I am in awe—literal, no-lie awe—of the wild disparity between Marvel Studios and Marvel Comics. While Marvel Comics flails around and tries one desperate rebooting after another so that a hypothetical new reader won’t be…
It’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these. In that time I read Secret Empire #9, Captain America #25, and Secret Empire #10, which wraps up the main thrust of the event. They were…uninspiring, at best. (I…
Writing about Marvel’s Secret Empire event has been…not fun. It’s not the sort of book that lends itself to an amusing snarkread, but it’s also largely felt so bloated that there hasn’t been much to say…
[FULL DISCLOSURE: When I started writing this piece, it was entitled “Matt on Secret Empire #3″. Then it sat there, eventually becoming “Secret Empire #3 & 4″. When #5 was released, I *thought* about updating this but…
So Marvel’s Secret Empire event chugs along, amidst what is–based on my Twitter timeline, anyway–a shocking lack of the internet pearl-clutching that they’re clearly trying to create You might recall that my previous comments on this…
After reading Secret Empire #1–after all the tumult and fanfare and Wagnerian bombast of the run-up to the event–I found myself not only non-enraged, but mildly bored. This is, it seemed to me, writer Nick…
http://theworkingdraft.com/media/podcasts2/WaitWhat223.mp3 0:00-51:46: Greetings! Greetings from the first day of the Marvel Legacy announcement, and if you think we’re not going to lean into that piece of news, well, I suggest you listen to our other…
I’ve been having trouble with the “Cap is a Nazi” story. Not the in-comics story itself, really, but the real-world response to it. I started writing this post a while back but got derailed by…
Wait, What? Ep. 213: Rick Jones Loses The Lead
- November 27, 2016
- Tagged as: Batgirl, Batman Annual, Battlestar Galactica, Betty Boop, Captain America: Steve Rogers, Fuka Mizutani, Garth Ennis, Gerardo Zaffino, Gisele Lagace, Greg Pak, Greg Rucka, Hope Larson, Jesus Saiz, Karnak, Love at Fourteen, New Talent Showcase, Nick Spencer, Rafael Albuquerque, Red Team: Double Tap and Center Mass, Rick Jones, Roger Langridge, Roland Boschi, Snapper Carr, Tom King, Warren Ellis, Wonder Woman
http://theworkingdraft.com/media/WaitWhat213.mp3 0:00-16:39: Greetings! Now longer are we dawdling walruses of last week, unsure of where and how to start. No, this week we are back to being lithe jungle cats, quick to leap on…
Wait, What?, Ep. 203: Collector Corpse
- June 26, 2016
- Tagged as: 2000 AD, Batman, Bob Haney, Brian Bendis, Chip Zdarsky, Civil War II, Dan Abnett, DC, Erica Henderson, Frank Quitely, Girl Over Paris, Graeme, Grant Morrison, Gwenda Bond, Hannah Blumenreich, Jeff, Jeff Parker, Judge Dredd, Judge Dredd Megazine, Jughead, Jupiter's Legacy, Kate Leth, Mark Millar, Marvel Collector Corps, Marvel Unlimited, Ming Doyle, Nick Spencer, Podcast, Rebirth, Spidey-Zine, Steve Lieber, The Brave and the Bold, The Fix, Wait What?, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman: Earth One, Yanick Paquette
http://theworkingdraft.com/media/podcasts/WaitWhat203.mp3 0:00-2:28: Greetings from the Sleepy Duo, Graeme and Jeff! One of is justified in their tiredness, one of them is not, but they still can manage to work up enough steam to discuss… 2:28-16:15:…
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