Welcome, friends, to the first new entry in Pod-Canon in quite a while. With this entry on the “Triumph at Comic Con” saga, Pod-Canon returns heroically to its original purpose, which was to give me a regular, high-profile, modestly compensated place to gush effusively about the overlapping comedic genius of Tom Scharpling, The Best Show, Sean Clements, Hayes Davenport and Hollywood Handbook.

I pitched Pod-Canon to Splitsider as a weekly celebration of the greatest episodes in podcasting history. The problem was, and remains, that I am only one person, and consequently can only listen to a limited number of podcasts. Of the limited number of podcasts that I listen to, I tended to write about Hollywood Handbook and The Best Show over and over and over again, to the point where I kept expecting my editor to complain about me writing about the same damn podcasts repeatedly in a column ostensibly devoted to covering the entirety of podcasting as a medium, not just two particular shows I’m particularly obsessed with.

Then again, Splitsider did cancel my column in favor of one written by many different people, so that could very well have been their indirect way of communicating that the column was not as far-ranging or eclectic as it should have been. What can I say? I am a man of obsessions, and consequently an inveterate FOT and Hollywood Handbook super-fan.