Spotlight
Doctor Who 2026 Christmas episode is cancelled as the BBC announces the future of series is open to bidding
What will the future of Doctor Who look like? You need a TARDIS to find out at this point.
Trent Cannon
Manga legend Naoki Urasawa is back with a Monster thematic sequel... but its a music video
Rodrigo y Gabriela wrote a song based on one of Naoki Urasawa's most iconic manga. Now he's created artwork of the pair in their new music video.
Trent Cannon
Taskmaster's YouTube success has led to an invite to the Hollywood Bowl
Had Taskmaster not decided to put their full episodes on YouTube 6 years ago, it might not be playing one of the biggest venues in LA later this year
Grant DeArmitt
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!
You can submit questions for select Florida Supercon 2026 panels ahead of everyone else!
Graeme McMillan
House of the Dragon is best when it's "a bloodbath," according to Matt Smith - and season 3 is its bloodbathiest
House of the Dragon season 3 is a "big bloodbath, really," says Matt Smith AKA Daemon Targaryen, "Which is absolutely where it’s needed to go."
Grant DeArmitt
DC reveals Absolute Batgirl Cassandra Cain, and is bringing the League of Assassins and Lady Shiva with her
DC is bringing Cassandra Cain, the League of Assassins, and Lady Shiva to the Absolute Universe.
Chris Arrant
Latest
Die Hard movie writer has his next project: A modern-day Gulliver's Travels reboot
Screenwriter Steven de Souza will write three graphic novels for Gungnir Books, including a Gulliver's Travels adaptation and Sheena: Queen of the Jungle story
Marvel’s June 16 616 Day mystery bags are delayed (with some orders canceled) as demand overwhelms supply, and Doctor Doom would not approve
Marvel’s mystery bag strategy just hit an unexpected problem: success.
Naoki Urasawa’s new manga asks what creativity means when AI can do everything
Hand-drawn manga champion Naoki Urasawa is launching a series about AI.
How Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman uses the webcomic readers as a focus group for the comic’s television adaptation
Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman says that while the webcomic explores some heavy topics, she never wants things to feel too dark
Jim Lee says his X-Men run and Marvel era was a dream he can never re-experience (although he wishes he could)
Decades after his fan favorite run, Jim Lee is still synonymous with the X-Men, and he still looks back fondly
The two most-requested Absolute Batman characters aren't who you think: it's Condiment King and Crazy Quilt, says Scott Snyder
With most of Batman's top enemies already being adapted into Absolute Batman, writer Scott Snyder reveals the most demanded character, and the hardest to bring in
Stranger Things creators say Will's coming out scene was almost in season 4 but they felt they hadn't "earned it"
Will Byers evolved a lot over the course of five seasons of Stranger Things, but the show's creators waited till the final season to give him one of his biggest moments
Mark Waid says buying a comic shop was like burning his money (but he had a good reason for doing it)
Mark Waid bought a comic shop so he could get a better understanding of the industry
The Bear Season 5: Release date, cast, trailer, episode titles, and final season details
FX's acclaimed drama The Bear is about to deliver its final service, and we have a menu of everything we know as an amuse-bouche
Don’t expect any future Avengers movies directed by the Russo Brothers after 2027's Secret Wars
Joe and Anthony Russo are uncertain about their future with Marvel Studios beyond the Multiverse Saga
Daredevil: Born Again's climactic Kingpin fight has a very specific comic book origin, according to filmmakers
The fight between Daredevil and Kingpin in Daredevil: Born Again season 2 took a page from an InHyuk Lee Devil's Reign cover
“Marvel treats creators like shit”: Rob Liefeld reignites feud over comic book credits after New Mutants collection de-emphasizes him as a writer
The New Mutants Omnibus Vol. 4 does not credit Rob Liefeld as a writer in its solicits, and the Deadpool creator says that's indicative of a larger problem at Marvel
Lobo was supposed to be part of Supergirl comic the movie is based on, but DC Comics said 'No'
The original pitch for Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, upon which the upcoming film is based, was a Supergirl x Lobo comic book team-up. Then DC Comics requested the Main Man be axed
Somehow, the Witch Hat Atelier anime was worth the wait [Popverse Jump]
Four years and long delays only meant the animators of Witch Hat Atelier could make the anime something truly special.
Comic book history is made, Pixar hops to greatness and Superman is back on the small screen: Popverse Playlist for June 13-20, 2026
Superman returns to animated glory, Pixar proves it still has it, and Tillie Walden goes from the Walking Dead to historical love in the next seven days' pick of pop culture's finest
The Mighty Nein's Caleb Widogast & Essek Thelyss will stay together, says Liam O'Brien.... but may not say exclusive
Critical Role’s Liam O’Brien reveals a surprising new detail about Caleb and Essek’s future.
Marvel is making the Fantastic Four's son a mutant (again)... at least in Magic: The Gathering
Franklin Richards appears in Magic: The Gathering x Marvel Super Heroes as a "Mutant Hero"
There's no upcoming Spy X Family release dates, because the manga creator is putting it on hiatus
Chapter 136 may be the last chapter of Spy x Family for a few weeks at least.
The next Berserk chapter was so difficult to make that its new writer apologized to fans
With Berserk chapter 384 finally coming out after months of delays, Koji Mori has explained how difficult this chapter was to write.
Baki’s iconic Retsu hospital meme only exists because of a deadline crisis
Long-time Baki the Grappler collaborator Yuki Yokoi shares how a last minute change to the Son of Ogre panel birthed an internet meme.
There's a comic store taking over an old Walmart (yes, it's that big)
Third Eye Comics is opening up their ninth location in Glen Burnie, Maryland, in a former Walmart
Before Riverdale, Archie Comics took a huge risk on a complete reboot... but the writer said he began thinking Archie was "one-dimensional as hell"
Why Mark Waid was worried about developing the 2015 Archie Comics reboot
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Somehow, the Witch Hat Atelier anime was worth the wait [Popverse Jump]
Four years and long delays only meant the animators of Witch Hat Atelier could make the anime something truly special.
Trent Cannon
Comic book history is made, Pixar hops to greatness and Superman is back on the small screen: Popverse Playlist for June 13-20, 2026
Superman returns to animated glory, Pixar proves it still has it, and Tillie Walden goes from the Walking Dead to historical love in the next seven days' pick of pop culture's finest
Graeme McMillan
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
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
Berserk
The next Berserk chapter was so difficult to make that its new writer apologized to fans
With Berserk chapter 384 finally coming out after months of delays, Koji Mori has explained how difficult this chapter was to write.
Trent Cannon
Kentaro Miura didn't want Berserk to have a "grim" ending
Could Berserk have a happy ending? Kentaro Miura certainly thought so at once time.
Trent Cannon
There's a controversial lost Berserk chapter that creator Kentarou Miura blocked from being collected, and its about God (and God being evil)
Why Berserk creator Kentaro Miura pulled Chapter 83 from future publications and what it says about the setting's God
Trent Cannon
Berserk release schedule (Updated June 2026): Everything we know about when the next Berserk manga chapter will come out in Japan and the US
The incredible work of Kentaro Miura lives on as Berserk continues to have a sporadic and unpredictable release schedule.
Trent Cannon
Critical Role Productions
The Mighty Nein's Caleb Widogast & Essek Thelyss will stay together, says Liam O'Brien.... but may not say exclusive
Critical Role’s Liam O’Brien reveals a surprising new detail about Caleb and Essek’s future.
Grant DeArmitt
The Legend of Vox Machina is a chance for the Critical Role cast to make better choices than they did in Campaign 1, says Travis Willingham
Willingham, who plays The Legend of Vox Machina's Grog Strongjaw, says that the OG Rolers were ever "very interested in doing a a beat-for-beat retelling" of Critical Role campaign 1
Grant DeArmitt
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
Grant DeArmitt
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
Grant DeArmitt
Doctor Who
Doctor Who: Why the BBC is looking to regenerate the show, what is actually happening, and when it'll return
The future of Doctor Who hasn't looked this uncertain in decades - or, perhaps, ever
Graeme McMillan
Doctor Who 2026 Christmas episode is cancelled as the BBC announces the future of series is open to bidding
What will the future of Doctor Who look like? You need a TARDIS to find out at this point.
Trent Cannon
Is Billie Piper the new Doctor Who? If not, who is? We'll know in "a week, two weeks," promises showrunner Russell T. Davies
It's been over a year since Ncuti Gatwa's regeneration, but we still don't know who Doctor Who's Sixteenth Doctor will be. Thankfully, Davies says the wait should be over soon
Grant DeArmitt
Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies begs not to play the theme song at his funeral
Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies will be long remembered for his work on the show, but please: don't play the theme song at his memorial service
George Marston