Grant DeArmitt
News
Why isn't Peter Jackson directing the next Lord of the Rings movie? Because Andy Serkis knows Gollum better
Sure, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy defined the cinematic Middle-earth, but when it came to Smeagol getting a solo storyline, he knew there was only one guy to direct
May 15, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Veronica Roth's Seek the Traitor's Son is her Alysa Liu moment, says the Divergent author, and a way to buck the haters
For years, Roth focused on not being "what everyone accused [her] of being" in her early career. But with Seek the Traitor's Son, she's focusing more on making something she loves... kinda like what a certain Olympian does on the ice
May 15, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Veronica Roth pushes back on 'romantasy' classification with Seek the Traitor's Son - even though it has romance + fantasy
To be clear - adult dystopia Seek the Traitor's Son definitely *is* a blend of genres, as best-selling author Roth will tell you. It's just not that kind of genre-blend
May 14, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Laura Bailey began Campaign 4 with one heartbreaking hope - that she could save Thjazi Fang
Would enough Nat20s have saved Thjazi Fang from GM Brennan Lee Mulligan's tragic schemes? Maybe not, but that didn't stop Thimble, AKA Laura Bailey, from wishing
May 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
More Punisher after One Last Kill and Spider-Man: Brand New Day? Jon Bernthal is down, on one condition
With Frank Castle's future in the MCU undetermined after he joins the next Spider-Man movie, Jon Bernthal is making it clear he is up for returning to another chapter, so long as he's the one producing it
May 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Doom Patrol, Legion of Super-Heroes, Demon, & more: DC Next Level character relaunches are planned out for the next 18 months, confirms Scott Snyder
Absolute Batman author Snyder says there's "a lot of books" in DC's Next Level line that have yet to get an announcement. And a recent Deadshot reveal has us wondering if there isn't a larger plan afoot
May 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Paranormal Activity heads from movie theaters to... Broadway?
Not only is Blumhouse's killer found footage franchise heading to Broadway, its bringing stage scare legend Felix Barrett of Sleep No More on as director
May 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
DC & Marvel aren't doing long creator runs as much anymore because comic readers aren't supporting them as much anymore, says 15+ year comics veteran Scott Snyder
Absolute Batman writer Snyder isn't dissing the comics industry, where he says, "a lot of things are overperforming and there’s a lot of new readership and a lot of excitement," but he is pointing at what's different from the past decade
May 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Sam Riegel's iconic Critical Role sponsorships have been a bit too, er, iconic for some of their sponsors
"Some advertisers specifically request me," says Critical Role's oddball hypeman Sam Riegel, "And some specifically request not me."
May 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Before The Marvels, Nia DaCosta pitched Marvel a Galactus movie that would've reset the MCU
"I'm really, really into Galactus," says the Candyman and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple director, "That's my guy."
May 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Ryan Coogler's X-Files reboot just nabbed a secret weapon from... well, Weapons
Amy Madigan has hopped aboard the X-Files train, making her the third Oscar-winner for a horror project to join the reboot
May 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Black Widow x Midsommer connection deepens: Ari Aster and Scarlett Johansson to work together on new horror Scapegoat
Hereditary director Aster & The Batman II star Johansson will team up on the mysterious upcoming horror film Scapegoat, details for which are scant if any
May 12, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Ngozi Ukazu's Check, Please! was first on/last off on the queer hockey romance craze; here's how it's coming back in this Heated Rivalry era
Check, Please! began as a webcomic in 2013 before being collected into two best-selling volumes. 13 years after the saga of Samwell Hockey began, creator Ngozi Ukazu is shifting focus to new lead players
May 12, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Amazing Digital Circus's Sean Chiplock credits the explosion of indie animation to companies like Warner Bros. & Disney treating their shows so poorly
Indie animation is getting a lot of things right these days, but according to The Amazing Digital Circus's Kinger Chiplock), part of what's going on is major companies getting things wrong
May 11, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
All of the Critical Role Campaign 4 convergence episodes have already shot, and it took almost eight hours according to Sam Riegel
Riegel, along with costars Taliesin Jaffe, Whitney Moore, Alexander Ward, and Luis Carazo, says Critical Role's Campaign 4 characters are coming back together soon, and they're going to have a very long reunion
May 11, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
What made Lee Pace return for The Lord of the Rings: the Hunt for Gollum? Maybe it's because Middle-earth gets people through tough times
The morally dubious King Thranduil will be back in The Hunt for Gollum doing whatever he believes best for the elves of Mirkwood, regardless of who gets in the way. The guy playing him, however, might have more altruistic motives
May 11, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
X-Men, Spider-Man, and more get absolutely dark, monstrous, and ultimately bloodthirsty in new Marvel Comics initiative
Jonathan Hickman returns to the X-Men for what he says is the first thing that's excited him this much at Marvel in years.
May 11, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
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?
May 08, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
What's next for GLITCH after The Amazing Digital Circus's finale? A dark, Wreck-It Ralph-style take on video games starring Helluva Boss, One Piece, and Smiling Friends headliners
The Amazing Digital Circus is coming to an end, but a brand new animated project called Gameoverse will keep the weirdo style going over at GLITCH
May 08, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
DC Comics' Orion is deeply misunderstood, but don't worry: Ngozi Ukazu is coming to help you (and him!)
"I really go back to the source," Orion artist/writer Ukazu says of her research into Jack Kirby's Fourth World, "No pun intended."
May 08, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's The Mighty Nein season 2 release date seems imminent, because all the episodes are "almost entirely finished" says Travis Willingham
The Mighty Nein season 2, which finished its voice recordings alongside season 1, is currently in the post-production stage. So when will Prime Video announce a release date? Travis Willingham thinks "soon"
May 08, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
Spider-Man: Brand New Day ending explained: How the comic reshaped Peter Parker’s world
Everything you need to know about Spider-Man: Brand New Day before the movie arrives.
May 08, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Marvel is planning something for Captain Britain's 50th anniversary this year
It's been half a century since Brian Braddock first stepped into the role of Captain America's Transatlantic counterpart. And according to Marvel's Tom Brevoort, the House of Ideas is planing something special to celebrate
May 08, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
From Doctor Octopus to Green Goblin, the best villain Spider-Men ranked
Spider-Man’s greatest villains keep trying to replace him — here are the wildest examples.
May 08, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Stephen Colbert knows you might be mad about him writing a Lord of the Rings movie script - but he's going to do it anyway
Middle-earth stalwart Colbert addresses any fans who might be upset that he got the gig of writing the next Lord of the Rings film after The Hunt for Gollum. Which, for the record, I am not mad about
May 07, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
Daredevil: Born Again season 2 ending explained - who dies and what happens next?
What just happened and, more importantly, what's going to happen next after that deadly Daredevil: Born Again season 2 finale? Let Popverse tell you
May 07, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
After ending the Ultimate Universe (again), Marvel is developing a new, dark alternate universe to debut this fall
Is the House of Ideas headed back to its days of horror comics? Maybe - all we know is that Marvel's Midnight line promises a world in which "The light had its turn."
May 07, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
DM like The Mighty Nein's showrunner - check out these Dungeons & Dragons campaigns
Tasha Huo is, in a way, DM'ing everyone who chooses to watch The Mighty Nein on Prime Video. But in her spare time, these are the D&D campaigns she and friends gather around a table to explore
May 07, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake director has a problem with... er, the other Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes
Curry Barker is the creative behind A24's Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot/remake, which will follow New Line, Lionsgate, and Netflix in their attempts to succeed Tobe Hooper's 1974 classic
May 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Odyssey may be more epic than Oppenheimer, but it's also shorter
Apparently, it takes less time to explain the most pivotal moments in Greek mythology than it does the invention of the atomic bomb. At least, that's what The Odyssey and Oppenheimer run times suggest
May 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 director thought Freddy Krueger was too famous to be scary
When The Deep Blue Sea and The Strangers: Chapter 1 director approached A Nightmare on Elm Street's 1988 installment, he felt he was making a film about "the James Bond of horror"
May 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Dimension 20 as a play-at-home game? Dropout's Sam Reich says it's in the works
Yep, we have the same question you do. But let's let Dropout CEO Reich announce Dimension 20's first trans-media enterprise before we start postulating
May 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Mighty Nein showrunner Tasha Huo knew their story changes were a "risk," - here's why Critical Role took it anyway
Why don't The Mighty Nein kick off their titular series all together? Showrunner Tasha Huo explains
May 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
Best Spider-Man characters... from Mary Jane to J. Jonah Jameson and beyond
From his allies to his frenemies to his lovers (and sometimes from all of those at once), old Peter Parker has been surrounded by some of the best non-supes in Marvel Comics history. Here are a few
May 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
No, The Amazing Digital Circus's Michael Kovach won't flirt with you in character. He did enough of that with his Hazbin Hotel role
The Amazing Digital Circus cast has a great relationship with their fans. But as Jax himself points out, there are, you know, limits
May 05, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Mandalorian & Grogu is making one incredibly obscure Star Wars feature canon
Jon Favreau is digging deep into the Star Wars universe for The Mandalorian & Grogu.
May 05, 2026
Trent Cannon
News
Absolute Batman is going to reboot B- and D-list super villains like Condiment King in 2027
The much beloved (and beautifully LEGO'd) batman villain Condiment King really is on his way to the Absolute Universe, confirms wrier Snyder, and he's bringing friends
May 05, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Spoilers!Critical Role: An abandoned Tusk Love idea would've created an in-universe reason Jester Lavorre can't remember the main character's name
Yes, The Mighty Nein's tiefling cleric does have a reason for getting 'Guinevere' wrong in Campaign 2. But according to Critical Role's lorekeeper Dani Carr, Tusk Love almost provided another excuse
May 05, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Critical Role official lorekeeper has so much of Exandrian history mapped out, you'd forget she loves working in the undecided territory
When a new GM comes into Critical Role's Exandria, there's a lot of mytical history they need to know. That's where legendary lore-keeper Dani Carr comes in
May 04, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
Marvel's best Spider-Mans (or is it Spider-Men?)
There are a whole lot of alternate versions of Spider-Man in the sprawling Marvel Comics Multiverse; we're highlighting the best and brightest
May 04, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
A top Marvel editor admits that Betsy Braddock's past racebending as Psylocke makes the character "hard" to use and "a messy situation" overall
Betsy Braddock, who began her existence as white, then had her consciousness transferred into an Asian woman's body, has a stranger and admittedly uncomfortable history. Marvel's longest-serving editor has some thoughts on this
May 04, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Features
How Sony's Spider-Verse movies changed Marvel's Spider-Man comics forever
Into the Spider-Verse, Across the Spider-Verse, and (we assume) Beyond the Spider-Verse have taken as much inspiration from Marvel's Spider-Man comics as can fit in an NYC skyscraper. But what about the other way around?
May 04, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
NYCC 2026: Guests, dates, ticket pre-sale info and everything you need to know about October's hottest pop culture event
With the first wave of NYCC 2026 guests announced, here's everything you need to know about the year's biggest pop culture event ahead of its October debut at the Javits Center.
April 30, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Iron Man artist Carmen Carnero steps away from the book due to an injury, but promises to return later this year
Like Tony Stark himself, the artist behind Marvel's 2026 Iron Man run isn't going to let a little thing like bodily harm keep her off the table for good
April 30, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Marvel's Punisher skull took on a meaning co-creator Gerry Conway never wanted it to. This is how he fought back
How the late Gerry Conway confronted the misguided legacy of his Punisher character for Marvel, and its pull between brutality and justice
April 30, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Absolute Martian Manhunter is ending, but Deniz Camp is still charting the character's future as the catalyst of the Absolute DC event
Absolute Batman writer Scott Snyder confirmed that Camp still has plans for his take on Martian Manhunter, and that those plans will be part of DC's biggest Absolute comic yet
April 30, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Some of the people behind Magic: The Gathering are banding together to form a union to fight against the looming threat of being replaced by AI
After a major change announced for employees of Wizards of the Coast, Magic: The Gathering's workers are looking to unionize under one of the largest banners they can
April 30, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Wonder Man star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II was nervous about starring in the MCU series - so he called Kevin Feige for reassurance
You'd be nervous too if you felt your only shot at the Marvel Cinematic Universe was an experimental project like the Destin Daniel Cretton-directed Wonder Man. Unlike you, though, star Abdul-Mateen had a direct line to the big chair
April 29, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Spoilers!Marvel Studios killed a Daredevil: Born Again character in editing, dropping scenes already shot from season 2
You think Bullseye has interesting ways of killing people? You gotta learn how Marvel Studios worked this death into Daredevil: Born Again, season 2 (Obviously - beware of spoilers)
April 29, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
DC's Absolute Batman, Wonder Woman, & Superman event has one writer — but "ALL" of the Absolute writers are plotting it together
Snyder was recently asked about Absolute Martian Manhuter's involvement in DC's upcoming crossover, and his answer led to a pretty huge revelation
April 29, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
The He-Man characters are ridiculous - and the latest Masters of the Universe featurette leans into that
Look, when your hero is called "He-Man" and your villain is called "Skeletor," there's hardly any reason to play things subtle. And by all appearances, the Masters of the Universe movie has no plans to do so
April 29, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
He got a Thanos tattoo in 2016. 10 years & $24,300 later, he's broken a Marvel Comics world record
Did you know that 'most number of Marvel Comics characters tattooed on the body' is an actual Guinness World Record? Tom Radford does, and it took him a lot of time, money, and presumably pain to achieve
April 29, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Stranger Things ain't over - Tales from '85 nabs season 2 renewal after debuting in the Netflix Global Top 10
Stranger Things: Tales from '85's streaming debut is, impressively, officially one of the top animated openings of all time
April 29, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Toy Story 5 really is growing up - with the franchise's first PG-rating
I don't know, that new, over-G rating for Toy Story 5 has me wondering if we're going to get our first 'gol-darnit' of the franchise. Or perhaps Woody will have tequila
April 28, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Amazing Digital Circus cast knows all about Peeled Jax, and he's even headcanon for one of them
Michael Kovach, who voices Jax on The Amazing Digital Circus, has seen that creepy meme you kids are sharing about his character. And apparently, that's enough to convince him it's real
April 28, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Think you want the Critical Role live events to be streamed into your home? According to lore-keeper Dani Carr, you don't
Yes, Critical Role episodes are livestreamed. But the live theater shows are a different beast, argues Carr, and that beast requires an editor
April 28, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Why comic book variant covers went from art experiment to sales strategy, and how a particular 1990 Hulk comic by Marvel set it all off
Ever wonder why there are so many variant covers of the same comic at your local comic book store? Marvel's longest-serving editor thinks it stems from the publisher's most Incredible character
April 28, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
House of the Dragon season 4 is going in the exact opposite direction as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
HBO has released the House of the Dragon season 3 trailer, and the fire and blood within reminds us just how different the Dunk & Egg spinoff is to other Westeros fare
April 27, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Horror stories & cozy lit come from the same place, according to Better in Black author Cassandra Clare
Author Cassandra Clare, who has created her own dark fantasies in The Shadowhunter Chronicles, believes that there's a need we have as modern readers, and that both horror and cozy fiction fill it in different ways
April 24, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
These fantasy tropes need to die, according to fantasy authors Cassandra Clare, Sarah Mughal Rana, & Chelsea Abdullah
There were plenty of discussions at BookCon 2026 about the worst fantasy tropes, but none of them probably held the weight of the one between authors Clare (Shadowhunters), Rana (Dawn of the Firebird), & Abdullah (Sandsea)
April 24, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch The Language of Love with Jasmine Guillory, Casey McQuiston, & Tia Williams from BookCon 2026!
Authors Guillory (The Wedding Date), McQuiston (Red, White, and Royal Blue), and Williams (A Love Song for Ricki Wilde) dissected what makes the romance genre work at BookCon '26, and Popverse was there to learn (and film)
April 24, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch The Importance and Impact of Dystopian and Fantasy Fiction with Tahereh Mafi and Chloe Gong from BookCon 2026!
Mafi, author of the Shatter Me series, and Gong, author of the StrangeLoom series, shared their experience with the reigning champion of YA subgenres, and Popverse was filming their panel
April 24, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch Into the World of Romantasy with Adalyn Grace, Stacia Stark, & Elise Kova from BookCon 2026!
You've read All the Stars and Teeth, We Who Will Die, & A Deal with the Elf King. Now hear what their authors - Grace, Stark, & Kova, respectively - had to say at BookCon '26, where Popverse was filming their panel
April 24, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch The Alchemy of YA and New Adult Fantasy with Amélie Wen Zhao, Analeigh Sbrana, Jordan Ifueko, Tracy Deonn, & Claribel A. Ortega from BookCon 2026!
Popverse was there to record series authors Zhao (Blood Heir), Sbrana (Lore of the Wilds), Ifueko (Raybearer), Deonn (Legendborn), and Ortega (Witchlings) as they spoke about their history with and the future of YA Lit
April 24, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
Vox Machina season 4 release date (Updated June 2026): The release dates for all episodes
Here is a schedule of all of the Legend of Vox Machina season 4 release dates.
April 23, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role Campaign 4: Halandil Fang is Liam O'Brien's desperate attempt to break his sad boi streak
O'Brien, who played such traumatized characters as Vax, Caleb, & Orym in Critical Role's campaigns past, once heard that he didn't need tragedy to build a strong character. So he's testing that out
April 22, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' season 2 release date hasn't moved - despite the set being literally underwater
A flood has wrecked the sets for the HBO spin-off from Game of Thrones, but the show remains on schedule nonetheless
April 22, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch the Penning the Perfect Atmosphere panel with Alexis Henderson, Alix E. Harrow, & Olivie Blake from Bookcon 2026!
At BookCon 2026, the creators of The Year of the Witching, Starling House, and The Atlas Six - Henderson, Harrow, and Blake, respectively - presented a masterclass in setting the literary mood. Popverse was there to film it
April 22, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch You Had Me at Hockey with Rachel Reid, Ngozi Ukazu, Emily Rath, Bal Khabra, Stephanie Archer, & Kate Cochrane from Bookcon 2026!
Ice has never been hotter, as the authors of Heated Rivalry; Check, Please; Pucking Around; Collide; Behind the Net; and Wake Up, Nat and Darcy attested at BookCon, where Popverse was filming their panel
April 22, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
The Pitt season 3 release date: January 2027 window, cast, plot and what we know so far
Season 2 just ended, but that's all the more reason to start asking the important questions regarding The Pitt season 3's release date on HBO Max now
April 22, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
How Taylor Swift helped convince Veronica Roth to revive the Divergent series after almost a decade
Roth explained that she had a revelation when Swift played her old music at the Eras Tour - and that it led to the process that produced The Sixth Faction, the alt-reality return to Divergent
April 22, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Diabolical: The Boys pilot director Dan Trachtenberg was sneakily plotting Predator SFX on set
In both The Boys episode one and Prey, there's a very similar invisibility effect. And that's no mistake - Predator chief Dan Trachtenberg is behind them both
April 21, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch the Beaches, A New Musical - From Page to Stage panel with Iris Rainer Dart and Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso from Bookcon 2026!
Four decades after the novel Beaches hit shelves, author Dart was at BookCon to talk about its Broadway adaptation, alongside producer Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso. The Popverse gang was there too, and we brought our cameras along
April 21, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Liam O'Brien refuses to create headcannon for Caleb & Essek's romance: "I don't want to limit the future"
We know that Caleb Widogast and Essek Thelyss get together at the end of Campaign 2, which is where we get the story of The Mighty Nein. But what happens next? Liam O'Brien doesn't want to narrow down the possibilities
April 21, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Hey New Line, give The Mummy's Lee Cronin the Lord of the Rings movie he wants to direct
Remember, before Peter Jackson adapted J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings for film, he was an experienced horror director - we're pretty sure that means that The Mummy and Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin deserves a shot, too
April 21, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch The Depths of Darkness: An Exploration of Dark Fantasy with Holly Black and Marie Lu from Bookcon 2026!
Authors of The Spiderwick Chronicles (Black) and the Legend series (Lu), explored the side of the fantasy left out of most fairy tales - and Popverse was there to film it
April 21, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Part of Avengers: Doomsday will be in theaters earlier than you thought, as Endgame rerelease to include new footage of next MCU mega-event
At Cinemacon 2026, Endgame director Joe Russo revealed that Marvel Studios will be rereleasing the film "with footage that is set in the Doomsday story."
April 20, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch the Heroines of Romantasy panel with Victoria Aveyard, Rachel Gillig, Carissa Broadbent, & Scarlett St. Clair from Bookcon 2026!
Aveyard (Red Queen), Gillig (Two Twisted Crowns), Broadbent (Crowns of Nyaxia), and St. Clair (Touch of Darkness) brought their romantasy expertise to NYC, and Popverse was there to record it
April 20, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch the Page to Screen panel with Andy Weir, Emily St. John Mandel, Robinne Lee, & May Cobb from Bookcon 2026!
Weir, Mandel, Lee, & Cobb - the minds behind Project Hail Mary, Exit Party, The Idea of You, & the Hunting Wives, respectively - talked having their prose adapted to screen with BookCon '26, and Popverse was filming
April 20, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch Shadow and Bone / Ninth House author Leigh Bardugo from Bookcon 2026!
Grishaverse creator and Six of Crows author Leigh Bardugo made BookCon '26 a must-quest for fantasy fans... and Popverse caught her panel on tape
April 19, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Veronica Roth has already finished the sequel to dystopian romance Seek the Traitor's Son
Roth's dystopian romance series, The Burning Empire, is not only getting a second entry after Seek the Traitor's Son, but at BookCon 2026, the author confirmed it was complete
April 19, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch the Horror as a Mirror, Horror as Escape panel with Chuck Tingle, Tananarive Due, Kylie Lee Baker, & Bethany C. Morrow from Bookcon 2026!
Fright fans at BookCon came out in droves for Horror as a Mirror, Horror as Escape: How Lived Experiences Shape Fictional Fears - featuring Tingle (Lucky Day), Due (The Reformatory), Baker (Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng), and Morrow (The Body) - and Popverse filmed it
April 19, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch Then/Now: The Evolution of Your Career Since That 1st Book with Melissa de la Cruz, Meg Cabot, Ann M. Martin, Libba Bray, & Kami Garcia from Bookcon 2026!
Cruz, Cabot, Martin, Bray, and Garcia (authors of the Blue Bloods, Princess Diaries, Baby-Sitters Club, Gemma Doyle, and Beautiful Creatures series, respectively) looked back on their decades=spanning careers at NYC's BookCon
April 19, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch the Spotlight on R.F. Kuang from Bookcon 2026!
Ground-breaking author of Babel and Katabasis R.F. Kuang came to NYC for this year's BookCon, and Popverse was there to film her panel
April 18, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Watch Game Changing TV: Celebrating Heated Rivalry with Rachel Reid & Jacob Tierney from BookCon 2026!
Game Changers author Rachel Reid and Heated Rivalry showrunner Jacob Tierney brought steam to melt a whole city full of hockey rinks, and Popverse was there to catch their BookCon spotlight
April 18, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Veronica Roth's Divergent series is back with the first new novel in 8 years, The Sixth Faction
The Sixth Faction will be the sixth entry into Roth's Divergent novel series, but will take place in an alternate timeline than her previous works.
April 18, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Weird Kids, starring Ashley Johnson & Taliesin Jaffe, returns this May!
Former child actors turned actual play legends Johnson & Jaffe are back for 24 all-new episodes of Weird Kids, streaming on Critical Role's Beacon.tv next month
April 16, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Daggerheart's romantasy campaign is a "testing ground" to see what TTRPG audiences want, says Critical Role mastermind Matt Mercer
Daggerheart's new campaign, With Love and Magic, is expected to be a digital-first release sometime in 2026. And according to Critical Role's Mercer, it's a test to see how interested players are into that kind of release
April 15, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
How Critical Role's Sam Riegel would make a Phoenix Wright movie
"You can't handle the - OBJECTION!" Phoenix Wright fans, Critical Role mainstay (and voice of Wright himself) Sam Riegel has a movie pitch you're gonna want to hear
April 10, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Why is Critical Role Campaign 4 so different? According to Matt Mercer, it's partially that the original cast is "starting to pass the torch"
Matt Mercer says even parts of Critical Role Campaign 3 were the beginnings of a plan to "expand beyond just the eight of us" - that is, the OG cast members
April 10, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Why Fjord Stone's introduction in The Mighty Nein is different than in Critical Role Campaign 2 (and the Dark Horse Origin comics), according to Travis Willingham
Willingham, who plays Stone in both Critical Role Campaign 2 and Prime Video's The Mighty Nein, said that audiences entered the latter in "a deeper point canonically"
April 09, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
Critical Role schedule (Updated June 2026): When the Campaign 4 release dates are
When is the next Critical Role episode? Right now, nobody knows.
April 09, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Is Critical Role developing a live-action show set in Exandria? Here's what Sam Riegel actually said
Is there a Critical Role live-action series in development? Yes and no - but to be clear, there's no chance we're heading to Exandria in anything but animation anytime soon
April 09, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Heated Rivalry might split its The Long Game adaptation into seasons 2 and 3, partially so it can add more material
Heated Rivalry creator Jacob Tierney says there's a lot to adapt from Rachel Reid's The Long Game, but that isn't stopping him from adding even more. (And by the way, we're going to spoil what "more" means)
April 08, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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Comic artists once again being as popular as comic writers is "good for the business" and "the artform" says superstar artist-turned-DC publisher Jim Lee
Lee, who comics fans know was at the heart of another artist superstardom phase in the 90s, says the balance of fame between writer and artist is righting itself again
April 08, 2026
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Marvel's Sentry co-creator, Paul Jenkins, explains what made him the "breakout character" of the MCU's Thunderbolts*
Comic book writer Jenkins, who is currently working on the 2026 Sentry run for Marvel Comics, thinks neither the Golden Guardian or The Void are the key to the character
April 08, 2026
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V for Vendetta co-creator Alan Moore believes comics is still "astonishing" and full of potential... but the comics business is a different story
It's not that Watchmen and Swamp Thing scribe Moore has given up on the comics art form "the full potential of which," he says, "Has been barely scratched." It's the comics *industry* that he's renounced
April 08, 2026
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Critical Role's Sam Riegel confirms at least one Campaign 2 guest star is coming to The Mighty Nein... and we even have a list of who it might be
Critical Role Campaign 2 guest stars Deborah Ann Woll or Chris Perkins might just make an appearance in Prime Video's The Mighty Nein. But they're not the only possibilities...
April 08, 2026
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No, Wuthering Heights' Emerald Fennell isn't rebooting Basic Instinct
There is a Basic Instinct reboot in development, just not with Fennell as the director. Even though you might've heard she was involved from one of the franchise's key players
April 08, 2026
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Despite rumors, Prime Video's Lord of the Rings looks set to run the full five years
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is running until season 5 as originally planned, says one source, since it is "under Bezos’ magical halo."
April 08, 2026
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