Now that you (and we) have all had time to finish the second season of Netflix's Daredevil, Joe, James and special guest Caroline Siede look back over the series to see what worked, what didn't, and generally chat about how great The Punisher is.

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In a special bonus episode recorded just before it was confirmed that Agent Carter had been cancelled, Joe, Seb and James look back at the second season and discuss why it was one of our favourite superhero TV shows of recent years.

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It's been longer than normal since our last news roundup, due to our release-week episode of Captain America: Civil War - so Joe catches up with the latest happenings and scuttlebutt in the Marvel, Fox and DC movieverses before moving on to discussing last week's comics recommendations: Captain America: No Escape by Ed Brubaker and Butch Guice, and Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross.

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Two sides. One conflict. You know the drill: it's CaptainAmerica: Civil War, and we're all a bit excited. But are we#TeamCap, #TeamIronMan, #TeamSpidey or #TeamMarisaTomei? Find outon our special release-week episode. As ever, there's no newsroundup this week, but we do a chunk of safe, spoiler-free opinionchat before delving deep - and we do mean deep - into the specificsof the film.

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Well, that Michael Keaton Spider-Man thing went well,huh? Joe discusses that, the final X-Men: Apocalypsetrailer and various little bits of casting news in our latestminisode. Then it's on to last week's The Mask-inspiredcomics recommendations: (unsurprisingly) The Mask by JohnArcudi and Doug Mahnke, and (slightly more surprisingly) TheMatrix by the Wachowskis and... loads of people.

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SSSSMOKIN! SOMEBODY STOP ME! THAT'S A SPICY MEATBALL! And other such things that you undoubtedly heard (and maybe even shouted) thousands of times in the playground in the mid 1990s. Yes, we went there: it's Jim Carrey in Chuck Russell's adaptation of the Dark Horse comic The Mask. In the news, meanwhile, we mostly talk about Spider-Man: Homecoming because, well, it's us.

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Joe talks Doctor Strange, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok, Defenders, Cloak and Dagger and a whole bunch more in a bumper news section. Then it's on to last week's comics recommendations: Greg Pak and Aaron Lopresti's Planet Hulk: Anarchy and Kieron Gillen and Kano's Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter.

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A bit of a change of pace this week, as we look for the first time at a direct-to-DVD animated adaptation, with Sam Liu's 2010 film of Planet Hulk. As well as discussing this specific film's merits, we talk more generally about the genre: do these adaptations generally work? What, if anything, do they offer that a live-action film or the original comic can't? And are there any comics we'd like to see adapted into the format?

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A big pile of DC-related news heads up this week's minisode, before Joe moves on to the Batman v Superman-inspired recommendations of (obviously) The Dark Knight Returns and (slightly less obviously) Superman & Batman: Generations. But #WhoWillWin in this epic battle between Frank Miller and John Byrne? We promise we won't make you wait two and a half hours to find out.

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Do we really need to introduce this? It's our Batman v Superman episode: you should know the drill by now. Listen on to find out whether another Zack Snyder film made Seb throw up, or whether the unlikely scenario of Seb and James somehow liking it more than Joe did came to pass. And as usual with new releases, we've done a spoiler-free instant reaction section (recorded in a central London pizza restaurant literally minutes after we got out of the film) before getting into the detailed nitty-gritty, so if you haven't seen the film yet, you can still listen to the first twenty minutes or so.

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