We’re back! After a month away, we’ve got a lot of news to catch up on, beginning with a few words on the sad loss of Dwayne McDuffie. We’ve also got some chat on Marvel’s plans for Pixar and the Big Shots initiative, Boom! Kids’ rebranding and future, Telltale’s comics games, the Powers TV show, the Spider-Man musical being reworked and DC cancelling the First Wave line, as well as reviews of The Mission, Superman/Batman and Iron Man 2.0. All this plus swimming the Atlantic with your voice, generic bootleg armoured super-heroes and a villainous Every Which Way But Loose.

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We’re about to take a short hiatus because of my impending nuptials and subsequent honeymoon, so here’s an extra episode of House to Astonish to tide you through the next month. There’s chat on the closure of Wizard and ToyFare and the launch of Wizard World, David E. Kelley’s Wonder Woman, the death of the Comics Code Authority, a run through April’s solicitations and some clearly-walled-off spoilery chat about the big Fantastic Four death. No reviews, but the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe drags up, and this podcast also contains Gareb Shamus’s piranha pit, Savage Sword of Ka-Zar and Paul Simon’s run on Action Comics.

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Thanks to all for the kind words on the wedding, and we’ll speak to you again at the start of March.

The first House to Astonish of 2011 is upon us, and we’ve got discussion of the Marvel editorial shake-up, the Flex Mentallo collection and the new Spider-Man and Captain America movie costumes, as well as reviews of Who Is Jake Ellis?, Deadpool Team-Up and Weird Worlds, while the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe keeps it all in the family. All this plus Joe Quesada’s left-hand man, the Gerry Adams of Marvel and food stamp fraud.

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It’s the end of the year, and we’re looking back at our favourite comics of the past twelve months, and giving you the rundown on our top cover artists, single issues, writers, artists and comics. We’ve also got a bit of arachno-centric news coverage on Mark Bagley’s return to Marvel, Ultimate Spider-Man’s day-and-date digital release and the goings-on with the Spidey musical, a quick run through the March solicitations, and the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is hearing voices in its head. All this plus Noel Coward’s comicbook narration, the relationship between Moldova and Transnistria and a plate-juggler.

The podcast is here, or at Mixcloud here. Let us know what your picks of the year are, either in the comments below, on Twitter, via email or on our Facebook fan page.

Happy new year, and here’s to a great 2011.

We’re back after an accidentally long hiatus, with news on the Thor trailer, Marvel’s new launches, the Spider-Man musical, Mark Waid’s move from BOOM! and the changeovers behind the scenes of The Walking Dead. There are also reviews of Heroes for Hire, Wolverine: The Best There Is and Detective Comics Annual, and the return of the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. All this plus lots of poo, a steampunk Orko, Star Wars corridors, the festive perineum and dudes with their shirts off.

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A week late, but worth the wait – it’s our special anniversary 50th episode, marking not just 50 or so hours of chat about comics but just over two years of House to Astonish. This time out we’re talking about the cancellations of Thor: The Mighty Avenger, Deadpool Corps and Deadpool Team-Up, Marvel’s new website, the movie of Dan Clowes’ Wilson, the relaunched Dandy, Wizard’s new convention acquisition, J Michael Straczynski’s career moves and the Walking Dead renewal, along with a look at February’s solicitations and interviews from the Thought Bubble convention with Antony Johnston, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, reviews of Batman Incorporated, Spider-Girl and Marineman,  and a special listener Q&A. It’s all go, as you can imagine, but we still manage to fit in all this plus a talking schoolgirl beaver, three mince pies for dinner, a cosmic Yes, Minister, an elected upper chamber of super-villains, sentient podcasts and Karl Marx’s wrestling career.

The podcast is here, or here on Mixcloud – let us know what you think, either in the comments below, on Twitter, on our Facebook fan page, by email or by retiring a running joke that has reached the end of its natural lifespan.

Sadly, because of the amount of space we have on our podcast hosting plan, we’ve had to take down the very first episode, and we’re going to have to take them down on a one-in, one-out basis from now on, but what we’re going to do is pop them up on Mixcloud where you can listen to them at your leisure, should two-year-old news and reviews be your thing.

Thanks from both Paul and me for listening over the past two years, and here’s to the next two.

We’re back with another episode of House to Astonish, and we’re talking about Marvel’s pricing controversy and their Point One programme, as well as the January solicitations. We’ve also got reviews of Action Comics, Carnage and JLA/The 99, and the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe has a close shave. All this plus nose hair, Bugs Bunny with a machine gun and a sweet transvestite from Transia.

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Time for another episode of House to Astonish, and we’re looking at all the news out of NYCC, with lots of chat about Marvel and DC’s repricings and what it actually means. We’re reviewing Deadpool Max, Knight & Squire and Vision Machine and the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe goes to the crazy side of the Golden Age. All this plus 1970s funk band wars, the Red Lanterns in the pub and Marvel trademarking the letter D.

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It’s been a big couple of weeks of news, mostly about DC, and we’re talking about it all on this week’s podcast – the DC Entertainment relocation, the layoffs, Vertigo, Wildstorm and Zuda’s fate, and Bob Harras’s appointment as Editor in Chief, and the proposed Wonder Woman TV show, as well as a look at the solicitations. We’ve also got reviews of Thor, Skullkickers and something rather unexpected, and the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe speaks in tongues. All this plus a farm in the country,  a sword that gets kept in a garage and the only superhero ever from Liechtenstein.

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Paul’s back from his holidays and the podcast is back too, with discussion of Alan Moore’s Bleeding Cool interview,  Kieron Gillen’s Marvel exclusive, Black Panther’s new status quo, the Spider-Man musical’s costumes and the Sandman TV show, as well as reviews of Billy The Kid’s Old Timey Oddities and the Ghastly Fiend of London, X-23 and CLiNT, and we unlock the secrets of the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. All this plus a male voice choir, a walking tin-opener, the world’s most violent atheist and the plot of The Aristocats.

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We also now have a logo (thanks to the talented Mr Matthew Craig) and a Facebook fan page for your delectation and delight.