{"id":11955,"date":"2026-04-20T22:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11955"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:17:25","slug":"house-to-astonish-episode-218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11955","title":{"rendered":"House to Astonish Episode 218"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul and I are back with more comics waffle for you to gobble up, as we send good wishes to Adam Hughes, chew over Marvel&#8217;s layoffs and its wider malaise, and discuss <em>DNX<\/em>, <em>Challenges of Doom<\/em>, <em>Clayface: Celebrity Dirt<\/em>, <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em>, Dark Horse&#8217;s Marvel reprints and <em>Jughead: Piemageddon.<\/em> We&#8217;ve also got reviews of <em>Fireborn<\/em> and <em>The Fury of Firestorm<\/em>, and The Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe has aged badly.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast is <a href=\"https:\/\/housetoastonish.libsyn.com\/house-to-astonish-episode-218-rockos-modern-basilisk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, or available via the player below. Let us know what you think, in the comments below, on Bluesky, or via email.<\/p>\n<p>(And yes, my audio is all wonky &#8211; we had to record remotely for the first time in ages, and I didn&#8217;t set up my mic right. Sailor V, as they say.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: medium;\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/40946495\/height\/128\/theme\/modern\/size\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/87A93A\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/download\/yes\/font-color\/FFFFFF\" width=\"100%\" height=\"128\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul and I are back with more comics waffle for you to gobble up, as we send good wishes to Adam Hughes, chew over Marvel&#8217;s layoffs and its wider malaise, and discuss DNX, Challenges of Doom, Clayface: Celebrity Dirt, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dark Horse&#8217;s Marvel reprints and Jughead: Piemageddon. We&#8217;ve also got reviews of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11957,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955\/revisions\/11957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}