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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 questions 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 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!

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!

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!

It's the conclusion to Episode 22, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk about nearly everything--Fear Itself, Green Lantern, our comic picks for 2012, John Byrne and Doc Doom, Darren Aronofsky and Black Swan, Aaron Sorkin and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip--in short, a little bit of something for everyone. Actually, considering this episode is an hour and forty-two minutes, it may qualify as having a lot for everyone. Let's just say if you wanted a podcast where the term "White Power Odin" was thrown around and a debate breaks out about the history of Man-Wolf, this may be the podcast for you. We hope you enjoy, happy new year, and thanks for listening!

It's part one of Episode 22 and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester ring out the old year and ring in the new with notes about their holidays Then, after the eleven minute mark or so, they cover the upcoming comic book schedule for March, Marvel's Point One initiative and other publishing strategies, more updates about Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Patton Oswalt's Wired article, and some musings about porn, comics, and porn comics. Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy, and welcome to 2011!

It's our grand finale to Episode 21, and in it, Graeme McMillan and I discuss our favorite books of the year, Graeme gives you ten, I agree on four, and I throw in another three or so. Regular listeners may think they'll know our list before it even starts, but at least one title that turns up has never been discussed here at all. Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy, and Happy Holidays!

It's part one of Episode 21, In it, Graeme McMillan and I discuss topics vitally important to every Wait, What listener--such how the hell our numbering sequence works. And Graeme's cleanse. And the holidays. Annnd basements. But then! (At more or less the 22:30 mark...) We're off to the races with in-depth discussion of one of our picks for comics newsstory of the year. It's almost an hour and fifteen minutes of chocolate comicy goodness with a creamy nougaty center, perfect for holiday consumption. Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy, and Happy Holidays!

It's our concluding installment of Episode 20, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talk about more of everything: X-Men's recent Vampires storyline, DC: Legacy and the 75th anniversary of DC; the state of Superman; the marketing acumen of Mark Millar; Tron: Legacy; and quick reviews of The Social Network, Redline, and The Informant! Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy, and Happy Holidays!

It's our first installment of Episode 20, and Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester jump in feet-first to talk recent comics: Paul Cornell's Action Comics Annual, the first arc of Matt Fraction and Pascal Ferry's Thor, the trade editions of 52, New Avengers #7, press releases from Marvel, and possible Wondercon plans. It's hour long comic book conversing in the mighty Wait, What manner! Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy, and Happy Holidays!