FirstContact

Hailing Frequencies Open!

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Captain’s Log

“If the apocalypse comes, beep me.” FOX This

The Great British Blake Off

Maximum power! Terry Nation’s original take on Blake’s 7 arrives in book form

Illumi-naughty

The fourth and final season of Servant promises answers

Clone Wars

Kieron Gillen explores the Ages Of Apocalypse in new X-crossover Sins Of Sinister

In The Night Garden

Jon Wright goes folk horror with Unwelcome

Darkest Knight Returns

Mark Millar brings back his biggest bad guy in Nemesis Reloaded

My Four Dads

The ragtag soldiers of Clone Force 99 return in The Bad Batch season two

Sting In The Tale

Marvel’s best-dressed hero the Wasp returns in a new miniseries from Al Ewing

A Twist In The Retail

Wanda Maximoff finds peace as a shopkeeper in Marvel’s new Scarlet Witch series

A Life Less Ordinary

Disney’s new superpowered show is Extraordinary

Kiss My Axe

By Crom! Vault Comics welcomes you to Barbaric’s Year of the Axe!

Space And Time

Celebrating 60 years of Doctor Who

Golden Times

DC’s year-long Dawn Of DC initiative begins with Action Comics

KATY HAYS

MEET THE ART HISTORY PROFESSOR BEHIND THE CLOISTERS

KEVIN CONROY 1955-2022

He was vengeance, he was the night, he was Batman.

TEEN WOLF: THE MOVIE AND WOLF PACK

GATEKEEPER JEFF DAVIS TALKS TEEN WOLF: THE MOVIE AND NEW WEREWOLF TV SERIES WOLF PACK

IT'S ALL FUN AND GAMES

THE BELOVED NAUGHTY DOG VIDEOGAME THE LAST OF US GETS ADAPTED AS A BIG-BUDGET TELEVISION SERIES

GHOST PROTOCOL

WHO YA GONNA CALL? JOE CORNISH SUMMONS LOCKWOOD & CO TO TV

DANCING QUEEN

EVERYONE DESERVES A KILLER FRIEND… MEET THE CREATORS OF MEGAN

WITCH DOCTOR

ANNE RICE’S MAYFAIR WITCHES SERIES ADAPTATION EXPANDS AMC’S IMMORTAL UNIVERSE

THE DYING DAYS

SFX GETS AN EXCLUSIVE LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE FILMING OF DOCTOR WHO CENTENARY SPECIAL “THE POWER OF THE DOCTOR” AND BIDS A FOND FAREWELL TO JODIE WHITTAKER’S THIRTEENTH DOCTOR

JAMEELA JAMIL

FACE TO FACE WITH THE BIGGEST STARS

ISLAND OF LOST SOULS

MARK JENKIN’S ENYS MEN SEES THE BAFTA-WINNING FILMMAKER TRYING HIS HAND AT FOLK HORROR

JONATHAN CARROLL

THE SFX AUTHOR INTERVIEW

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

A sea change

ENYS MEN

Stone Island

PIGGY

The whole hog

STRANGE WORLD

Living in a land down under

THE PERIPHERAL Season One

In like Flynne

THE KINGDOM: EXODUS

Lars von Trier’s Darkplace

THE RIG Series One

Anything but boring

THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN

Prequel opportunities

COUNT MAGNUS

Another Christmas, another MR James tale, and another

1899 Season One

The Voyage Of The Brain Shredder

THE WALK ING DEAD Season 11

Milton’s Paradise Lost

JU-ON THE GRUDGE COLLECTION

House Of The Rising Son

THE MUNSTERS

Known for a gnarly noughties reboot of the

KING KONG

Lange grab

NANNY

PRIME VIDEO Nikyatu Jusu’s debut won the big

THE OUTER LIMITS

Beast mode

CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST

ALAMY Ruggero Deodato’s infamous exploitation flick remains highly

PRESENTED IN SUPERCOLORISATION

Old shows, new hues

CHRISTMAS BLOODY CHRISTMAS

SHUDDER Heavy metal fan Tori doesn’t have much

TROLL

NETFLIX Before rebooting Tomb Raider in 2018, director

A WOUNDED FAWN

SHUDDER Greek mythology and Surrealism (with a capital

WOLF MANOR

There’s a cute visual gag near the start

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Season Four

Anomaly-19

SILENT RUNNING

Out of his tree

THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY HOLIDAY SPECIAL

DISNEY+ Until now, Marvel’s TV operation has spotlit

THE DUNWICH HORROR

Summer of Lovecraft

ROUND UP

Fans of It Follows should enjoy SMILE

THE MARRIAGE ACT

Trouble and strife

THE DAUGHTERS OF IZDIHAR

★★★★☆ ► RELEASED 12 JANUARY 368 pages |

EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES

★★★★★ ► RELEASED 19 JANUARY 336 pages |

MR BREAKFAST

A Design For Life

GODKILLER

★★★★☆ ► RELEASED 19 JANUARY 290 pages |

THE UNOFFICIAL GHIBLI COOKBOOK

► RELEASED OUT NOW! 144 pages |

CONAN: BLOOD OF THE SERPENT

★★★☆☆ ► RELEASED OUT NOW! 432 pages |

THE CLOISTERS

★★★★☆ ► RELEASED 19 JANUARY 297 pages |

REISSUES

Pick of the paperbacks this month: Jo Harkin’s

RAGMAN

★★★☆☆ ► RELEASED 10 JANUARY 272 pages |

THE MARVELLERS

★★★☆☆ ► RELEASED 5 JANUARY 416 pages |

ALSO OUT

A few more books that we couldn’t quite

Leigh Bardugo

The Shadow And Bone author is hopelessly addicted to adverbs

GOTHAM CITY: YEAR ONE

The Noir Knight

THE NEW CHAMPION OF SHAZAM

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC Comics Writer

VANISH

★★★☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Image Comics Writer

CREEPSHOW

Stories to make you Shudder

BATMAN/SPAWN

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher DC Comics Writer

MARVEL’S MIDNIGHT SUNS

The Plight Of The Hunter

THE WILLOWS

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 57 minutes | Radio (now

ENYS MEN

★★★★☆ RELEASED 2 JANUARY 44 minutes | Download

THE CALLISTO PROTOCOL

The Dark Side Of The Moon

WITCHFINDER GENERAL

★★★★☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! 47 minutes | Vinyl

THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Will it be V for victory when you enlist in our quiz about the more fantastical events of 1939-1945?

Judge Anderson

Judge Anderson tries to kill Judge Death. Oops.