Wait, What? 67.1 and .2: Krampus and Claus

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Photobucket Image ganked from Graeme's advent calendar at Blog@? Check.

Episode 67.1, featuring Graeme and I pulling a World's Finest-style caper and switching our traditional viewpoints to talk about Matt Fraction and Tom Brevoort's interview on the Fear Itself aftermath issues?  Check!

Wait, What? Ep. 67.1: Krampus

Episode 67.2,  with us giving you a holiday gift guide covering collections, floppies, indie books and digital pics? Check.

Wait, What? Ep. 67.2: Claus

Although I usually wait until our podcasts hit iTunes before I create the SavCrit entries, I think this site is going to have Ep. 67 before iTunes does, for maybe as much as a day.  So we invite you to curl up around a nice fire and listen to us wax both naughty and nice (oh man that imagery but it's too late now just keep forging ahead with me) right before Xmenmas.

Oh, and in case you're interested in what our gift list pics were  and don't want to listen to our nattering voices, I've included the rough version of the list after the jump.  Feel free to check it out and let us know what we've missed!

Books and OGNs:

[note: some books are either comics or visual related but not "true" comics]

  • Thrill Power Overload by David Bishop
  • Just My Type by Simon Garfield
  • Stigmata by Lorenzo Mattotti
  • Celluloid by Dave McKean
  • Lewis & Clark by Nick Bertozzi
  • Habibi by Craig Thompson
  • Love & Rockets Books 3 and 4, by Los Bros Hernandez
  • Finder: Voice by Carla Speed McNeil
  • Gingerbread Girl by Paul Tobin & Colleen Coover

Collections:

  • Captain America Omnibus by Jack Kirby
  • Thor Omnibus by Walt Simonson
  • Nemesis The Warlock, Vol. 1 by Mills, O'Neill and Talbot
  • The Incal by Jodorowsky & Moebius
  • Kamandi Omnibus Vol. 1 by Jack Kirby
  • Donald Duck:  Lost in the Andes by Carl Barks
  • Never Learn Anything From History by Kate Beaton  (Alternate pick: Hark! A Vagrant)
  • Oglaf Book One by Trudy and Doug
  • Onion Head Monster: Catastrophic by Paul Friedrich
  • Sabertooth Vampire by Mike Russell
  • Bakuman by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
  • Witch Doctor Vol. 1 TPB by Brandon Seifert and Lukas Ketner

"Actual" comics/Floppies/Singles:

  • Ganges #4
  • Wolverine: Debt of Death one-shot
  • Uncanny X-Force #1-18
  • The Walking Dead
  • Batman
  • Daredevil
  • Action Comics
  • Flash
  • Batwoman
  • OMAC
  • Mystic
  • Wolverine and The X-Men

Digital picks:

  • Crying Freeman by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami  (Dark Horse Digital)
  • No. 5 Ikki Comix by Taiyo Matsumoto (Apple App Store)
  • Subscription to Shonen Jump Alpha (Viz)
  • Casanova Avarita by Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba (Comixology)
  • Batman #252 (DC, Comixology)
  • Silver Star Omnibus by Jack Kirby (Image, Comixology

Wait, What? Ep. 63.1: Classic's Classic

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Photobucket You know what programming languages need? They totally need <cant stop> </wont stop> tags, amirite?  (I would also be equally happy if there were <baller> </shot caller> tags as well, but maybe those would be restricted to the "Diddy on Rails" language, I really couldn't say.)

What I can say, is that Wait, What? Ep. 63.1 is here, and in it Graeme McMillan and I discuss oddball treasures from all over the globe, such as The Spy vs. Spy Omnibus by Antonio Prohias; Nemesis The Warlock by Pat Mills, Kevin O'Neill and Bryan Talbot; Strontium Dog by John Wagner, Alan Grant, and Carlos Ezquerra; Crying Freeman by Kazuo Koike and Ryochi Ikegami; and we dollop more praise on Ganges #4 by Kevin Huizenga because honestly that sucker could probably use another five or six dollops.

Sinister ducks have probably already unearthed us on iTunes, but they are also invited to waddle about in the dark while listening to us here:

Wait, What? Ep. 63.1: Classic\'s Classic

Installment 2 is right around the corner with some slightly more mainstream fare (although pacing that is far more odd) and somewhere in one of these installments is a dramatic reveal from Graeme about Brad Meltzer's Decoded(!) (Or !!!, depending.)

As always, thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy!

 

Wait, What? Ep. 62.1: The Hour That Stretches

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Photobucket Ah, mishaps. They seemed to plague Graeme and I during the recording of Wait, What? Ep. 62 but somehow we were able to wrest a podcast from the vile clutches of "why isn't this recording? Dear God, how long has this not been recording?" So I have to warn you in advance, we only have one installment for you this week and it is just a dash over an hour long, answering your questions from our earlier post here on this website.

Warning Number Two: we don't discuss Josie & The Pussycats. I just liked the image and needed a bit of Dan DeCarlo-inspired sunshine in my day. But we do talk kid-friendly books in the New52, Matt Fraction and Dave Eggers, Uncanny X-Force, Spaceman #1 and the future of Vertigo, Kevin Huizenga's Ganges, Alphas and Misfits, and as much as we can work into our unfortunately-truncated time schedule.  It's only an hour but we jam a lot of stuff in there for you.

The podcast is now available on iTunes, certainly, but it is also available right here for your listening pleasure:

Wait, What? Ep. 62.1: The Hour That Stretches

We will be back next week with more (hopefully, much more).  Until then, we hope you enjoy and thank you for listening!