A buncha zeroes

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on September 18, 2012

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Yeah, so the DC “Zero month”, hows that working out?

All this and Earth, too? Hibbs starts on 5/2

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 2, 2012

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Everybody loves comics!

Wait, What? Ep. 77: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on March 6, 2012

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(Illustration from Chapter 166 of Bakuman. Remember it’s a right-to-left world out there.) Remember how The Uncanny X-Men would, like, get psychically mind-raped by The Hellfire Club, or shot full of Brood babies and be torn apart from the inside, or bound and gagged to the inside of Magneto’s rumpus room, and then afterward there’d be an issue of them playing baseball and walking around the recently rebuilt (since it had also been recently destroyed) mansion of Professor X? This episode is a little bit like that, I guess, with Graeme and I recovering from answering (almost) everyone’s questions and having ourselves quite the crazy time of it on the Internet.  So Episode 77 is two hours of amiable chitchat…  Read More…

Wait, What? Ep. 71: Funk, Soul, Brother

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on January 19, 2012

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Yep, a bit of a delay but here we are, more or less as promised: Wait, What? Ep. 71, featuring our new theme song courtesy of the hyper-talented Graeme McMillan. This done-in-one episode is not quite two hours and forty-five minutes and covers, um, lots of stuff. Stuff like OMAC and the other cancelled new52 titles; the current state of George Perez’s career and what Marvel’s marketing team could do with it; Mark Millar’s Trouble and Spider-Man; comments by Charles Vess and Ariel Olivetti about Marvel; Mark Waid’s Amazing Spider-Man/Daredevil crossover, Jason Aaron’s Wolverine and the X-Men as well as Wolverine #300. Plus, a lot of babbling from Jeff about PunisherMAX #21; a debate how many “good” issues a creator…  Read More…

Wait, What? Ep. 46: Sympathy for the Mephisto Analogue

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on June 28, 2011

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So much time! So little to do! (Wait a minute. Reverse that.) It’s the latest episode of Wait, What? wherein Graeme McMillan and yours truly talk about those comic books what need talking about: Wolverine #9; Flashpoint tie-ins The Superman Project #1 and Reverse Flash #1; James Robinson’s JLA; Earth X; Green Lantern Mosaic; Kirby Genesis #1; Steve Englehart’s Captain America and much more. You might even discover the true identity of that cute little tyke up there. It should be available on iTunes by now, and it is also the sort of thing that you could be listening to here and now, if that’s the sort of thing that kung-pao’s your chicken: Wait, What? Ep. 45: Sympathy for the…  Read More…

Graeme’s 2010 Guilty Pleasure: Justice League of America

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on December 28, 2010

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Apropos of nothing, I re-read James Robinson’s run to date on JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA over the weekend – in part because I hadn’t read the latest issue by that point, and wanted to remind myself of what was happening before I did – and, as I did so, I realized two things. Firstly, it’s actually a book that I’ve come to really love, despite itself. And secondly, I can completely understand why that “despite itself” might be such a problem for everyone else.

Around the Store in 31 Days: Day Five

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on March 5, 2008

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If you’re old enough, you might remember when DC comics had a slogan int he UPC box of their Direct Market-shipping comics that said something “DC Comics: They’re not just for kids anymore!” And, in general, the comic book industry has really followed that lead — comics AREN’T for kids any longer (except for a very small number of titles) To me this is kind of a shame. When I bring home the new week’s books, and plop on the sofa to start reading them, I often have to chase Ben (now four-years old) away when I’m reading something even as supposedly as innocuous as SPIDER-MAN or SUPERMAN, because there’s just so much violence and in them. Unnecessary violence and…  Read More…