NewsAnime/manga Pokémon TCG Aura Seeker: Mega Lucario Z leads, Persian wants your pocket money, and the Fist of the North Star artist draws a wrestler (games news). Japan's Pokémon TCG set Aura Seeker lands on 27 November, led by Mega Lucario Z ex. English players get it as Flowing Fists… ColonelFrog / 8 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 D.J. Taylor goes in search of Tolkien in The King Under the Mountain, and the Professor would have hated every minute of it (book news). D.J. Taylor's The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J.R.R. Tolkien is out from Constable in the UK and now from Pegasus… ColonelFrog / 8 Nov 2026
ReviewHorror Spooktacular! – Illustrators Special Edition #20 (book review). The Book Palace's Spooktacular! hardback special gathers Graham 'Ghastly' Ingels, Basil Gogos, Nik Poliwko, Shane Oakley and Tom Grindberg. UncleGeoff / 7 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 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 “It’s effectively gone”: Catherynne M. Valente on the Mass Effect story that went down with BioWare (games news). Catherynne M. Valente was writing for the next Mass Effect when EA closed BioWare. She owns none of it and can't release it:… ColonelFrog / 8 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
NewsFilms Welcome to Doomton: Marvel’s new map of Latveria shows a country where everything is named after the landlord (film news). A new Avengers: Doomsday tie-in book maps Latveria: Doomstadt, Doomvale, Doomsburg, Doomton, Doom Falls and Mt. Victorum. Subtle, Victor. ColonelFrog / 8 Nov 2026
