NewsFantasy Precure hands the keys to the villains in Dual Shadow, a 2027 spin-off where the heroines are not Precure (anime news). Toei's Dual Shadow ~Precure Villain Heroines~ is a 2027 spin-off with an original story and cast, and a teaser insisting the heroines are… ColonelFrog / 27 Oct 2026
NewsFantasy Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives seven minutes at a time, and Nolan’s $1.78bn epic needn’t lock the doors just yet (AI film news). Grok Imagine has posted Episode 1 of its AI-generated Odyssey on X: seven minutes, three months after Elon Musk promised a full-length "historically… ColonelFrog / 26 Oct 2026
ReviewCri-Fi Back Issue #26 February 2006 (magazine review) Another back issue of ‘Back Issue’. With the sub-title of ‘Spies And Tough Guys Issue’, it’s easy to see why this issue is… UncleGeoff / 12 Oct 2026
NewsScifi Come with me if you want to stream: AI panic is sending viewers back to The Terminator. Parrot Analytics says AI anxiety has made The Terminator a streaming comfort watch, 42 years after release. We look at the numbers, and… ColonelFrog / 27 Oct 2026
NewsFantasy An orc with an arc: The Rings of Power season three wins over its first critics, and gives Tolkien’s least huggable race a redemption story (TV news). The first reactions to The Rings of Power season three are in, ahead of its 11th November premiere, and Adam Young's orc Marnûkh… ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
NewsHorror Such sights to show you, again: BOOM! collects Clive Barker’s 1990s Pinhead comics for the first time since 1993 (comics news). BOOM! Studios' Hellraiser Legacy: Pinhead collects the six-issue 1993 Pinhead comic for the first time since its original run. It is due on… ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
NewsFilms Meep meep, Mr Academy: Coyote vs. Acme, the Looney Tunes film Warner Bros. tried to bury, is now eligible for the Animated Feature Oscar (film news). Coyote vs. Acme, the Looney Tunes film Warner Bros. shelved for a tax write-off, has been ruled eligible for Best Animated Feature at… ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
ReviewScifi Creative Futures (Beyond And Within) edited by Allen Stroud (book review) ‘Creative Futures’ is not your usual anthology but comes with big credentials. It’s a collaboration between science fiction writers, Coventry University and the… Eamonn Murphy / 16 Oct 2026
NewsScifi The girl on fire walks back in: Jennifer Lawrence confirms her Katniss return for Sunrise on the Reaping, and Woody Harrelson still hasn’t learned to knock (film news). Jennifer Lawrence has confirmed on the Call Her Daddy podcast that she returns as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the… ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
NewsSpy-Fy Marvel’s Zodiac finds its writers: twelve star signs, two spies and a London shoot. Amit Cohen and Ron Leshem are reportedly writing Zodiac, Marvel's Disney+ spy thriller about two agents hunting people with special abilities. It shoots… ColonelFrog / 23 Oct 2026
RoundupWorld getting weirder Dogfights Over the Desert: The SFcrowsnest UFO Roundup, October 2026 David Grusch returns to Joe Rogan with a field guide to the galaxy's warring tribes, the Pentagon unlocks the NDA cupboard, and a… ColonelFrog / 3 Oct 2026
NewsDoctor Who Exterminate the writers? Russell T Davies calls the BBC boss’s AI Doctor Who remarks “clumsy”, and puts a date on the new Doctor (news). Russell T Davies calls BBC director-general Matt Brittin's praise for an AI-made Doctor Who episode "clumsy", and says production with a new Doctor… ColonelFrog / 15 Oct 2026
NewsComics 7,350 days and counting: the Osaka office worker whose daily webcomic has just outrun Schlock Mercenary (comics news). Fumiya Yomigishi's daily Japanese webcomic Baneusagi to Kamepan has reached 7,350 consecutive days, passing Schlock Mercenary's completed run. ColonelFrog / 28 Oct 2026
ReviewBooks Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee (book review). Jacques Vallee, in this 2008 update of ‘Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact’, questions whether the pilots of the UAPs come from… UncleGeoff / 24 Oct 2026
SF /BooksIdeas worth exploring NewsBooks Andy Weir’s “Star Star” would have Spock haunting the Force and McCoy fixing Vader in sickbay (fan fiction news). Andy Weir has revealed his Star Trek and Star Wars crossover idea, Star Star, in which Spock becomes a Force ghost and McCoy… ColonelFrog / 27 Oct 2026
NewsScifi “Never say never”: Phil Lord and Chris Miller have made their peace with losing Solo, and Kathleen Kennedy sent a nice note about Project Hail Mary (Star Wars news). Phil Lord and Chris Miller tell The Town podcast they have made peace with being removed from Solo: A Star Wars Story, and… ColonelFrog / 28 Oct 2026
NewsSteampunk Netflix’s Bass X Machina unleashes steampunk cowboys, mechanical minotaurs and a suspiciously familiar name Netflix's adult animated steampunk Western Bass X Machina, inspired by lawman Bass Reeves, arrives on 3 November 2026 with mechanical minotaurs, cybernetic arms… ColonelFrog / 23 Sep 2026
NewsBooks The superhero novel written to escape comics goes back to them: IDW is adapting Wildbow’s web serial Worm (comics news). IDW Publishing is adapting Worm, John McCrae's vast 2011–13 superhero web serial, as a comic, starting on Comics Giveaway Day, 1st May 2027. ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
