cooke; Donald Goines' Daddy Cool by Donald Glut and Alfredo Alcala; and Action Comics #12 by Grant Morrison, three pencillers, and four inkers. As always, we hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

After our first-ever scheduled skip week, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back with Episode 95, two hours and two barrels of auditory comic book double-talk. Once again, extensive show notes are up at savagecritic.com and we advise you use them as a roadmap to our amorphous conversational landscape...especially if you like to know how far in you need to jump to miss the non-funnybook talk. But we can tell you that we do discuss Zaucer of Zilk by Al Ewing and Brendan McCarthy, Axe Cop: President of the World #1, Prophet #27, Captain Marvel #1, National Comics: Eternity; Flash #11 and Detective Comics #11, Extreme X-Men #1, as well as updates on reading Mad Magazine, Shonen Jump Alpha and The End of the Fucking World digitally, a long spoiler-filled discussion of The Dark Knight Rises and all the Batman movies, self-consciousness versus self-awareness, and much, much more. Please keep your hands and legs inside the vehicle at all time, and in case of accidental oral ingestion, please induce vomiting until all foreign substances are expelled. As always, we hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

This is Episode 94, recorded at the beginning of San Diego Comic-Con from two guys who didn't go. Nonethless, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have plenty of things to talk about, and we highly recommend you check out the show notes over at SavageCritic.com to find out the complete list. But we will tell you that after a long half-hour chat about how to make it on the front page of time.com and what in the world is the appeal of Michael Bay, we do get around to talking about the comics, with a tag-team review of Double Barrel #2 from Top Shelf, Jeff talks about reading three weeks of Shonen Jump Alpha in one go, and Graeme covers Dark Avengers #177, Wild Children, The Lovely Horrible Stuff by Eddie Campbell now out on digital; Action Comics #11, Infernal Man-Thing #1, and Punk-Rock Jesus. Tie it all up in a bow with a long talk about the career of Greg Rucka, add a dash of gossip about the unannounced-at-the-time Before Sandman project, and you have yourselves the making of another podcast that just about tips in at two hours and ten. You will have plenty of time to savor it because we are taking next week off, but keep an ear open for us two weeks from now with Wait, What? Ep. 95. As always, we hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

Episode 93 finds Graeme McMillan and me back in our respective Skypespaces and ready to mix it up! Yes, this episode may be our highest number of largely polite disagreements and one of our most varied, careening from topics like the mascots of British comic magazines to reviews of the digital launch of Monkeybrain comics; Marvel NOW!, Waffle Window Then!, LOEG: Century 2009, Brass Eye, the fabulous Popeye #3, The Massive, New Deadwardians, the glory of Batman Inc. #2, creating new IP, anxiety dreams, who is stronger, Watchmen or Walking Dead, San Diego Comic Con and, as if we could help it, much, much more in a neat two hour and ten minute package. Plus, there are once again time stamp show notes to be found over at savagecritic.com to prove to you we are giving you the biggest batch of everything and more you can buy with your ear dollars! We thank you for listening and, as always, we hope you enjoy!

Episode 92 brings Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester together again for the first time as we podcast together live from Graeme's attic in Portland Oregon. Topics discussed include Avengers and the oddness of its worldwide profits; The Amazing Spider-Man movie and its marketing scheme; Safety Not Guaranteed and a terrifying quasi-related Blair Witch Project story; our very favorite place on earth, The Waffle Window; Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty's The Manual: How to Have a Number One the Easy Way; Batman: Earth One by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, and much more. Also for the first (and maybe the last) time ever, we have time-stamped show notes waiting for you at my July 3rd entry over on the Savage Critic website! Yes, for those of you who only want to hear us talk about Spider-Man and Alpha, or Casanova, you can now narrow our ramblings down with pinpoint precision. If this is a thing you like, definitely let us know as I am already hurting my head with all the proper timestamp adjustments to be made once this introduction is recorded and it is probably worth trying to keep me motivated to do stuff like that if you like it. We thank you for listening and, as always, we hope you enjoy!

This is Episode 91, the first episode in seven months to live or die on its own, without any help from listeners' questions. Do Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have the ability to carry on a conversation without twitter or the web page whispering like Cyrano from the bushes! The answer is a resounding 'kinda,' as we cover the weather in Portland; plans for our first "live" podcast; a long discussion about Casanova 3.4; Zaucer of Zilk by Brendan McCarthy and Al Ewing; Matt Howarth, Lou Stathis, and Those Annoying Post Bros.; why the song remains the same; copied characters, satire, and analogues; the point of a first issue in modern comics; Spider-Men #1; that old Parker luck and the Spider-Man movie franchise; the evolution of Marvel's edgier heroes; Saga #4, Avengers Vs. X-Men, and more! (You know, maybe not that much more, to be honest, but definitely more!) We thank you for listening and, as always, we hope you enjoy!

This is episode ninety, wherein we follow up our final episode of answering your questions with an episode where we... answer your questions! Yes, like the proverbial killer from an eighties slasher film, this segment refuses to stay dead, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester uncover the questions from Twitter we had yet to answer...until now. Topics include buying second hand or torrenting; supporting Marvel; Skull The Slayer; favorite and least-favorite Englehart runs; Batman: Earth One by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank; a spoiler-filled discussion of Batman #10; The War of the Robins; subplots in the New 52; Spider-Men #1; Dracula World Order; forgotten and overlooked comic creators; our guilty pleasures; Andy Warhol's Robocop; the orientation of digital comics; Batman: Legend of the Dark Knight; the draw of new teams on different titles; and, just as the title credits are about to roll and you think it's over, much, much more. We thank you for listening and, as always, we hope you enjoy!

Just in time for the start of summer, it' Episode 89, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester finally finishing off questions posed by you over a month ago...but not without some technical glitches. This episode starts off In Media Tech SNAFU, with Jeff answering a question posed by Graeme before Skype goes kaput and kills our first five minutes stone dead. Fortunately, for everyone, it's an answer that makes sense without the question--as opposed to most of the time with us when that is never the case--and then we proceed to talk Action Comics #10; superhero movies and the geek comfort zone; Spawn and Glamourpuss #25; Minutemen #1 featuring an impassioned discussion over Heather Armstrong, Internet communication and freelancer responsibility; Double Barrel #1; the best reviewed comic in the world; James Ellroy in comics; Zombo; Sonic Disruptors; American Flagg; Zenith; Detective Comics and much more. Plus, exciting news for Wait, What? and a request (at least one!) for listener assistance...all in less than two hours. We thank you for listening and, as always, we hope you enjoy!

The Battle for The Answers continue in Episode 88, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester answer your comics-related questions, or at least we do after the first ten minutes spent talking about Robin Gibb and the Bee Gees, Damon Albarn and Blur, and Elliot Smith as the Hipster Tupac. But right after that, we talk which Alan Moore's universe we'd like to see continued; the recent first issues of Batman Inc., The Ravagers, and Superman Family Adventures; Erik Larsen and The Savage Dragon; digital content and comics as a niche market;, Who gets a bigger free pass--Marvel or DC; Greg Rucka and Brian Bendis's discussion over at the Mulholland Books website; the degrees of freelancer success; Scott Kurtz and cynicism; Jim Lee and the role of creators in corporate comics; and the Word Balloon and other podcasts. Plus, Jeff talks about the Raid Redemption and Graeme talks about Portland elections; webcomics and print collections; Shia LaBoeuf and Steve Rude; Bulletproof Coffin and much, much more in a single two hour sonic shot to the brain. We thank you for listening and, as always, we hope you enjoy!

If you've got two hours, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester have the podcast: Wait, What? Ep. 87! Oh, sure it starts with seven minutes of bitching and moaning about Skype but then we've got a lengthy (and spoiler-filled) discussion of the Avengers movie with only semi-continuous random-seeming comparisons to Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Then: a quick talk about Saga #3 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples; Avenging Spider-Man #7 by Kathryn and Sturart Immonen; the history of kitty cats; Saucer Country #3, Wolverine by Jason Aaron, Bakuman, Batwoman, Watchmen Toasters, The Oral History of DC's Countdown over at Funnybook Babylon, Blackest Night, and more. And in our never-ending attempts to answer your questions, we discuss why writers in comics seem to get all the credit, Viz Comics, Taboo, the ZX Spectrum, Starblazer, the mysteries of Reverse Aquaman, Thor and the New Gods, Thanos and where the credit resides for Marvel's cosmic stories, Matt Fraction's Thor, grappling with the career of Brian Bendis and much, much more. (Although not as much as when we usually run two hours and fifteen minutes.) As always, we hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!