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Avengers, Netflix and Mortal Kombat 2 all want you to FIGHT! Popverse Playlist for May 2-8 2026

It's the end of the world (or at least, civilization) as we know it this week as Popverse picks out the best of pop culture across the next seven days for you

Guides by Graeme McMillan, Editor

Published on Fri May 01 2026

Happy weekend, dear friends. It’s been a whole week but you made it through, and now you’re already looking ahead to the next seven days and thinking to yourself, “What am I going to get up to with all that time?” We’re so glad you asked, because we have some suggestions! It’s Popverse Playlist, your weekly guide to the must-do pop culture of the week ahead, because we know there’s way too much stuff out there to keep track of, and we wanted to help you out.

This week: it’s the end of the world as we know it not once but twice for Marvel Comics, a bunch of school kids are showing the limits of human civilization on Netflix, and Karl Urban is making sure that punches land with good humor and no small sense of the ridiculous on the big screen.

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Graeme McMillan: Popverse Editor Graeme McMillan (he/him) has been writing about comics, culture, and comics culture on the internet for close to two decades at this point, which is terrifying to admit. He completely understands if you have problems understanding his accent.