Captain’s Log

“And I killed Sparky, too!” My favourite time

Rants & Raves

Inside the SFX hive mind

Bricks Remix

James Waugh explains how the entire Lego Star Wars galaxy gets rearrranged in a new “four piece” Disney+ miniseries

Mother Knows Best

Alexandre Aja on his new survivalist horror flick Never Let Go

Shaggy Dog Story

Cavan Scott on bringing Master Kelnacca to comics in a new Star Wars one-shot

Uh Oh, We’re In Tribble

IDW c elebrates Star Trek 500 with a cosmic crossover and added Tribbles

The Camera Never Lies

JT Mollner spills (some of) the beans on his twist-laden horror Strange Darling

Those ’70s Shows

James Swallow takes a trip back in time with his new Space: 1999 and UFO novellas

Ghouls Allowed

Even silence can’t save you at this year’s Halloween Horror Nights

Time War

Conan is crossing over with other Robert E Howard characters in comics and prose

Norts And Crossover

It’s total future war in this year’s 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Megazine crossover, Nordland Rising

SFX SPACE AND TIME NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF DOCTOR WHO

Titan have released an art print of this

PATTI YASUTAKE 1953-2024

Remembering Star Trek’s Nurse Ogawa

BILL WOOD

MEET THE WRITER BEHIND YA HORROR LET’S SPLIT UP

SESSION OF THE WITCH

AS MARVEL TELEVISION CARVES OUT A NEW PATH FOR ITSELF, WE SPEAK TO CREATOR JAC SCHAEFFER, PLUS A CAST OF STARS LED BY KATHRYN HAHN AND JOE LOCKE, ABOUT THE MAGIC OF WANDAVISION’S SPIN-OFF AGATHA ALL ALONG

TEENAGE DREAM

JOE LOCKE HITS THE ROAD RUNNING

GOTHAM’S UP FOR GRABS IN BRUISING NEW CRIME SAGA THE PENGUIN… BUT WHERE IS THE BATMAN?

RULE MOB

BRING OUT YOUR DEAD

THE GHOST WITH THE MOST RETURNS – FINALLY – IN BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE

SILENT KILLERS

THE DIRECTOR OF HOLLYWOOD’S REMAKE ON HORROR, COMEDY AND JAMES MCAVOY

FRENCH REVOLUTION

THE WALKING DEAD SPIN-OFF SHOWRUNNER DAVID ZABEL ON BEING GIVEN THE TOUGH TASK OF REUNITING DARYL AND CAROL IN FRANCE

TO CAP IT ALL OFF CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF THE BBC SERIES THE TRIPODS

NOT QUITE CAPPING Day, but a celebration worthy

PURE AND SIMPLE

IN THE FINAL PART OF OUR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, SHOWRUNNER RUSSELL T DAVIES TALKS RELAUNCHING DOCTOR WHO

RIDE TO DESTINY

CYBERMEN! DARK ARTS! SPACESHIPS! SOCIAL WORKERS! DOCTOR WHO’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL “SILVER NEMESIS” IS HEADED TO BLU-RAY. “IT WILL ALWAYS BE THE WILDCARD ON MY CV,” WRITER KEVIN CLARKE TELLS US

NEAL STEPHENSON

History man: why the cyberpunk luminary likes to look back

LANDMARKS

Sci-fi filmmakers simply love destroying the sort of places that get put on postcards. What can you remember about these famous structures?

TotalRecall

Sci-Fi Disco

ALIEN: ROMULUS

Crime And Relative Dimensions In Space

STRANGE DARLING

★★★★✫ RELEASED 20 SEPTEMBER 18 | 97 minutes

THE SUBSTANCE

Help The Aged

BROKEN BIRD

RELEASED OUT NOW! TBC | 96 minutes Director

BORDERLANDS

Pandora explorers

MEGALOPOLIS

Apocalypse Soon

STARVE ACRE

RELEASED 6 SEPTEMBER 15 | 98 minutes Director

BLINK TWICE

★★★★✫ RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 103 minutes

KAOS Season One

Acropolis Now

TERMINATOR ZERO

Season One

THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY

UK Sky Max/NOW, Thursdays US AMC, streaming now

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON

Season Two Green & Blacks

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY

Season Four

LOVE, DEATH & APOCALYPSE

Pain in Spain, mainly deranged

THE DELIVERANCE

Holy hell

THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK

2 Fast 2 Furyan

THE VOURDALAK

Tolstoy Story

TIGON COLLECTION

Boris Sendoff

ORCA: THE KILLER WHALE

RELEASED OUT NOW! 1977 | 12 | 4K/Blu-ray/DVD/download

CRAWLSPACE

A new lease of death

YOU’RE NEXT

Family values

HOSTILE DIMENSIONS

★★★★★ RELEASED OUT NOW! 2024 | 15 |

FUNERAL HOME

An underwhelming undertaking

ROUND UP

Anime legend Hayao Miyazaki’s THE BOY AND THE

POLOSTAN

Betwixt and between

DARKOME

★★★★★ RELEASED 12 SEPTEMBER 250 pages | Paperback/ebook/

EXODUS: THE ARCHIMEDES ENGINE

Ark ship aftermath

BROKEN GHOSTS

★★★★★ RELEASED 12 SEPTEMBER 352 pages | Hardback/ebook/

MAGIC REALMS: THE ART OF FIGHTING FANTASY

Dungeons & Drawings

TOTAL RECALL: THE OFFICIAL STORY OF THE FILM

★★★★★ RELEASED OUT NOW! 160 pages | Hardback

WITHERED HILL

★★★★★ RELEASED 26 SEPTEMBER 368 pages | Paperback/ebook

THE LAST GIFTS OF THE UNIVERSE

★★★★★ RELEASED 5 SEPTEMBER 208 pages | Hardback/ebook/

REWITCHED

★★★★★ RELEASED 19 SEPTEMBER 416 pages | Hardback/ebook/

REISSUES

Our paperbacks pick is the latest by Naomi

BULLET TIME A BOOK IN BULLET POINTS

THE HOBBIT ENCYCLOPEDIA RELEASED 5 SEPTEMBER 336 pages

DOCTOR WHO: DEATH IN THE STARS

★★★★★ RELEASED OUT NOW! 272 pages | Hardback/ebook/

LUCY UNDYING

★★★★★ RELEASED 10 SEPTEMBER 400 pages | Hardback/ebook/

ALSO OUT

There’s plenty more books that we couldn’t squeeze

Philip Reeve

The man behind the Mortal Engines books is writin’ in the rain

BLOOD HUNT

Vamping it up

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON LIVES!

★★★★★ RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Skybound Entertainment/Image Comics

STINGRAY COMIC ANTHOLOGY: TALES FROM THE DEPTHS

★★★★★ RELEASED LATE SEPTEMBER Publisher Anderson Entertainment Writers/artists

THE ULTIMATES

Revolution Action

BATMAN: GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT – THE KRYPTONIAN AGE

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

FLINTLOCK: THE SIEGE OF DAWN

Some sparks, but few fireworks

CYGNI: ALL GUNS BLAZING

★★★★★ RELEASED OUT NOW! Reviewed on PS5 Also

LAIKA: FRAME X FRAME

The house that Coraline built