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New York Comic Con 2025 is just over six weeks away, and this week ReedPop is rolling out a week of big guest announcements. Each weekday this week, there will be at least one major guest announced, beginning with Monday's reveal of Kpop Demon Hunters stars Arden Cho and May Hong.

Here is the line-up of the announcements, and we'll be filling them in as details are announced:

• Monday, August 25: Arden Cho and May Hong, stars of Netflix's Kpop Demon Hunters
• Tuesday, August 26: Karl Urban, star of The Boys, Judge Dredd, Star Trek, Thor: Ragnarok and Phineas & Ferb actors Vincent Martella and David Errigo Jr.
• Wednesday, August 27: Meng'er Zhang, co-star of Marvel Studios' Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• Thursday, August 28: Krysten Ritter and Vincent D'Onofrio of Marvel Studios' Daredevil: Born Again
• Friday: August 29: [To be announced]

Some, such as the Kpop Demon Hunters stars, will only be at NYCC 2025 for a day or two tops, meaning their schedule is going to fill up with with autographs, photo ops, and other events. That's why a Popverse NYCC Superfan membership is key - as it takes the stress off making the most of your comic con, and makes your comic con more convenient.

The Popverse NYCC 2025 Superfan presale for this week's announced guests begins Friday, August 29, at 10 AM Eastern time. This'll be the first time to get Autographs and Photo Ops experiences for any of these, and any that's left (if any!) will go on-sale to the general public Tuesday, September 2 at 12 PM Eastern.

Your year-long Popverse NYCC Superfan membership will not only give you first dibs on these experiences, but also all the major NYCC celebrity experiences, such as this, as well as a pre-sale on NYCC 2026 tickets. In addition to that, you'll also be able to watch all the major panels from New York Comic Con 2025 we'll be filming, as well as panels from previous years from this show, as well as Chicago's C2E2, Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con, and more. To top it all off, all Popverse members get exclusive first access to members-only interviews, features, and other articles Popverse does all year.

Get ready for New York Comic Con 2025 (and all its spooky themes!) with our guides to who's appearing in Artists' Alley and Writers Block, as well as our pick of favorite panels at the show, not to mention the best places to eat near the Javits (and IN the Javits!), the whole bathroom situation at NYCC, and a map of all the iconic comic book locations you can visit while in NYC.