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A new Battle Angel Alita manga is coming and its release date is next week
Badass cyborgs fighting inequality are always the perfect escape, so we never get tired of more Battle Angel Alita.
Trent Cannon
The MCU Spider-Man didn't learn the lesson every other Peter Parker has, according to Brand New Day director
Aunt May delivered the classic Spider-Man origin line in 2021's No Way Home, but Peter Parker wasn't listening, it seems
Graeme McMillan
It's never too early to start planning for NYCC 2026 - here's what you need to know before returning to the Javits Center in October
We're still months away from this year's New York Comic Con, but already, we're in the planning stages. If you're anything like us, here are some things you may need to know
Grant DeArmitt
Finally, The Boys Season 5 delivers the Supernatural reunion we've been waiting for... and it is extra bloody
Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins finally reunite with Jensen Ackles on The Boys set and it is a big, violent Supernatural reunion
Trent Cannon
DC Studios Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters - what changed, what got added, and what went away after the first announcement
With The Authority being shelved for the time being and Waller in limbo, what remains of the initial DCU plans ahead of Supergirl's release in theaters?
Graeme McMillan
Top Shonen Jump editor behind DanDaDan, Chainsaw Man & SpyXFamily has left his staff position to start his own manga company
Shihei Lin helped shape Chainsaw Man, Spy x Family, and DanDaDan, and now he's set up his own independent manga company.
Trent Cannon
Latest
Iron Man artist Carmen Carnero steps away from the book due to an injury, but promises to return later this year
Like Tony Stark himself, the artist behind Marvel's 2026 Iron Man run isn't going to let a little thing like bodily harm keep her off the table for good
Marvel once tried to get Darwyn Cooke to do Marvel's version of DC: The New Frontier with Jimmy Palmiotti, but he said no - here's why.
Marvel almost got its own DC: The New Frontier from Darwyn Cooke, but a personal beef with a top editor shut it down.
There's a debate on if manga be made by someone not from Japan. The publisher behind Akira, Sailor Moon, & Attack on Titan weighs in definitively
The demand for new manga has never been higher and Kodansha is looking overseas for their next hit series.
Marvel's Punisher skull took on a meaning co-creator Gerry Conway never wanted it to. This is how he fought back
How the late Gerry Conway confronted the misguided legacy of his Punisher character for Marvel, and its pull between brutality and justice
Writing the Daredevil: Born Again was Frank Miller "having the time of my life" thanks to partnership with David Mazzucchelli
Working with David Mazzucchelli's artwork allowed Frank Miller to push Daredevil further than he ever had before.
DC is creating its next big bad Batman villain for comics & an upcoming game, and are going to let one lucky fan help create them
Want to have a go at creating the next Batman villain? DC is giving one fan the chance to do just that.
Frank Quitely has been trying to quit DC, Marvel & Netflix for 22 years to go 100% creator-owned but just when he thinks he's out, they pull him back in
All-Star Superman artist Frank Quitely is ready, finally, to create his own all-stars.
The secret behind Invincible's Viltrumite character names is there is no secret says Robert Kirkman, and he's even had to change some names for TV
Robert Kirkman says he didn’t put much thought into naming the Viltrumites because he was worried about deadlines
Absolute Martian Manhunter is ending, but Deniz Camp is still charting the character's future as the catalyst of the Absolute DC event
Absolute Batman writer Scott Snyder confirmed that Camp still has plans for his take on Martian Manhunter, and that those plans will be part of DC's biggest Absolute comic yet
Mark Bagley felt let down when he jumped from Marvel to DC, calling Trinity a misfire for not including Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman enough
Mark Bagley says DC kept Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman out of the Justice League because they thought they were too powerful
Frank Miller wants you to get the benefit of his "lessons learned" in his upcoming memoir
The writer and artist behind Sin City and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is offering insight into what he considers the biggest lessons he's learned over the years.
Robert Kirkman unveils his plans to build the manga-to-anime pipeline in America, and shows how he is doing it with Invincible first
Robert Kirkman believes the success of the Invincible animated series proves that the manga-to-anime pipeline can work for other American comics
The hottest trending manga in Japan is one about a bookstore owner and the readers he meets, and it just won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize
There is no English release announced for Hon Nara Uru Hodo, yet we're captivated by the simple, cozy concept of the manga.
Some of the people behind Magic: The Gathering are banding together to form a union to fight against the looming threat of being replaced by AI
After a major change announced for employees of Wizards of the Coast, Magic: The Gathering's workers are looking to unionize under one of the largest banners they can
The comic book industry is too reliant on older characters like Batman, Spider-Man, the Transformers & Invincible, and it's holding us back says Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman says the original sin of the comic book industry is its inability to move on from characters created generations ago
Superman has an “Invincible problem” because the character no longer defines the superhero space, according to Rob Liefeld and Robert Kirkman
Rob Liefeld and Robert Kirkman say Invincible is defining the superhero space that was once occupied by Superman, and the Man of Steel has to adapt if he wants to stay relevant
Supergirl release schedule (Updated April 2026): When #13 is coming out, along with what's next
Supergirl #13 release date, schedule, and how to read DC’s ongoing series
The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender release date: When the animated feature debuts on Paramount+
The movie depicts the exploits of the Gaang as adults.
Mark Bagley says former Marvel boss Bob Harras tried to destroy his career at Marvel in the 90s (but Kurt Busiek saved it)
Mark Bagley recalls his difficult working relationship with Marvel editor-in-chief Bob Harras
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Reading Dragon Ball to my toddler became the father-son moment I didn’t know I needed [Popverse Jump]
A Toddler's Reaction to Dragon Ball: The making of a weeb.
Trent Cannon
Popverse Playlist: The 3 things you need to check out in pop culture April 25 through May 1
A Hannibal reunion, Stranger Things returns and Swamp Thing regrows: Popverse Playlist's 3 things you have to see over the next seven days
Graeme McMillan
The Live Action One Piece has fixed one of the manga's worst characters - Sanji [Popverse Jump]
Toning down Sanji's unbearable horniness and giving him some much-needed emotional vulnerability makes the live action One Piece from Netflix infinitely more watchable.
Trent Cannon
Bookcon
Horror stories & cozy lit come from the same place, according to Better in Black author Cassandra Clare
Author Cassandra Clare, who has created her own dark fantasies in The Shadowhunter Chronicles, believes that there's a need we have as modern readers, and that both horror and cozy fiction fill it in different ways
Grant DeArmitt
These fantasy tropes need to die, according to fantasy authors Cassandra Clare, Sarah Mughal Rana, & Chelsea Abdullah
There were plenty of discussions at BookCon 2026 about the worst fantasy tropes, but none of them probably held the weight of the one between authors Clare (Shadowhunters), Rana (Dawn of the Firebird), & Abdullah (Sandsea)
Grant DeArmitt
Watch The Language of Love with Jasmine Guillory, Casey McQuiston, & Tia Williams from BookCon 2026!
Authors Guillory (The Wedding Date), McQuiston (Red, White, and Royal Blue), and Williams (A Love Song for Ricki Wilde) dissected what makes the romance genre work at BookCon '26, and Popverse was there to learn (and film)
Grant DeArmitt
Watch The Importance and Impact of Dystopian and Fantasy Fiction with Tahereh Mafi and Chloe Gong from BookCon 2026!
Mafi, author of the Shatter Me series, and Gong, author of the StrangeLoom series, shared their experience with the reigning champion of YA subgenres, and Popverse was filming their panel
Grant DeArmitt
Avengers: Doomsday
Deadpool's return to the MCU is "probably something I'm not going to do," says Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds is seemingly ruling out an Avengers: Doomsday appearance by Deadpool, but can he really be trusted?
Graeme McMillan
Robert Downey Jr.’s Oscar-winning Oppenheimer role won him the Doctor Doom part in Avengers: Doomsday
"[Robert Downey Jr.] played the most iconic hero. Let's have him play the most iconic villain," said Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige
Jules Chin Greene
The Marvel Studios Hall H panel at SDCC this year won’t be about Spider-Man: Brand New Day
The Marvel Studios SDCC panel this year will focus on Avengers: Doomsday, according to reports
Jules Chin Greene
Part of Avengers: Doomsday will be in theaters earlier than you thought, as Endgame rerelease to include new footage of next MCU mega-event
At Cinemacon 2026, Endgame director Joe Russo revealed that Marvel Studios will be rereleasing the film "with footage that is set in the Doomsday story."
Grant DeArmitt
Heated Rivalry
The Heated Rivalry season 2 rumors of a drastically bigger budget are wrong, says showrunner Jacob Tierney
Don't get your hopes up: Heated Rivalry season 2 won't have the budget to take Ilya and Shane to outer space.
Jules Chin Greene
Why HBO couldn't do much marketing for Heated Rivalry, according to showrunner Jacob Tierney: "Just be grateful there’s some horny people at HBO.”
Heated Rivalry showrunner Jacob Tierney explains why HBO didn't do more press for the episodes as they were airing during a BookCon 2026 panel.
Trent Cannon
The hockey crowds in Heated Rivalry are VFX and the raw footage looked like "COVID hockey" because no one was in the stands
Heated Rivalry was sold to HBO before the show's VFX had been finalized.
Jules Chin Greene
Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid opens up about how the TV series adaptation news buoyed her Parkinson's diagnosis just 3 or 4 days before
3 or 4 days after Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid was diagnosed with Parkinson's, she got the call to turn it into a TV series from Jacob Tierney
Trent Cannon
Newsarama
Newsarama, 1998 - 2026: an obituary & a eulogy, from a former writer & editor
Newsarama helped shape how we talk about comics and the story of what comics was for the past 25+ years.
Chris Arrant
End of an era: comics journalism outlet Newsarama gutted by layoffs as final writer exits
After years of cuts, Newsarama has finally gone silent
Chris Arrant
Newsarama co-founder makes a surprise exit from the comics journalism outlet
Doran co-founded Newsarama in 1998
Graeme McMillan