Wait, What?

Welcome to Episode one hundred and ten, our last podcast of 2012! Today Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester continue to answer questions from listeners, posed at savagecritic.com.

Topics include Action Comics #15, overselling emotion in comics, spelling in American, Gail Simone and DC, at least one Elseworlds pitch, Alan Moore, Jeph Loeb, the Wait, What? drinking game,

waffle cones, Matt Fraction, Teen Titans and a brief but annotated list of our books of the year. A very extensive set of show notes is available for your review over at savagecritic.com.

Definitely feel free to use them as a helpful tour guide to help you traverse the winding streets of our two hour and ten minute podcast.

As always, we hope you enjoy, thank you for listening…and wish you Happy Holidays!

It may not be the Mayan Apocalypse, but Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester give Episode One-Oh-Nine everything they've got anyway!

Today we answer questions from listeners, asked via the Savage Critic website and Twitter.

Topics include the worst avenger to get a gift from; our dream team for D-Man; the fate of Karen Berger; Stephanie Brown and the Scarlet Witch, Apple, pies, and apple pies; Avengers #1, Stumptown #4, Amazing Spider-Man #799, and the proverbial much, much more.

It is almost exactly two hours of funny book babble-on, and, as always we thank you for listening and hope you enjoy!

As always, we hope you enjoy…and thanks for listening!

Recovering from our triptophan induced comas, here comes Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester with Episode 108, over two hours and twenty minutes of funny book related talk and confusion.

Topics under discussion this time around include the James Gunn controversy; comic culture--threat or menace; discussions of Bleeding Cool Magazine #1, Marvel NOW! books like the first relaunched issues of Captain America, FF, and the Indestructible Hulk, the second issues of Iron Man, All-New X-Men, and the Uncanny Avengers, the five hundred and ninety-eighth issue of Amazing Spider-Man, Bendis' last issues of Avengers, Grant Morrison's most recent issues of Batman Incorporated and Action Comics, Hikaru No Go; the first issue of Masks, Multiple Warheads #2, Flash #14, Angel and Faith, and much, much more.

It is everything you would want in a comics podcast, unless you also wanted talk about Angus T. Jones and Two and A Half Men, because that, sadly, we decided to cut.

As always, we hope you enjoy…and thanks for listening!

Before Turkey Day comes the turkey talk with Episode 107, more than two and a quarter hours of comic book headscratchery with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester.

This time around, we dig into the launch of Marvel NOW with evaluative analysis of Uncanny Avengers #1 by Rick Remender and John Cassaday, Iron Man #1 by Kieron Gillen and Greg Land, Fantastic Four #1 by Matt Fraction and Mark Bagley, Avengers Assemble #9 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Stefano Caselli,

and a long hard look at the first issue of All-New X-Men by Brian Bendis and Stuart Immonen. Also covered: A+X #1, AvX #6: Infinite, Saga #7, 2000 AD #1809 and the quasi-religious importance of hard work.

Show notes are available over at savagecritic.com where comments are always welcomed and read. We hope you have a great Thanksgiving or other awesome feasting type holiday. Axnd as always we thank you for listening and hope you enjoy!

After the election but before the holidays, Graeme McMillan and I bring you Wait, What? Ep. 106, with more than two hours and ten minutes of comic book crosstalk.

Today, we discuss the end of Hellblazer, the rise of Constantine, and the fall of Vertigo; an in-depth discussion on the current heights being hit by 2000 A.D., Action Comics #14, Willow Wonderland #1 by Jeff Parker and Brian Ching, Earth 2 #6, Stumptown #3, Captain America #19, Colder #1 by Paul Tobin and Juan Ferreyra; the Iceman series from 1984 by J.M. DeMatteis and Alan Kupperberg, and Ethan Rilly's Pope Hats.

Show notes are available over at savagecritic.com where comments are always welcomed and read, and as always we thank you for listening and hope you enjoy!

Now with thirty percent less trick and at least half the US. Daily Requirement of treat, it is Episode 105, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester dressing up as semi-competent podcasters for Halloween 2012.

Today, we break out the shovels and dig our discussions extra deep, with nearly half an hour on just the first issue of Multiple Warheads by Brandon Graham, as well as forty five minutes on the extraordinary Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe.

We also ring the doorbells of the spooky porches belonging to Batman Inc. #4, Flash #13, and the first issue of Ghost, and Graeme details the razor blade apple that is Superman #13.

At just a hair over two hours, this has enough ear candy for you to go to bed with a stomach ache until at least Thanksgiving.

Nonetheless, we hope you enjoy...and thanks for listening!

Crashing through a brick wall just in time to punch out Hitler, it is Episode 104 with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester ready and willing to talk comic books until the cows come home, an image far less captivating than the one I opened with.

Today, we have ourselves a good long talk about John Byrne and his career in the Eighties; news about the Superman litigation and the folding of Newsweek; a discussion about the new Valiant line, and review Archer and Armstrong issue #3, Batman #13, Marvel Now! Point Zero, Godzilla: The Half Century War #3, and the latest issue of King Cat Comics and Stories by John Porcellino. All this and a few surprises in just a little over two hours and compressed into handy pill-shaped form.

As always, we hope you enjoy...and thanks for listening!

Episode 103 is on the scene, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester battling the twin demons of technical difficulties and abject poverty to bring you comic book news, reviews, and talk of cashews.

Books under discussion this time around include the first issue of The Uncanny Avengers, the Justice League of America Annual #2 from 1984, Superior Spider-Man, the first two issues of Suicide Squad by John Ostrander and Luke McDonnell, the briefest mention of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe, Empire State by Jason Shiga, 120 Days of Simon by Simon Gardenfors, Hikaru No Go by Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata, Also discussed: Comixology Submit--threat or menace?--and the web series Mythomania.

As is now standard operating procedure these days, you can find more complete show notes over at savagecritic.com.

And, as always, we hope you enjoy...and thanks for listening!

You hold in your hot little ears Episode 102 with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester ready and semi-able to talk four-color news and issue funny book lamentations of the newest, strangest and saddest aspects of the comic book world. Today, we discuss the Uncanny Avengers and its twenty variant covers, compare comic book events both natural and unnatural, and rave over an excerpt of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe.

We also review the thirteenth issues of both Batman and Action Comics, The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon, Pedestrian by Gordon Harris, Amelia Cole and the Unknown World by Adam Knave, D.J. Kirkbride, and Nick Brokenshire, the first two issues of Harbinger, Axe Cop: President of the World, Fatale #8, issues 7-10 of Star Wars by Roy Thomas, Don Glut, Howard Chaykin and Tom Palmer,and last but very far from least, the thirteenth issue of Watchmen.

It's more than two and a half hours of comic book mythmaking we hope has a little bit of something for everyone. Drop by savagecritic.com to see our show notes, check out at least a page from issue thirteen, and drop us some comments.

As always, we hope you enjoy...and thanks for listening!

Episode 101 is here to bring you into the naughty aughties, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk the latest zero issues for the DC New 52 and some of the stranger retcon choices being made thereby; the latest, ginchiest issue of Prophet by Brandon Graham and Farel Dalrymple; the stunning epic that is 2001: A Space Odyssey as adapted and re-conceived by Jack Kirby; and the ferocious pastiche that is Tom Scioli's Final Frontier.

Plus, we handwring and kvetch about Seconds and Multiple Warheads, have a chat about the cult of the creator as it applies to Gilbert Hernandez, Matt Wagner, and Mike Allred, and manage to give you generous dollops of your favorite side-dish: a tasty plate of Much, Much More.

At a little over two hours, this episode has everything a discerning Whatnaut might hope for, including show notes which you can find over at savagecritic.com.

As always, we hope you enjoy and now, more than ever, we thank you for listening!