Fools Rush In When Ike Perlmutter Gets Rushed Out!By Jeff and Graeme @ waitwhatpodcast

Join Jeff and Graeme for the last episode of the year, and the last regularly scheduled episode ever! In a three-plus hour wrap-up, we dip our toes into doing a Randy Newman podcast, try to spitball our best of lists more or less on the fly, play two last rounds of My Four Manga, listener and friend of the podcast Skye gives us a round of My Four W…

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! After reading forty volumes of Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester pull a victory lap and read the epic Day of Chaos!It is all John Wagner in these two collected volumes, with extraordinary art by Henry Flint and Colin MacNeil as well as Ben Willsher, Edmund Bagwell, and Leig…

Chloe Maveal joins us in this, our first December episode, for a two hour conversational romp discussing the San Francisco FanExpo, the beard of Pat Broderick and the non-charms of Lootcrate; A Friend of the Family, Avenue 5, and Slumberland; the huge Vertigo drop on DCUI Ultra; 20222 comic buying and reading stats from Jeff; Spotify Wrapped; and m…

It is our final episode for November and more than likely our final November episode ever! But do not fret: Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are here to answer your questions about what we will be doing post-podcast, our favorite wrap-ups for series and stories; the upcoming Dawn of DC; what can go wrong when dealing with press embargoes; what our n…

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester complete Operation: Drokk with this, the fortieth and latest (and final for our purposes) volume of Judge Dredd The Complete Case FilesTime for Total War as John Wagner and Henry Flint rewrite the map of MegaCity One with a megaprog that knocked our irradiated socks off! We a…

November is here and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester trail in its autumnal wake! Join us for a two and a half hour episode as we talk about Mission Hill, comic creator interviews then and now, our time together in Portland, trick or treating, the most uncomfortable way to watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The Fuse, the first fifty issues of Spawn, a…

Chloe Maveal returns to the podcast to join Graeme McMilland and Jeff Lester in talking about things scary, spooky, and altogether ooky! It is our first Wait, What? since New York Comic-Con, so there is a rundown on the highs and lows of that show, and lots of talk about films and shows watched for the Halloween season including Nightmare Weekend, …

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester veer a bit off track from Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files to read volume 4 of Judge Dredd: The Restricted Case files and, in retrospect, maybe that was a mistake?Join us as we look at stories from John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra, Alan Grant, Henry Flint, Pat Mills, Shaky Ka…

It is the spooky season, and part-time ghosts Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are here to talk about the things currently haunting us: New York Comic Con, Todd McFarlane, the career of Roy Thomas, Cross Play Love: Otaku and Punk, two comics series starring The Thing, a very dark corner of Star Wars fanfic, and of course...sheds.Comments on the show…

Join Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester for our last episode of September, which finds us talking X-Men Red, Leviathan by Jason Shiga, Fantastic Four Full Circle by Alex Ross, the current comic events Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths and AXE Judgment Day but also much, much more in a handy two hour format.Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpo…

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 39 is here, and it is the first volume to be released as the same year we record our companion episode! After the last smashing volume, one would think Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester would be delighted to encounter the stories here written by John Wagner, Alan Grant…

After some time away, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back with a hefty two and a half hour episode! Join us as we talk about Mike Deodato and Namor, Batman Earth One and The Batman, the ongoing soap opera of Geoff Johns and DC, Amazing Fantasy #1000, the latest Zeb Wells John Romita Jr. arc of Amazing Spider-Man, streaming services and a very …

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 38 arrives to fire its autocannons, catching Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester in it sights! Sure, there are stories written by Alan Grant, John Smith, and Gordon Rennie, but somehow once again it is John Wagner who manages to do amazing things with the Lawman of Mega-…

It is the middle of August and our first episode in almost a month! Join Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester as we catch up on San Diego Comic Con, C2E2, the surprising spotlight panels on Chris Claremont and Todd McFarlane, how and why the undisputed masters of comics are now very much disputed, the first series of The Sandman on Netflix, Ducks: Two Y…

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 37 has come to town and with it, a handful of stories written by John Wagner and Gordon Rennie as well as the last Dredd story to date written by Garth Ennis! It also brings with it incredible talents like Carlos Ezquerra, Steve Pugh, Cam Kennedy, John Burns, Charlie…

July, 2022 brings many new things, both expected and unexpected, to our door, and one of them is this, our first episode of the month! Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk for a hale and hearty two hours about Axel Pressbutton and Laser Eraser; the Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis era of Justice League; the current big swings being taken by DC creat…

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 40 is here and it brings with it a lot of John Wagner, some surprisingly good Gordon Rennie, a little bit of Andy Diggle, and a killer line-up of artists like P.J. Holden, Carlos Eqzuerra, Mike McMahon, Jim Baike, John Ridgway and most especially Henry Flint, who ill…

In the middle of June comes our Pride Special 2022, with special guest Chloe Maveal joining Graeme McMillan and Jeff to answer questions, dispense wisdom, and talk about Swimming In Blood, the genre-tweaking first appearance of Devlin Waugh by John Smith and Sean Phillips. Come for the laughs, stay for the old straight guy confusion in this two hou…

When is a comics podcast even less of a comics podcast than usual? When it is the first podcast of June 2022, apparently, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are more than happy to talk about Star Trek, San Diego Comic Con, going to movie theaters, people who have threatened to punch us, unlikely doppelgangers, The Kids in the Hall, James Ellroy, an…

Chloe Maveal joins Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester for a free-wheeling two hour conversation chatting about the Eisners, the fate of Conan at Marvel comics, the movies of David Cronenberg, the terrifying-sounding reality show Lovestruck High, Young Frances, Chihayafuru, that very frustrating She-Hulk trailer and of so much more in this comfortably …

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Look out forJudge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 35, wherein John Wagner, Robbie Morrison, Alan Grant, and Gordon Rennie team with John Burns, P.J. Holden, Carlos Eqzuerra, Kev Walker, Colin MacNeil, John Higgns and others to bring us to the cusp of the Modern Era of Dredd--reliable, unafraid of leaning…

Recorded on Free Comic Book Day 2022, this installment finds Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester ruminating on the deaths of George Perez and Neal Adams, their era of comics and the failure that was the first attempt at a JLA/Avengers crossover. And then we go on to talk about West Side Story, The Batman, new fanfic headcanon from Jeff about He Who Rem…

Hey, all: you may remember on a previous skip week, we did two rounds of My Four Manga, one for the podcast and one for our Patreon. This week, Jeff was a little too wiped out from a crazy workweek, so Graeme decided to step up and turn the tables on Jeff with...Four British Comics! Three are real; one is a fake! Can Jeff tell which is which? This …

Our last episode of April lands right on Easter Sunday, as Easter chick Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester continue to gab about recent Marvel movies and even more recent DC rumors, as well as the comics Telepaths by by J. Michael Straczynski and Steve Epting. Goodbye Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto, embarrassing manga, the atypical career of John Smith, and …

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Welcome to Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 34, where the Curse of the Golden Rut continues! John Wagner, Robbie Morrison, and Gordon Rennie get a free boost when Garth Ennis returns with Helter Skelter, a 10 part mega-prog where the ultimate villain turns out to be...the house of Carlos Ezquerras!C…

A couple of days after April Fools, a couple of fools gather to ring in April! Join Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester to talk about movies The Eternals, Benedetta, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Videodrome, while also gabbing about the recent news about DCUI, recent newsletters from Grant Morrison and Tom King, and gab even yet more a…

Chloe Maveal joins Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester for a two hour episode talking about bad but horny movies, Fist of the North Star, Sam Keith comics, Moon Knight, volume 4 of Lawless, pacing in comics, Star Wars, and much, much more!Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, …

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Time for Drokk!! Here comes the Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Vol. 33...with a batch of largely self-contained stories of such consistently high craft we cannot help but say....meh? Join Graeme and Jeff as they look at John Wagner, Robbie Morrison, Gordon Rennie, and Alan Grant writing our favorite Mega-City Lawman fo…

The first week of March is nearly over but Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are here, better late than never, to discuss NOT seeing The Batman, the remake of West Side Story by Steven Spielberg, the latest iteration of digital comics blues this time starring MangaPlaza as well as Comixology, the Legion of Super Heroes comics from the Nineties, The N…

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@g…

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 Th…

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 Fl…

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 Gian…

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, N…

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,…

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…

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 …

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 waitwha…

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 Tran…

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 Mi…

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…

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…

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 o…

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…

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 Dorki…

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…

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 ar…

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 …

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 avai…