{"id":12350,"date":"2026-09-14T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12350"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:28:16","slug":"house-to-astonish-episode-220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12350","title":{"rendered":"House to Astonish Episode 220"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got a tidy little hour of comicsy nattering for you this time, as we discuss <em>Marvel\/Star Wars: Hope Assembles, Fugitive X-Force, Origin III, The Snail<\/em> and the extensions of <em>Fury of Firestorm<\/em> and <em>Deadman.\u00a0<\/em>We&#8217;ve also got reviews of <em>Fixation<\/em> and <em>The Forever Home <\/em>and the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is getting in a bit of a flap. All this plus <em>The Human Muppet Christmas Carol<\/em>, the Ed Miliband of the X-Men and the Little Mermaid beating someone up with a crowbar in a car park.<\/p>\n<p>The episode is <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.libsyn.com\/episode\/index\/id\/42895800\" 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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: medium;\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/42895800\/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>We&#8217;ve got a tidy little hour of comicsy nattering for you this time, as we discuss Marvel\/Star Wars: Hope Assembles, Fugitive X-Force, Origin III, The Snail and the extensions of Fury of Firestorm and Deadman.\u00a0We&#8217;ve also got reviews of Fixation and The Forever Home and the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel [&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-12350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350","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=12350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12351,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350\/revisions\/12351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}