Captain’s Log

Hold on to your aginas!” © UNIVERSAL Going

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Day Of The Dead

How the Harvey Award-nominated comic Revival became a Syfy series

Band Of Brollies

Umbrella Academy creators Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá are returning to comics with new series Plan B

Days Of Future Past

Kamala Khan journeys back in X-history in all-new Giant-Size X-Men

Bite Club

It’s a game of cat, mouse and shark in Sean Byrne’s horror thriller Dangerous Animals

Benevolent Brainiac

Ahead of his appearance in Superman , Mr Terrific: Year One tells the origin of DC’s super-genius

Starman’s Swansong

The Sentinel of Space soars for the last time in Death Of The Silver Surfer

Last Orders

Drink a toast to Alan Scott, Blue Snowman and Ethan Rivera in DC Pride 2025

Sentinels Of LGBTQ+ Liberty

Love, not hate, is the theme of Marvel United: A Pride Special

Dead Reckoning

Joe Quesada and Christopher Priest return to Marvel Knights and Black Panther with The World To Come

COUNTDOWN TO 5 STRANGER THINGS

The TV cast were out in force at

It’s Showtime

Move over, Arnie… It’s Glen Powell’s turn to tackle The Running Man

Stark’s Successor

Dominique Thorne sets up what Riri Williams will be facing in her upcoming Disney+ series

JEAN MARSH 1934-2025

Remembering the witch queen

LAURA ELLIOTT

MEET THE JOURNALIST AND WRITER ON DISABILITY ISSUES BEHIND DYSTOPIAN HORROR NOVEL AWAKENED

DANCING QUEEN

MEGAN IS BACK, UPGRADED, AND READY TO SLAY. SFX MEETS THE CREATIVES BEHIND THE HORROR ICON’S RETURN

BERK IN BUSINESS

AFTER MOVING FROM BOOKS TO ANIMATION, THE DRAGONS OF BERK ARE COMING TO LIVE-ACTION IN THE REMAKE OF HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

GABRIEL HOWELL IS SNOTLOUT

LONG TIME HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON FAN GABRIEL HOWELL IS STEPPING INTO THE SHOES OF JONAH HILL – AND THE ROLE OF HICCUP’S BERATING BULLY

KELLER INSTINCT

PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS

TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER

HOW PIXAR’S GREATEST MINDS CAME TOGETHER TO CREATE – A STORY THAT’S SIMPLY OUT OF THIS WORLD

FOU NTAIN OF YOUTH,

A FANTASY-ADVENTURE FILM ABOUT ESTRANGED SIBLING TREASURE HUNTERS SEEKING THE FAMED ELIXIR TO ETERNAL LIFE

REBEL REBEL

ACTRESS GENEVIEVE O’REILLY SHARES HER FAVOURITE MOMENTS PLAYING SENATOR MON MOTHMA IN

THE BRIAN CLEMENS ARCHIVE

PART ONE

FLIGHT PATH

LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! AS SUPERMAN SOARS BACK TO THE BIG SCREEN, SFX EXPLORES THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE MAN OF STEEL

THE CHANGELING,

ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING MOVIES OF ALL TIME

BAD MANORS

Haunted house shockers equally worth checking into

LINWOOD BARCLAY

Do the locomotion: a bestselling thriller writer turns to horror

Joe Abercrombie

THE SFX AUTHOR QUESTIONNAIRE

The Child Catcher

Personal recollections of cherished sci-fi and fantasy

THUNDERBOLTS*

From zeroes to heroes

DANGEROUS ANIMALS

★★★★☆ ▶RELEASED 6 JUNE ▶ TBC

CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD

★★★☆☆ ▶ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▶ 15

UNTIL DAWN

Slaughter Loopy

HALLOW ROAD

★★★☆☆ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▶ 15

MURDERBOT Season One

Life? Don’t talk to him about life…

LIGHT & MAGIC Season Two

★★★★☆ ▶ UK/US Disney+, streaming now ▶

THE ETERNAUT Season One

Snowed under

THE LAST OF US Season Two

Jackson+5

FAMILIES LIKE OURS

The apocalypse at Scandi pace

HYSTERIA!

Monsters of Rock

TALES OF THE UNDERWORLD

★★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ▶ UK/US Disney+, streaming

ASTERIX & OBELIX: THE BIG FIGHT

Armorica the brave

WONDLA

Season Two

STRANGE NEW WORLDS

Mission To Marx

BIRDEATER

Bachelor Boys

NOMADS

Restless spirits

TERROR IN THE FOG

Mist opportunities

THE ASSESSMENT

Child unfriendly

DICK DYNAMITE: 1944

The best we can say for this microbudget

DIMENSION SLIP

Parallel worlds converge as office drone Kate experiences

SCREAMBOAT

There are lots of reasons to dislike Disney,

IT FEEDS

If therapy was as easy as having someone

ORLANDO

The Woolf Man/Woman

THE IRON ROSE

A grave situation

SEEDPEOPLE

BLU-RAY DEBUT “Based on an original idea by

CASTLE FREAK

Inheritance attacks

ROUND UP

In CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD (out now, 4K/Blu-ray/DVD),

WHISTLE

Blood On The Tracks

AFTERTASTE

There aren’t many books reviewed in SFX that

REQUIEM

Some sci-fi concepts just seem like bad ideas.

THE COUNTRY UNDER HEAVEN

Lovecraftian Tales Of The West

THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH

To be a woman is to be a

A DANCE OF LIES

Courtly intrigue, royal feuds, debauched and handsome princes

DOCTOR WHO

Two times Fifteen

THE RAVEN SCHOLAR

Volume one in an epic fantasy trilogy, and

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

Art and identity are at the heart of

THE QUIET

Humans have been forced to become nocturnal after

GOING HOME IN THE DARK

It would be easy to read a synopsis

REISSUES

Our paperback pick is Adrian Tchaikovsky’s SERVICE MODEL

BEST OF ALL WORLDS

Imagine you wake up one morning and your

SKIPSHOCK

Stealth romantasy may not be a recognised subgenre

THE BOOK OF GUILT

This eerie coming-of-age novel takes place in an

ALSO OUT

As ever, there are plenty more books we

ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM

The Emperor Strikes Back

BUG WARS

ISSUES 1-3As one-sentence pitches go, “Honey I Shrunk

GODZILLA VS MARVEL

ISSUES 1-3Unexpected team-ups between different franchises never go

SUPERMAN: THE LAST DAYS OF LEX LUTHOR

Saviour complex

MAROC THE MIGHTY

COLLECTION He’s renowned for “The Rise And Fall

SECOND SHIFT

GRAPHIC NOVEL Space, as a great writer once

TVA

Trail Of The Time Lords

THE HAUNTING OF JILLY JOHNSON

COLLECTION While British boys’ comics traded in sweat,

CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33

Parry, je t’aime

PATCHWUFF

AUDIO DRAMA With Little Hauntings ,

MAY 1995

In the first of a new regular feature, we look back at the month SFX was born