TrailerAnime/manga Mashle season 3 trailer: the muscle-bound wizard who punches spells returns on 9 January, presumably carrying cream puffs (anime news). If the embed above goes dark, the trailer is also here on YouTube. Aniplex chose 11 November, Mash Burnedead’s birthday, to unveil the… ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
NewsComputers Salon closes after 31 years. SFcrowsnest, which got online four years earlier, raises a quiet glass (opinion). Salon, one of the web's first magazines, closes after 31 years. SFcrowsnest, online since 1991, on why genre readers keep us going. ColonelFrog / 9 Nov 2026
NewsComics Criminal teaser: Prime Video raids the Brubaker and Phillips back catalogue, and sensibly leaves the guns at home. Prime Video's first teaser for Criminal, the Brubaker and Phillips noir adaptation with Charlie Hunnam, Emilia Clarke and Luke Evans, arrives in two… ColonelFrog / 6 Nov 2026
ReviewBooks Futuristic: Rockets, Robots And Rayguns Of Space Age Pop Culture by Mark Voger (book review). GF Willmetts reviews Mark Voger’s Futuristic, a TwoMorrows tour of how 1950s–70s films, TV, toys and comics imagined the future, from Lost In… UncleGeoff / 10 Nov 2026
NewsFantasy Romancing SaGa 3 remake sprints out of the God of War traffic jam and lands on 4 February (games news). If the embed above goes dark, the trailer is also here on YouTube. Video game release dates generally move in one direction, which… ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
NewsHorror Chucky signs with new agents and heads back to the big screen, promising to be scary again (film news). Chucky has new representation. Not the doll himself, obviously, though one imagines he’d be a nightmare in contract negotiations, but his creator. Don… ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
NewsScifi One light-day from home: Voyager 1 crosses a line no machine has crossed, and unlike V’Ger, it isn’t coming back to look for its maker (science news). On 18 November 2026, Voyager 1 becomes the first human-made object one light-day from Earth. Say hello now, and expect a reply on… ColonelFrog / 11 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Make it so: Sir Patrick Stewart gets his own asteroid, (645530) Patrickstewart, and joins Kirk, Spock and Uhura in the belt (science news). The IAU has named minor planet (645530) Patrickstewart in honour of Sir Patrick Stewart, weeks after his death. Picard joins Shatner, Nimoy, Nichols… ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
TrailerScifi The Expanse: Osiris Reborn sends you to rescue two teenage idiots from asteroid pirates, and one of them brought nanobots (games trailer). If the embed above goes dark, the trailer is also here on YouTube. Every space opera worth its reaction mass has a scene… ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
NewsAnime/manga Spy x Family Season 4 and a second film: Operation Strix has its budget renewed for 2027 (anime news). Spy x Family is getting a fourth TV season and a second film, both in 2027, announced at Tokyo's Extra Mission II event… ColonelFrog / 9 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Jurassic Park was right about the blood, wrong about the mosquito: scientists claim 115-million-year-old red blood cells in a Brazilian dinosaur (science news). A PNAS study claims traces of red blood cells in the bones of Aratasaurus, a 115-million-year-old Brazilian dinosaur. The scientist who found T.… ColonelFrog / 11 Nov 2026
NewsDoctor Who John Leeson (1943–2026): the voice of K9, Rainbow’s first Bungle, and the Doctor’s most loyal companion (obituary). John Leeson, the actor who gave Doctor Who’s robot dog K9 his clipped, faintly pompous and thoroughly lovable voice, has died at the… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Godzilla Minus Zero: the big lad turns 72 by stomping into Japanese cinemas, with America next on Friday (monster movie news). Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus Zero opens in Japan on 3 November, Godzilla's 72nd birthday, and in North America via GKIDS on 6 November. ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
ReviewBooks Marvel Explodes: From Bullpen To Big Business (Marvel Age Of Comics) by Paul Levitz (book review) ‘Marvel Explodes: From Bullpen To Big Business’ is not a book for those interested in the creative side of Marvel Comics. Who really… Eamonn Murphy / 12 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Make it so: Sir Patrick Stewart gets his own asteroid, (645530) Patrickstewart, and joins Kirk, Spock and Uhura in the belt (science news). The IAU has named minor planet (645530) Patrickstewart in honour of Sir Patrick Stewart, weeks after his death. Picard joins Shatner, Nimoy, Nichols… ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
NewsComics Darth Vader meets Doctor Doom, and the cape budget doubles: Hope Assembles unveils new variant covers (comics news). Marvel's new variant covers for Star Wars | Marvel: Hope Assembles #1 put Darth Vader face to face with Doctor Doom, ahead of… ColonelFrog / 7 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Bass X Machina: Netflix’s steampunk Bass Reeves rides in tomorrow, packing a mechanical West and Brian Tyree Henry (TV news). LeSean Thomas's six-part steampunk western Bass X Machina, with Brian Tyree Henry as lawman Bass Reeves, premieres on Netflix on 3 November. ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsComics Batman: Reign of Assassins puts two Batmen in the same comic, at last, and nobody has to fight over the cape (comics news). Gotham has never been short of people in bat-shaped outfits. Over the decades there have been Robins, Batgirls, Batwomen, a Bat-Mite and, in… ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
