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Marvel unveils Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom voice—but still won't show his face
Iconic villains should be heard and not seen, if the new Avengers: Doomsday trailer is anything to go by.
Trent Cannon
Watch the Chainsaw Man panel with Ryan Colt Levy, Derrick Snow, and Reagan Murdock from Florida Supercon 2026!
The voices of Denji (Levy), Beam (Snow), and Aki (Murdock) brought all the chaos and calamity of Chainsaw man to Florida Supercon, and Popverse was there with a camera.
Grant DeArmitt
Follow Marvel Studios, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and more panels live from San Diego Comic-Con with Popverse
Get inside Popverse's live, minue-by-minute reporting of the key panels of San Diego Comic-Con.
Chris Arrant
Spoilers!
Critical Role's Laura Bailey recalls finding out she and Marisha Ray's characters were married... on stage at a live show
The cast of Critical Role are used to having GM Matt Mercer throw surprise monsters their way, but surprise matrimonies? That's a step too far for Laura Bailey
Grant DeArmitt
DC's Absolute Batman cartoon will be an "expansion" of the comic, says Scott Snyder
Absolute Batman writer Scott Snyder said the show "stays true to the core values and aesthetics" of the DC Comics series
Jules Chin Greene
The Amazing Digital Circus cast says bringing Jax back would ruin the story
Is Jax’s abstraction reversible on The Amazing Digital Circus? Michael Kovach gives his thoughts
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Follow along to AMC's The Vampire Lestat panel from Hall H San Diego '26!
Is it time for Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned? Find out in the Vampire Lestat Hall H panel from SDCC 2026.
SDCC 2026 liveblog: DC's Next Level (Fri., 12:30 - 1:30pm)
Monty Python demonstrates why comedy is at its best when it's smart, says Scott Pilgrim and Shaun of the Dead's Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright says one of the reasons Monty Python has endured is because it encouraged its audience to be smarter
Follow along to DC's Gotham City panel with Batman & more from San Diego '26!
Batman, Absolute Batman, and Gotham's future collide at SDCC—follow along live.
How Dan Buckley changed Marvel Comics' stance on long runs and embraced regular relaunches
At least one Marvel executive is known for his approach to ending comics series when the creators depart, says Brian Michael Bendis
More manga-ka are accusing Kodansha and other manga publishers of abuse after Cells at Work! creator Akane Shimizu spoke out
Multiple manga creators have since come forward with stories about the abuse and neglect they suffered from editors and publishers.
The intro sequence for Supergirl had to be cut down because Kara was getting too drunk
DC Studios was nervous about how much partying Kara was doing during the Supergirl intro
Rent-a-Girlfriend release schedule (Updated July 2026): When new chapters of the hit romance manga come out
The Rent-a-Girlfriend manga remains one of the most popular romance manga out there, so here is how to get caught up on all the love.
The fantasy novels that inspired Critical Role's Thimble, according to Laura Bailey
Bailey's Campaign 4 pixie, Thimble, owes at least some creative DNA to a longstanding pixie warrior character created by Kim Harrison
"Streaming... is the enemy of comics" says Absolute Batman writer Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder says streaming has an advantage over comics due to its price point and the amount of entertainment you get
How Deborah Ann Woll doled out revenge D&D style on Kevin Smith for killing her Daredevil: Born Again character in comics
Kevin Smith's Daredevil run famously did not treat Karen Page well, so when Woll was GM for one of his D&D sessions, you can imagine the feelings
Blumhouse didn't think Jamie Foxx would sign on for the King Spawn movie... but they didn't know the actor had been pitching Todd McFarlane to do it for 15+ years
Todd McFarlane's upcoming Spawn movie is still a ways away, but Jamie Foxx has been the actor he's had in mind to play Al Simmons for years
Kingdom release schedule (updated July 2026): When the next chapter of the sweeping historical epic is coming out
The English release of Kingdom is finally happening, and we've got all the details about where and when you can read the next chapter.
Watch the Uncharted panel with Nolan North, Richard McGonagle, and Emily Rose from Florida Supercon 2026!
Prepare for adventure as you relive the Uncharted panel with voice actors Nathan Drake (North), Sully (McGonagle), and Elena (Rose), filmed by Popverse Florida Supercon.
The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 recap: What to remember before Season 3 of the AMC series begins
The spinoff follows the exploits of Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they try to survive a zombie-infested Manhattan
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 recap: What to remember before Season 4
The show's penultimate season will boldly go some more, as Captain Pike, Spock, Chapel, and Number One fly into trouble, adventure, and frontiers that aren't final just yet
Batman: Caped Crusader Season 1 recap: What to remember before season 2 of the Prime Video show
Here's everything you need to remember from Season 1 of Prime Video's Batman animated series, including the ending and the villain teased for Season 2
The Queen of the Damned is getting the chance to aura farm on AMC's The Vampire Lestat
Sheila Atim delivers best entrance of any new character in The Vampire Lestat
Disney+ announces zombie Riverdale show Afterlife with Archie for Halloween 2027
The new horror show will come from the executive producers of Riverdale and Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
How a failed Nick Fury series led Brian Michael Bendis to Daredevil
Before writer Brian Michael Bendis took over Daredevil, he almost rebooted a totally different character as part of the Marvel Knights line
Follow along live to Prime Video's Blade Runner 2099 and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power from San Diego '26!
Join Prime Video at Prime Video's Blade Runner 2099 and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power at SDCC 2026 remotely, thanks to Popverse.
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Follow along to AMC's The Vampire Lestat panel from Hall H San Diego '26!
Is it time for Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned? Find out in the Vampire Lestat Hall H panel from SDCC 2026.
Grant DeArmitt
SDCC 2026 liveblog: DC's Next Level (Fri., 12:30 - 1:30pm)
Jules Chin Greene
Follow along to DC's Gotham City panel with Batman & more from San Diego '26!
Batman, Absolute Batman, and Gotham's future collide at SDCC—follow along live.
Jules Chin Greene
Comic-Con International: San Diego
Follow along to AMC's The Vampire Lestat panel from Hall H San Diego '26!
Is it time for Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned? Find out in the Vampire Lestat Hall H panel from SDCC 2026.
Grant DeArmitt
SDCC 2026 liveblog: DC's Next Level (Fri., 12:30 - 1:30pm)
Jules Chin Greene
Follow along to DC's Gotham City panel with Batman & more from San Diego '26!
Batman, Absolute Batman, and Gotham's future collide at SDCC—follow along live.
Jules Chin Greene
Follow along live to Prime Video's Blade Runner 2099 and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power from San Diego '26!
Join Prime Video at Prime Video's Blade Runner 2099 and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power at SDCC 2026 remotely, thanks to Popverse.
Grant DeArmitt
Image Comics
Blumhouse didn't think Jamie Foxx would sign on for the King Spawn movie... but they didn't know the actor had been pitching Todd McFarlane to do it for 15+ years
Todd McFarlane's upcoming Spawn movie is still a ways away, but Jamie Foxx has been the actor he's had in mind to play Al Simmons for years
Grant DeArmitt
Todd McFarlane's new Spawn doesn't need to make bank to be a success for him... it's up to fans, and if he can find the creators to continue it
McFarlane's latest addition to the Image Comics Spawn-Verse is slated to be a three-issue miniseries. Here's how that might change
Grant DeArmitt
The secret origin of the Todd McFarlane cape as seen in Batman and Spawn, according to Todd McFarlane
At this point in comicdom's history, a Todd McFarlane cape is recognizable from a mile away. Now, the Spawn co-creator explains how those dynamic shapes came together
Grant DeArmitt
Todd McFarlane hasn’t named his new (and the first!) Spawn yet.. and hopes fans will come up with a meme name he can "borrow"
McFarlane's latest project in the image Comics Spawn-Verse hasn't gotten to the "assigning a codename" stage quite yet
Grant DeArmitt
Five Nights at Freddy's
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 movie drops Scott Cawthon from script duties, replaces him with Annabelle writer
Cawthon, who created Five Nights at Freddy's and had script credits for the first and second Blumhouse films, is stepping aside for Gary Dauberman to write the script
Grant DeArmitt
Five Nights at Freddy's peels back the mysteries of movie-making with new book co-written by Scott Cawthon
FNAF creator Scott Cawthon will be contributing to a behind-the-scenes book about the making of the Blumhouse Five Nights at Freddy's movies
Graeme McMillan
How a FNAF movie leak "disheartened" creator Scott Cawthon, but the FNAF fans helped him regain his faith in humanity
Learning that the Five Nights at Freddy's movie was leaked online left FNAF creator Scott Cawthon feeling "really, really disheartened."
Jules Chin Greene
A Five Nights at Freddy’s star thought she was auditioning for a Freddy Krueger movie, even after she got hired
Kat Conner Sterling thought that Five Nights at Freddy’s was a Freddy Kruegger movie, and couldn’t understand why fans kept sending her bear emojis
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
The Mighty Nein
Why is The Mighty Nein so much darker than The Legend of Vox Machina? Critical Role's Ashley Johnson has an idea
Johnson, who plays Yasha Nydoorin in Prime Video's second animated Critical Role adaptation, says that the darker tone of the series goes all the way back to the cast's character creation in Campaign 2
Grant DeArmitt
The real inspiration behind Sam Riegel's Mighty Nein character? Parenting
Parenting is tough, but parenting in the middle of a Critical Role campaign is something else entirely.
Trent Cannon
The Mighty Nein season 2 release date schedule (Updated June 2026): When the Critical Role series returns to Amazon's Prime Video
What time do new Mighty Nein episodes come out? Here's what we know so far about the season 2 schedule
Grant DeArmitt
The Critical Role cast can’t agree on the franchise’s most misunderstood character, but their picks are eye-opening
In honor of Legend of Vox Machina season 4, Critical Role's Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jafe, Marisha Ray, Travis Willingham, Ashley Johnson, LIam O'Brien, and Sam Riegel sat down to debate which of their characters was least appreciated
Grant DeArmitt