{"id":12501,"date":"2026-11-10T00:44:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T00:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12501"},"modified":"2026-11-10T00:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T00:45:38","slug":"house-to-astonish-episode-221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12501","title":{"rendered":"House to Astonish Episode 221"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s our birthday! Or it was yesterday when we recorded this, anyway! Join us for House to Astonish&#8217;s 18th anniversary, as we run through the comics landscapes of 1993 and 1998 (the years when we turned 18, do you see, it&#8217;s thematic) and talk about all sorts of things that happened in those years, from Marvel Knights to Vertigo, <em>DC One Million<\/em> to <em>Slingers<\/em>, via a man made of air, the gentle hillock of Marvel UK, a fruity tench, <em>St Trinians vs Umbrella Academy<\/em> and the <em>Punisher War Journal<\/em> of Barbies.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast is <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.libsyn.com\/episode\/index\/show\/housetoastonish\/id\/43706559\" 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>And if you&#8217;re at Thought Bubble in Harrogate this weekend, come and see me, Gary Lactus and The Beast Must Die as we do more silly things with and to comics creators, with John Allison, Sarah Graley, Christian Ward and Becky Cloonan on SILENCE! To Astonish!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: medium;\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/43706559\/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>It&#8217;s our birthday! Or it was yesterday when we recorded this, anyway! Join us for House to Astonish&#8217;s 18th anniversary, as we run through the comics landscapes of 1993 and 1998 (the years when we turned 18, do you see, it&#8217;s thematic) and talk about all sorts of things that happened in those years, from [&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-12501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501","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=12501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12503,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501\/revisions\/12503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}