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Welcome to April, wherein April showers apparently bring podcasts of several hours!  Yes, Graeme McMillan and I talk for very, very close to three hours about the 2005/2006 DC event miniseries, Infinite Crisis by Geoff Johns, Phil Jimenez, and many others, analyze the secret of Notting Hill, and try to make sense of the news of the week concerning ComicHub, Marvel, DC, and Diamond! 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!

The end of March is here, and with it comes news about Diamond Comics Distributors halting for two months in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.  Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester spend a full hour discussing the news, the rumors, and the ramifications of this challenging time for the direct market and the U.S. comics industry.  Then, in our second hour we talk about our entertainment self-care regimen, including Breeders, Robocop, The Immortal Hulk, Justice League Detroit, Blissful Land and much more in this almost-two-and-a-half hour episode. 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!

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! For the fourteenth episode of Drokk!, Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester not only read the thirteenth volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles! but we also tackle the intertwined tale of The Dead Man by John Wagner and John Ridgway! Grant and Wagner put our favorite Mega City One lawman through his paces, but are those paces just a bit more rote than ever? Or is it the fallow season that precedes a creative spring? Join us and find out! 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!

Here is the first of our March 2020 episodes, and it begins with a very long discussion from Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester discussing the postponement of Emerald City ComicCon, and our own recent health situations, before moving on to discuss Zenith by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell, Graeme reading League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest, Jeff reading Strange Adventures #1, DC Universe All-Star Games, old Gerry Conway comics, and our usual big bag of much, much more in this just-about-two-and-a-half hour episode. 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!

Here is our end of February episode with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talking about the biggest piece of recent comic book news in some time—the surprise departure of Dan Didio from DC Comics!  We look back at the DC career of the writer turned editor turned editor in chief turned publisher, what it might mean for the future of DC, and when we might really learn what happened and why.  And in our second hour, we talk about the upcoming The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures by Noelle Stevenson, Downfall by Inio Asano, and the final volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. 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!

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! This is the thirteenth episode of Drokk!, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester tackle the eleventh volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles!! Thirteen may not be the luckiest number for our favorite Mega City One lawman, as this volume finds the seemingly unstoppable duo of Wagner and Grant writing the character separately rather than together. If you ever spent a Beatles song wondering if it was written by Lennon or McCartney, you have an idea of the troubles in store for us here on some of the uncredited tales as Dredd faces down The Hitman, the mystery of Bloodline, the Brainstem Man, Eldster Ninja Mud-Wrestling Vigilantes and many other full-color treats and threats! 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!

This is episode 288, for those of you keeping track, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester back to talk about the first season of DC Unscripted over on the DC Universe streaming service, Animal World, a movie adaptation of Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji over on Netflix, the Marvel Hero Project on Disney+, and even a few comic book type things you can do not need a streaming service to enjoy, such as Justice League comics from the 80s and 90s, Invitation From A Crab by Panpanya, the current Fantastic Four run written by Dan Slott, and much, much more. in this two and a half hour episode! 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!

Here is episode 287, with a very sick Graeme McMillan and a slightly illing me Jeff Lester bemoaning our health, rather than the health of the comic marketplace, for a change!  We also talk up the upcoming Empyre event by Al Ewing, Dan Slott, and Valerio Schiti; Venom: The End, Miles Morales: The End, and The Boys: The Prequel; Noisemakers: 25 Women Who Raised Their Voice and Changed The World, the first volume of Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji by Nobuyuki Fukumoto, and much, much more in this two plus hour episode!  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!

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! This is the twelfth episode of Drokk!, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester tackle the eleventh volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles!! Changes are in store for the top lawman of Mega-City One, as the powerhouse team of John Wagner and Alan Grant finally split over a story choice, the judges reveal their true colors in the chilling four part Revolution, and it is Chopper for Oz in the twenty-six part mega-prog Oz, where Dredd finds not only the shadowy order known as the Judda, but also some distressingly hard truths about himself. We discuss all this and much more in our latest two-plus hour installment! 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!

Welcome to our first episode of 2020, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talking about the newly released list of the best selling comics and graphic novels of 2019, the mysteries of the new DC timeline, the secret connection between Robert Kirkman, Mark Millar, and Brian K. Vaughan; the Three Loves of Galactus and the mystery of Marvel editing; a tearfully thorough analysis of the current Avengers run written by Jason Aaron and the classic JLA run written by Grant Morrison and much, much more in this two and a half hour start to the new year! 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!

Welcome to the end of the year, and to Episode 285, a two and a half hour episode wherein Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester give you our Best of Lists for 2019 (and Graeme his Best of for the Decade), a bunch of related comic book related topics ranging from Tom King to Incoming #1 to comic book entropy to the Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca run on Darth Vader, and also including a lengthy and very personal update about the changes in our lives in 2019!   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!

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! Welcome to the eleventh episode of Drokk!, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester tackle the tenth volume of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles!! With volume ten, we move on from Dredd 101 to our first lesson in advanced Dredd Studies, as John Wagner and Alan Grant derconstruct Judge Dredd, Mega City One, and their relationship to one another in one brilliant and darkly humorous tale after another! Wagner and Grant are joined by stalwarts Cam Kennedy, Ian Gibson, Steve Dillon, Brendan McCarthy as well as legends like Gary Leach, John Higgins and Jose Ortiz for a master class in Drokkology! 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!

Episode 284 is here for the holidays, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester gabbing about Graeme and his trip to Brazil to attend Comic-Con Experience Sao Paolo.  It is a very thorough breakdown of a very exciting show, but we also manage to work in discuss of The Dark Knight: The Golden Child by Frank Miller, Rafael Grampa, and Jordie Bellaire; have a spoiler-free discussion of the final issue of Doomsday Clock out this week; talk about what manga would make a best comics of the decade list from Graeme; and much, much more in this two hour episode! 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!

This is not an episode; rather, it is seventeen minutes of Graeme and Jeff talking about when you can hear the next episode and why. Enjoy!

Borag Thungg, Whatnauts! This is the tenth episode of Drokk!, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester turning their attention to the first volume of Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files! From the very earliest days of Dredd to a story that catches up with volume nine of the Complete Casefiles, the Restricted Files show the evolution of Dredd across a collection of specials and annuals, with stories by Wagner, Grant and an uncredited writer or two, and beautiful color art by Mike McMahon, Carlos Ezquerra, Brian Bolland, Ian Gibson and others, and beautiful black and white work by Dillon, McCarthy and Ewins, and even a story drawn by John Byrne. But is the work good? And if not, why? We endeavor to answer the hard questions in this nearly two hour episode! 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!

Episode 283 is here to greet you, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester gabbing about the arrivals in 2020 of The Best of 2000 A.D. and the international comics classic, Asterix.   But we also leave room to talk about Wonder Woman: Dead Earth by Daniel Warren Johnson, voumes 9 through 16 of Initial D by Shuichi Shigeno, Terminator: Dark Fate, Legion of Superheroes #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Ryan Sook, Spider-Man: Life Story, Mark Bagley: Life Story, and much, much more in this two and a half hour episode! 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!

This is Episode 282, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester in a reflective mood, as we talk about The Year of the Villain, an idea for a DC crossover event that appeared in a dream, the upcoming big reveal in Superman, the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, two very surprising Jack Kirby comics, Batman Annual #4, the enigma wrapped within a riddle bound up in a douchebag that is Nikolai Dante, the Secret Origin of Lightray, the surprise that is Initial D the manga, and much, much more in this two plus hour installment! 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!

Welcome to the ninth episode of Drokk!, as Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester surf the midnight skies of Volume Nine of Judge Dredd: The Complete Casefiles! John Wagner, Alan Grant, Cam Kennedy, Steve Dillon, Ron Smith, Ian Gibson, and others rebound from the nadir of Volume Eight with a blessedly strong outing of engaged compact stories spanning Mega-City One from its skies to its depths as we encounter The Midnight Surfer, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Nosferatu, and the extraordinary Letter From A Democrat. It is a strong volume with a lot for Jeff and Graeme to unpack--join us! 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!

Welcome to Episode 281, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester kinda sorta talking about the first issues of Superman Smashes the Klan, X-Men, and Undiscovered Country, and the new coffeetable book Spider-Man: From Amazing to Spectacular, but really talking about budgeting, obsessiveness, and possible reality shows people can pitch for the current DC Universe contest. 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!

With October comes Episode 280, with Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester talking about New York Comic-Con 2019 and the DC timeline, the power of Giant Days, the appeal of Outer Darkness, being mystified by the season finale to The Green Lantern, and delighted by Lauren Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis, the twitter feed of Rob Liefeld, 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!