The latest dispatches Thursday, 12 November 2026
News Scifi
Trailer not playing? Watch it on YouTube. That’s Netflix’s own animated Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance above, which is the nearest thing to moving pictures of the live-action film anyone is going to…
ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
Review Books
‘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
News Comics
Gotham has never been short of people in bat-shaped outfits. Over the decades there have been Robins, Batgirls, Batwomen, a Bat-Mite and, in…
ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
Review MEDIA
Here is that old favourite M.R. James adapted into graphic novel form by writers Leah Moore and John Reppion and a variety of…
Eamonn Murphy / 12 Nov 2026
News Scifi
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
News Horror
Dread Central reports that Warner Bros.' Lee Cronin Nightmare on Elm Street film is dead, leaving Paramount's reboot of Wes Craven's original screenplay…
ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
News Horror
Stacy Keach, star of Mike Hammer and Fat City, has died at 85. The trade obituaries skipped his genre work: the voice in…
ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
News Comics
James Gunn and Peter Safran step down as heads of DC Studios on 1 December, with ex-Marvel executive Jeremy Latcham taking over under…
ColonelFrog / 12 Nov 2026
News Superheroes
Marvel has put the whole of VisionQuest episode one, No Strings, on YouTube for free, just as the series finale lands. Paul Bettany…
ColonelFrog / 11 Nov 2026
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News Horror
All eight episodes of Quinn Shephard's Catholic-school horror The Body are now on Netflix, and the first reviews range from brilliant to underwhelmed.
ColonelFrog / 11 Nov 2026
News Fantasy
HIDIVE will release Made in Abyss: Awakening Mystery in 2027, with a North American premiere at Anime Frontier in Fort Worth on 5…
ColonelFrog / 11 Nov 2026
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Marvel's Brick line is reported to be collecting Lee and Ditko's complete Amazing Spider-Man run in a 960-page, $60 volume due in July…
ColonelFrog / 11 Nov 2026
News Fantasy
Kagurabachi chapter 138, Heavy Charge, is out on VIZ and MANGA Plus, with the Cypic anime due in April 2027.
ColonelFrog / 9 Nov 2026
News Comics
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
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