ALIEN ENCOUNTERS OF THE FREINDLY KIND

Captain’s Log

Outnumbered? Outclassed is more like it. Not even

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Dark Fantasy

Why Orion And The Dark is a children’s story unlike any other

Space Oddity

Noomi Rapace’s astronaut has an uneasy homecoming in Constellation

NEWS WARP

HIGH-SPEED INFORMATION

Cat People

ThunderCats return to comics, and their origins, in Dynamite Entertainment’s new series

Clawing Back

Archie is returning The Jaguar to her roots in a new one-shot comic

Dynamic Duo

The two Robins of Sherwood meet for the first time in graphic novel The Hooded Men

Rising Sons

Jake Sisko and Alexander Rozhenko find family in an alternate universe in Sons Of Star Trek

First L augh

Chip Zdarsky reveals the secret origin of Batman’s arch-enemy in The Joker: Year One

SFX SPACE AND TIME DOCTER WHO

NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF

Top Cat

T’Challa faces off against Moon Knight in the new Ultimate Black Panther

GARETH BROWN

MEET THE CIVIL SERVANT BEHIND YA FANTASY THE BOOK OF DOORS

RICHARD FRANKLIN 1936-2023

Remembering the ’70s Doctor Who star

WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED

MASTER CHIEF’S BACK FOR ANOTHER ROUND WITH THE COVENANT IN – BUT FIRST HE NEEDS TO DEAL WITH A FEW ONLINE TROLLS…

FROM HERE TO ETERNIA

HE-MAN AND SKELETOR’S LONG-RUNNING FEUD CONTINUED IN NETFLIX’S MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: REVELATION. NOW THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED

REALITY BENDING

WILL NETFLIX’S AVATAR: THE L AST AIRBENDER LIVE ACTION SERIES CAPTURE THE MAGIC OF THE ORIGINAL? SHOWRUNNER ALBERT KIM MAKES THE CASE FOR WHY IT WILL

WITCH PLEASE

SFX JOINS THE COVEN ON SET FOR NEW SUPERNATUR AL DRAMA

THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME

JOEL COLLINS TR ADES TACK LING DA EMONS TO TR AVELLING THE TIME VORTEX IN DOCTOR W HO

PALETTE OF THE DALEKS

BEHIND THE SCENES ON BRINGING THE DALEKS: IN COLOUR TO LIFE

MOTHERING SUNDAY

AS CARLA SUNDAY, MICHELLE GREENIDGE JOINS THE PR ESTIGIOUS LIST OF ICONIC DOCTOR WHO MUMS

G FORCE

VFX SUPERVISOR SEAN KONR AD SHARES THE SECR ETS OF GODZILLA’S TV TRIUMPH IN MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS

DESIGNING THE WINTER KING

PRODUCTION DESIGNER JAMES NORTH DISCUSSES CREATING AN ARTHURIAN WORLD FOR ITVX’S ADAPTATION OF THE BERNARD CORNWELL NOVEL

SA AR A EL-A R IFI

Reimagining fantasy: meet one of the brightest new stars in the genre

AQUAMAN AND THE LOS T K INGDOM

Wet Wet Wet

NIGHT SWIM

RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 98 minutes Director Bryce McGuire Cast Kerry Condon, Wyatt Russell, Nancy Lenehan, Amélie Hoeferle

ALL OF US STRANGERS

Memory Bank of Mum and Dad

OUT OF DARKNESS

RELEASED 9 FEBRUARY TBC | 97 minutes Director Andrew Cumming Cast Safia Oakley-Green, Chuku Modu, Kit Young, Iola Evans

DOCTOR WHO: THE CHURCH ON RUBY ROAD

All That They Want (Is Another Baby)

FOR ALL MANKIND Season Four

UK/US Apple TV+, streaming now Showrunners Matt Wolpert, Ben Nedivi Cast Joel Kinnaman, Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall

CAROL & THE END OF THE WORLD

UK/US Netflix, streaming now Showrunner Dan Guterman Cast Martha Kelly, Beth Grant, Lawrence Pressman, Kimberly Hébert Gregory

WHAT IF…? Season Two

Sliding Bores

INSIDE THE MIND OF COFFIN JOE

Top hat and overgrown nails

HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM

BLU-RAY DEBUT It’d surely be a hoot to

THE KITCHEN

Coming to the boil

LORD OF MISRULE

The classic tropes of folk horror are so

BIRTH/REBIRTH

Post-partum obsession

ATTACK OF THE 50 FT WOMAN

EVERETT COLLECTION INC / ALAMY BLU-RAY DEBUT A

DESTROY ALL NEIGHBORS

SHUDDER Gleeful excess is the MO of this

PUNCH

This British slasher makes strong use of its

THE CIVIL DEAD

Oozing slacker charm, this micro-budget indie comedy finds

ALLIGATOR/ALLIGATOR II

A large scaled problem

MAD CATS

Reiki Tsuno strove to make his directorial debut

INSIDE

BLU-RAY DEBUT Second Sight’s second New French Extremity

ANDY WARHOL PRESENTS…

Looks a scream

THE POD GENERATION

Nobody seemed to see the iPhone coming, and

DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS

A Nyah calling

ROUND UP

The biggest movie hitting disc this month is

BOOKS

DOCTOR WHO The special stuff ▸ RELEASED OUT

Grady Hendrix

It is just possible that the horror writer is pulling our leg…

COMICS

Doesn’t look much like Jas Mann to us.

GAMES & STUFF

“Stranger thiiiings! Stranger THIIIIINGS!” MANUEL HARLAN STRANGER THINGS:

MEDICAL M ATTERS

Get your stethoscopes out: we’re playing doctors and nurses for this issue’s quiz. Ooh, Matron!

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THE SANDS OF TIME HAVE SHIFTED NOW AND THE END IS BEGINNING TO START…

Dragon’s Claws

TotalRecall Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy