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90+ of the best of Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con 2026 cosplay & costumes (so far!)
Our cameras are ready. Now it's up to us to find the cosplayers at ECCC 2026, ask them to take a photo, and then share with you the results
Chris Arrant

Why the Batman Hush sequel is late, according to writer Jeph Loeb "Do not hate the man, hate the game"
Batman: H2SH will not be silenced, assures Jeph Loeb at Emerald City Comic Con 2026.
Jules Chin Greene

May we all live with Michael Rooker's chaotic cuteness energy (AKA Seattle's ECCC Day 3)
Emerald City Comic Con 2026 kicks off in Seattle as Popverse brings live coverage, panels, and DC reveals.
Chris Arrant

The dead whale on The Boys was infested with real-life wasps and was ridiculously hot
Laz Alonso, who plays MM on The Boys, revealed at Emerald City Comic Con that it felt like it was "200 degrees" inside the dead whale set
Jules Chin Greene

Watch the Critical Role, Jamie Campbell Bower, Amazing Digital Circus, and more ECCC 2026 panels now with a Popverse membership
Emerald City Comic Con 2026 Main Stage panels are available to Popverse members FIRST!
Chris Arrant

The most expensive Magic: The Gathering x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cards
For just a few hundred dollars, you can harness the power of pizza ramen and Michelangelo in Magic: The Gathering x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Jules Chin Greene
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During The Boys' Herogasm scene, someone on set replaced the hand sanitizer with lube according to Karl Urban
All Karl Urban wanted to do on the set of The Boys was sanitize his hands.

Dungeon Crawler Carl author Matt Dinniman describes the novel he wrote that you'll never read, and how Stephen King stole it (not really)
Truly, we're just kidding about Stephen King stealing Matt Dinniman's idea for a precursor to Dungeon Crawler Carl - the two authors just happened to be writing two stories that take place Under the Dome at the same time

Spy x Family release schedule (Updated March 2026): What is the release date for Spy x Family 130
The adventures of the Forger Family don't show any signs of stopping, so this is how you can make sure you don't miss any upcoming Spy x Family chapters.

“Smut transcends realms and time”: Why Tusk Love is the most enduring piece of Critical Role lore
The Critical Role cast want to publish an edition of Tusk Love in Orcish

Watch the Star Wars: The Mandalorian panel with Ming-Na Wen & Giancarlo Esposito from Seattle's ECCC 2026
MCU and Star Wars vets Giancarlo Esposito and Ming-Na Wen share stories and laughs at Emerald City Comic Con.

Watch There Is No Exit: Trapped in the Amazing Digital Circus with Alex Rochon, Lizzie Freeman, & Michael Kovach from Seattle's ECCC!
The Amazing Digital Circus stars Alex Rochon, Lizzie Freeman, & Michael Kovach - Caine, Pomni, & Jax respectively - turned Emerald City Comic Con 2026 into a delightful nightmare, and Popverse was there to film it

Watch the Cosplay Central Costume Showcase from Seattle's ECCC!
Your favorite heroes, villains, and even animal sidekicks took the stage at Emerald City Comic Con 2026, and Popverse was there to capture every costume in its full glory

Watch Adventures in Exandria: Live with Critical Role with Taliesin Jaffe, Liam O'Brien, Marisha Ray, Ashley Johnson, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey, & Matthew Mercer from Seattle's ECCC!
The Critical Role founding team of Taliesin Jaffe, Liam O'Brien, Marisha Ray, Ashley Johnson, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey, & Matthew Mercer were at Emerald City Comic Con 2026, and we made it our quest to film their panel

A Critical Role theme park, a new season of All Work No Play, and more: What the cast would do with a blank check
What would the Critical Role cast do with unlimited money? Make more shows and build an epic theme park

Critical Role crew will return to Exandria someday, but says they have to take care of a few surprises first
Liam O’Brien says Critical Role has a few secret projects he can’t wait to share

A Critical Role movie? Sam Riegel reveals a pitch is underway, and even hints it's during Calamity
The Critical Role cast are apparently trying to make an animated Calamity movie.

Re-live the ECCC 2026 Pop-Punk After Party with 107.7 The End and Hannah Duckworth
A photo gallery from ECCC x 107.7 The End present Taking Back ECCC - A Pop-Punk After Party.

The best 50 photos from ECCC 2026's Cosplay Central Crown Championships!
See the best-dressed of all of Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con 2026.

The behind-the-scenes Guardians of the Galaxy movie moment between Sean Gunn & James Gunn that made Seattle go 'awwwwwwwwwwwww!'
Sean Gunn's most wholesome memory of shooting the Guardians of the Galaxy movies was dancing with his brother as Groot

Mortal Kombat II is "the best video game adaptation yet" says Johnny Cage himself, Karl Urban
At Emerald City Comic Con 2026, Karl Urban got the audience hyped up for his turn as Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat II

What's next for the LitRPG genre, according to Matt Dinniman, Tao Wong, and Jim Zub
The authors of Dungeon Crawler Carl, A Thousand Li, and the Dungeons & Dragons comics, respectively, predict what's next for one of the fastest-growing subgenres on shelves today

The Boys' boss made a point to get Mother's Milk as dirty as possible, against actor Laz Alonso's wishes
At Emerald City Comic Con 2026, MM actor Laz Alonso revealed his aversion to getting dirty while filming The Boys

Watch Mysteries of Gravity Falls with Alex Hirsch and Kristen Schaal from Seattle's ECCC!
Gravity Falls's Alex Hirsch and Kristen Schaal - series creator and character Mabel Pines, respectively - revealed the show's mysteries at Emerald City Comic Con 2026, and we filmed their panel for clues

Watch Hooked on a Feeling: A Guardians of the Galaxy Cast Panel with Michael Rooker, Mikaela Hoover, Pom Klementieff, & Sean Gunn from Seattle's ECCC!
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy stars Michael Rooker, Mikaela Hoover, Pom Klementieff, & Sean Gunn - Yondu, Nova Priem's Assistant, Mantis, & Kraglin respectively - took off at Emerald City Comic Con 2026, and Popverse hitched a ride with a camera

Watch the Jamie Campbell Bower Spotlight Panel from Seattle's ECCC!
Stranger Things baddie Jamie Campbell Bower, AKA Vecna, turned Emerald City Comic Con 2026 Upside Down, and Popverse was there to film it

Watch the Cosplay Central Crown Championships from Seattle's ECCC!
Some of the most talented cosplayers in the US were at Emerald City Comic Con 2026, and we caught the entire competition on tape

Watch the William Shatner Spotlight Panel from Seattle's ECCC!
Boston Legal legend William Shatner (who I guess was on some show called Star Trek?) - was at Emerald City Comic Con 2026, and since it wasn't a courtroom, we brought a camera
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Watch the Star Wars: The Mandalorian panel with Ming-Na Wen & Giancarlo Esposito from Seattle's ECCC 2026
MCU and Star Wars vets Giancarlo Esposito and Ming-Na Wen share stories and laughs at Emerald City Comic Con.
Grant DeArmitt

Watch There Is No Exit: Trapped in the Amazing Digital Circus with Alex Rochon, Lizzie Freeman, & Michael Kovach from Seattle's ECCC!
The Amazing Digital Circus stars Alex Rochon, Lizzie Freeman, & Michael Kovach - Caine, Pomni, & Jax respectively - turned Emerald City Comic Con 2026 into a delightful nightmare, and Popverse was there to film it
Grant DeArmitt

Watch the Cosplay Central Costume Showcase from Seattle's ECCC!
Your favorite heroes, villains, and even animal sidekicks took the stage at Emerald City Comic Con 2026, and Popverse was there to capture every costume in its full glory
Grant DeArmitt
Emerald City Comic Con

During The Boys' Herogasm scene, someone on set replaced the hand sanitizer with lube according to Karl Urban
All Karl Urban wanted to do on the set of The Boys was sanitize his hands.
Jules Chin Greene

“Smut transcends realms and time”: Why Tusk Love is the most enduring piece of Critical Role lore
The Critical Role cast want to publish an edition of Tusk Love in Orcish
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

Watch the Star Wars: The Mandalorian panel with Ming-Na Wen & Giancarlo Esposito from Seattle's ECCC 2026
MCU and Star Wars vets Giancarlo Esposito and Ming-Na Wen share stories and laughs at Emerald City Comic Con.
Grant DeArmitt

Watch There Is No Exit: Trapped in the Amazing Digital Circus with Alex Rochon, Lizzie Freeman, & Michael Kovach from Seattle's ECCC!
The Amazing Digital Circus stars Alex Rochon, Lizzie Freeman, & Michael Kovach - Caine, Pomni, & Jax respectively - turned Emerald City Comic Con 2026 into a delightful nightmare, and Popverse was there to film it
Grant DeArmitt
The Boys

During The Boys' Herogasm scene, someone on set replaced the hand sanitizer with lube according to Karl Urban
All Karl Urban wanted to do on the set of The Boys was sanitize his hands.
Jules Chin Greene

The Boys' boss made a point to get Mother's Milk as dirty as possible, against actor Laz Alonso's wishes
At Emerald City Comic Con 2026, MM actor Laz Alonso revealed his aversion to getting dirty while filming The Boys
Jules Chin Greene

The dead whale on The Boys was infested with real-life wasps and was ridiculously hot
Laz Alonso, who plays MM on The Boys, revealed at Emerald City Comic Con that it felt like it was "200 degrees" inside the dead whale set
Jules Chin Greene

The Boys season 5 had to film episodes out of order to accommodate Jensen Ackles' schedule
Jensen Ackles, who plays Soldier Boy on The Boys, was shooting another television show at the same time as the Prime Video show
Ashley V. Robinson
Emerald City Comic Con

During The Boys' Herogasm scene, someone on set replaced the hand sanitizer with lube according to Karl Urban
All Karl Urban wanted to do on the set of The Boys was sanitize his hands.
Jules Chin Greene

“Smut transcends realms and time”: Why Tusk Love is the most enduring piece of Critical Role lore
The Critical Role cast want to publish an edition of Tusk Love in Orcish
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

Watch the Star Wars: The Mandalorian panel with Ming-Na Wen & Giancarlo Esposito from Seattle's ECCC 2026
MCU and Star Wars vets Giancarlo Esposito and Ming-Na Wen share stories and laughs at Emerald City Comic Con.
Grant DeArmitt

Watch There Is No Exit: Trapped in the Amazing Digital Circus with Alex Rochon, Lizzie Freeman, & Michael Kovach from Seattle's ECCC!
The Amazing Digital Circus stars Alex Rochon, Lizzie Freeman, & Michael Kovach - Caine, Pomni, & Jax respectively - turned Emerald City Comic Con 2026 into a delightful nightmare, and Popverse was there to film it
Grant DeArmitt
Magic: The Gathering

The most expensive Magic: The Gathering x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cards
For just a few hundred dollars, you can harness the power of pizza ramen and Michelangelo in Magic: The Gathering x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Jules Chin Greene

BOTH female Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be in the upcoming Magic: The Gathering crossover
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Magic: The Gathering set will include Jennika and Venus
Jules Chin Greene

There's a new best Rat commander for your MTG Rat deck, thanks to the new TMNT set
The team behind Magic: The Gathering's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set dished on the rat card options
Jules Chin Greene

How Spider-Man's New York City is different than the TMNT's NYC, according to Magic: The Gathering
Both the Marvel's Spider-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Magic: The Gathering crossover sets are set in New York City
Jules Chin Greene
DC Comics

Wonder Woman screenwriter Allan Heinberg is returning to consult on DC Comics' Batman/Wonder Woman crossover
Jeph Loeb needs help writing Wonder Woman for DC, so he called in an expert: Allen Heinberg.
Chris Arrant

Nightwing is the Brad Pitt of superheroes according to Denys Cowan: "He's got to be cute, ALL THE TIME" especially with the butt and the hair
For Nightwing artist Denys Cowan, Dick Grayson has got to look "cute all the time"
Jules Chin Greene

Why the Batman Hush sequel is late, according to writer Jeph Loeb "Do not hate the man, hate the game"
Batman: H2SH will not be silenced, assures Jeph Loeb at Emerald City Comic Con 2026.
Jules Chin Greene

Nightwing artist Bruno Redondo is cooking up a new DC project that "will deserve the wait"
Bruno Redondo hints at long-awaited DC return as fans ask what’s next after Nightwing.
Chris Arrant





