528 episodes

Ostensibly about comic books and graphic novels, "Wait, What?" is a podcast in which two friends swap stories, theories, and jokes about all aspects of pop culture...but especially comics.
For our early episodes, our theme music is Track 18 from Nine Inch Nails' wonderful ambient album Ghosts, which Trent Reznor graciously made available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
But for some time now, it has been an original composition by our very own Graeme McMillan: this update is overdue!

Wait, What‪?‬ Jeff and Graeme @ waitwhatpodcast.com

    • Arts
    • 4.5 • 158 Ratings

Ostensibly about comic books and graphic novels, "Wait, What?" is a podcast in which two friends swap stories, theories, and jokes about all aspects of pop culture...but especially comics.
For our early episodes, our theme music is Track 18 from Nine Inch Nails' wonderful ambient album Ghosts, which Trent Reznor graciously made available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
But for some time now, it has been an original composition by our very own Graeme McMillan: this update is overdue!

    Wait, What? - The April Fools Edition

    Wait, What? - The April Fools Edition

    Fools Rush In When Ike Perlmutter Gets Rushed Out!

    • 1 hr 17 min
    Wait, What? - Episode 355

    Wait, What? - Episode 355

    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 Webcomics, Jeff tries to get Graeme to sing, and so much more!

    Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we wish you the best for this holiday season, next, year, and all the years to come. Thank you for listening!

    • 3 hr 20 min
    Drokk! Episode 46

    Drokk! Episode 46

    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 Leigh Bagwell. Together, they crafted the biggest megaprog to date showing Dredd reaping what he sowed thirty years earlier and fighting for the soul of Mega City One!

    Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Patreon!

    • 2 hr 35 min
    Wait, What? - Episode 354

    Wait, What? - Episode 354

    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 much, much more!

    Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Patreon!

    • 2 hr 4 min
    Wait, What? - Episode 353

    Wait, What? - Episode 353

    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 next readthrough would have been; who our Marvel and DC podcasting equivalents are; favorite comic book events; must read recommendations, our early pick for book of the year and much, much more!

    Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Patreon!

    • 2 hr 55 min
    Drokk! Episode 45

    Drokk! Episode 45

    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 Files

    Time 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 also talk about strong work from Gordon Rennie this volume, a surprise from Alan Grant, and art from John Burns, Disraeli,
    Carl Critchlow, John Burns, John Burns and John Higgins. With only one episode of Drokk left, we are going out on a staggeringly high note!

    Comments on the show are available at waitwhatpodcast.com, we welcome your questions at WaitWhatPodcast@gmail.com, and we invite you to look out for us on Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Patreon!

    • 2 hr 10 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
158 Ratings

158 Ratings

ohwellitwasfunwhileitlasted ,

The Greatest Podcast Ever!

This is the Greatest Podcast Ever and it will be missed...

Adrian Marcado ,

They’re fine

I listen occasionally. The hosts ramble a bit and take awhile to make their points. Could use some editing. The FF episodes are fun. Their fascination with Steve Engelhart is bewildering.

zeeshan m. ,

Lovely middle aged couple chat mostly about comics.

One of them hates Alan Moore, the other has a fairer assessment. Both of them have broad and varied tastes. I’ve definitely followed them and picked up good comics over the years. There’s something for most kinds of everyone and it is one of only two great Podcasts on comics.

If this podcast had a trailer, you’d basically see a long montage of two men laughing gleefully, flirting with each other in a BBC period piece adaptation style (blah blah male cocky tone and smugness followed by oh dear blah blah pithy English insult dressed like charisma) and basically acting out a very long and unconsummated engagement. This is In the Mood for Love meets Ewan Dworkin.

Will they or won’t they perhaps steal as much as a kiss? Will the wallpaper be made of comic covers as the stars blink entranced?

The podcast is as much about the business of those who makes comics, comics themselves as it is of two men who read them and their enduring lovely friendship.

How about a crossover rap (?) battle with Silence! (The other only great podcast). As Jeff from this podcast said once, ‘they fight in a Stan lee kind of way. Where whoever lost could almost have beaten the winner but really everybody one! That kind of battle.

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