It's a packed news roundup this week, with Wonder Woman and Doctor Strange casting, the Preacher trailer, and some more details on Suicide Squad. Then it's on to the Blade-inspired comics recommendations from last week: Blade: Undead Again and Welcome Back to the House of Mystery.

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It's our first ever Halloween special! So naturally, we're looking at a superhero/horror crossover in the shape of Stephen Norrington's 1998, Wesley Snipes-starring, Blade. Oh, and it's the first major Marvel film of the modern era and its success may have paved the way for the mega-successful Marvel we know now, or something. But is it actually any good? Meanwhile, the guys also take an in-depth look at that Jessica Jones trailer, and James tries to explain who the heck this Legion guy is.

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There's an X-theme to the news this week, as Joe discusses Fox's Legion and Hellfire TV announcements, and makes the now-usual weekly check-in with the director rumours for Gambit. Then it's on to the X-Men: First Class inspired comics recommendations: the classic 1993 crossover Fatal Attractions, and Dennis Hopeless and Jamie McKelvie's Season One OGN.

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Our Wolverine-centric look at the X-Men movie chronology continues with Matthew Vaughn's 2011 film, X-Men: First Class. And in the news, we look at Marvel's latest release date shuffle, Vin Diesel's Inhumans hints, and casting announcements for Agent Carter and Jessica Jones. Apologies in advance for Joe and Seb's low-quality mics and James' low-quality health.

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This week's news items include new directors for Thor: Ragnarok and The Flash's next big-screen outing, as well as news about the Damage Control, Watchmen and Jessica Jones TV shows. Then Joe reviews our comic - or rather, manga - picks from last week: Ghost in the Shell and Excel Saga.

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It's a step into new territory for the podcast, with our first animated movie - and our first movie based on a Japanese manga. To help Joe get his head around 1995's Ghost in the Shell, James is joined by anime expert Ian Grundy. In the news, meanwhile, we look at the possibility of a Blue Beetle/Booster Gold movie, and the latest on Jessica Jones.

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It's a relatively quiet week for comic book movie and TV news, but Joe touches on Gambit's directorial troubles, rumours of a Booster Gold/Blue Beetle movie and some MCU Netflix updates before getting on with last week's Incredible Hulk-inspired comics recommendations - Planet Hulk: Exile by Greg Pak and Carlo Pagulayan, and Damon Lindelof and Leinil Yu's Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk.

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Cinematic Universe returns to its Marvel namesake to re-examine Louis Leterrier's 2008 film, The Incredible Hulk, which stars Ed Norton, Liv Tyler, and a bunch of other people who subsequently disappeared from the MCU forever. But before that, we look at the latest comic book movie news, including casting news for Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel, the Jessica Jones teaser, and Scarlet Witch's potential role in Civil War.

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Joe takes a look at the latest comic book movie and TV news, before discussing last week's Howard the Duck-related recommendations: issues #5 through #8 of the original Steve Gerber and Gene Colan run, and then the recent first volume of Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones' 2015 run. He also picked up Skottie Young and Jim Mahfood's Howard the Human. Crikey, anyone would think he liked the movie or something.

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It's Marvel's first ever feature-length live action theatrical movie! What a special event for us to cover. Unfortunately... it's also Howard the Duck. Heaven help us, we actually went through with it. Before that, there's discussion of those spoilery Civil War promo images, and the potential casting of Mads Mikkelsen in Doctor Strange.

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