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Wait, What? Episode 91 Jun 24, 2012

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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!

Wait, What? Episode 90 Jun 17, 2012

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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!

Wait, What? Episode 89 Jun 11, 2012

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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!

Wait, What? Episode 88 May 28, 2012

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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!

Wait, What? Episode 87 May 21, 2012

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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!

Wait, What? Episode 86 May 14, 2012

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Episode 86 has arrived, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are along for the ride, answering not only questions asked by you but also stuff you most pointedly did not ask. Yep, for two hours and fifteen minutes or so, we discuss topics like San Diego Comic Con, Joss Whedon and the weather, trolling, Radiolab, Mark Ruffalo cheesestraws and Clark Gregg carmelized olives, the nicest people in comics, Scott Morse, Walt Simonson's Orion, The New 52 free comic book day comic book, Greg Rucka, Books of Magic, Superman's heat vision, Chris Roberson's Memorial, comic book pricing, how we would spend twenty dollars on digital comics, our favorite cheesecake artists, Gail Simone, Brian Woods' The Massive, Jim Shooter and world-class editors, Jim Steranko, 20th Century Boys and Bakuman, when is it okay to buy comics, and as always, much, much more. With luck, the Internet will still be around by the time we finish answering everyone's questions but even if not, we thank you for listening and hope you enjoy!

Wait, What? Episode 85 May 08, 2012

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Graeme McMillan and I have come here to do two things: talk comic books and chew bubble gum. And we are all out of gum. But actually, for the first fifteen minutes it seems like we are also all out of comic books as we instead talk about Graceland, Video Games, and TV theme songs. But then we get on to the good stuff as defined and regulated by law, with talk about Action #9, Earth Two #1, and Avengers Vs. X-Men #3. And finally, we start answering more of your questions from Twitter, with topics like level-ups in comics, Apocalypse Now, John Romita Jr., today's hottest artists, today's favorite artists, cereal mascot deathmatch, Valiant Comics, Marvel trades, the big two's history of strange, Disney and Marvel, Damon Lindelof, Brad Bird, Shonen Jump Alpha, Mad Magazine, Saucer Country, the new deadwardians, suicide squad, sinestro war, blackest night, fear itself, civil war, and much more. It is two hours of the talking cure for sequential entertainment blues and as always, we hope you enjoy and thank you for listening!

Wait, What? Episode 84 Apr 30, 2012

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Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are kicking out the jams for Episode 84 of Wait, What? with an ever-popular and never-ending Q and A round. So kick back for the next hour and forty-five minutes, as we talk about our recommendations for DC Showcases and Marvel Essentials, both real and imaginary, the fall of the Sincere Age of Vertigo, Alan Moore and the plight of 1963, our Free Comic Book Day picks, the damning influence of Big Question Mark, event comics, follow-ups to articles discussed without being read, work for hire vs. creative owned work,Steve Gerber and Foolkiller, Submarine, Elite Squad, our favorite comic book city, and assorted cage matches and Hunger Games. We will have more answers coming soon but nevertheless we hope you enjoy and thank you for listening!

Wait, What? Episode 83 Apr 23, 2012

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After a slight delay, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester are back for Episode 83, just a shade more than two hours and twenty-five minutes of comic book reviews, gossip, and shop talk. We do our best to cover a lot of ground including Iron Muslim and Zombies vs. Fanboys from Boom Comics, Kirby: Genesis, the current state of comics and the comics internet including Chris Roberson quitting DC and David Brothers' amazing article over at Comics Alliance, Before Watchmen, Grant Morrison, Brian Bendis and Avengers Assemble #2, as well as the Oral History of the Avengers, the eighth issues of Wonder Woman Justice League, OMAC, and Batman, Casanova #3, The Shadow #1, The Boys by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, Alabaster Wolves, Saga #2, Archie Meets KISS, Prophet #24, more issues of Glamourpuss, and much, much more! As always, we hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

Wait, What? Episode 82 Apr 09, 2012

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Welcome to the done-in-one Eighty-Second Episode of Wait, What? Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester jump right in with the comic book catch-up talk, starting with Action Comics #8, and we don't let up for the next two hours and twenty five minutes. Topics discussed include OMAC #8, the colorization of Scott Pilgrim, the battles behind the TV show Community, a blog post about the comics Internet, Casanova #3, Supreme #20, Fatale #4, Glamourpuss #24, Strike Force Morituri, and in this week's Listen to Jackass, Jeff responds to other blog posts he hasn't even read. It is comic book crackpottery at its crackpotteriest. And, as always, we hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

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