The Traveler by Joseph Eckert (book review)
The idea of time travel has been around for a very long time. Many readers will be familiar with H.G.
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Spider-Noir cancelled: Amazon shoots the goose, checks the spreadsheet, asks where the golden eggs went (news).
Prime Video has cancelled Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir after one season, roughly twenty minutes before the show turns up at the Emmys with eleven nominations. Streaming maths remains an eldritch discipline.
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Turn-based combat is back, and Space Engineers finally has someone to shoot at (genre gaming news roundup).
It has been a while since we last ran a proper genre gaming news roundup, largely because every time we sat down to write one, another publisher announced another thing with the word “Warhammer” in it and we had to start again.
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Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2026 unveils full programme, and Kendal may never recover
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has released its full 2026 programme for Kendal, 2nd to 4th October: Asterix vs TinTin, an audience with Bill Sienkiewicz, Frank Quitely, four exhibitions, a vast Comics Marketplace and a great deal of ink.
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HBO’s Harry Potter series finds its Dobby, its Ginny and its teenage dark lord (TV news).
Lenny Rush, Bonnie Hill and Billy Barratt join HBO’s Harry Potter for the ‘Chamber of Secrets’ season, as Ginny Weasley is recast and season two shoots before season one has even aired.
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Logan Of Loxley: The Death Of Robin Hood (film review).
Michael Sarnoski drags Robin Hood through the mud, the blood and a great deal of Irish drizzle, with Hugh Jackman as an ageing killer being crushed by his own legend. Plus Mark Kermode’s verdict.
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Alter Ego # 201 September 2026 (magazine review)
Reed Tucker profiles E. Nelson Bridwell, DC’s walking encyclopaedia and creator of the Inferior Five, in ‘Alter Ego’ # 201, plus a 1976 Stan Lee interview with Roy Thomas and Fawcett at the movies.
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God’s Vengeance by Theresa Derwin (book review).
One of the dilemmas any author faces is how long a work should be. Some mentors will tell them to
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Rogue Trooper trailer: Duncan Jones drags 2000 AD’s blue soldier to the BFI London Film Festival (trailer).
The Rogue Trooper trailer has arrived, and Duncan Jones has finally dragged 2000 AD’s blue-skinned killing machine onto a screen, with three BFI London Film Festival screenings in October.
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An Upset at the Hugos, a Sequel Thirteen Years Late, and a Reaper Who Can’t Keep Still (news roundup).
Three weeks of genre news in one go: a Hugo Awards upset in Anaheim, John Crowley’s death, T. Kingfisher’s suspiciously perfect publicity timing, and television quietly running out of books to adapt.
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