NewsAnime/manga Yu-Gi-Oh! banlist: Konami forbids 34 cards and limits a dragon that hasn’t been released yet (card games news). Konami's October 2026 Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG banlist forbids 34 cards, including Called by the Grave and Trishula, and limits an unreleased dragon. ColonelFrog / 19 Oct 2026
TrailerScifi Gods Don’t Give Gifts: Gossip Goblin’s AI sci-fi horror heads for cinemas, and possibly the Oscars (trailer). YouTube AI filmmaker Gossip Goblin, aka Zack London, has a trailer out for Gods Don't Give Gifts, an AI-assisted sci-fi horror anthology heading… ColonelFrog / 7 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
NewsCulture Editorial – October 2026: Do AIs Need Humans? Hello everyone Science fiction has an unusual specialisation as a genre: it warns of dangers in society, wrapping them in stories to make… UncleGeoff / 27 Sep 2026
NewsFantasy Narnia gets new jackets by Vance Kovacs, and Aslan has sneaked onto every one of them (book news). HarperCollins unveils Vance Kovacs's movie-inspired Narnia covers for Gerwig's The Magician's Nephew, with hardcovers and box sets from November. ColonelFrog / 19 Oct 2026
NewsHorror Thunderbolts*: an unused storyboard shows Man-Thing nearly joined the team, before a swamp monster was ruled too distracting (film news). An unused Thunderbolts* storyboard shows Man-Thing with the team. Writer Eric Pearson explains why Marvel's swamp monster didn't make the cut. ColonelFrog / 19 Oct 2026
NewsHumour Merrick & Treves: HBO Sends the Archer Gang Back to Whitechapel (and Back, and Back Again) HBO orders two seasons of Merrick & Treves, the Archer team's animated comedy about Queen Victoria's time police hunting Jack the Ripper. ColonelFrog / 14 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 Red Rising finally climbs out of the mines as Paramount hands it to Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence (news). Pierce Brown’s Red Rising has spent more than a decade in development tunnels deeper than any Helldiver’s shaft, and somebody has finally struck… ColonelFrog / 17 Oct 2026
TrailerFilms The Beekeeper 2: Who keeps the keepers when the hive goes rogue? (trailer). Watch the trailer on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WfZMdt00kEs When Sherlock Holmes retired, he went off to the Sussex Downs to keep bees and write a… ColonelFrog / 15 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
NewsAnime/manga Ghibli Park is growing a Toxic Jungle, and we demand a full-size Pirate Airship (news). Studio Ghibli has apparently looked at its enormous park in Aichi, looked at the millions of people already wandering around it pretending not… ColonelFrog / 11 Aug 2026
NewsOffworld Report Kishimoto picks up the brush, Pinhead divides the room and the Stargate dials again (Offworld Report: Sunday Sweep, 11th October 2026). NYCC turns twenty: Kishimoto draws Naruto again, Ray Gunn premieres, Stargate dials Jac Schaeffer, and Pinhead splits critics from players. ColonelFrog / 11 Oct 2026
NewsStar Trek Mutiny on the Stargazer: James McAvoy nearly got to play young Patrick Stewart. Again (news). James McAvoy says he pitched Mutiny on the Stargazer, a one-season Star Trek prequel with himself as young Jean-Luc Picard, and "nearly did… ColonelFrog / 19 Oct 2026
NewsFilms Taika Waititi’s Star Wars film goes ‘very iced’, and joins Han Solo in the carbonite cupboard (film news). Taika Waititi says his Star Wars film is 'very iced' as he and Tony McNamara move on to another project. Six years on,… ColonelFrog / 19 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
NewsHorror Thunderbolts*: an unused storyboard shows Man-Thing nearly joined the team, before a swamp monster was ruled too distracting (film news). An unused Thunderbolts* storyboard shows Man-Thing with the team. Writer Eric Pearson explains why Marvel's swamp monster didn't make the cut. ColonelFrog / 19 Oct 2026
