NewsAnime/manga Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Hits Continue For A Tenth-Anniversary Divine Game (tokusatsu). Toei announces Ex-Aid: Divine Game at Kamen Rider Ex-Aid's tenth-anniversary event, with the format still under wraps. ColonelFrog / 13 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Everybody wants to be a Mind: why the AI bosses keep quoting Iain M. Banks, and what the Culture novels actually say (opinion). Musk, Amodei and Hassabis all cite Iain M. Banks's Culture as the future they want. A new essay asks whether they've read past… ColonelFrog / 13 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
ReviewBooks Futuristic: Rockets, Robots And Rayguns Of Space Age Pop Culture by Mark Voger (book review). GF Willmetts reviews Mark Voger’s Futuristic, a TwoMorrows tour of how 1950s–70s films, TV, toys and comics imagined the future, from Lost In… UncleGeoff / 10 Nov 2026
NewsFantasy Tahereh Mafi Reveals And The Stars Align, The Final Woven Kingdom Book (book news). Tahereh Mafi reveals the cover for And the Stars Align, the fifth and final Woven Kingdom novel, due in late April 2027. ColonelFrog / 13 Nov 2026
NewsScifi DOOM: The Dark Ages Gets Slaughter Mode, Which Is Rather A Lot Of Slaughter For Free (games news). id Software's free endless-waves Slaughter Mode lands for DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations owners on 16 November. ColonelFrog / 13 Nov 2026
NewsScifi One light-day from home: Voyager 1 crosses a line no machine has crossed, and unlike V’Ger, it isn’t coming back to look for its maker (science news). On 18 November 2026, Voyager 1 becomes the first human-made object one light-day from Earth. Say hello now, and expect a reply on… ColonelFrog / 11 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Make it so: Sir Patrick Stewart gets his own asteroid, (645530) Patrickstewart, and joins Kirk, Spock and Uhura in the belt (science news). The IAU has named minor planet (645530) Patrickstewart in honour of Sir Patrick Stewart, weeks after his death. Picard joins Shatner, Nimoy, Nichols… ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Enters The Home Straight, Says Druckmann (games news). Neil Druckmann says Naughty Dog's Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is fully playable and in its last stages of production, with a showcase in… ColonelFrog / 13 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 Jurassic Park was right about the blood, wrong about the mosquito: scientists claim 115-million-year-old red blood cells in a Brazilian dinosaur (science news). A PNAS study claims traces of red blood cells in the bones of Aratasaurus, a 115-million-year-old Brazilian dinosaur. The scientist who found T.… ColonelFrog / 11 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
ReviewBooks Marvel Explodes: From Bullpen To Big Business (Marvel Age Of Comics) by Paul Levitz (book review) ‘Marvel Explodes: From Bullpen To Big Business’ is not a book for those interested in the creative side of Marvel Comics. Who really… Eamonn Murphy / 12 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Make it so: Sir Patrick Stewart gets his own asteroid, (645530) Patrickstewart, and joins Kirk, Spock and Uhura in the belt (science news). The IAU has named minor planet (645530) Patrickstewart in honour of Sir Patrick Stewart, weeks after his death. Picard joins Shatner, Nimoy, Nichols… ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
NewsScifi A long time ago, in a cinema near you: the 1977 Star Wars returns on 19 February, and Lucasfilm opens the vault on how it was made (film news). Lucasfilm puts a restored 1977 Star Wars back in cinemas from 19 February 2027, with R.J. Cutler's archive documentary The Hero Awakens following… ColonelFrog / 13 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
NewsAnime/manga Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Hits Continue For A Tenth-Anniversary Divine Game (tokusatsu). Toei announces Ex-Aid: Divine Game at Kamen Rider Ex-Aid's tenth-anniversary event, with the format still under wraps. ColonelFrog / 13 Nov 2026
1Nov 2026 ReviewComics Suicide Squad: The Nightshade Odyssey by John Ostrander, Luke McDonnell and Bob Lewis (graphic novel review). ‘Suicide Squad: The Nightshade Odyssey’ isn’t just stories from their own title but others like ‘Millennium’ and ‘Secret Origins’, with a lot of… UncleGeoff / 1 Nov 2026
24Oct 2026 NewsComics Justice League: Arctic Attack Special: Donna Troy recruits a team of cool customers to put an undead ice queen back on ice (comics news). Stephanie Williams and Dexter Soy's Justice League: Arctic Attack Special #1 sends Donna Troy and an icy team after the undead Frozen Empress.… ColonelFrog / 24 Oct 2026
26Dec 2023 ReviewComics Justice League Volume 4: The Grid (The New 52!) by Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado (graphic novel review). The volumes of ‘Justice League’ in ‘The New 52’ have been reasonably straightforward until now. The current first priority is finding some permanent… UncleGeoff / 26 Dec 2023