Mark is enthusiastic about Neil Gaiman’s latest The Ocean at the End of the Lane. We also discuss whether Brad Pitt is entitled to a victory lap for his adaptation of a show-favourite novel, Max Brooks’ World War Z. We cover:

• Our initial discussion of WWZ
• Brad Pitt eating
• The Vanity Fair article ‘Brad’s War’
• J. Michael Straczynski
• Matthew Michael Carnahan
• Damon Lindelof
• The details of the film’s original third act
• The ultimately futile buffness of Matthew Fox
• Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion
• Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane
• The Graveyard Book
• Coraline
• Miracleman
• Sandman – Gaiman writing his way out of the series remit, not least of which includes the series’ setting in the mainstream DC Comics shared fictional universe
• Good Omens
• Violent Cases