Farewell to Sanjulian, who has died at 85. He nearly joined the merchant navy, and instead gave us half a century of Vampirella, Creepy, Eerie and Conan covers. Thank you for all those top shelves, maestro. 🎨 sfcrowsnest.info/sanjulian-o… #Sanjulian #Vampirella #Conan #RIP

Half dwarf, half orc, prophesied to end the world, and his best friend is a shield with opinions. D'Orc went from first issue to Sony film deal in eight months, with Brett Bean adapting it himself. 🛡️ sfcrowsnest.info/dorc-sony-p… @2dbean @ImageComics @SonyPictures #DOrc #comics

We've all had a bad day at work. Few of us wake up in the haunted house with our co-workers dead and a statewide manhunt outside. A24's Slayground trailer is here, and it'd like a word with HR. 🎃 sfcrowsnest.info/slayground-… @A24 #Slayground #horror #trailer

Godzilla has flattened Ginza more times than the council has resurfaced it, so the Minus Zero premiere went there. Takashi Yamazaki wore King Ghidorah on his heels. Three heads, two shoes, no notes. 👟 sfcrowsnest.info/godzilla-mi… @Godzilla_Toho #Godzilla #GodzillaMinusZero

Twelve years later, Yona of the Dawn's sequel finally has a studio. Pierrot Films gets the keys, the four dragons get their call back, and Hak gets to be exasperated in HD. 🐉 sfcrowsnest.info/yona-of-the… @yona_anime #YonaOfTheDawn #暁のヨナ #anime

No Laughing Matter: 19 tales on the line between horror and laughter, edited by Mike Chinn and Peter Coleborn. Fewer giggles than advertised, more shivers, all well done. Two bookmark ribbons, too. Show-offs. 📚 sfcrowsnest.info/no-laughing… @flametreepress #horror #books

All seven Narnia books get new covers by Vance Kovacs, who did concept art on the Walden films, for Greta Gerwig's The Magician's Nephew. Aslan has sneaked onto every one. Not a tame lion, but a very good cover star. 🦁 sfcrowsnest.info/narnia-new-… @HarperCollins #Narnia #CSLewis

Konami's new Yu-Gi-Oh! banlist forbids 34 cards and limits a dragon that isn't even out in the TCG yet. Like getting a parking ticket on the drive home from the showroom. Called by the Grave, we hardly knew ye. 🐉 sfcrowsnest.info/yu-gi-oh-ba… @YuGiOh_TCG @Konami #YuGiOh #TCG

Mrs Voorhees gets her own show. Linda Cardellini takes the chunky jumper and the machete in Crystal Lake, A24's Friday the 13th prequel, now on Sky Atlantic and NOW in the UK. Bring a torch. Possibly a priest. 🔪 sfcrowsnest.info/crystal-lak… @peacock @A24 @NOW #CrystalLake #horror

Peter Jackson says The Hunt for Gollum has about two weeks of filming left, and the Tintin 2 script is written. Three pieces of news in four sentences: practically a sprint by Middle-earth standards. 💍 sfcrowsnest.info/peter-jacks… @andyserkis @warnerbros #LordOfTheRings #Tintin

James McAvoy has played young Patrick Stewart once, and pitched a young-Picard series, Mutiny on the Stargazer, to do it again. "All I really want to do in my career is play young versions of Patrick." Make it so? 🖖 sfcrowsnest.info/james-mcavo… @StarTrek #StarTrek #Picard

Eight days until A Court of Splintered Harmony, and the fandom has already had a cover row, a leak and a moderator vote. Koschei the Deathless is stirring and the Night Court needs a chat. Bring snacks. 📚 sfcrowsnest.info/a-court-of-… @SJMaas @BloomsburyBooks #ACOTAR #romantasy

Street Fighter wins round one: $31m, its best opening ever, beating the 1994 and 2009 films put together. Critics 41%, audiences about 80%. The Street Fighter II arcade crowd win on points. 👊 sfcrowsnest.info/street-figh… @ParamountPics @Legendary @CapcomUSA_ #StreetFighter

28 years on, Link has finally learnt to jump. The Switch 2 Ocarina of Time remake adds voices, an orchestra and songs you hum into the mic. Sorry to anyone sharing a wall with a Saria's Song fan at 1am. 🎶 sfcrowsnest.info/zelda-ocari… @NintendoUK #Zelda #OcarinaOfTime

Hunter Schafer, Emma Corrin and Josh Hutcherson on a stag do, from The First Omen's Arkasha Stevenson. X says vampires. A24, naturally, says nothing. Up all night, drinking things they shouldn't? Could go either way. 🧛 sfcrowsnest.info/arkasha-ste… @A24 #horror #A24

A parrot, a haunted doll and two of the five Best Novel finalists: Tachyon crosses the Bay for World Fantasy 2026 in Oakland. And for the first time, the Dealers Room opens to the public for $5 on Sunday 25 October. 📚 sfcrowsnest.info/tachyon-pub… @TachyonPub #WorldFantasy #Fantasy

Nobody stays dead in comics except Bucky, and even he keeps coming back. Now Marvel has killed him again in Avengers: Armageddon #4, via a Red Hulk bomb. As career moves go, that's a long way down. (Spoilers!) 💥 sfcrowsnest.info/bucky-barne… @Marvel @zdarsky #Marvel #comics

Fandom hints that turned out to be actual hints? Someone make a bookmark. Emilio Sakraya is Xaden and Esther McGregor is Violet in Prime Video's Fourth Wing, where cadet life makes Hogwarts look like a spa. 🐉 sfcrowsnest.info/fourth-wing… @PrimeVideo #FourthWing #Romantasy

Fourteen years after Bleach bowed out early, Ichigo finally reaches the end. Properly, this time. When Soul Reapers and Hollows team up, the villain has seriously overdone it. Final episodes 19 and 26 October. ⚔ sfcrowsnest.info/bleach-thou… @VIZMedia @hulu #Bleach #anime