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DC to reveal the secret history of the Absolute Universe. and how it changes Superman's place in it all
Absolute Hawkman is coming back, and he's got a few things to say to the latest version of DC icon Superman when he gets here
Graeme McMillan
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Watch Marvel Studios' Shang-Chi reunion panel from NYCC 2025
Shang-Chi (Liu) and Xu Xialing (Zhang) came to New York Comic Con 2025 to give behind-the-scenes-secrets, tease future projects like Avengers: Doomsday, and - most importantly - mercilessly tease each other
Grant DeArmitt
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The people crave a Berserk anime but the story's bizarre structure makes that nearly impossible
I love the Golden Age arc as much as anyone but there is so much more to Berserk that should be in an anime adaptation.
Trent Cannon
How to watch the big NYCC 2025 panels
Popverse members get to watch the big panels from NYCC 2025 before anyone else, including panels for Hazbin Hotel, Critical Role, the new Game of Thrones prequel, and more.
Chris Arrant
Sadie Sink's Max Mayfield Is the True Hero of Stranger Things
Sadie Sink's character, Max, is Stranger Things's most heroic character, because of her fight against Vecna in season 4
Jules Chin Greene
Getting inside Calliope Games' Tsuro 20th Anniversary Edition and new games Martian Dice and Rolling For It! Going Big
Calliope Games' art director Nicki Wiehrs joined Popverse backstage at PAX Unplugged and talked about the new games Martian Dice and Rolling For It! Going Big, and the highly anticipated 20th anniversary edition of their flagship game, Tsuro.
Chris Arrant
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A board game for cat lovers is here in Purrramid, and we got an early demo at PAX Unplugged
Got a cat lover in your life (or are you one yourself)? Lucky Duck Games has a new board game that'll be catnip for many of us in 2026 called Purrramid.
Critical Role is taking their love of John Constantine, Castlevania and more gothic horror into new Daggerheart campaign
An addition to Daggerheart's first expansion book, Hope & Fear, Dark Heart of Andaloria will tie together some of your favorite monster tropes into a hauntingly beautiful world, says co-designer Rowan Hall
Critical Role has listened to your request, Daggerheart players: A GM fear tracker is coming in 2026
Keeping track of your players' Fear is going to get a lot easier if you're a Daggerheart GM, and it's all thanks to the fans who have been bugging Critical Role's Darrington Press about a special GM screen
Critical Role is bringing its Delicious in Dungeon-style Daggerheart campaign to life in liveplay with Viva la Dirt League
Beast Feast, which Critical Role's Daggheart has described as a campaign similar to fantasy anime Delicious in Dungeon, is coming to Viva la Dirt League.
The iconic game Catan has a new look with the classic playstyle we love, and we played it at PAX Unplugged 2025
Catan fans: there's a new edition, with new art and more!
HBO gives the greenlight to a George Clooney/Noah Wyle ER reunion on The Pitt - if it's real
Okay. Raise your hand if you want to see George Clooney back in medical scrubs on The Pitt
Enjoy that moral panic, Netflix: KPop Demon Hunters songs are apparently too demonic for UK school
Huntr/x songs have been banned from the school grounds because demons make people uncomfortable. We're not joking.
TMNT gets a new movie boss - the family man behind Fast & Furious and Sonic the Hedgehog
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles still have a lot of life left in their live-action movies, so Paramount is bringing in Neal H. Moritz to help get them back on track.
Absolute Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman crossover into mainstream DC to "change the face of the DCU forever"
DC certainly seems to be teasing a DCU/Absolute DC clash in February 2026 with its description of what happens in that month's DC K.O. #4
GET OVER HERE and watch the Mortal Kombat II panel from NYCC 2025, featuring Adeline Rudolph, Ed Boon, Jeremy Slater, Karl Urban, Martyn Ford, Simon McQuoid, and Tati Gabrielle!
Kitana (Rudolph), Johnny Cage (Urban), Shao Kahn (Ford), and Jade (Gabrielle) joined writers Boon and Slater and director McQuoid at New York Comic Con 2025, and Popverse was there to film the action
Star Trek legend William Shatner will beam into Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con 2026
Trekkies and Trekkers, listen up! William Shatner will be a guest on Friday and Saturday at Emerald City Comic Con 2026
It's Florida, Man season 2 release date: Johnny Knoxville and Taika Waititi reenact Florida's craziest stories on HBO
While you wait for GTA 6 to arrive, HBO's comedy show It's Florida, Man season 2 has got you covered
Five Nights at Freddy’s star Matthew Lillard was lured in by a promise that he’d return in every movie - and that a trilogy was already planned
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is out in just a few weeks, but Scream star Matthew Lillard is already teasing us with a potential sequel
Avatar director James Cameron has made a "blood oath" to make a second Alita: Battle Angel movie (and wants to make a third)
Once Avatar: Fire and Ash is done, James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez have sworn to make a least Battle Angel Alita 2, but hope for another sequel to the 2019 cult movie
The Running Man movies have failed to stick the landing both times, according to the writer of the 1987 version
The Running Man by Stephen King ends on a real downer note, so both the Glen Powell and Arnold Schwarzenegger movies have had to change things up.
Batman has many Clayfaces in his life, but the secret identity of DC Studios upcoming movie protagonist displays Mike Flanagan's fandom
What's in a name? Well, when it comes to the Batman villain Clayface, quite a lot.
Fallout and Twin Peaks star Kyle MacLachlan is returning to the Pacific Northwest for ECCC 2026!
The Fallout, Portlandia, Blue Velvet, Showgirls, and Twin Peaks icon will be at Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con 2026 on March 7 and 8, and you can join him
HBO makes long-term bet on Game of Thrones, confirming shows through 2028 at least
HBO is committing itself to eradicating an "off-season" when it comes to its Game of Thrones spinoff shows by renewing both House of the Dragon and new series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Make 2026 the year for silly, weird, fun comics again with The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre
Mad Cave Studios is staking out an early claim for the wildest comic of 2026 with its February launch, The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre
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GET OVER HERE and watch the Mortal Kombat II panel from NYCC 2025, featuring Adeline Rudolph, Ed Boon, Jeremy Slater, Karl Urban, Martyn Ford, Simon McQuoid, and Tati Gabrielle!
Kitana (Rudolph), Johnny Cage (Urban), Shao Kahn (Ford), and Jade (Gabrielle) joined writers Boon and Slater and director McQuoid at New York Comic Con 2025, and Popverse was there to film the action
Grant DeArmitt
The people crave a new Berserk anime but the story's bizarre structure makes that nearly impossible [Popverse Jump]
I love the Golden Age arc as much as anyone but there is so much more to Berserk that should be in an anime adaptation.
Trent Cannon
Cross-eyed: Watch Prime Video's hit detective series investigate NYCC 2025
As the team is hard at work on Cross season 2, the creatives behind the series were at New York Comic Con 2025, and Popverse was there with a camera
Grant DeArmitt
New York Comic Con
GET OVER HERE and watch the Mortal Kombat II panel from NYCC 2025, featuring Adeline Rudolph, Ed Boon, Jeremy Slater, Karl Urban, Martyn Ford, Simon McQuoid, and Tati Gabrielle!
Kitana (Rudolph), Johnny Cage (Urban), Shao Kahn (Ford), and Jade (Gabrielle) joined writers Boon and Slater and director McQuoid at New York Comic Con 2025, and Popverse was there to film the action
Grant DeArmitt
Cross-eyed: Watch Prime Video's hit detective series investigate NYCC 2025
As the team is hard at work on Cross season 2, the creatives behind the series were at New York Comic Con 2025, and Popverse was there with a camera
Grant DeArmitt
Watch the Star Trek Universe panel celebrate Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy at NYCC 2025!
Space may be the final frontier, but Popverse knows you ain't done exploring. Watch our footage of the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con 2025 right here
Grant DeArmitt
Watch The official Vampire Lestat, Talamasca & Anne Rice Immortal Universe panel from NYCC 2025
Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches are making their return to AMC quite soon, along with the debut of Talamasca: The Secret Order. Popverse was at New York Comic Con 2025's Anne Rice panel to snatch up all the secrets the creatives were there to tease
Grant DeArmitt
PAX Unplugged
Getting inside Calliope Games' Tsuro 20th Anniversary Edition and new games Martian Dice and Rolling For It! Going Big
Calliope Games' art director Nicki Wiehrs joined Popverse backstage at PAX Unplugged and talked about the new games Martian Dice and Rolling For It! Going Big, and the highly anticipated 20th anniversary edition of their flagship game, Tsuro.
Chris Arrant
A board game for cat lovers is here in Purrramid, and we got an early demo at PAX Unplugged
Got a cat lover in your life (or are you one yourself)? Lucky Duck Games has a new board game that'll be catnip for many of us in 2026 called Purrramid.
Chris Arrant
Critical Role is taking their love of John Constantine, Castlevania and more gothic horror into new Daggerheart campaign
An addition to Daggerheart's first expansion book, Hope & Fear, Dark Heart of Andaloria will tie together some of your favorite monster tropes into a hauntingly beautiful world, says co-designer Rowan Hall
Grant DeArmitt
Critical Role has listened to your request, Daggerheart players: A GM fear tracker is coming in 2026
Keeping track of your players' Fear is going to get a lot easier if you're a Daggerheart GM, and it's all thanks to the fans who have been bugging Critical Role's Darrington Press about a special GM screen
Grant DeArmitt
DC Absolute Universe
DC to reveal the secret history of the Absolute Universe. and how it changes Superman's place in it all
Absolute Hawkman is coming back, and he's got a few things to say to the latest version of DC icon Superman when he gets here
Graeme McMillan
The Green Lantern reboot in Absolute DC is built on one thing: we don't know who the Green Lanterns are
The writer of Absolute Green Lantern, Al Ewing, unpacked what makes the Absolute Universe's version of the character different
Jules Chin Greene
How the Joker and DC's Absolute villains' cadre are upsetting the balance of what a DC superhero universe 'should' be
The heroes aren't banding together in the Absolute Universe, but the villains are, says Absolute Evil writer Al Ewing
Jules Chin Greene
DC's reboot of Hawkman for the Absolute Universe is "probably" the most thought-out revamp in all of Absolute DC
Absolute Evil writer Al Ewing dishes on what went into designing the look of Absolute Hawkman for DC Comics
Jules Chin Greene
Stranger Things
All the Stranger Things melee weapons ranked using Dungeons & Dragons rules
The characters in Netflix's Stranger Things have used all kinds of weapons to fight monsters. Which one is the best melee weapon?
Jules Chin Greene
Sadie Sink's Max Mayfield Is the True Hero of Stranger Things — And could be the heart of the show’s series finale
Sadie Sink's character, Max, is Stranger Things's most heroic character, because of her fight against Vecna in season 4
Jules Chin Greene
Stranger Things creators got a wild gift from ‘Running Up That Hill’ songstress Kate Bush
Also, we're getting more of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill in Stranger Things season 5, says series co-creator Ross Duffer
Grant DeArmitt
What to Watch December 2025: Stranger Things, Fallout, and Percy Jackson are decking the halls this streaming season
Take a peak underneath the tree to see what's coming to Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Paramount+ and more as 2025 finally winds down
Grant DeArmitt
Critical Role
Critical Role is taking their love of John Constantine, Castlevania and more gothic horror into new Daggerheart campaign
An addition to Daggerheart's first expansion book, Hope & Fear, Dark Heart of Andaloria will tie together some of your favorite monster tropes into a hauntingly beautiful world, says co-designer Rowan Hall
Grant DeArmitt
Critical Role has listened to your request, Daggerheart players: A GM fear tracker is coming in 2026
Keeping track of your players' Fear is going to get a lot easier if you're a Daggerheart GM, and it's all thanks to the fans who have been bugging Critical Role's Darrington Press about a special GM screen
Grant DeArmitt
Critical Role is bringing its Delicious in Dungeon-style Daggerheart campaign to life in liveplay with Viva la Dirt League
Beast Feast, which Critical Role's Daggheart has described as a campaign similar to fantasy anime Delicious in Dungeon, is coming to Viva la Dirt League.
Grant DeArmitt
Dispatch fans have uncovered the secret stat that determines Invisigal's ending in Episode 8
The hit game from AdHoc Studio and Critical Role is full of important choices, but not everything that influences the ending happens during cutscenes in Dispatch.
Trent Cannon