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SpoilersThe Last of Us season 2 ending explained, what will happen in season 3, and why we think there's a season 4 ahead [Lore Corner]
What happened to Ellie, Dina, Abby & the rest in The Last of Us season 2 finale? We're going to tell you everything, so don't proceed unless you're ok with spoilers
May 26, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Nintendo hasn't cared about graphics as much as others since the Game Boy and that is why the Switch was such a success [Gamify My Life]
Nintendo hasn't tried to compete with Sony or Microsoft in terms of graphical power and the Switch 2 will be no different.
May 26, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Ru Paul's Drag Race stars Arantxa Castilla la Mancha and Scarlett Harlett took over the MCM Comic Con stage - and we filmed it all!
Our Spanish Hannah Montana and everyone's favorite cockney princess did their thing in MCM's Meet the Queens: Arantxa Castilla la Mancha and Scarlett Harlett.
May 26, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Watch In Conversation with David Tennant from London's MCM 2025!
The Doctor (or Demon, your call) was in as David Tennant takes the Main Stage for London's MCM Comic Con 2025
May 24, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning ending explained: What happens, who dies, and what's next after the latest M:I movie
Big spoilers ahead for the latest Tom Cruise actioneer. Don't read on unless you've already seen Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (or want it all spoiled for you)
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Tom Cruise slips up as Mission: Impossible gets lost in fan service with The Final Reckoning
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning plays out like a movie where filmmakers have become self conscious about the reaction to the last movie in the series and want fans' approval too much
May 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Deadpool and My Hero Academia's All Might punching Thanos is still the best crossover team-up in Marvel history [Popverse Jump]
The Merc With A Mouth was never more relatable than when he was fanboying over teaming up with All Might in Deadpool Samurai
May 23, 2025
Trent Cannon
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The Sentry in Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* is Spider-Man for depressed people like me
After years of feeling alienated from the MCU, I've found a hero I see myself in with The Sentry from Thunderbolts*
May 23, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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How Giant-Size X-Men #1 rescued a franchise and changed the shape of Marvel’s publishing empire forever
Inside the giant-sized X-Men revamp that saved Marvel's mutants, using inspiration and rejected ideas from two DC projects.
May 22, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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If It Bleeds, We Read: How the Hunger Games' Sunrise on the Reaping makes revolutionary ideas legible for YA readers
Suzanne Collins's latest Hunger Games prequel book doesn't shy away from political theory
May 22, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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For Your Consideration: Before Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, we uncovered perfect spy movies in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Skyfall, and... Confessions of a Dangerous Mind?!?
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning might put Tom Cruise into spy retirement, but we have some other agents worth your attention
May 21, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Remember the fantastical & the failures of SEGA's Dreamcast
Sega created the PS2 before the PS2 with its Dreamcast - but that wasn't enough to avoid the death of Sega's console dreams. Here is that story.
May 21, 2025
Chris Arrant
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The blue collar Dark Knight of Absolute Batman is the Batman I need right now
When money is the one thing missing from Batman's toolbelt, Bruce Wayne is even more resourceful and more Batman.
May 21, 2025
Carl Waldron
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Watch the Nickelodeon Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon reunion from London's MCM x EGX
Watch as Zach Eisen (Aang), Jack De Sena (Sokka), Michaela Jill Murphy (Toph), and Jenie Kwan (Suki) talk all things ATLA.
May 20, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Inside the mind & stories of Stephen King's detective for our time, Holly Gibney, ahead of his new novel Never Flinch
Here’s where to find the backstory for Never Flinch’s Holly, and why it’s worth catching up with her story.
May 20, 2025
Avery Kaplan
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Marvel Matters: The MCU has grown from movies to TV series & cartoons - but MCU comics? It's tougher than you think
The idea of MCU comics is as old as the MCU itself, but despite owning a comics company Marvel Studios hasn't been able to make it work (although they've tried).
May 20, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Elden Ring Nightreign fixes my biggest problem with the original and all the Soulsborne games - my overthinking and analysis paralysis
I am very acquainted with the bonfire of Elden Ring.
May 20, 2025
Carl Waldron
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Popverse Free Preview Week: Celebrate our 3rd anniversary by seeing all the articles, columns, and panel videos you're missing!
Get a Popverse membership at a discount and see what you've been missing.
May 19, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Lore Corner: HBO's The Last of Us season 2 rewrites Pearl Jam history, but it works
The Last of Us Part II players know that Pearl Jam's Future Days plays an important role in the game, but there's something you should know about how it was worked into the show
May 19, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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Hear your favorite video game music as you never have before with the Level Up! Vocal Ensemble from ECCC '25
Level Up! Vocal Ensemble: A Video Game Music Concert was filmed live at Emerald City Comic Con's Pine Stage. Put some headphones in and have a listen now
May 19, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Popversations: Dandadan's Kari Wahlgren walks us through voice acting career and her action figure collection
In this edition of Popversations, a members-only video interview series, Ashley V. Robinson talks to Kari Wahlgren about her career voicing characters in Dandadan, Marvel, DC, Star Wars, and beyond!
May 19, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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Watch the Blue Lock anime reunion with the voice actors behind Yoichi, Rin, and Megura from MCM x EGX
Ricco Fajardo, Matt Shipman, and Drew Breedlove talk Blue Lock at London's MCM x EGX.
May 19, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Gamify My Life: The most important part of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion was always the bugs and I'm glad the Remaster kept them in
If the game isn't straining under the weight of the developers' ambition, it wouldn't be Oblivion.
May 19, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Popverse Picks: Asian Pacific American comics and books that break the mold
Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with this edition of Popverse Picks
May 19, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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James Tynion IV & Michael Walsh's Exquisite Corpses is gamifying a battle royale murder party - and it makes me want to play the game (if they make one!)
It's Clue meets Magic: The Gathering in the killer comic Exquisite Corpses
May 19, 2025
Carl Waldron
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Lore Corner: Who are the Seraphites? The Last of Us season 2 sets up a major big bad for season 3
Who are those cultists from The Last of Us season 2, episode 5, and what do those scars mean? Let's talk about the Seraphites
May 16, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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Watch NowWatch the Cosplay Central Costume Showcase from Chicago's C2E2 2025
See your favorite anime, video game, TTRPG, and even mascot characters come to life at the Cosplay Central Costume Showcase, filmed at C2E2 2025
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch NowNo city 'Yes, And's like Chicago, as the Second City improv troupe proved at C2E2 '25
Couldn't make the hysterical performance of Chicago's legendary improv program as they performed at McCormick Place? Don't worry, Popverse was there to catch the laughs
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch NowWatch as Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2 stars Roger Clark (Arthur Morgan) & Rob Weithoff (John Marston) saddle up one more time for a reunion from Chicago's C2E2 2025
It was high noon in Chicago as Roger Clark and Rob Weithoff came to C2E2 for the Outlaws for Life panel. But if you weren't fast enough on the draw, you can still see the whole thing here
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch NowWatch Patton Oswalt's new Effervescent comedy special from this year's C2E2
To be fair, we couldn't catch the smell, but we did record all of Patton Oswalt's Effervescent stand-up show at Chicago's premiere pop culture event
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Watch NowRelive the C2E2 Talent Show, 2025 edition, right here!
Popverse was there for all the singers, stand-ups, and spectacles... and we're bringing the event directly to you
May 16, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Ignore the marketing, Lazarus is not Cowboy Bebop 2.0 - and I'm thankful for that [Popverse Jump]
While it is easy to compare Shinichiro Watanabe's latest anime to his most iconic work, Lazarus is so much more than a rehash of Cowboy Bebop.
May 16, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Solo Leveling season 3 may take much longer than you think to get a release date, with Crunchyroll saying the studio is busy with other things
We're looking at a long delay for Solo Leveling season 3, despite most of the staff being up to work on it.
May 16, 2025
Trent Cannon
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ABC's Lost cast: 15 years after that series finale, here's where they are now
What have the Oceanic Flight 815 survivors been up to since Lost ended? We found out.
May 16, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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For Your Consideration: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween and Scream perfected the horror sequel years before Final Destination: Bloodlines
Whether perfecting the formula, subverting it, or simply ignoring it, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, Scream 2, and Halloween III are some of the greatest horror sequels ever made
May 14, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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How Andor introduced a new kind of Star Wars hero
What Star Wars: Andor teaches us about everyday rebellion.
May 13, 2025
Gavia Baker Whitelaw
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The Alexandria RPG Library at PAX East connected me to the tabletop games of yore
The Alexandria RPG Library is a massive collection of out-of-print TTRPG books, and I went nuts at PAX East over them
May 12, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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HANK: Drowning on Dry Land is Batman: The Animated Series, if Batman could manipulate time and was always drunk
Playing HANK: Drowning on Dry Land at PAX East 2025 brought me back to a beloved part of my childhood, while giving me something I haven't seen in gaming before now
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Carnies on Consoles: A shocking personal realization from PAX East 2025 concerning the connection between spectacles from ye olden days and now
Talk about "geek" culture! Get it? Because PAX East and carnivals both... nevermind
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Popverse Picks: The best Stephen King movie & TV (and more) adaptations, from one King fan to another
It's maybe the greatest horror movie of all time, but King himself doesn't like it - so let's just skip Stanley Kubrick's The Shining altogether and get into some other things based on Stephen's works, yeah?
May 12, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Tom Cruise's Final Reckoning - How the Mission: Impossible movies embrace time but reject aging
While time shapes the world around Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt in the M:I franchise, it leaves the secret agent (and the actor) himself untouched.
May 12, 2025
Leon Miller
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Upend your ideas of what a "cozy game" is with this political indie game about post-colonial Southeast Asia
Compensation Not Guaranteed by Toge Productions is a gorgeous and hard-hitting look at post-colonial governments in Southeast Asia
May 11, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Affinity for complexity: A Wizards of the Coast executive revealed how they gauge how complex (or how simple) to make a Magic: The Gathering set like Final Fantasy
The Complexity Dial isn't a new card in Magic: The Gathering - it's an internal mechanic Wizards of the Coast uses to make the best product for fans.
May 11, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy set is more complex because Final Fantasy fans are already gamers, but is that what Final Fantasy fans want?
Magic: The Gathering’s crossover with Final Fantasy wants to be an entry point into both franchises for the two fandoms
May 10, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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I have finally met the PAX Pin Man here at PAX East (and his iconic 40 pound trenchcoat full of over 1000 pins)
For 14 years, one man has sought to collect every pin that Penny Arcade & PAX has ever made. He has collected over 1600 in the past 14 years, and he wears it all on one trench coat - but he space for three last ones he's missing.
May 10, 2025
Chris Arrant
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4,000 cans of Red Bull, live art & more: Inside the novel PAX East creator lounge for artists, streamers, and creators
Red Bull cans say they will "revitalize their body and mind", and here at PAX East, they're doing that with the drink and a lounge for creators.
May 09, 2025
Chris Arrant
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PAX East 2025’s Pokémon booth has made me realize how old I actually am
“PAX East 2025 reminded me that Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire came out in 2003!” “Alright, grandpa, pack it in.”
May 09, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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The Spy x Family ending is going to be Loid realizing he loves being a dad or I'm going to riot [Popverse Jump]
Twilight's journey in Spy x Family is inevitably heading toward him realizing that being a dad is important to him and I can't wait to see it happen.
May 09, 2025
Trent Cannon
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How to be a D&D Dungeon Master, according to Wizards of the Coast's game director James Wyatt and principal game designer James Wyatt
At MCM x EGX 2024, Wizards of the Coast held a TED Talk-level explanation of how to be a D&D DM - and we have it for you.
May 09, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Elden Ring Nightreign might finally be the game that turns me into a loot goblin
While watching a demo of Elden Ring Nightreign at PAX East 2025, I realized that in order to properly play the game, I’ll need to adapt my play style
May 09, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Watch the official Dragon Age panel talking Veilguard and more with BioWare lead producer Scylla Costa from London's MCM x EGX 2024
Return to Thedas with BioWare lead producer Scylla Costa as we share the Dragon Age panel filmed recently at London's MCM x EGX
May 08, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Watch Naughty Dog's Uncharted game cast reunite with Nolan North, Emily Rose & Richard McGonagle at London's MCM x EGX 2024
We have a treasure for Uncharted fans with an hour-long discussion about the Naughty Dog game franchise with stars Nolan North (Nathan Drake), Emily Rose (Elena Fisher), and Richard McGonagle (Victor 'Sully' Sullivan)
May 08, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Baldur's Gate 3 stars Jennifer English and Aliona Baranova go full-on squirrel with Popverse
In all seriousness... let's play the Squirrel Trivia game with part-time squirrel Aliona Baranova and Shadowheart's Jennifer English from Baldur's Gate 3.
May 08, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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Watch the Kristian Nairn spotlight panel, talking Game of Thrones and Our Flag Means Death, with Nathan Foad from London's MCM x EGX
You know him from Game of Thrones. You love from Our Flag Means Death. Now, see (and hear) an hour of Kristian Nairn talking about himself.
May 07, 2025
Chris Arrant
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The Last of Us season 2 has an A-ha moment: What 'Take On Me' means to the franchise
As we should expect by now, The Last of Us, season 2, episode 4 proved that it knows exactly which emotional moments to bring over directly from the games
May 07, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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For Your Consideration: Columbo, Quincy ME, and The Rockford Files walked so Rian Johnson's Poker Face could run
Natasha Lyonne's cult detective show is back on Peacock, and we're celebrating by revisiting some of the 1970s shows that inspired it: Quincy ME, The Rockford Files, and (of course) Columbo
May 07, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Critical Role's Travis Billingham and Laura Bailey duel over the ideal party leader, merchant haggler, and more in Popverse's Who is More Likely To?
Critical Role stars Laura Bailey & Travis Willingham face off in Popverse's Who Is More Likely To?
May 07, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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After being struck down 27 yeas ago, Star Wars' answer to Goosebumps is ready to become more powerful than we as kids could have imagined
If Lucasfilm and Disney want to tap into YA, 90s nostalgia, there may be a better option than what they went with in Skeleton Crew
May 07, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Marvel Matters: What Thunderbolts* says about the MCU
How Marvel Studios' Beef-ed up the MCU Phase 5 with Thunderbolts* and what it means for the new Avengers movies to come.
May 06, 2025
Chris Arrant
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This AAPI Month, let's hope Marvel Comics begins to think about the Pacific Islander (PI) characters and creators
Marvel Comics' attempts to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month have largely left out Pacific Islander characters and creators, and I'm tired
May 06, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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Watch the Tomb Raider reunion panel with Lara Croft voice actor Jonell Elliott and her Angel of Darkness co-star Eric Lauren
The primary voice of Tomb Raider's Lara Croft for the past 26 years, Jonell Elliott, opens up about the role at London's MCM x EGX 2024
May 05, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Popverse Picks: The best military and war movies, according to a US Army veteran
Movies like The Hurt Locker or Full Metal Jacket might not be truly accurate depictions of the military, but there are parts of it that will stick with you forever.
May 05, 2025
Trent Cannon
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SpoilersGod over greed: HBO's The Righteous Gemstones finds true faith amidst false idols in its series finale ending
How HBO's Righteous Gemstones found true faith amidst the false gods in season 4 series finale ending.
May 05, 2025
Alex Zalben
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Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* movie puts the final nail in the coffin for the Joss Whedon-era superhero film
Thunderbolts* has freed the MCU from the prison of Joss Whedon-esque dialogue dating back to 2012's The Avengers
May 02, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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The gold standard of a comic book artist for DC & Marvel and more, Jackson 'Butch' Guice dies at age 63
Jackson Guice, who brought the worlds of Superman, Captain America, and the Flash to life for four decades, has passed after a period of ill health, his family has announced
May 02, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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A love letter to the Yu Yu Hakusho English dub - the first great dub Funimation made [Popverse Jump]
With a cast that includes Laura Bailey, Christopher Sabat, and Linda Young, Yu Yu Hakusho remains one of the best dubs in anime history and certainly an early example of how good anime voice acting could be.
May 02, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Livestream all of Boston's PAX East 2025 free with Popverse
Watch the big panels from Magic: The Gathering, Larian Studios, and more with Popverse's PAX East 2025 livestream.
May 02, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Hazbin Hotel's Alex Brightman talks Broadway, Beetlejuice, and whether or not he has an extra vocal cord at Emerald City Comic Con!
Alex Brightman walks our staff writer Grant DeArmitt through his illustrious career on Broadway and in animation with shows like Hazbin Hotel
May 01, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
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After a string of bad & canceled DC Comics games, Warner Bros. (and Hollywood) need to trust independent game studios more (without having to own them)
Warner Bros's struggles to make video games shows that Hollywood needs to treat their brands like t-shirts
May 01, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Before Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts*, here are some great stories of bad guys turned good [For Your Consideration]
Everyone loves it when a bad guy does the right thing, and we're here to enjoy Clint Eastwood, Kurt Russell, and an entire Suicide Squad doing that very thing in honor of Marvel's Thunderbolts*
April 30, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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Who created Marvel's Sentry? The simmering Marvel Comics (and Marvel Studios) drama deepens as Paul Jenkins weighs in amid Thunderbolts* theatrical debut
In 2000, Marvel announced that Stan Lee and Artie Rosen created the Sentry. In the 25 years since, it's gotten more and more complicated
April 30, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Actually, the new Sherlock Holmes LEGO set from Barnes & Noble DOES count as a business expense
I'm just saying, when I put the Sherlock Holmes: Book Nook down in my taxes next year, I better not hear a damn peep from the IRS
April 30, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Spoilers! The Last of Us Part II ending explained: What happens - and who survives - in the game that inspired HBO's post-apocalyptic hit?
If you don't want to be emotionally blindsided like you were by The Last of Us season 2, episode 2, heres one way to prepare
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Here's every Sherlock Holmes story that's been used in CBS's Watson (so far)
Speaking in doctor terms, Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmesian canon doesn't make up the entire body of CBS hit medical mystery series Watson, but it is the backbone
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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How Star Wars and Luke Skywalker helped me learn to live with my mother's addiction and her death
Watching the original Star Wars trilogy after my mother died allowed me to process my own feelings of abandonment and hurt in a way that nothing else had.
April 29, 2025
Trent Cannon
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Lore Corner: Who are the Washington Liberation Front, and what do they mean for The Last of Us season 2?
The Last of Us season 2, episode 3 introduced a violent organization that played an important part in the games. Learn who the WLF are (and their connection to Abby Anderson) right here
April 29, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Sentry co-creator Rick Veitch calls Marvel "the House of Stolen Ideas" after his stake in the character overlooked for past 25 years - including in Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* movie
"Cut out" and "thrown under the bus": Marvel Comics' Sentry co-creator Rick Veitch opens up about his omission for the past 25 years and in the Thunderbolts* movie.
April 29, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Marvel Studios needs to create an evil Avengers for RDJ's Doctor Doom to match all those heroes of Doomsday (and he has a gameplan already in comics with the Cabal) [Marvel Matters]
MCU fans have spent all this time speculating on the next Avengers, but we need to think about the villains creating their own Avengers.
April 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Matthew McConaughey & Christian Bale made a ferocious dragon movie 2 decades ago - and it's time you saw it
Years before we knew who he really was, Matthew McConaughey played the most American of Americans, complete with a shaved head, tribal tattoos, and his own personal tank, in Reign of Fire.
April 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
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The Life of Chuck is the latest proof that Stephen King isn’t ‘just’ a horror writer
While King’s reputation may be for horror novels, to dismiss him as 'only' a horror writer is to overlook some of his best work such as Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption to The Life of Chuck.
April 28, 2025
Avery Kaplan
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Relive the action: VIZ Media's Ninjas, Samurai & Roosters panel from ECCC '25 is available to watch now
Didn't get enough of all the excited anime teases from VIZ media at this year's Emerald City Comic Con? Missed the panel altogether? Don't worry, Popverse has your back
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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From Golden Boy to Stuntman actor & 'Serious' actor: The three eras of Tom Cruise movies across his career
The three faces of Tom Cruise, from Risky Business to Mission: Impossible and into his more serious movies like Born on the Fourth of July.
April 28, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Popverse Picks: My favorite horror movie franchises (besides Scream)
Of course my favorite horror franchise is Scream - everyone's favorite horror franchise is Scream. What we're going for here is my favorite you *don't* already know
April 28, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Lore Corner: The Last of Us season 2 episode 3 changes the "bigot sandwich" moment from the game
In a minor but interesting departure from The Last of Us Part II game, HBO's The Last of Us series gave Seth, Jackson's resident homophobe, a chance to be a better man
April 28, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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Ms. Marvel & Overwatch 2's Anjali Bhimani discusses staying hungry as an artist, what it's like working on Critical Role, and the best X-Men to play in a video game
If you're a gamer, you've heard Anjali Bhimani's work, especially as Symmetra in Overwatch 2. But Bhimani's career stretches far beyond the recording booth, and Popverse got an exclusive window into the many mediums it covers
April 25, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
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Star Wars & Marvel are telling an '80s style continuation of Return of the Jedi (and defining what Luke Skywalker REALLY did before The Force Awakens)
Star Wars has kept the post-Return of the Jedi Luke Skywalker adventures secret for over a decade - now Marvel is filling in the blanks.
April 25, 2025
Leon Miller
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Berserk depicts swordfighting much more accurately than you might think, and I would know; I used to teach it [Popverse Jump]
Kentaro Miura knew how to fight with a sword and I can prove it with one page from Berserk.
April 25, 2025
Trent Cannon
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From Starship Troopers to Batgirl & SAW, Dina Meyer dishes on her favorite roles - and her favorite song to dance to
Popverse's Ashley V. Robinson talks with Dina Meyer about it all.
April 24, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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DC & New Yorker were once concocting a landmark Superman comic with Steven Spielberg, Bruce Springsteen, Maya Angelou, Howard Stern, and more
In an exclusive interview with Popverse, former DC Art Director Mark Chiarello revealed his greatest Elseworlds Superman project that might have been.
April 24, 2025
Dave Buesing
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Star Trek vs. Star Wars as creators from both sides face-off in Popversus: The pop culture fight club
We boldly went to a galaxy far far away and goaded two Star Wars and Star Trek creators to fight it out.
April 24, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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V.E. Schwab, Ella McLeod, & Veronica Roth face off in Celebrity Author Trivia at London's MCM x EGX
A live taping of Celebrity Author Trivia with Ella McLeod, Veronica Roth, & V.E. Scbwab recorded at MCM x EGX 2024 in London.
April 24, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Watch Divergent author Veronica Roth's spotlight panel from MCM x EGX 2024 in London
Veronica Roth talks about Divergent, her new series Curse Bearer, and how much her work owes itself to Chicago.
April 23, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Andor got you in a rebellious mood? Here are 3 more Star Wars stories to keep that going [For Your Consideration]
Even before Andor, from the Prequels to The Last Jedi, Star Wars has always been a political story... some times more than others. We're here to celebrate the 'more' of it all
April 23, 2025
Graeme McMillan
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SpoilersForget a blaster, the people skills of Cassian Andor are his greatest weapon as seen in Star Wars: Andor season 2 premiere
We get to really explore the cynicism and optimism of Diego Luna's Cassian Andor in Star Wars: Andor season 2.
April 23, 2025
Gavia Baker Whitelaw
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J.R.R. Tolkien or C.S. Lewis? Shades of Magic author V.E. Schwab reveals the two kinds of fantasy fiction, and which she writes
Watch Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil author V.E. Schwab's spotlight panel from London's MCM x EGX 2024.
April 22, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Marvel Matters: The cursed chalice of Marvel Studios' success, and the broken cinematic universe dreams it gave Hollywood
The Icarus effect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and how cost Warner Bros., Sony, Universal Pictures and more billions of dollars.
April 22, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Ahead of Netflix reboot, here's how the historical fiction anime Rose of Versailles helped me revisit my own history as a 'tomboy' and my "gender troubles"
How the Rose of Versailles anime helped me overcome being typecast as a teenage tomboy and encouraged me to question my gender identity.
April 22, 2025
Caroline Cao
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Ortegas or Melissa: We play Who Is More Likely To? with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Melissa Navia
Beam aboard with Popverse video producer Ashley V. Robinson for a conversation on the difference between actor Melissa Navia and her Starfleet character, helmsman Erica Ortegas
April 21, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
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The Donald Trump tariffs could scare off Halloween (and the costume industry) as we know it, with your favorite Halloween costumes set to double in price
Pixar's Inside Out characters were a big hit for Halloween 2024, and now in 2025 we may need to DIY it with these tariffs come October 31, 2025.
April 21, 2025
Chris Arrant
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Popverse Picks: From Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man to Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel, our favorite all-time MCU castings
Who knew that Batman would make the perfect Spider-Man villain? Or that we'd fall in love with Peggy Carter in all her multiversal appearances.
April 21, 2025
Trent Cannon