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Hazbin Hotel creator “100%” thinks that the Prime Video show will have more Broadway performances in the future
With the success of Hazbin Hotel: Live on Broadway, Vivienne Medrano is optimistic that the show will return to the stage
Jules Chin Greene

If Critical Role's Legend of Vox Machina is The Hobbit, says Marisha Ray, then Mighty Nein is Lord of the Rings
Prime Video's second Critical Role adaptation will be "a little bit darker" in tone, says Ray, who provides the voice for kickass monk Beauregard Lionett
Grant DeArmitt

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Marvel writer Ben Percy shows off the Wolverine claws he always keeps "within arm's reach" [Popversations]
Longtime Wolverine writer Benjamin Percy dishes on his love of Predator and his upcoming collaboration with Stephen King
Ashley V. Robinson

The Dispatch episodic release schedule makes the new game from AdHoc Studios and Critical Role even better, not worse [Gamify My Life]
Dispatch is a great superhero TV show and it needs to be enjoyed an hour at a time.
Trent Cannon

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Watch Prime Video's official Invincible panel from NYCC 2025, with Steven Yeun, Gillian Jacobs, Robert Kirkman, and Lee Pace
Yeun (Mark Grayson), Jacobs (Sam Wilkins), and co-creator, co-showrunner, executive producer Kirkman turned up the violence at New York Comic Con 2025 (well, in an animated sense), with an unmissable Invincible showcase
Grant DeArmitt

How to watch the big NYCC 2025 panels
Popverse members get to watch the big panels from NYCC 2025 before anyone else, including panels for Hazbin Hotel, Critical Role, the new Game of Thrones prequel, and more.
Chris Arrant
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How do you keep Wolverine fresh? Put him in different time period, according to long-time writer Benjamin Percy
Writer Benjamin Percy dishes on the fun of writing the X-Men's Wolverine for Marvel Comics

Inside the Star Wars: The Clone Wars canceled season 7 storyline focused on Boba Fett becoming the man we know him as
There’s a batch of unreleased Star Wars: The Clone Wars episodes that deal with Boba Fett’s backstory

Mistborn author Brandon Sanderson says talking to his fans is the real reason why he’s a bestseller
The author of The Stormlight Archives says he decided early on to communicate with his fans often to make sure they knew exactly when his next book was out

Magic: The Gathering’s next Secret Lair drop is a massive Monster Hunter collab
It's time to hunt... for details about the next Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair superdrop

How to write Marvel & DC Comics like you make pottery, according to Al Ewing
For Al Ewing, each series he writes for Marvel and DC Comics "suggests a vibe"

Dispatch fans have uncovered the secret stat that determines Invisigal's ending in Episode 8
The hit game from AdHoc Studio and Critical Role is full of important choices, but not everything that influences the ending happens during cutscenes in Dispatch.

Watch The official Vampire Lestat, Talamasca & Anne Rice Immortal Universe panel from NYCC 2025
Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches are making their return to AMC quite soon, along with the debut of Talamasca: The Secret Order. Popverse was at New York Comic Con 2025's Anne Rice panel to snatch up all the secrets the creatives were there to tease

Witch Hat Atelier anime (finally) gets an April 2026 release window and confirms the two lead voice actors
The voice cast for Witch Hat Atelier includes actors from Maebashi Witches and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.

Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss could be eyeing an Earth-based spinoff — here’s what Brandon Rogers thinks it could be about
Vivienne Medrano has gone on record hinting at WHERE third Hellaverse series could be set. And now Brandon Rogers, star and cowriter of Helluva Boss, is talking about WHO he could see it being about

How The Office co-star Jenna Fischer helped James Gunn build his DC Universe
One of James Gunn’s biggest supporters is his first wife, The Office’s Jenna Fischer

The new Buffy the Vampire Slayer "is not a reboot, it's a sequel" says executive producer (and Hamnet director) Chloe Zhao
Eternals director Zhao says a new show "can never replace" the characters Buffy fans fell in love with, and that the new Hulu series "bridges two generations"

Wicked: For Good tie-in margaritas have people feeling Wonderful and Defying Gravity... but the hangovers are Something Bad
What is This Feeling? Too many Wicked puns in an article about Chili's? I guess No Good Deed goes unpunished, or maybe it's just that I'm Not That Girl. Shiz.

Batman: The Animated Series is the inspiration behind Mike Flanagan's DC Studios Clayface script
Mike Flanagan's Clayface film for DC Studios digs deep into the writer's love of 1990s iconic show Batman: The Animated Series, right down to to the protagonist's name

Black Panther 3 is coming very, very soon after Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars says director
Black Panther co-writer and director Ryan Coogler confirmed that he's been working on a sequel to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever for some time now

Stranger Things creators got a wild gift from ‘Running Up That Hill’ songstress Kate Bush
Also, we're getting more of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill in Stranger Things season 5, says series co-creator Ross Duffer

DC's Abin Sur is a Biblical angel, and we're all Sodom & Gomorrah: Inside the biblical allegory of Absolute Green Lantern
Absolute Green Lantern writer Al Ewing has used the DC series as a vessel for unpacking his fascination with biblical stories

Disney's Moana teaser is here, with less Dwayne Johnson than you'd think
Maui is barely in the first teaser for the live-action remake of the Disney animated classic. You're welcome, Dwayne Johnson fans

From Bryce Tankthrust to Blitzo: Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel star Brandon Rogers breaks down his leap from live YouTube comedy to animation
"You're not selling it with your body or your gestures or your costumes or your hair," says Rogers, who's on Helluva's sister show Hazbin Hotel as Katie Killjoy
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Watch The official Vampire Lestat, Talamasca & Anne Rice Immortal Universe panel from NYCC 2025
Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches are making their return to AMC quite soon, along with the debut of Talamasca: The Secret Order. Popverse was at New York Comic Con 2025's Anne Rice panel to snatch up all the secrets the creatives were there to tease
Grant DeArmitt

Marvel writer Ben Percy shows off the Wolverine claws he always keeps "within arm's reach" [Popversations]
Longtime Wolverine writer Benjamin Percy dishes on his love of Predator and his upcoming collaboration with Stephen King
Ashley V. Robinson

Watch Prime Video's official Invincible panel from NYCC 2025, with Steven Yeun, Gillian Jacobs, Robert Kirkman, and Lee Pace
Yeun (Mark Grayson), Jacobs (Sam Wilkins), and co-creator, co-showrunner, executive producer Kirkman turned up the violence at New York Comic Con 2025 (well, in an animated sense), with an unmissable Invincible showcase
Grant DeArmitt
New York Comic Con

Watch The official Vampire Lestat, Talamasca & Anne Rice Immortal Universe panel from NYCC 2025
Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches are making their return to AMC quite soon, along with the debut of Talamasca: The Secret Order. Popverse was at New York Comic Con 2025's Anne Rice panel to snatch up all the secrets the creatives were there to tease
Grant DeArmitt

Watch Prime Video's official Invincible panel from NYCC 2025, with Steven Yeun, Gillian Jacobs, Robert Kirkman, and Lee Pace
Yeun (Mark Grayson), Jacobs (Sam Wilkins), and co-creator, co-showrunner, executive producer Kirkman turned up the violence at New York Comic Con 2025 (well, in an animated sense), with an unmissable Invincible showcase
Grant DeArmitt

Game of Thrones' George R. R. Martin explains why Steve Ditko’s art made Marvel’s world feel truly alive
Steve Ditko created some of the most iconic comic book characters of all time, but his greatest creation, according to George R. R. Martin, is a living, breathing New York City.
Ashley V. Robinson

Before Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin remembers being fan number one at the very first New York comic con
The Game of Thrones author talks about meeting Steve Ditko, the sudden growth of New York Comic Con, and compares it to the wild ride that the current show is.
Ashley V. Robinson
Dispatch

Dispatch fans have uncovered the secret stat that determines Invisigal's ending in Episode 8
The hit game from AdHoc Studio and Critical Role is full of important choices, but not everything that influences the ending happens during cutscenes in Dispatch.
Trent Cannon

The superhero game Dispatch from AdHoc Studio and Critical Role is even bigger a hit than they expected - selling 12 times faster than they could even hope
With stars from Breaking Bad and Critical Role in the cast and stellar animation, Dispatch is the superhero game we've been waiting for.
Trent Cannon
Spider-Man

Even George R.R. Martin is frustrated with Marvel retconning Spider-Man and Mary Jane's wedding
George R. R. Martin says Spider-Man’s erased marriage still “annoys the hell” out of him.
Ashley V. Robinson

Inside Spider-Man’s ‘Brand New Day’: The bold creative gamble that reinvented the Marvel flagship character
Faced with falling sales and a fractured lineup, Marvel bet big on a radical idea — one book, three times a month, and a whole team of storytellers shaping Peter Parker’s world together.
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

The oral history of Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man 'Brand New Day' era [Marvel Matters]
In 2008, Marvel turned its flagship book Amazing Spider-Man into a TV-style experiment, with rotating writers, weekly issues, and the creative chaos that defined a new era of Marvel storytelling
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

When Marvel Comics hired Frank Miller, he didn't have his eye on Daredevil or Wolverine - rather, he wanted to handle Spider-Man
Frank Miller may have rescued Marvel Comics' Daredevil from obscurity, but the writer-artist admits that he would have loved to work on Spidey instead
Jules Chin Greene
Stranger Things

Stranger Things creators got a wild gift from ‘Running Up That Hill’ songstress Kate Bush
Also, we're getting more of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill in Stranger Things season 5, says series co-creator Ross Duffer
Grant DeArmitt

What to Watch December 2025: Stranger Things, Fallout, and Percy Jackson are decking the halls this streaming season
Take a peak underneath the tree to see what's coming to Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Paramount+ and more as 2025 finally winds down
Grant DeArmitt

Stranger Things finale includes scenes shot before the episode had finished being written, and hints at a time jump
Shooting schedules meant that shooting started on the final episode of Netflix's Stranger Things even before the script was finished
Graeme McMillan

Even Netflix thought Stranger Things' creators did Barb dirty... and nine years later, the Duffer brothers regret it
Even before Stranger Things season 1 aired, there was a #JusticeForBarb movement going on in the writers room, as the Duffers report that Netflix would "harass" them to give more thought to poor Barbara Holland
Grant DeArmitt
New York Comic Con

Watch The official Vampire Lestat, Talamasca & Anne Rice Immortal Universe panel from NYCC 2025
Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches are making their return to AMC quite soon, along with the debut of Talamasca: The Secret Order. Popverse was at New York Comic Con 2025's Anne Rice panel to snatch up all the secrets the creatives were there to tease
Grant DeArmitt

Watch Prime Video's official Invincible panel from NYCC 2025, with Steven Yeun, Gillian Jacobs, Robert Kirkman, and Lee Pace
Yeun (Mark Grayson), Jacobs (Sam Wilkins), and co-creator, co-showrunner, executive producer Kirkman turned up the violence at New York Comic Con 2025 (well, in an animated sense), with an unmissable Invincible showcase
Grant DeArmitt

Game of Thrones' George R. R. Martin explains why Steve Ditko’s art made Marvel’s world feel truly alive
Steve Ditko created some of the most iconic comic book characters of all time, but his greatest creation, according to George R. R. Martin, is a living, breathing New York City.
Ashley V. Robinson

Before Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin remembers being fan number one at the very first New York comic con
The Game of Thrones author talks about meeting Steve Ditko, the sudden growth of New York Comic Con, and compares it to the wild ride that the current show is.
Ashley V. Robinson





