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After a four-month hiatus, the the next chapter of the Blue Exorcist manga has a release date
The hit shonen manga has spent the last few months preparing for its final arc, and now Blue Exorcist is ready to return.
Trent Cannon
Ask Rosario Dawson, the Daredevil: Born Again cast, the Amazing Digital Circus cast, the Hart of Dixie cast and more questions at Florida Supercon 2026!
Popverse members can submit questions for select Florida Supercon 2026 panels ahead of everyone else!
Graeme McMillan
Netflix makes history with its new Scooby-Doo show - by making Scooby a real dog
Who's a real good boy? Netflix's new Scooby-Doo, that's who
Graeme McMillan
Marvel Comics has a power creep problem
Between Ultimate Endgame, Avengers Armageddon, and Queen in Black, Marvel Comics is feeling stuffed with events
Jules Chin Greene
What happens to Dropout after its core cast moves on? Sam Reich isn't worried
I guess if you spend your days worried that Brennan Lee Mulligan is going to trap you in another escape room like Sam Reich does, you have a different priority set than most
Grant DeArmitt
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The perfect introduction to Akira Toriyama isn’t Dragon Ball [Popverse Jump]
After he finished Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama had one last masterpiece in him.
Trent Cannon
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Critical Role's Taryon Darrington is Wayne Brady's introduction to the Legend of Vox Machina... but he's not the kind of D&D character Brady usually plays
Ask the Critical Role cast and they'll all tell you that Wayne Brady is perfect as Vox Machina & Campaign 1's beloved artificer. But if the improv kind were to invent a new character himself, it would look very different than Taryon
Even Marvel’s X-Men editor says the mutant line is a "weird fit" for him
Tom Brevoort says one thing makes editing the X-Men far more complicated than the Avengers.
Don’t expect to see Wolverine smoking a cigar in Marvel Studios’ X-Men movie
Marvel Studios films and shows distributed by Disney are limited from depicting smoking in a positive light
MTG Arena codes (Updated June 2026): All active codes and how to redeem them
New Magic: The Gathering Arena codes aren't released often, but we'll make sure you know when they are.
Some advice for Marvel's Midnight line, from DC's Absolute architect (and American Vampire writer) Scott Snyder
Why Scott Snyder believes Marvel Midnight should be built around today’s anxieties.
John C. Reilly once gave Leonardo DiCaprio the worst advice of his career
Hindsight has made us suspicious of any advice John C. Reilly gives anyone, especially after telling Leonardo DiCaprio to pass on Titanic.
A young Scott Snyder fan drove 12 hours to meet his hero — and got an absolute surprise he’ll never forget
Scott Snyder made a lifelong memory for one young comic fan on Free Comic Book Day.
Atlus just revealed Persona 6 — and somehow told us almost nothing, just like it did with Persona 5
Atlus releases a Persona 6 teaser trailer which is exactly like the Persona 5 teaser trailer
The Acolyte creator would come back to Star Wars for season 2 years after cancelation
As more people find the show on Disney+, the prospect of an Acolyte Season 2 is still attractive to the show's creator
The Odyssey is so epic that the presale for Christopher Nolan's new movie crashes websites
More than a month from its debut and Christopher Nolan's retelling of The Odyssey seems to be the hit of the summer.
Whose D&D game is it anyway? Wayne Brady vs. Brennan Lee Mulligan on improv in liveplay
It's no surprise that Legend of Vox Machina season 4's Brady and and Critical Role Campaign 4's Mulligan, two titans of the improv comedy world, are well-versed in playing TTRPGs. What might be a surprise is that their philosophies differ
Spoilers, but Marvel Comics Universe is being disassembled, "broken," and "dramatically transformed" ahead of the upcoming Avengers movie & comic
Marvel is tearing apart its universe before launching a new Avengers era.
Marvel wants to make sure their new Avengers team appeals to MCU fans
Marvel’s new Avengers series is here to satisfy both MCU fans and loyal comic book readers
DC Comics made James Tynion IV a writer; Image Comics made him a businessman
Tynion's Tiny Onion, now his own comic book imprint, began as a newsletter - in part to help the Something is Killing the Children writer to promote his work
Do you ship Booster Gold & Blue Beetle? So does DC Comics' Barda & Orion author Ngozi Ukazu
If given the chance, self-proclaimed Kevin Maguire superfan Ukazu would have to put Booster Gold and Blue Beetle in a relationship
How Daggerheart hopes to avoid D&D-style analysis paralysis, from Chris Perkins - who has worked at a senior level on both
Just like his work on D&D, Chris Perkins is focused on helping players find their place in the Daggerheart community.
Arrow co-creator Marc Guggenheim would write a John Diggle comic for DC Comics "in a heartbeat"
Guggenheim would love to bring his co-creation Diggle, AKA Spartan, into the tapestry of DC Comics. At the same time, he has an idea as to why the character hasn't exactly caught on there yet
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The perfect introduction to Akira Toriyama isn’t Dragon Ball [Popverse Jump]
After he finished Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama had one last masterpiece in him.
Trent Cannon
Avengers Assemble one last time, Steven Spielberg knows UFOs, and not all Javiers wear Cape (Fear)s: Popverse Playlist for June 6-June 12 2026
Apple's Cape Fear leads a week in which we find out the truth about aliens and Marvel destroys the Avengers (again)
Graeme McMillan
YouTube is making a surprise move to be an anime destination with multiple hit shows this season [Popverse Jump]
The anime business is changing and YouTube is becoming a surprise destination for new anime this season.
Trent Cannon
Popverse Spotlight: Spider-Man
How will Spider-Man: Brand New Day's 'Peter Parker No More' story work? Marvel Comics canon may have the answer
Spider-Man Brand New Day follows a comic tradition of Peter Parker losing everything... and here's how comics brings it all back.
Leon Miller
Inside the death of Paul Rabin and the Spider-Man/Mary Jane Watson/Venom love triangle with Amazing Spider-Man writer & editor
Joe Kelly & Nick Lowe unpack the surprise death of Paul Rabin, Mary Jane's partner and subject of eternal side-eye by some Spider-Man fans.
Chris Arrant
Spider-Man's 'Death Spiral' ends a Spider-Carnage, a killer MJ/Venom moment, and a new Parker family mystery
An Amazing Spider-Man: Death Spiral event post-mortem with writer Joe Kelly & Marvel Spidey-editor Nick Lowe.
Chris Arrant
Jake Johnson wants his own Spider-Verse spin-off about Peter B. Parker getting to be the Spider-Man we know he could be
I mean, Spider-Noir and Spider-Punk are both getting their own Spider-Verse spinoffs. Why can't the most sweatpantsed of the Spider Society join them?
Grant DeArmitt
Dropout
What happens to Dropout after its core cast moves on? Sam Reich isn't worried
I guess if you spend your days worried that Brennan Lee Mulligan is going to trap you in another escape room like Sam Reich does, you have a different priority set than most
Grant DeArmitt
The cast of Critical Role Campaign 4 answer: Which Dimension 20 campaign would you want to be a part of?
Dimension 20 creator Brennan Lee Mulligan has stepped up as the Critical Role Campaign 4 GM - now which of his previous campaigns do his current players wish they could join?
Grant DeArmitt
Time for a gamechanger: Sam Reich wants more Dropout on Blu-ray by Christmas this year
Reich's Game Changer is on Blu-ray now (and selling quite well), but by the end of the year, the Dropout CEO hopes you'll be seeing more quirky comedy in physical media
Grant DeArmitt
Dimension 20 as a play-at-home game? Dropout's Sam Reich says it's in the works
Yep, we have the same question you do. But let's let Dropout CEO Reich announce Dimension 20's first trans-media enterprise before we start postulating
Grant DeArmitt
Black Comic Alliance
A controversial DC Comics boycott over Black-led comics ended after 6 days with an apology from organizers
"DCSoWhite will continue as an awareness and advocacy campaign rather than a boycott effort," the group issued in a statement
Jules Chin Greene
DC Comics is being targeted by a new boycott campaign over Black-led superhero books
Black-led superhero books are at the center of a new boycott campaign against DC Comics.
Chris Arrant
The Amazing Digital Circus
Ask Rosario Dawson, the Daredevil: Born Again cast, the Amazing Digital Circus cast, the Hart of Dixie cast and more questions at Florida Supercon 2026!
Popverse members can submit questions for select Florida Supercon 2026 panels ahead of everyone else!
Graeme McMillan
The Amazing Digital Circus finale has leaked online, but GLITCH has been fighting to keep it a surprise even before the theatrical run was announced
GLITCH fought to keep the ending from being spoiled even as it was negotiating one of the biggest deals in modern indie animated history
Grant DeArmitt
We did it, Amazing Digital Circus fans! We made Gooseworx regret creating The Amazing Digital Circus
Most enjoyers of The Amazing Digital Circus will tell you creator Gooseworx is entitled to her opinion about episode 9 leaking online. Thankfully, Real Fans are here to set the record straight
Grant DeArmitt
How would The Amazing Digital Circus's Jax and Hazbin Hotel's Angel Dust get along? Not well, says Michael Kovach
First of all, says voice actor Kovach, Jax would have to end up in Hell in order to interact with Angel Dust. And I mean, why would *that* happen?
Grant DeArmitt