Wait, What?

For the next two hours and twenty minutes, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discuss the latest uproar over the direct market; CW shows leaving Hulu; what makes Spider-Man Spider-Man; Archie Comics; the future of Marvel Unlimited; underrated and overrated Fantastic Four runs; and much, much more as they wrap up their award-winning trilogy of questions from supporters on Patreon. Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester put on the sparring gloves over Fantastic Four issues #171 through #184 by Roy Thomas, George Perez, John Buscema, Ron Wilson, Sal Buscema, Gerry Conway, Bill Mantlo, and the ever-steadfast Joe Sinnott. Yes, one of our hosts thinks there is a lot of fun here in this batch of issues with admittedly a poorly timed dud issue...and the other person thinks the majority of these stories are trainwreck on fire. Who is right? Tune in and decide for yoursel, as well as hear about the return of Galactus, the debut of Gorr, The Golden Gorilla, the invasion of the Impossible Man, the attack of the Brute and much, much more in the two-plus hour podcast. Show notes eagerly await you at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

Make way for Episode Two Hundred and Seven with the second part of a multipart session in which Graeme McMillan and Jeff answer questions posed to us by our listeners on Twitter and Patreon. Over the next two hours we discuss the Legion of Super-Heroes (a lot!), Jack Kirby, manga for a newbie, sexuality in the Wolfman/Perez run of Teen Titans, Tim Seeley and Tom King, Spawn/Batman or Batman/Spawn, Steve Ditko, The Flintstones, and much, more! Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

Time for Episode Two Hundred and Six with the first part of a multipart session in which Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester answer questions posed to us by our listeners on Twitter and Patreon. Over the next two and a half hours we discuss the Legion of Super-Heroes, Bob Haney, Metamorpho, Death Note and Platinum End, which graphic novels we’d teach in high school, Kamandi, Kamala Khan, and much, much, much more. Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

Episode Two Hundred and Five finds Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester live and in person right where we belong: in a Portland basement arguing about San Diego Comic-Con! Topics in this shortish hour and fifteen minute podcast include the career of Rachel Talalay, the Wonder Woman trailer, Batgirl Rebirth by Hope Larson and Rafael Albuquerque, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Super Powers by Tom Scioli, Crafstman Bolt-On System Saves the Justice League, and more! Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester let out a sigh of relief at issues 160-170 of the Fantastic Four, by Roy Thomasy, Rich Buckler, George Perez and Joe Sinnott. Remember the word fun? Lord knows it was easy enough to forget over the previous batch of Fantastic Four issues, but in these not-very-even batch of issues, the fun moves to the forefront as The FF engage in the Worlds War Three, battle the retcon menace of The Crusader, battle it out with the Hulk, and recruit Luke Cage, Hero for Hire as a replacement member! Show notes eagerly await you at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

This is Episode Two Hundred and Four, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discussing all of the recent Marvel announcements from A to Ri; as well as Midnighter; Marvel in the Eighties and DC in the Nineties; Transformers vs. GI Joe; Marvel Fanfare, Comixology Unlimited: Dark Night: A True Batman Story, and, believe me when I tell you, so very much more in this two and a half hour podstravaganza!    Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

Here is Episode Two Hundred and Three, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discussing Wonder Woman Earth One by Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette; The Fix by Steve Lieber and Nick Spencer; The Brave and the Bold; Girl Over Paris; Jupiter's Legacy by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely; Jughead, Judge Dredd, Jeff's poor spending choices, and much, much more!  Show notes are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester peer cautiously at issues 147-159 of the Fantastic Four, by Gerry Conway, Rich Buckler, Joe Sinnott, Len Wein, Roy Thomas, and others. The shocking conclusion of the Reed and Sue split! The stunning marriage of Crystal and Quicksilver! The terrifying world of Mahkizmo! The disturbing triumph of Doctor Doom! You will find all of these discussed, albeit with not quite those adjectives, in this two hour comic book assault on the New York skyline of your common sense. Show notes eagerly await you at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

Time for Episode Two Hundred and Two, wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester spend a lengthy amount of time digressing from the subject of the films of Federico Fellini, before finally returning to the topic of comics forty minutes later. Funnybooks under discussion include Batman Rebirth, Superman #1, Detective Comics #1 and Batman and Robin Eternal, Jughead, Madwoman of the Sacred Heart, the Keith Giffen/John Rogers run of Blue Beetle, the graphic novels Something New and Rolling Blackouts, old issues of Star Trek The Next Generation, Imperium, the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and so much more in this two hour podcast.     Show notes, speedy but sensible, are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

Today, in our two hundred and first episode, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester answer questions submitted by listeners for episode two hundred, and also discuss the ending of Captain America: Steve Rogers #1.  Other topics include our creative picks for DC's Rebirth titles,  Marvel's Future Fight video game, comics for people who liked Batman vs. Superman, mutants vs. Inhumans, John Constantine vs. Thanos, the Legion of Superheroes, the Jack Kirby book we would not recommend and much more in this two-plus hour podcast.   Show notes  of a post-episode 200 sort are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

Welcome back to Baxter Building, the podcast reading through the first 416 issues of the Fantastic Four! Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester gaze at issues 134-146 of the Fantastic Four, by John Buscema, Joe Sinnott, Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, Ross Andru, Rich Buckler, and Frank Giacoa. Unfortunately, those issues also gaze back! Gerry Conway brings the deep cuts to this run of issues and Jeff and Graeme work their hardest to staunch the bleeding! Villains famous and obscure return, marriages and eras are rent asunder, and not even the scarlet tresses of Medusa can hold the FF together! Show notes eagerly await you at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

Today, on their two hundredth episode, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discuss Captain America: Civil War, pick our own teams of comic characters to represent #TeamGraeme and #TeamJeff, talk about the too-short life and powerful influence of the recently passed Darwyn Cooke, and take calls from our listeners in this two-plus hour podcast. Show notes  of a bicentennial sort are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!

Jeff and Graeme are getting ready to record Episode 200 of Wait, What? Do you want to be on the episode? Give us a call with your well-wishes or snarky disses at (415) 843-1836!

Today, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester sit down to talk about comic books we like, including Elektra Assassin by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz; Captain America by Nick Spencer and Daniel Acuna; The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North and Erica Henderson; Criminal by Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips; 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank; Panther by Brecht Evens; Sun Bakery by Corey Lewis, and much, much more. The quick, brown show notes jump over the slow lazy podcast at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your comments and questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, and Patreon!