SFX

FEBRUARY 2025 | Issue 388 Future PLC, Quay

Captain’s Log

“There’s been a slight misuse of the Substance…”

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Love Kills

Director Josh Ruben returns to the horror genre with the Valentine’s Day bloodletting Heart Eyes

Squad Goals

It’s old vs new as Thunderbolts take on Doctor Doom in miniseries Doomstrike

Dungeon Master

Eddie Munson rocks out in Dark Horse’s second Stranger Things And Dungeons & Dragons series

Master Of The Universe

Sacha Dhawan talks about returning to the role of the Doctor’s arch-enemy

Textbook Example

From Badger to Grimjack, ’80s Indie Comics Legends return in new short story anthology Words Only

The Greatest Showman

The life of John Nathan-Turner comes to the stage in Me And Him And Who

Superhero Blues

Invincible ’s executive producers promise a dark season of growth and angst

Doom’s Day

New sorcerer supreme Victor von Doom casts a spell on the Marvel Universe in One World Under Doom

Cat People

Archie Comics’ fantastical feline confronts his past in The Nine Lives Of Salem

Creature Commandos

Dynamite Entertainment’s Warner Animation Line explores its animal side with The Herculoids

SFX SPACE AND TIME

NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF DOCTOR WHO

JULIE STEVENS 1936-2024

Remembering the forgotten Avengers girl

MOLLY O’NEILL

MEET THE ENGINEERING GEOLOGIST BEHIND THE 1600S-SET GREENTEETH

DANCING WITH THE DEVIL

AFTER A TUMULTUOUS PRODUCTION, FINALLY RETURNS FOR HIS OWN SERIES. SFX MEETS THE TEAM BEHIND BORN AGAIN…

MATT'S BACK

Charlie Cox talks wearing the horned cowl again…

RETURN OF THE KING

Vincent D’Onofrio on Wilson Fisk’s terrifying rise to power

MARUELS TU KINGPIN

Head of Marvel Television, Brad Winderbaum, talks the future of the MCU on the small screen

MAKE MINE MARVEL

WITH DAREDEVIL ALMOST HERE, SFX LOOKS AHEAD TO THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS OF MARVEL – AND BEYOND

DESIGNING AGATHA ALL ALONG

COSTUME DESIGNER DANIEL SELON HAS WORKED ON THE LOOK OF ALL THINGS WANDA MAXIMOFF-RELATED SINCE WANDAVISION – BUT AGATHA ALL A LONG HAS TAKEN THE FAMILY AFFAIR DOWN AN ALL-NEW PATH

PART OF YOUR WORLD

Geralt and Jaskier rock up in yet another

PRIMATE SUSPECT

OZ PERKINS MARCHES TO THE BEAT OF HIS OWN DRUM IN STEPHEN KING ADAPTATION

THE INSIDE GUIDE TO SKELETON CREW

SFX TAKES A TRIP TO INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC FOR A BEHIND-THE-SCENES PEEK AT STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW…

NEELS OR NO NEEL

The ILM team takes a closer look at the creation of key alien character Neel

LOVE ON THE EDGE

THE “DOOR TO HELL” IS THE UNLIKELY SETTING FOR ROMANCE IN THE GORGE . DIRECTOR SCOTT DERRICKSON EXPLAINS HOW HE MASHED MULTIPLE GENRES TOGETHER FOR HIS VALENTINE’S DAY ACTION-HORROR

NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN

THE CREATORS OF THE POOHNIVERSE ARE BACK TO TWIST MORE CHILDHOOD TALES WITH PETER PAN’S NEVERLAND NIGHTMARE

FERAL FEMMES

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JONATHAN LISCO SAYS THE PAST AND PRESENT SURVIVORS ARE GOING WILD IN YELLOWJACKETS SEASON THREE

NNEDI OKORAFOR

Close to home: the American writer discusses her most personal novel

Olivie Blake

The author of the Atlas Trilogy is unrelenting, melonfarmer

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Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy

WOLF MAN

Sick as a dog

COMPANION

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KRAVEN THE HUNTER

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PRESENCE

Ghost Watch

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3

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DUNE: PROPHECY

A Song Of Spice And Fire

DOCTOR WHO: “JOY TO THE WORLD”

Heartbreak Hotel

WHAT IF…? Season Three

Timelines They Are A-Changin’

STAR TREK : LOWER DECKS Season Five

Adios Cerritos

TOMORROW AND I

Not the old-school Thai

GOOSEBUMPS: THE VANISHING

Unlikely to grow on you

VIDEO NASTY Series One

VHS tracking

SECTION 31

Emperor State Of Mind

THE GIFT

Soul witness

STREET TRASH

Kill The Poor

GRAFTED

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RIPPY

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2073

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DARK MATCH

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THE HAUNTED HOUSE OF HORROR

Stab Fab

THE CELL

Psychiatric Voyage

CAPTAIN KRONOS: VAMPIRE HUNTER

Time For Heroes

ROUGE

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ESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY

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INCUBUS

Speech impediment

ROUND UP

Recent theatrical releases landing on shiny disc include

DEATH OF THE AUTHOR

Africanfuturism’s meta guru

THE GARDEN

Cult(ivating) sisters

COVER STORY: THE 2000 AD DESIGN ART OF ROBIN SMITH

Rough Justice

ABSOLUTE BATMAN

The Axeman Cometh

ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN

Hell Is For Heroes

DOCTOR WHO: MOST WANTED

The Running Woman

V: UK – VISITATION

Lock up your guinea pigs

INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE

Belongs in a museum