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Wait, What? Ep. 119: Watching You
Posted by: Jeff Lester on March 25, 2013
Categories: Podcasts
Yup, we talk about Action Comics #18! And I think…we even have stuff to say? Maybe, kinda? Behind the jump: show notes annotating the podcast commenting on the industry having one of its craziest weeks ever! Action verbs! Jazz hands! Psychedelic Superman!
Wait, What? Ep. 118: Skypenet Techpocalypse
Posted by: Jeff Lester on March 18, 2013
Categories: Podcasts
Why, yes, Stevie Wonder performing Superstition on Sesame Street is indeed relevant to this week’s podcast, thanks for asking! After the jump, somewhat hasty show notes for our somewhat hasty episode (less than two hours? What has happened to us?)
“Thrill Someone You Love…” COMICS! Sometimes It’s The Other Stuff That Catches The Eye!
Posted by: John Kane on January 22, 2013
Categories: Uncategorized
Well, I finally got The Haunted Scanner working so naturally I diddled and faffed around with it a bit. Put it through its paces and all that. Rather than have that time be classed as wasted I thought I’d share with you, the peoples of the World, some of the neglected visual delights within a bunch of 1971/1972 Marvel Comics. Adverts, I’m talking about adverts there. Look, it’s probably better than you fear but not as good as you hope. I can’t say fairer than that. So let’s skip back to the dawn of the 1970s via a scanner and some stapled and browning paper. In a way, it’s a kind of time machine. Maybe. Oh, it’s not making it… Read More…
“I’m A STUART, Grandpa.” COMICS! Sometimes The Weird Porous Kid Walks It!
Posted by: John Kane on January 20, 2013
Categories: Reviews
Here at Savage Towers the UK contingent is experiencing problems with The Haunted Scanner. So, just the covers this time out I’m afraid. Apparently my brain is no longer under warranty so I can’t help the words that accompany the pictures. So here’s a shoddy make-shift Sunday look at some comics. Or you could go outside and play in the snow!
Wait, What? Ep. 110: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
Posted by: Jeff Lester on December 18, 2012
Categories: Podcasts
One of the two delightful pieces of art made for us by the impressively talented Garrett Berner (a.k.a. The Mighty Gar) It’s our last podcast of the year! Yes, after this two hour and ten minute Whatstravaganza, you get a nice two week vacation from our wee voices nattering on and on, answering your questions, picking apart your comics. Finally! Some peace and quiet for your holidays! Doesn’t that sound pleasant? Anyway…after the jump! More art! Lots of links! A hastily assembled and incomplete “Best of” list! And also: Show Notes!
“Why Is That Puppet’s Bosom EXPOSED?” COMICS! Sometimes Corben Endures!
Posted by: John Kane on December 8, 2012
Categories: Reviews
Good morrow! It is I, the man who skipped a week without notice! I’m sure your rancour and anger have abated somewhat. If indeed they ever existed. Perhaps it was a feeling more akin to relief. As when the drowning man releases that last bubble of air and watches it rise unhurriedly to the surface through clouded but resigned and unpanicked eyes. No, my American friends, I have no idea what I’m talking about as – Christmas? Getting in the way of your free content it appears. Anyway, this…
Posted by: John Kane on November 25, 2012
Categories: Reviews
That’s right I read some comics. Some of them were old and some of them were new and one of them wasn’t really a comic at all. But only one of them made me think it was a miracle anyone was actually conceived in the ’50s. Yes, paging Dr. Subtext! Outbreak of ’50s gynophobia! But then to nostalgic old fools like me ’50s gynophobia is arguably the finest gynophobia of all! Anyway, this…
“I Tried Everything Else.” COMICS! Sometimes Chaykin’s Awake!!!
Posted by: John Kane on November 1, 2012
Categories: Reviews
Hopefully you all made it through any storms okay, my American friends! If you did I’ve got some rubbish about comics for ya. Content! You might not want it, you might not like it but it’s there!
“Walter-bout An Audition?” COMICS! Sometimes It’s That Company That Doesn’t Respect Jack Kirby!
Posted by: John Kane on October 1, 2012
Categories: Reviews
Then I read some Marvel comics! I wouldn’t want anyone to accuse me of being in DC’s pocket now would I? I should bloody cocoa, chum! So yeah, the same one-note entitled whining will now follow but with different pictures posted in between the words! Bountiful Brian Hibbs’ Shipping List is under this linguistic lard!
Wait, What? Ep. 100: Year Zero
Posted by: Jeff Lester on September 25, 2012
Categories: Podcasts
(One of my favorite hundredth issue covers, by Joe Staton and Dick Giordano for DC Comics) I don’t know why, but for a moment there… I was very afraid this episode wouldn’t end up existing? I think because, you know, you say something is a thing, as opposed to just being business as usual, and the next thing you know there’s a certain nimbus of expectation around it, even if only to yourself? Sometimes it seems like that kind of nimbus makes the best kind of target for capricious fate… Anyway, enough of that “and then he tore his eyes out in the fifth act!” musing, join us behind the jump for show notes and celebratory waffles, yes?
Wait, What? Ep. 97: How soon is NOW
Posted by: Jeff Lester on August 14, 2012
Categories: Podcasts
Just listen. Trust me. Episode 97! We are getting very, very close to the triple digits! And, as you can see with the show notes after the jump, we are still capable of bringing the high weirdness. (After the jump: Hi, Weirdness!)
“Let ‘Em Loose, Bobo!” COMICS! Sometimes They May Arouse The Proles!
Posted by: John Kane on August 4, 2012
Categories: Reviews
How goes the day! I guess after that Olympics Opening Ceremony I should just assure all our American friends, particularly your President, that the National Health Service doesn’t actually mean that you have a socialist nation 3,000 miles off the coast of America. And, no, if you let this stand all of Europe isn’t going to go next in a kind of domino effect. You guys are so ansty! Connor Willumson/Jason Latour (art/words) I read some comics and then did the words thing. You can do the reading bit if you like, if there’s nowt on the box.
Posted by: Brian Hibbs on July 27, 2012
Categories: Retailing/Industry
You can find it at Comic Book Resources. I discuss what I perceive as the marketing and branding failure for “Marvel NOW!”. I’ve hit some sort of nerve, as it’s already got 25 responses before 9 am…. As always, feel free to comment here if you don’t/can’t reply there. -B
Wait, What? Ep. 94: The Basement Japes
Posted by: Jeff Lester on July 17, 2012
Categories: Podcasts
Above: The Farm Fusion Waffle, which is a liege waffle topped with mushroom, spinach, roasted pepper, tomato and marinated chevre, from the Waffle Window, Portland, OR. Yes, that is one mighty tasty waffle, let me tell you — although let me be honest, I do not tell you in episode 95, I merely mention it to you now. But! Trust me, it’s darn good. As for what we do discuss in this episode, join me behind the jump for… show notes!
“Nobody Messes With The USA And Gets Away With It!” COMICS! Sometimes They Are Liberal-Leaning!
Posted by: John Kane on July 14, 2012
Categories: Reviews
Hello! If you were at Comic-Con on Friday 13th then I’m sure you did the decent thing and spent the hours of 2 to 4 at the Hermes Press booth where Howard Victor Chaykin was due to manifest in physical form, to enrich all who gathered to hear about his forthcoming BUCK ROGERS project. I wasn’t there due to restraining orders and such legal trifles that need not concern us here, but I did read a HVC book so I didn’t feel too bereft. So, without any further ado lets dunk the silky biscuits of our attention in the hot and steaming coffee of HVC comics! Cawfee! “I Like Ike!”(1) Oh yeah, this one’s for all the patriots out there!
Wait, What? Ep. 90: Back in the Game
Posted by: Jeff Lester on June 19, 2012
Categories: Podcasts
Ladies and Gentlemen: GRAEME MCMILLAN IS. The nice thing about writing a post during which you lose your mind and decide the best thing to be done is to embed as many of the lyrics of an Elvis Costello song as you can is you realize: (a) it can’t be topped; and (b) maybe you’re allowed to go easy on yourself every now and again; and (c) your attempts to give the page a catchy image and a bit of punchy jibbety-jab really only go so far, as it’s the actual thing you are introducing that people are (or are not) here for. (Also, you realize you are addicted to parentheticals and alphabetized lists, and have no idea exactly how… Read More…
“A Moi La Légion!” COMICS! Sometimes I Have Too Much Sun!
Posted by: John Kane on May 27, 2012
Categories: Reviews
Greetings! It has been sunny in England for more than three consecutive days. This means that the entire nation is required by Law to sit outside until their skins glow like pink suns and crack like dry riverbeds in Texan heat. So I have been doing that. This means I didn’t read many comics and when I wrote about them the fact that my brain had been lightly boiled in its own juices didn’t seem to have a beneficial effect on my thought processes or judgement. But, hey, I made my deadline! I made it, Ma! I’m a hack!
“RAK TAC TAC TAC TAC.” COMICS! Sometimes They Do It All Over Again!
Posted by: John Kane on May 20, 2012
Categories: Reviews
So I went to the library and got this here book out. As is customary on my planet I read it and , as is inadvisable in my experience, I wrote this. Evasions, justifications, terrible writing, pointless digressions and probably unintended offence are probably in the offing. Why not join me as we look again at Marvel‘s first superhero team! Reed Was beginning To Suspect His Friends Would Never Share His Pleasure In His Colonoscopy Results.
“It Is Not The FIRST TIME This Has Happened.” COMICS! Sometimes They Are Hot Off The Griddle!
Posted by: John Kane on May 13, 2012
Categories: Reviews
Hey old people, remember Sunday evening when you were a kid?: Urrrrrhhhh! Let’s take the Sunday Blues away with some piffle about our four colour floppy friends! COMICS!!!
Wait, What? Ep. 84: Q and A DNA Q
Posted by: Jeff Lester on May 1, 2012
Categories: Podcasts
First off, our new graphic is courtesy of the incredibly talented Adam P. Knave (who on top of all the other things he does and does well, has added podcaster to the mix. Go check out The Glory, The Glory, why don’t you?) and our old dashed-off scattershot introductions to the podcast, courtesy of me who has once again managed to land himself behind a scheduling eightball. But! That doesn’t mean we didn’t attend to our duties, as far as answering your questions go. On the contrary, Episode 84 of Wait, What? is our first hour and forty five minute foray into the savage wilds of your inquiries. Among the ground covered by Graeme McMillan and me: our recommendations for… Read More…
Posted by: John Kane on March 15, 2012
Categories: Reviews
My name is John Kane and if my instructions have been honoured then what now assails your minds will be a continuation of the unfeasible events that occurred when I persisted in following the course of John Carter comics into the current Century. It is not for such as I to grant such an endeavour any merit for such a task can only fall to those who suffer the results. My chore has ended and yours has only begun…
