NewsAnime/manga Yu-Gi-Oh! Maze of Machines: Konami loads Bandit Keith’s hardware into a 153-card set for March (card games news). Konami's next Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG booster, Maze of Machines, arrives in March 2027 with 153 cards, Bandit Keith's Dark Machines and ten cards from… ColonelFrog / 30 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
NewsBooks Archive of Our Own goes dark for up to a month after a break-in, and fandom’s library is left in the Wayback Machine’s spare room (news). Archive of Our Own has been offline since 29 October after a security incident, and its volunteers say it could be down for… ColonelFrog / 1 Nov 2026
NewsFantasy Wicker: more than 100 basket makers say Alexander Skarsgård’s husband is plaited, not woven, and the village green erupts (film news). Basket makers say Alexander Skarsgård's Wicker Husband is plaited rather than woven, and not made of willow. Wētā Workshop defends the material. ColonelFrog / 1 Nov 2026
NewsHorror Peter Medak (1937–2026): the Budapest refugee who left a ball on the stairs, and an entire genre looking over its shoulder (obituary). Peter Medak, director of The Changeling and The Ruling Class, has died aged 88. SFcrowsnest remembers a ghost-story master with a British career. ColonelFrog / 1 Nov 2026
NewsFantasy Wicker: more than 100 basket makers say Alexander Skarsgård’s husband is plaited, not woven, and the village green erupts (film news). Basket makers say Alexander Skarsgård's Wicker Husband is plaited rather than woven, and not made of willow. Wētā Workshop defends the material. ColonelFrog / 1 Nov 2026
NewsScience Applying Technology To Super-Heroes : an article by: GF Willmetts. In the past, I’ve disclosed how super-powers worked. For this article, I’m going to take a different tack, namely what problems you have… UncleGeoff / 1 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Just Add Heat : an All That Litters story by: GF Willmetts. There’s one thing about being on staff. I can actually have staff of my own. My job remit depends on finding something repairable… UncleGeoff / 1 Nov 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
NewsAnime/manga Maison Ghibli returns to London, and No-Face is moving to Oxford Street (news). Studio Ghibli’s official travelling gift shop, Maison Ghibli, is coming back to London next weekend. Last winter it set up camp at 237… ColonelFrog / 30 Oct 2026
NewsOffworld Report Clayface Oozes To The Top, Warcraft Rolls For Initiative And Essen Runs Out Of Halls (Offworld Report, 22–31 October 2026). Clayface tops the box office, Yaga lands, D&D meets Warcraft, Essen sets a record and PSA's stolen cards get a checklist. Genre news,… ColonelFrog / 31 Oct 2026
NewsScifi Sir Patrick Stewart (1940–2026): the captain’s final log. Sir Patrick Stewart, Star Trek's Captain Picard and X-Men's Professor X, has died aged 86. SFcrowsnest remembers him. ColonelFrog / 29 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
NewsScience Applying Technology To Super-Heroes : an article by: GF Willmetts. In the past, I’ve disclosed how super-powers worked. For this article, I’m going to take a different tack, namely what problems you have… UncleGeoff / 1 Nov 2026
