NewsFantasy Kagurabachi chapter 138: a heavy charge, a sharp blade and an anime still on the anvil for April 2027 (manga news). Kagurabachi chapter 138, Heavy Charge, is out on VIZ and MANGA Plus, with the Cypic anime due in April 2027. ColonelFrog / 9 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
NewsBooks Clifton’s, Bradbury’s old haunt, reopens as Sanctuary, and the free limeade has been replaced by a never-ending Dungeons & Dragons game (fandom news). LA's Clifton's, where Bradbury and early fans met, reopens as Sanctuary with plans for a daily D&D-inspired live game. ColonelFrog / 9 Nov 2026
NewsFantasy Kagurabachi chapter 138: a heavy charge, a sharp blade and an anime still on the anvil for April 2027 (manga news). Kagurabachi chapter 138, Heavy Charge, is out on VIZ and MANGA Plus, with the Cypic anime due in April 2027. ColonelFrog / 9 Nov 2026
NewsHorror Resident Evil comes home: Zach Cregger’s $400 million monster is now available to take away (film news). Zach Cregger's Resident Evil is out to buy and rent digitally after passing $400 million worldwide, the biggest box office in the franchise's… ColonelFrog / 9 Nov 2026
NewsHumour Slopcore: the robots have formed a band, and they’d like a word about your P(doom). AI music videos about AI, made mostly by AI, have become a genre with a name, a mascot, a fan chart and an… ColonelFrog / 8 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Communion with the weather: The Day After Tomorrow freezes Netflix’s chart 22 years on, and it all started with the alien-abduction man (film news). The Day After Tomorrow tops US Netflix 22 years on. Its source book was co-written by Communion's Whitley Strieber and Art Bell. ColonelFrog / 9 Nov 2026
TrailerScifi Blade Runner 2099 final trailer: the humans would like their city back, please (video). Trailer not playing? Watch it on YouTube. Most shows make do with a teaser and a trailer. Blade Runner 2099 has now reached… ColonelFrog / 9 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 Teghaza 001: a rose-pink rock from the Sahara turns out to be a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars (science news). Teghaza 001, a meteorite found in Mali in 2022, is a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars with evidence of ancient water, a NASA-led study… ColonelFrog / 2 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
NewsOffworld Report Dragon Ball Z Goes To Court, Gorilla Grodd Stands Trial And Arkane Gets Suitors (Offworld Report, 1–5 November 2026). A Dragon Ball Z composer becomes Texas Attorney General, Gorilla Grodd gets a true-crime show, Arkane draws bidders and SETI turns to game… ColonelFrog / 5 Nov 2026
NewsCulture Set Phasers to Litigate: When Genre Franchises Savage Their Own Fans. From Axanar to Warhammer, Harry Potter to Doctor Who knitting patterns: how genre franchises keep setting the lawyers on their own fans. ColonelFrog / 7 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 Doctor Doom in Marvel Rivals: two roles, one ego, if the leakers are right (games rumour). A dataminer claims Doctor Doom is coming to Marvel Rivals as both a Vanguard and a Duelist after Nightcrawler. NetEase hasn't confirmed it. ColonelFrog / 9 Nov 2026
16Sep 2023 ReviewBooks The New Apocrypha: A Guide To Strange Sciences & Occult Beliefs by John Sladek (book review). With the USA intelligence services releasing their classified UAP/UFO reports, if you’re pursuing any early books on the subject, you’re likely to pause… UncleGeoff / 16 Sep 2023
3Jan 2023 ReviewScifi The Steam-Driven Boy And Other Strangers by John Sladek (book review). This John Sladek volume tends to be referred to by the main part of its title, ‘The Steam-Driven Boy’ with the ‘And Other… UncleGeoff / 3 Jan 2023
11Oct 2022 ReviewScifi The Complete Roderick by John Sladek (book review). The last book I read by John Sladek (1937-2000) a long time ago was ‘The Müller-Fokker Effect’ (1970) which I thought was a… UncleGeoff / 11 Oct 2022
