NewsScifi Devils’ Crest arrives on Prime Video, and Reki Kawahara’s death games have run out of letters between VR and reality (anime news). Devils' Crest, the Production I.G anime of Sword Art Online creator Reki Kawahara's Demons' Crest, premiered worldwide on Prime Video on 6 November. ColonelFrog / 7 Nov 2026
NewsBooks ZX Spectrum history book loads in 98 minutes, no tape errors reported. The Rubber-Keyed Wonder, Kim Justice's 45th-anniversary history of the ZX Spectrum, hit its Kickstarter target in 98 minutes. Last orders close on 2… ColonelFrog / 1 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
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
NewsFantasy “I’ve been through too much”: Tim Burton keeps the Corpse Bride in her coffin, for now (film news). Asked about a live-action Corpse Bride, Tim Burton neither says yes nor no. Twenty-one years on, the stop-motion bride is still better off… ColonelFrog / 7 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Before Hawkins, there was Marion: Netflix’s Other Worlds takes Stranger Things back to 1950s Nevada in 2028 (TV news). Netflix has ordered Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure, a live-action prequel set in 1950s Marion, Nevada, from Kate Trefry and the Duffers,… ColonelFrog / 7 Nov 2026
NewsFantasy Mashle goes live action: Warner Bros. bets on a wizarding school where the hero solves everything with his biceps (film news). Mashle: Magic and Muscles gets a live-action film in Japanese cinemas on 19 March 2027, from Warner Bros., Fuji TV, CREDEUS and Toho. ColonelFrog / 4 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
NewsScifi Booker or bust: M John Harrison, lifelong weird old sci-fi bloke, eyes literature’s biggest prize. At 81, M John Harrison could become the oldest Booker winner ever on Monday. A look at The End of Everything, the iGhetti… ColonelFrog / 7 Nov 2026
NewsCons Physint at Beyond the Strand: Kojima shows his homework, and it looks suspiciously like Metal Gear (games). Kojima Productions' tenth-anniversary show in Tokyo puts Physint's 150-page script, five Bill Skarsgård busts and some very familiar mechs on display. ColonelFrog / 1 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 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
