The tale of our recording of this episode is one of woe, including telephone calls and visitors and near-battery-failures, all in the middle of recording, but somehow we managed to pull it together. In this week’s show, we’re talking about the news from Chicago comicon, the Frank Darabont Walking Dead deal, and the Spider-Man musical. We’re reviewing Doom Patrol, Lenore and Ultimate Comics Avengers, and talking about retconned patriotic hipsters in the Official Handbook of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. We also discuss Dan DiDio’s amazing comic-producing machine, have a good old rant about Ultimatum and discuss why ‘machinations’ is a great word.

The episode is here – go check it out, and let us know what you think here, at the podcast page, on housetoastonish@googlemail.com, by hiring a skywriter, throwing a message in a bottle into the sea or by any other appropriate method.