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December 2022 Archive

    1. What to watch: Best Movies to stream in January 2023, one movie one streamer
    2. Mythology redefined: A look at Wonder Woman Historia
    3. Kang just went up and spoiled some big Avengers, X-Men, and other heroes' stories for 2023 (or did Marvel put him up to it?)
    4. Watch the Queers in the Mainstream panel from NYCC '22 with Phil Jimenez, Danny Lore, Amy Reeder, and more
    5. Watch the Sesame Street The Musical panel from NYCC '22 with Jonathan Rockefeller, Tyler Bunch, Dr. Rosemarie Truglio, and SJ Arnegger
    1. Watch Playbill's Broadway Bard panel from NYCC '22 with Gabby Beans, Max Crumm, Julian Elijah Martinez, Colleen Litchfield, David Andrew Laws, and Jim Cairl
    1. Watch the Mark Gruenwald and the Mighty Marvel Bullpen panel from NYCC 2022
    2. Watch Playbill's Tune In panel from NYCC '22 with Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Cinco Paul, and Frankie Grande
    1. Watch the Broadway Beetlejuice panel from NYCC '22 with Alex Brightman, Elizabeth Teeter, Scott Brown, Mark Kaufman, and Jenny Gersten
    1. Watch the Big Broadway Nerd panel from NYCC '22 with Mason Alexander Park, Justin Matthew Sargent , Jenna Leigh Green, and Fergie Auguste Phillipe
    1. The Witcher: How to watch Netflix's The Witcher in chronological and release order
    2. The Witcher: Blood Origin Netflix ending explained: your biggest questions answered
    3. Who is Avallac'h? The Witcher: Blood Origin character explained
    4. The Witcher: Blood Origin - Everything we know about the prequel spin-off
    1. A '60s style Swingin’ Christmas Carol with the Teen Titans in Day 24 of the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar
    1. The 2022 Christmas and holiday cards from DC, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and more
    2. Who owns AfterShock? The founders, staffers, investment fund, and Donny Cates, as listed by its main creditor
    3. Ambush Bug jumps out of the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar on day 23
    4. Anime gift guide: The best gifts for any Otaku this holiday season
    5. Popverse's top TV picks of 2022
    6. Finished watching the Glass Onion? Watch these seven other whodunits to keep you in the mystery mood
    7. Lee Bermejo reflects on his industry beginnings and acclaimed work
    1. Move over Spider-Man, Mary Jane Watson has super powers as well (and she’s been keeping it a secret)
    2. Watch as Jillian Rudes and other manga experts dive into the best and worst manga of 2022
    3. Dark Crisis: Black Adam’s long road to bonafide superheroism
    4. Welcome to the Popverse Comic Advent Calendar 2022
    5. Yes, Virginia, there is a homicidal robot pretending to be Ol' Saint Nick in Day 22 of the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar
    6. Darkest before Dawn: Dark Crisis and the Dawn of DC
    1. The coming of Magog: Behind the Kingdom Come villain’s shocking return
    2. Popverse's top movie picks of 2022
    3. The $13+ million dollar loan default which led AfterShock (and its film/tv division) to file for bankruptcy
    4. Is there a place for Willow in the current fantasy TV landscape?
    5. Celebrate Winter Solstice with Wonder Woman and Batman in Day 21 of the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar
    6. Batman: How to watch all Batman movies in chronological and release order
    1. Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #7: Joshua Williamson & Daniel Sampere unpack the crossover’s epic finale
    2. AfterShock Comics' managing editor exits and replacement is promoted as bankruptcy filings underway
    3. AfterShock Comics sibling Rive Gauche also files bankruptcy, with Discovery Networks, AMC, and TBS as creditors
    4. AfterShock Comics' VP of finance left just as bankruptcy proceedings began
    5. Watch the Legend of Vox Machina season 2 panel from New York Comic Con 2022
    6. AfterShock Comics bankruptcy reveals Chris Ryall never began working for the company despite announcement
    7. Light in the darkness: How Nightwing illuminates Dark Crisis
    8. Santa Claus joins the Justice League in Day 20 of the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    1. Exciting and terrifying: Comics creators on making comics outside of traditional models
    2. Popverse's top comics picks for 2022
    3. Batman: The Animated Series team takes on a Mall Santa in Day 19 of the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    1. It's Hanukkah time with the Thing in Day 18 of the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar
    1. Day 17 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    1. Lea Thompson pitched a Howard the Duck film to Marvel Studios, and she's not giving up hope
    2. AfterShock Comics responds to criticism over late payments to creators
    3. Donald Glover to produce and star in a Hypno-Hustler movie (No, really)
    4. Five weird (but still heartwarming, kind of) comics Christmas specials to dive into this holiday season
    5. Garth Ennis to revive classic UK comic character Rogue Trooper for 2000 AD
    6. Henry Cavill gets an early Christmas present, with Warhammer finally set up at Amazon
    7. Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes make Christmas special in Day 16 of Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    8. Netflix's Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a sprawling, sometimes biting, mystery delight
    1. Greg Rucka returns to Image Comics with space opera Forged
    2. D&D: How to play Dungeons & Dragons
    3. To build a new future for DC films, James Gunn is leaving the DCEU behind
    4. Darwyn Cooke and Spider-Man ring in Day 15 of the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    1. Batman's heart of darkness: Mike Hawthorne talks reuniting with Chip Zdarsky on Batman
    2. Why are the creators of a Free Comic Book Day comic asking fans to boycott their work?
    3. Marvel re-writes the origin of mutantkind (and the X-Men who followed) in Marauders #9
    4. Can AI paint electric sheep?: Some thoughts on art generated by artificial intelligence
    5. Greg Capullo to return to Marvel in 2023
    6. Wonder Woman 3 is no longer happening at Warner Bros, according to reports
    7. Was Disney's 2012 purchase of Lucasfilm a good deal?
    8. Day 14 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    9. Marvel has created its own Naruto (but Spider-Man just lit him on fire)
    1. Caped crusaders: Batman and Spawn finally reunite
    2. The 2022 Cosplay Central Crown Championships contestants: high quality photos of all the finalists and winners
    3. Harley Quinn is going to screw up the DCU this March
    4. Sean Astin and Elijah Wood reveal that the four original Hobbits share their New York Times mini crossword times on a group chat every day
    5. The Cosplay Central Crown Championships 2022 - a story in pictures from the global finals
    6. First Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer shows first look at Issa Rae's Spider-Woman
    7. Day 13 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    8. Hayao Miyazaki's next (and final?) movie gets an official title and a release date
    9. 10 questions (and 10 answers) telling you everything you need to know before Avatar: The Way of Water
    1. CBLDF: The book ban movement is aiming to demonize the 'graphic' in 'graphic novel'
    2. Black Adam's ending and surprise post-credits scene explained
    3. Gene Luen Yang and the quintessential American superhero, Superman
    4. Day 12 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    5. The 9 best Christmas horror movies
    1. Day 11 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    1. Day 10 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    1. All in the Asgardian Family: Unpacking all the recent drama in Thor’s family tree
    2. The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie is a finale that fans of the anime and manga may (or may not) want
    3. Watch The Owl House panel from NYCC with Dana Terrace, Cissy Jones, Zeno Robinson, Alex Hirsch, Sarah-Nicole Robles, and Mae Whitman
    4. Do Black Adam and other DC antiheroes appeal more to the general public?
    5. Meredith Gran looks back on 15 years of Octopus Pie
    6. This March, Superman gets Lost in a new ten-issue miniseries
    7. Nightwing #100 will feature contributions from artists throughout Dick Grayson's history
    8. Day 9 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    1. The Batman movie co-writer Mattson Tomlin teams with iconic Joker artist Lee Bermejo for their own story, A Vicious Circle
    2. Making the invisible visible: An interview with Jesse Lonergan, creator of Hedra
    3. Marvel announces a new Doctor Strange ongoing title launching March 2023
    4. Day 8 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    5. Holiday geek gift ideas for the whole family
    1. The Los Angeles Public Library brings library cards and free short stories to L.A. Comic Con
    2. Watch an expert's guide to pitching to create comics with NYCC Panel with Joe Illidge, Lysa Hawkins, Buddy Scalera, Nelson DeCastro, & Darren Sanchez
    3. Star Wars' Bad Batch season 2 trailer, episode release dates, and more revealed
    4. Day 7 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    5. Who is Adam Warlock in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3?
    1. Pulp fiction: Behind the return of Slam Bradley
    2. Science makes its way to Los Angeles Comic Con
    3. Comic Shop News, comics journalism staple, sold after 35 years
    4. Comics writer Greg Pak is crowdfunding a memoir/guide to analog photography
    5. Inside the re-birth of Star Wars and the creation of Thrawn with Timothy Zahn
    6. Netflix and Outback Steakhouse are asking you to murder a Bloomin' Glass Onion (and destroy the evidence)
    7. Day 6 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    1. How Midnighter & Apollo are called into Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths for the final battle
    2. Popverse Deputy Editor TIffany Babb talks with Off Panel's David Harper
    3. Chris Claremont talks X-Men and finding balance between comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe
    4. L.A. Comic Con, a local convention with (pretty much) no lines
    5. Marvel's Old Man Logan universe gets a crossover - in podcasting- with Wastelanders finale
    6. All the best cosplay from L.A. Comic Con 2022
    7. Day 4 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    8. Day 5 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    1. Day 3 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    1. What the first Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 trailer tells us about Rocket's earliest days
    2. Ironheart: Who is Riri Williams, the newest MCU hero?
    3. Tom King & Elsa Charretier chat Love Everlasting
    4. DC's Lazarus Planet event adds an all-new sequel event, Lazarus Planet: Revenge of the Gods
    5. Indiana Jones 5 gets a name and a trailer - watch now!
    6. Day 2 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    1. How did Judgment Day change the Marvel Universe?
    2. Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 trailer shows first looks at Adam Warlock, High Evolutionary, and Rocket's tragic past
    3. Get primal with the first trailer for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
    4. Oni Press names BOOM! Studios veteran Hunter Gorinson as its new president and publisher
    5. What would Eddie Campbell's Bacchus look like as a TV show? We're about to find out
    6. Day 1 in the Popverse Comics Advent Calendar 2022
    7. A second, even more rare, Eminem/Marvel Amazing Spider-Man #1 variant went on sale and "crashed the site"
    8. This Month in Comics History, December 2022
    9. Mile High Comics is raising money for the staff of Club Q through a prize drawing