{"id":12252,"date":"2026-08-17T10:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12252"},"modified":"2026-08-17T10:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:55:28","slug":"house-to-astonish-presents-the-lightning-round-episode-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12252","title":{"rendered":"House to Astonish Presents: The Lightning Round Episode 32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New volume, new team, new episode, as Paul and I look at 2005&#8217;s <em>New Thunderbolts<\/em> issues 1-3, and Mach IV assembles a wonky squad of screw-ups to take on one of Marvel&#8217;s classic Barons (so what else is new?). There&#8217;s also the clunk of victory, the burger van outside TBolts HQ and the hitherto-unsung villainy of Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The episode is <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.libsyn.com\/episode\/index\/id\/42458420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, or available via the embedded player below. Let us know what you think, in the comments, on Bluesky, or via email.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embed Player\" style=\"border: medium;\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/42458420\/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\" height=\"128\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" oallowfullscreen=\"true\" msallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New volume, new team, new episode, as Paul and I look at 2005&#8217;s New Thunderbolts issues 1-3, and Mach IV assembles a wonky squad of screw-ups to take on one of Marvel&#8217;s classic Barons (so what else is new?). There&#8217;s also the clunk of victory, the burger van outside TBolts HQ and the hitherto-unsung villainy [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12252","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=12252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12254,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12252\/revisions\/12254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}