I’ve always been obsessed with werewolves as the most human of all monsters – not undead like vampires or zombies, and not always transformed into something different, werewolves are like me – a person with an illness outside of their control that manifests periodically. Not all of my favourite werewolves make this connection explicit, but
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Gina Meyer, the hero of my new supernatural spy comic, Shadow Service, is the culmination of my lifelong obsession with occult detectives and magical investigators. Co-created with incredible artist Corin Howell, Gina is a young witch who uses her powers (and her relationship with a sarcastic talking rat) to find missing people on the streets
The anime season of winter 2021 will forever be remembered as one of the most spectacular in recent memory. Not only did we have the continuation of modern masterpiece Attack On Titan and practically perfect shounen Jujutsu Kaisen from autumn, but we also had shows like the second half of the second season of the
With the UK release of the Snyder Cut of Justice League, we thought it would be a good time to count down some of our favourite comics from the League’s heroes. From classic writers like Kirby and Wolfman through to the modern age of Tynion and Wilson, once you’ve read our list you’ll be able
Now that the final episode of WandaVision has aired on Disney+, we count down our top five most wanted pieces of merchandise to show our love for the bewitchingly fun first season… WandaVision kicked off as a black-and-white take on Fifties and Sixties sitcoms, smartly adding a splash of colour as the episodes moved on.
George Miller’s vision of a world on the cusp of total wipeout was a worldwide smash in 1979 and Mad Max has continued to captivate and wow with its insane stunts and anarchic sensibility. But do you know what car Max drives? Or where the movie was filmed? Well, wonder no more with our five
Hello, SciFiNow! Thanks for inviting me to write something to celebrate The Forever Sea’s release! I was so excited to see my book being labeled ‘hopepunk’ in early reviews, because hope is something I feel very strongly about when it comes to climate stories. I believe there’s a place for stories of warning and doom
With the current penchant for shared screen universes it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that spin-offs aren’t a contemporary concept. After being introduced at the end of the second season of Seventies American science fiction TV series The Six Million Dollar Man and reappearing in the third, the character of Jaime Sommers – the ‘Bionic Woman’
Over the last century, thousands of people have gone missing. Suddenly and inexplicably, 4400 missing people are returned, all at once, exactly as they were on the day they vanished. Unclear what this world-altering event means, the government investigates the 4400 to piece together where they’ve been and why they’ve been returned. But slowly the
In 1968, when George A Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead (co-written with John Russo) was unleashed on the world, it not only created a whole new way of telling horror movies that would go on to inspire countless filmmakers, it cemented Romero as one of the great social storytellers of our time. Its success
The Office meets Stephen King, dressed up in holiday tinsel, in Secret Santa – a fun, festive, and frightening horror-comedy set during the horror publishing boom of the Eighties, by New York Times best-selling satirist Andrew Shaffer. Ahead of publication this month, Andrew gives us his top Christmas horror movies… The original Black Christmas from 1974 tops every
We’ve always been big consumers of stories, and we’ve got a plethora of stories now, in the digital form. So why read books at all? 1.Read like you go to fitness: because it’s healthy. Your brain needs exercise too. Reading is more work than binge-watching a series. But I would like to argue that reading