Spotlight
DanDaDan and Spy x Family editor taking applications to live rent-free in apartment complex for other manga creators
VUY launched this year and aims to help manga creators by removing any outside burden or distractions to their work.
Trent Cannon
NYCC 2026 reveals new exclusive merch and an early pre-order window for Superfans and VIPs
Popverse Superfans & NYCC VIPs can get a bulk of their merch shopping done early, leaving more time for [insert fun here] at New York Comic Con.
Chris Arrant
Jason Momoa cast himself in Street Fighter
The director said that Jason Momoa had "contagious" enthusiasm right from the moment he was cast in Street Fighter.
Trent Cannon
Daniel Warren Johnson turned down DC's Absolute Batman for Transformers, and somehow everyone won
Scott Snyder approached Daniel Warren Johnson about Absolute Batman, but the Eisner Award-winning creator was busy with Transformers
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Oh yeah, Critical Role's Sam Riegel has considered playing a Kobold... and making an all-Kobold game
The Legend of Vox Machina's own Scanlan Shorthalt is a fan of "playing smaller characters," as if you needed to know that
Grant DeArmitt
Best gifts for Dungeons & Dragons fans in 2026: 7 picks we actually recommend
Best gifts for Dungeons & Dragons fans in 2026 (Editor's Picks)
Jules Chin Greene
Latest
Ghost in the Shell is coming to America, and the FBI has its own Puppeteer problem in new spin-off manga
Two powerful AIs fight for the future of humanity in this manga set alongside the original Ghost in the Shell manga.
Forget the multiverse: Jack Kirby’s house brought together Star Wars, the Misfits, and comics royalty
Jack Kirby’s California home was apparently the ultimate nerd crossover event.
Charlie Cox still doesn't entirely like how he sounds as Daredevil
Putting on an American accent is tough for the English actor, but one phrase in particular was nearly his undoing.
It took Guillermo del Toro more than a decade to love Pan’s Labyrinth like the rest of us
Ahead of the Pan's Labyrinth 20th anniversary rerelease, del Toro called shooting the dark fantasy film "harrowing"
Don't expect much payoff from that Batman reference in Lanterns, according to star
Sheriff Kerry Kane might be from Gotham, but that doesn't mean she has any connection with DC Studios' missing Batman.
Jim Lee has some "crazy ideas" for more DC/Marvel crossovers, including "not just the characters everybody knows"
On the heels of the best-selling Batman/Deadpool and Superman/Spider-Man crossovers, Lee says he's thought about how to do Marvel x DC crossovers that don't just rely on the most popular characters
Critical Role's Laura Bailey & Travis Willingham share their favorite Dispatch lines
Laura Bailey couldn’t repeat her favorite Dispatch line at Comic-Con. Blame the Sour Patch Kids.
For his The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power role, Stranger Things' Jamie Campbell Bower channelled J.R.R. Tolkien's real-life romance
The same love that inspired Tolkien's romantic saga Beren and Lúthien will be with Bower as he steps into the role of Celeborn in Rings of Power season 3
Magic: The Gathering’s new boosters are stuck in the Panama Canal, and not even Jace can fix it
MTG needs to tap some blue mana because Reality Fracture boosters are trapped in the Panama Canal.
The Lord of the Rings' Galadriel is known for showing others terrifying visions. In The Rings of Power season 3, she'll be the victim of her own prophesies
Rings of Power actor Morfydd Clark spoke to the "intense, intrusive thoughts" her elven character will be wrestling with in the upcoming Prime Video season
The 10 best Jim Lee comics, from Batman: Hush to his legendary X-Men run
From X-Men to Batman: Hush, these are the 10 comics that made Jim Lee an icon.
Best Christmas movies in 2026: 5 picks we actually recommend [Pop Shop]
Best movies for Christmas in 2026 (Editor's Picks)
Marvel’s Spider-Man actor Yuri Lowenthal is getting personal about grief for the comic Shrub
The voice behind Peter Parker in Marvel’s Spider-Man and Marvel Rivals has written a new foreword for Fanbase Press’ Shrub collected edition.
These “gloriously ugly space weirdos” revive ’70s toy history, with a Larry Hama-sized salute to Snake Eyes
Wandering Planet Toys’ Planetoid Raiders turn the bootleg energy of Starroid Raiders into a new line of retro-styled action figures.
Slow Horses star Gary Oldman says he doesn't know if co-star Jack Lowden is playing James Bond
Despite recent comments implying otherwise, Gary Oldman is merely rooting for Jack Lowden to be the next 007 and doesn't know more than we do.
Guillermo del Toro thinks "full-on comedy," is very difficult to do, but there is one Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode he wishes he'd directed
Del Toro, AKA Pappy McPoyle to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia fans, might have a favorite season 5 episode with some... er, body horror?
Current Doctor Who pause is necessary for the future of the show, explains long-time series producer
BBC Studios has put the future of the long-running sci-fi series on hold, but that could be exactly what Doctor Who needs.
Critical Role's Matt Mercer didn't intend on connecting the Age of Umbra miniseries. Then Vico Ortiz showed up
Never let anyone say that Our Flag Means Death star Ortiz doesn't do their TTRPG homework. Just look at how they brought the first season of Critical Role's Age of Umbra into the character they played in the sequel
Why manga is black & white and Webtoons are color, according to Eleceed illustrator Zhena
Zhena explains that it isn't cost that stops manga from being in full color; it is how people read the different mediums.
Image Comics boss Todd McFarlane says convention sketches are hiding some of comics’ best artwork
Spawn creator Todd McFarlane says a huge percentage of comic book art is never seen by the public, due to it being hoarded by fans
Critical Role's Matt Mercer was looking forward to a major scene with one Campaign 4 character. Then Brennan Lee Mulligan killed them
Heads up, Critical Role fan - we're getting into some pretty heavy spoiler territory regarding Mercer's Sir Julien Davinos. Don't say we didn't warn you
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Super Saiyan 3 is the cleverest story moment that Dragon Ball ever had
Fans complain that Super Saiyan 3 isn't used to defeat anyone in Dragon Ball, but that was kind of the point.
Trent Cannon
The Marvel Universe will never be the same after Popverse Playlist for September 12-18, 2026
Avengers: Armageddon is promising a big change for Marvel's comic book universe, Apple's failed secret agents are back in a new Slow Horses season, and it's time for more Resident Evil from the man behind Weapons
Graeme McMillan
Chainsmoker Cat is the grossest, most honest portrayal of addiction in anime [Popverse Jump]
Netflix is delivering one of the most memorable anime in recent years and it is, arguably, about cat girls getting high.
Trent Cannon
New York Comic Con
NYCC 2026 reveals new exclusive merch and an early pre-order window for Superfans and VIPs
Popverse Superfans & NYCC VIPs can get a bulk of their merch shopping done early, leaving more time for [insert fun here] at New York Comic Con.
Chris Arrant
Here is where to watch all the big New York Comic Con 2026 panels
Watch all the big panels from NYCC 2026 for free with Popverse.
Chris Arrant
Dragon Ball Super: Beerus release date announced, with an advanced screening for fans at New York Comic Con
Want to see the first episode of Dragon Ball Super: Beerus early? Get yourself to New York Comic Con next month.
Trent Cannon
House of the Dragon's Matt Smith is coming to NYCC 2026!
The star of House of the Dragon, Doctor Who, The Crown, and next year's Star Wars: Starfighter will be making it to the Javits Center this October
Graeme McMillan
PAX West
Gravitas turns stacking rocks into a ruthless tabletop battle of balance and betrayal [Sponsored]
Gravitas is part strategy game, part sculpture, and part glorious rockslide waiting to happen.
Ashley V. Robinson
Riot’s Marc Merrill says the games industry isn’t collapsing. Players are correcting it
Players are rejecting the games industry’s live-service obsession, according to Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill, telling companies, “We don’t want this stuff”
Chris Arrant
The League of Legends MMO has a fitting nickname inside Riot Games: The Grail
After a decade in development, Riot still sees its League of Legends MMO as a “worthy quest”
Chris Arrant
Civilization VII hired historians to name its planets, but your dog or cat’s name works too
Civilization VII: Earthrise has historians with doctorates who are researching what various Earth civilizations would name the planets
Jules Chin Greene
Rick Remender
DC offered Rick Remender Batman and the Absolute Universe, but he says he turned them down: "It feels like playing cover songs to me."
DC offered Rick Remender Batman, but there's one obscure superhero team he'd actually consider.
Chris Arrant
Uncanny X-Force's Deadpool was secretly a creator-owned character for writer Rick Remender, because he never read a Deadpool comic before
Rick Remender had never read a Deadpool comic before writing Uncanny X-Force
Jules Chin Greene
Marvel Comics have tried to get Rick Remender to come back to relaunch the X-Men twice, he says
Rick Remender walked away from Marvel's X-Men because he wanted to make comics "without anybody telling me" what he could do.
Chris Arrant
New Image imprint Giant Generator signs 12 Marvel and DC artists for future projects
Artists from titles like Black Panther, Punisher, Wonder Woman and more are signing on to a creator-controlled plan
Graeme McMillan
Dispatch
Critical Role's Laura Bailey & Travis Willingham share their favorite Dispatch lines
Laura Bailey couldn’t repeat her favorite Dispatch line at Comic-Con. Blame the Sour Patch Kids.
Grant DeArmitt
Critical Role's Laura Bailey & Travis Willingham both want the same thing from Dispatch 2: more Malevola Gibb
Bailey & Willingham - who voice Dispatch's Invisigal and Phenomaman, respectively - want to see more of the game's demonic ex-villain, voiced by Alanah Pierce
Grant DeArmitt
What the Critical Role Exandrian video game is taking from Dispatch, according to Travis Willingham
The hit game Dispatch was made with a lot of Critical Role support - and now the success of that game is informing Critical Role's first video game.
Grant DeArmitt
What your Dispatch ship choice says about you
This is a judgement free zone, friends, so let your Dispatch romance option of choice reveal a little more about you
Trent Cannon