Wait, What?
Summary: Ostensibly about comic books and graphic novels, "Wait, What?" is a podcast in which two friends swap stories, theories, and jokes about all aspects of pop culture...but especially comics. For our early episodes, our theme music is Track 18 from Nine Inch Nails' wonderful ambient album Ghosts, which Trent Reznor graciously made available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. But for some time now, it has been an original composition by our very own Graeme McMillan: this update is overdue!
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Welcome to Episode 31, an unofficial salute by Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester to crazy comics. We start by trying to map the Rat Pack onto the Justice League and end up--well, let's just say it's pretty hard to tell for sure where we end up. But along the way, we talk Martian Manhunter, Justice League Detroit, Takio, Michael Fleisher's run on Ghost Rider, John Romita, Jr., L'il Punisher and more. Skype gave Graeme some problems, my headset gave me some problems, but hopefully Levelator and noise removal technology is not giving you any problems whatsoever. If so, drop us a note and please let us know. We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!
Welcome to Episode 30, wherein Mr. Graeme McMillan and myself discuss the glory that is Mike Friedrich's Justice League of America, the mystery of cliffhangers, the future of slow-burns and subplots, Veronica Mars, Dave Roman's Astronaut Academy, and much more. Well, a little more. And this is our first podcast where we used Levelator and noise removal on the mixing. Can you tell the difference? Let us know! We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!
It's the third of three installments for Episode 29, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester finish answering questioners from listeners on Twitter. We discuss comic book cliches we're tired of, Spider-Man as member of the Future Foundation and possibly X-Men, comic book continuity, the role of Superman in the DCU, the box office receipts of Kick-Ass and Scott Pilgrim, the Dungeons and Dragons comic, and much, much more. We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!
This is the second of three installments for Episode 29, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester continue to answer listener's questions as posed to us on Twitter. We won&t disclose all the questions her but we will tell you some of the answers, including: The Fantastic Four, Peanuts, Ghost Rider, Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, Jack Kirby's Demon, Black Lightning, Brian Wood's Josie and the Pussycats, Luke Cage, Buck Wild, and much more. We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!
This is the first of three installments for Episode 29, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester start by discussing the passing of Dwayne McDuffie, before moving on to answer questions on Twitter--many, many questions. In this installment, we cover topics like teaching, the power of scientific thinking, Denny O'Neil and Justice League, the joys of Bob Haney's The Brave & The Bold, the first comics we ever read, and the secret of our own dumb-assedness. We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!
This is our prologue to Episode 28, a non-comics extravaganza wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk about They Might Be Giants, Randy Newman, and the British TV comedy triumvirate of The IT Crowd, Father Ted, and Brass Eye. It's all the comics-free content you would want from a comics podcast...and then some! We hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!
This is Episode 28, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester finally settle in and talk comics at length and in detail. We talk about Iron Man #500.1, Power Man and Iron Fist #1, Wolverine #5 and 5.1, Chris Roberson's work on Superman:Grounded and Superman/Batman. It's fun, fun, fun until Daddy takes the longbox away. We hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening!
Episode 27 is a bite-sized pick me up podcast of a little more than half an hour, and Graeme and Jeff Lester talk Avengers Academy Giant-Size #1, technology and the mysteries of modern memory, and Abhay's Jimmy Olsen story from this year's Giant-Size Superman. It's much more of a snack than an actual main course, but we hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!
This is Episode 26.2--picking right up where Episode 26.1 left off-- and it is our all-curmudgeon episode. Yes, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester look right into the heart of darkness and dare to ask the scary questions: Are there too many creators in comics right now? What's so great about creator-owned comics? And what is with Stan Lee's mustache? We hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!
Episode 26 ran so long we had to break it into two parts. Join us now for Part 1, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discuss Siege, Dark Avengers, Lex Luthor, Flashpoint and Hot Pursuit, Joe Staton, Don Heck, and the webcomics Bucko by Jeff Parker and Erika Moen and Gingerbread Girl by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover. There's also several minutes of high-concept story-pitching but we promise we tried to make it as painless as possible. We hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!
It's Episode 25, recorded before last week's Wake, What? special: Return with us now to the halcyon days of yesteryear when Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discussed Netflix, the casting decisions for The Dark Knight Rises, Marvel's coming Thor relaunch, Batman, Inc. #2, and the discussion between Matt Fraction and Bryan Lee O'Malley in the latest issue of Casanova. We hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!
Welcome to a special "jumped the line" edition of Wait, What?--Wake, What?, wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester pay tribute to the career of the departed member of the Fantastic Four by barely bothering to talk about him at all. Instead, we cover candor in comics interviews and at comics companies, the state of comics journalism, and touch briefly on Achewood, Reid Fleming, and the curious case of Steve Englehart and his Vision and Scarlet Witch miniseries. We hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!
Welcome to Episode 24, where Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discuss the return of Mark Bagley to Marvel, Spider-Man (both Amazing and Ultimate) Spider-Man, the golden age of letter columns, Walt Simonson's Fantastic Four, and maybe Sammy Davis, Jr. And/or Satan. We hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening!
In the conclusion of Episode 23, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk The Walking Dead, Fables, JLA, Wolverine: The Best There Is, and the allure (or lack thereof) of fantasy novels. We hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!
It's part one of Episode 23, and Graeme McMillan schools Jeff Lester in all the latest and greatest products of 21st century culture: Nicholas Cage movies, Brad Meltzer's Decoded and Jeff Parker and Gabriel Hardman's current run on Hulk. From there, we talk Steel which leads to Final Crisis, which leads to a discussion of Grant Morrison's Invisibles, which leads to Garth Ennis' The Boys and Preacher, and ending up...we're not entirely sure where. Nonetheless, we hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!
