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The real star of The Lord of the Rings: the Rings of Power isn't Sauron or the One Ring - it's Mount Doom
Charlie Vickers's Sauron finally enters his lava-decorated workshop in this season of Prime Video's Lord of the Rings prequel, and The Rings of Power producers made sure the setting was exactly as intimidating as it needed to be
Grant DeArmitt
Anya Taylor-Joy admits her Twilight fandom is “slightly problematic” - and she doesn’t like the movies
Anya Taylor-Joy didn't "get" the first Twilight movie when she watched it as a kid, but she's still Team Edward
Jules Chin Greene
Marvel’s new Spider-Woman series is embracing horror, noir, and gore... and we have a first look at a prequel story for her 50th anniversary
Jessica Drew's next adventure is darker than any Spider-Woman comic in years.
Chris Arrant
Disney CEO admits the Mandalorian movie flopped - but explains why he doesn't care
Both The Mandalorian and Grogu and the live-action Moana underperformed at the box office, but Disney managed to make money off them anyway.
Trent Cannon
This week’s X-Men ’97 makes Cable cooler than even his creator expected
Rob Liefeld gushed about Cable's upcoming appearances in X-Men '97 season 2 at San Diego Comic-Con 2026
Jules Chin Greene
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is going off-book but in-canon, with George R.R. Martin contributing previously unpublished material for season 2
Game of Thrones creator Martin shared unpublished Tales of Dunk & Egg with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner Ira Parker, and he's worked it into the second season
Grant DeArmitt
Latest
Scott Snyder says most DC Comics pitches from writers fail for the same three reasons, and he wants to help everyone get better
Absolute Batman writer Scott Snyder says these are the biggest mistakes writers make when pitching for DC Comics
Robert Kirkman wants to give the Transformers villain Skuxxoid his own solo series (but he can't find the time)
The Energon Universe Kirkman helped start under the Skybound banner has room to expand. But that doesn't necessarily mean it should, he says.
Marvel Midnight was designed to be "a true horror line:" the Jonathan Hickman gameplan he gave Dan Buckley
Midnight X-Men writer Jonathan Hickman discusses the origins of Marvel's new horror line
Cable was designed to be "the next Wolverine" and took inspiration from '80s era Arnold Schwarzenegger, accordint to Rob Liefeld
There's a reason Cable is a cyborg with massive guns, and the reason is Arnold Schwarzenegger
Critical Role's Laura Bailey reveals voice acting advice she gave her costar (and real-life husband) Travis Willingham
One has to wonder if Bailey gave her life partner and Mighty Nein costar advice in the Jester Lavorre voice, or kept it more professional
Game of Thrones' George R.R. Martin opens up about his battle with depression
In a recent blog post, Tales of Dunk and Egg author Martin spoke to a year that has been "stressful, to say the least"
The Pitt, Stranger Things and Love Island are what everyone wanted to watch in the first half of 2026
The Nielsen rankings for the most-watched shows of the first half of 2026 are in, and we're all still stuck in the Upside Down
Jim Lee says a $100 bet is the reason Batman: Hush shipped on time
Jim Lee was told he couldn't draw Batman monthly—so he proved everyone wrong.
James Tynion IV was killing Something Is Killing the Children after 5 issues, until Werther Dell’Edera & Erica Slaughter showed up.
How Werther Dell’Edera’s first image of Erica Slaughter turned Something is Killing the Children from a miniseries into an ongoing
Hasbro now has a new favorite child thanks to Marvel: Magic: The Gathering (sorry Transformers, Monopoly, and NERF!)
Magic: The Gathering's revenue has grown by 34% over the past year, thanks to successes like Marvel Super Heroes and Secrets of Strixhaven
Tradd Moore believes today's comics industry wouldn't exist without DeviantArt
Silver Surfer: Black artist Tradd Moore says DeviantArt is responsible for raising a generation of comic book artists
Chris Miller & Phil Lord say being fired from Star Wars left "scars" but taught them what they needed to make Project Hail Mary
"You can’t just be like, 'Oh, we’re in the coffee shop and here’s a pencil,'" says one of the minds behind hits like The LEGO Movie and Into the Spider-Verse, "What is a pencil in the Star Wars universe?"
The Legend of Vox Machina is a chance to do justice to Pike Trickfoot, says Critical Role's Ashley Johnson
In Critical Role Campaign 1, Blindspot star Johnson had to be away for a few sessions. But with Prime Video's animated adaptation of the story, her gnome cleric gets the chance to shine
James Tynion IV on how Exquisite Corpses used superhero DNA to create horror monsters (and a Kickstarter sensation)
If you've ever felt like Tynion and Michael Walsh's Exquisite Corpses characters had roots in Big Two superhero designs, you were right
There is a lost DCeased spinoff starring the Titans (and more), but Tom Taylor doesn't know if it'll ever happen (or if it should)
Why weren't the Titans much of a part of the DCeased saga? Titans writer Tom Taylor will tell you, but don't get your hopes up
Avatar creator James Cameron is ready to leave Pandora
James Cameron is considering what kinds of projects he wants to direct during the "last act" of his career
Critical Role's Sam Riegel blames COVID for the lack of Darrington Brigade adventures, but hopes there will be more soon
OG Taryon Darrington Riegel explained why the likes of The Owlbear and Hazel Copperpot haven't been seen much on Critical Role's streams, but also clarified he'd like to remedy that
Image Comics' president Todd McFarlane says relaunches and new #1s are a "short-term hit" but not worth it in the long run, and he'd never do it to Spawn
The core Spawn comic has been growing by one number every month since its debut in 1992. "Why would I disrupt it?" asks creator McFarlane
Chicago Fire is losing its chief in Season 15, but you’ll have one last chance to say goodbye
Dermot Mulroney, AKA Chief Dom Pascal, is leaving NBC's hit fire drama, but not before one final sendoff
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Why we should let Dragon Ball end after the death of Akira Toriyama [Popverse Jump]
Dragon Ball shouldn't become the Batman of manga.
Trent Cannon
Ted Lasso returns, Archie Comics gets pied, and Netflix for shut-ins: Popverse Playlist for August 1-7, 2026
Some say football is life, but we think that it's just part of a well-rounded diet that also involves Netflix horror movies and Jughead wanting to eat a lot of pies
Graeme McMillan
How a comic that got posted to social media became my most anticipated anime of the season [Popverse Jump]
Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You started as a simple writing exercise and quickly touched a nerve among anime and manga fans around the world
Trent Cannon
Comic-Con International: San Diego
Jim Lee says a $100 bet is the reason Batman: Hush shipped on time
Jim Lee was told he couldn't draw Batman monthly—so he proved everyone wrong.
Graeme McMillan
James Tynion IV was killing Something Is Killing the Children after 5 issues, until Werther Dell’Edera & Erica Slaughter showed up.
How Werther Dell’Edera’s first image of Erica Slaughter turned Something is Killing the Children from a miniseries into an ongoing
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Tradd Moore believes today's comics industry wouldn't exist without DeviantArt
Silver Surfer: Black artist Tradd Moore says DeviantArt is responsible for raising a generation of comic book artists
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
This week’s X-Men ’97 makes Cable cooler than even his creator expected
Rob Liefeld gushed about Cable's upcoming appearances in X-Men '97 season 2 at San Diego Comic-Con 2026
Jules Chin Greene
Marvel Studios
Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s villain wasn’t a MCU edict, says producer
The villain for Spider-Man: Brand New Day sprang out of an organic creative decision from the film's director, Destin Daniel Cretton
Jules Chin Greene
Spider-Man: Brand New Day's ending is meant to be ambiguous, for the filmmakers' sake
Destin Daniel Cretton says that the final scene of Spider-Man: Brand New Day is meant to fill you with joy even if it doesn't explain itself.
Trent Cannon
Sony's boss thinks The Odyssey helped Spider-Man: Brand New Day become a bigger hit
Having their three biggest stars out promoting another movie might have hurt Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Instead, Tom Rothman thinks it helped.
Trent Cannon
Marvel is keeping Tom Holland away from Secret Wars on purpose
Avengers: Secret Wars is Marvel's biggest upcoming project and they can't risk letting loose-lipped Spider-Man actor Tom Holland near it.
Trent Cannon
Berserk
Before Berserk became a masterpiece, it needed one outrageous idea... then Kentaro Miura thought of a huge friggin' sword
Inspired by Fist of the North Star, Kentaro Miura knew Berserk needed a strong visual gimmick to stand out, so Guts' giant sword was born.
Trent Cannon
Kentaro Miura says one real person, a childhood friend of his, inspired both Guts and Griffith
Kentaro Miura apparently had one of the most wild childhood friends, who would go on to embody both Griffith and Guts in Berserk.
Trent Cannon
Absolute Batman is Berserk without the Guts [Popverse Jump]
Absolute Batman plays it too safe to really embrace what makes Berserk a generational comic.
Trent Cannon
There's a new, gold foil Berserk skate deck... but you have to get in line behind me at San Diego Comic-Con to get it
Berserk’s Skull Knight is getting an ultra-rare SDCC-exclusive skate deck.
Chris Arrant
Todd McFarlane
Image Comics' president Todd McFarlane says relaunches and new #1s are a "short-term hit" but not worth it in the long run, and he'd never do it to Spawn
The core Spawn comic has been growing by one number every month since its debut in 1992. "Why would I disrupt it?" asks creator McFarlane
Grant DeArmitt
There's already talks about Gunslinger Spawn and Medieval Spawn movies, in case Blumhouse's King Spawn movie works
Image Comics cofounder McFarlane says he's "already talking to people" about more films and TV projects based on other books in the Spawn Universe
Grant DeArmitt
After Obsession and Backrooms, Todd McFarlane says Hollywood finally understands the kind of Spawn movie he's been pitching for decades
"There's a vibe to those movies," says McFarlane, "That, to me, is some of the stuff I've been saying for ten years about Spawn."
Grant DeArmitt
Jeremy Renner had one condition for joining the King Spawn movie at Blumhouse: approval of not the script or director, but the cinematographer
Hawkeye star Renner will play Twitch Williams in McFarlane's upcoming film version of his Spawn comics, all thanks to one thing the Image Comics cofounder agreed to do
Grant DeArmitt