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Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

“Martha Stewart can kiss my shiny plastic butt!”

Utopian Dreams

Writer Katie Silberman teases the unexpected in Don’t Worry Darling

Creeping Into Comics

Greg Nicotero on taking Creepshow from the small screen to the page

Galax y’s Finest

After IDW’s milestone 400th issue, Starfleet’s heroes are assembling for a brand new Star Trek series

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Happiness Will Prevail

Writer/director Finn Parker talks about new horror movie Smile

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Blood Ties

Forties heroes Masquerade, Lady Satan and the Woman In Red are Scarlet Sisters

Return Of The Drokking Dead

2000 AD celebrates Prog 2300 with a zombiefied multiverse of madness

Rust In Peace

Arthouse filmmaker Kogonada returns with sci-fi After Yang

Four Play

History repeats for the Fantastic Four in Alex Ross’s new graphic novel Full Circle

What Kate Did Next

Kate Mulgrew on her return to live-action sci-fi as a CIA agent in The Man Who Fell To Earth

Vive La Revolution

Andor proves there’s more than one way to overthrow an Empire…

Grievous Bodily Harm

Surgery is the new sex in Crimes Of The Future, David Cronenberg’s long-awaited cinematic comeback

Nichelle Nichols 1932-2022

Remembering a true pioneer of the final frontier

THE FINAL FRONTIER

David Warner as Chancellor Gorkon in Star Trek

Sins Of The Father

Religion and family go head-to-head as Chucky returns to wreak revenge once more

SPELLBOUND

THE SANDERSON SISTERS ARE FINALLY BACK IN THE LONG-AWAITED

LEAP OF FAITH

THE BELOVED ’90S SCI-FI SERIES QUANTUM LEAP GETS A REVIVAL WITH A NEW LEAPER

PEOPLE OF MIDDLE- EARTH

SFX MEETS THE DWARF, HARFOOT, ELF AND HUMAN STARS OF AMAZON’S MEGA-BUDGET TAKE ON TOLKIEN, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POW ER

Fairy Tales

RETURNS FOR ANOTHER SERIES, SFX JOINS THE CAST AND CREW ON-SET IN IRELAND TO FIND OUT HOW THIS SECOND SEASON IS “BIGGER AND BETTER”

Wing Team

Five iconic fairies from the big screen

ALONG CAME A SPIDER

AS SPIDER-MAN CELEBR ATES HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY, SFX CR AWLS THE WALLS OF COMIC BOOK HISTORY

STEVE TOUSSAINT

House Of The Dragon’s legendary Sea Snake tells all…

HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO

SFX CONSIDERS RE LOCATING OFFICES AFTER A VISIT TO AVENGERS CAMPUS AT DISNEYLAND PARIS

GRANT MORRISON

Shifting identities: the comics star tells us about their debut novel

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

Operating theatre

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

Cutting-edge art

HATCHING

A bad egg

AFTER YANG

Artificial intelligence, real tears

INU-OH

Noh great shakes

ORPHAN: FIRST KILL

★★☆☆☆ ➤RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 98 minutes

ETERNAL 831

➤RELEASED 19 SEPTEMBER TBC | 104 minutes This

THE RETALIATORS

★☆☆☆☆ ➤RELEASED 14 SEPTEMBER 15 | 97 minutes

RED ROSE

Caught in an app

WEST WORLD Season Four

Our Friends Electric

SURREALESTATE Season One

Crucifix-er uppers

FOR ALL MANKIND

Season Three

THE ORVILLE: NEW HORIZONS

You are Orville… but I like you

LOCKE & KEY

Season Three

DAY OF THE DEAD

Romero’s spinning in his grave

THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR Season One

Inversion Of The Body Snatchers

DOCTOR WHO: THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN

Too Much Monk-y Business

STRAWBERRY MANSION

What if dreams were taxed? That’s the premise

MEN

Face your demons

DAY SHIFT

NETFLIX Captured in hyperreal colour, the palms, pools

SECRET HEADQUARTERS

PARAMOUNT+ With a seemingly infinite amount of superhero

DEATHSTALKER/ DEATHSTALKER II

Conan The Vulgarian

MAZES AND MONSTERS

BLU-RAY DEBUT Wait, that Tom Hanks? Really? Yes

SAMARITAN

Hero takes a fall

TORN HEARTS

Country megastar Harper Dutch lost her fame and

SALOUM

SHUDDER Senegal is the real star of Saloum,

GLORIOUS

SHUDDER Centred on a pair of characters in

SO VAM

SHUDDER Up-and-coming drag queen Kurt Lindqvist is used

STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE THE DIRECTOR’S EDITION

Cloud computing

SMUT WITHOUT SMUT Volume One

BLU-RAY DEBUT This doubleheader Blu-ray presents two grindhouse

ALL MY FRIENDS HATE ME

Is this a horror film? It’s been discussed

THE INVISIBLE MAN

Now you see him…

FAIRY TALE

Some scares over the rainbow

A TASTE OF GOLD AND IRON

★★★★✩ ▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! 472 pages |

FULL IMMERSION

★★★★✩ ▸RELEASED 13 SEPTEMBER 400 pages | Paperback/ebook

LUDA

Life’s a drag

THE CHILDREN OF GODS AND FIGHTING MEN

★★★★✩ ▸RELEASED OUT NOW! 440 pages | Hardback/ebook

ET: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL

THE ULTIMATE VISUAL HISTORY

PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD

★★★★✩ ▸RELEASED OUT NOW! 528 pages | Hardback/ebook/

THE LOST GIRL KING

★★★★✩ ▸RELEASED OUT NOW! 308 pages | Paperback/ebook

UNRAVELLER

★★★★✩ ▸RELEASED OUT NOW! 496 pages | Hardback/ebook/

LOST IN TIME

★★★★✩ ▸RELEASED OUT NOW! 464 pages | Hardback/ebook/

REISSUES

Olivie Blake’s THE ATLAS SIX ( ★★★★✩,

LEDGE

★★★★✩ ▸RELEASED 13 SEPTEMBER 340 pages Hardback/ebook

FELLSTONES

★★★✩✩ ▸RELEASED 13 SEPTEMBER 256 pages Hardback/paperback/

MONSTERS BORN AND MADE

★★★✩✩ ▸RELEASED OUT NOW! 352 pages | Hardback/ebook/

ALSO OUT

There are plenty more books we couldn’t fit

Paul McAuley

The award-winning SF author was clearly a precocious child…

The Children Of Gods And Fighting Men

A GRIPPING NEW HISTORICAL FANTASY THAT INTERTWINES IRISH MYTHOLOGY WITH REAL-LIFE HISTORY

DARK CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS

A multiversal mess

STARHENGE

★★★★✩ ▸RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸Publisher Image Comics ▸Writer

BATMAN – ONE BAD DAY: THE RIDDLER

★★★★★ ▸RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸Publisher DC Black Label

FANTASTIC FOUR: FULL CIRCLE

In the Zone

BATMAN: ONE DARK KNIGHT

★★★★★ ▸RELEASED OUT NOW! (Collected edition out 20

MULTIVERSUS

That’s brawl, folks!

THE OMEN

★★★★✩ ▸RELEASED 23 SEPTEMBER 35 minutes | Vinyl

XENOBL ADE CHRONICLES 3

War… what is it good for?

DOCTOR WHO: TENTH DOCTOR/ CL ASSIC COMPANIONS

The Clause Of Axos

TOYS

As killer doll Chucky makes a return, we test your knowledge of children’s playthings, both malevolent and benign

HE’S COMING HOME (AGAIN) HALLOWEEN ENDS

Michael Myers heads up the annual SFX Halloween Horror Issue!

RED MARS

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