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Inside the "gutsy decision" by Marvel to kill the Ultimate Marvel imprin
Marvel is ending the Ultimate Universe at its peak, and writers Jonathan Hickman, Chris Condon, and Peach Momoko tell Popverse that’s the point
Jules Chin Greene
How The Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira got revenge on showrunner Scott Gimple by covering him in zombie gore
Michonne actress Danai Gurira covered Walking Dead showrunner Scott Gimple in blood and guts as a playful act of revenge
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Popversations: Thomas Jane talks his comic book collection, The Expanse, and his Comixology book The Lycan
Thomas Jane may have once been The Punisher, but now he's a comic book creator with his own Comixology series The Lycan
Ashley V. Robinson
How the Baby-Sitters Club author Ann Martin continues to give back with her kids book organization
The prolific and beloved author has been up to a very noble project
Ashley V. Robinson
Every Final Fantasy game is different, but these are the things that always stay the same [Gamify My Life]
Whether it is a new Cid popping up or just those all-important Moogles, some things not even Square Enix wants to change about the Final Fantasy series.
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
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Mistborn author Brandon Sanderson loves Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but has one storytelling critique I know can't unsee
Cosmere creator Brandon Sanderson wishes Star Wars: The Last Jedi hadn’t spent so much time on the casino planet
The Baby-Sitters Club author Ann M. Martin has a dream project of hers she wants as a movie or tv series - and its not the Baby-Sitters Club
While The Baby-Sitters Club has been adapted, there’s another story Martin would like to see on screen
The future (and past) of Avatar: The Last Airbender is moving off Netflix and movie theaters and exclusively to Paramount+
The new Avatar: The Last Airbender movie is no longer coming to theaters, but the original cartoons are also exiting Netflix.
If not Superman, Shadow Man: Smallville star Tom Welling talks about what he hated about his hero name
The Smallville cast hated the name Red Blue Blur
How Marvel's Jonathan Hickman is using DC Comics' playbook of Batman: Dark Knight Returns and Superman: Red Son to evolve Marvel Comics' future
Ultimate Spider-Man writer Jonathan Hickman sees value in standalone stories set in alternate universes
Diana Gabaldon wrote Outlander as a “practice” book because she thought historical fiction would be easy
Outlander author Diana Gabaldon says she wrote the book as practice and didn’t think anyone would read it
How do actors cry on command? The Outlander cast give their tips
The Outlander cast discuss the craft of crying on camera
David Tennant 💕 Seattle, and is returning for Emerald City Comic Con 2026
By popular demand (from Seattle and the actor!), David Tennant is returning to ECCC in 2026.
Marvel Comics to end its current Avengers era after 3 years to set-up Doomsday tie-in and Armageddon takeover
Marvel's Avengers are reaching "the end of an era," ahead of 2026's ibg plans in comics and movies.
How Ray Bradbury’s horror stories influenced R.L. Stine & the Goosebumps franchise
Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine reveals that he grew up reading Ray Bradbury, and that influenced him to include twist endings in his stories
“This is not real blood. I work for The Walking Dead”: The cast and crew had to write notes to let hotel staff know they weren’t murderers
The Walking Dead cast and crew would return from shoots covered in blood, forcing them to explain to hotel workers that they weren’t murderers
From Zeus to Achilles: Michael Chiklis on which classic heroes he wants to play next
If Chiklis could play a Classic hero from any mythological pantheon, which role would he choose?
“Call your attorneys”: Tom Welling on why Clark Kent couldn’t wear the Superman suit on Smallville
Why Smallville fans never got the Superman suit (and why Tom Welling says that saved the show).
Dexter Sol Ansell is starring in a Game of Thrones prequel he isn’t allowed to watch yet
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms star Dexter Sol Ansell still hasn’t watched Game of Thrones because he’s too young, but he’s read the Dunk and Egg books
Which Baby-Sitters Club character its creator Ann M. Martin would want to watch her kids
Ann M. Martin explains why she’s more Mary Anne than Kristy in The Baby-Sitters Club
“She played it with heart”: Brendan Fraser on why Rachel Weisz defined The Mummy
Brendan Fraser says that Rachel Weisz was missed in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
How modern-day "fake people" inspired Marvel's reboot of Gwen Stacy in Ultimate Spider-Man
For Ultimate Spider-Man writer Jonathan Hickman, Mysterio was the perfect role for Gwen Stacy as the wife of Harry Osborn.
If you meet Goosebumps writer R.L. Stine, here’s what you shouldn’t say to him
Goosebumps writer R.L. Stine reveals the worst compliment he’s ever gotten
Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer has forgotten so much of his own lore, but fan wikis have been invaluable
Matthew Mercer credits Critical Role fan wikis, and Dani Carr, for keeping the lore straight.
Marvel is retconning Captain Marvel and her history as Ms. Marvel with a new "dark family secret"
Carol Danvers has a complicated past. In 2026, its going to get even more complicated for Captain Marvel.
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Critical Role Campaign 4 and Birdemic star Whitney Moore reflects on cult films, the overlap of horror and burlesque, and soup for breakfast
Whitney Moore, who Critical Role fans know as Tyranny in Campaign 4, knows why some movies are so bad they're good - "I do not believe that art is good or bad. I believe it is inspired or uninspired."
Grant DeArmitt
Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 has the impossible task of making me want to watch an anime without Gojo [Popverse Jump]
The long break between Jujutsu Kaisen seasons 2 and 3 along with a very competitive January 2026 anime season mean that I'm struggling to get hyped for the Culling Game arc.
Trent Cannon
Popversations: Thomas Jane talks his comic book collection, The Expanse, and his Comixology book The Lycan
Thomas Jane may have once been The Punisher, but now he's a comic book creator with his own Comixology series The Lycan
Ashley V. Robinson
Emerald City Comic Con
David Tennant 💕 Seattle, and is returning for Emerald City Comic Con 2026
By popular demand (from Seattle and the actor!), David Tennant is returning to ECCC in 2026.
Chris Arrant
The Popverse Superfan presale for ECCC 2026 celebrity photo ops and autograph is here - here's everything you need to know
We have everything you need to know about the Superfan presale for autographs and photo ops at Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con 2026.
Graeme McMillan
Agents of SHIELD, assemble! Marvel stars Clark Gregg and Ming-Na Wen are flying into Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con 2026
Clark Gregg and Ming-Na Wen will be available for autographs and photo ops Saturday and Sunday at Emerald City Comic Con 2026 in Seattle
Jules Chin Greene
The Amazing Digital Circus stars Lizzie Freeman, Michael Kovach, and Alex Rochon are coming to Seattle's ECCC 2026
The voice cast of hit YouTube series The Amazing Digital Circus are coming to Emerald City Comic Con 2026, with Lizzie Freeman, Michael Kovach, and Alex Rochon appearing for all four days of the show!
Graeme McMillan
Jonathan Hickman
How Marvel's Jonathan Hickman is using DC Comics' playbook of Batman: Dark Knight Returns and Superman: Red Son to evolve Marvel Comics' future
Ultimate Spider-Man writer Jonathan Hickman sees value in standalone stories set in alternate universes
Jules Chin Greene
How modern-day "fake people" inspired Marvel's reboot of Gwen Stacy in Ultimate Spider-Man
For Ultimate Spider-Man writer Jonathan Hickman, Mysterio was the perfect role for Gwen Stacy as the wife of Harry Osborn.
Jules Chin Greene
Inside the "gutsy decision" to kill the Ultimate Marvel universe, and why they were worried continuing it would be wrong
Marvel is ending the Ultimate Universe at its peak, and writers Jonathan Hickman, Chris Condon, and Peach Momoko tell Popverse that’s the point
Jules Chin Greene
Nearly 5 years later, Jonathan Hickman sees Marvel's X-Men as the one story of his that remains unfinished for him
Jonathan Hickman's Ultimate Spider-Man gave him the chance to do what he couldn't with X-Men: finish the story he wanted to tell in Marvel Comics.
Jules Chin Greene
DC Comics
How Marvel's Jonathan Hickman is using DC Comics' playbook of Batman: Dark Knight Returns and Superman: Red Son to evolve Marvel Comics' future
Ultimate Spider-Man writer Jonathan Hickman sees value in standalone stories set in alternate universes
Jules Chin Greene
What Tom King wants to work on next at DC isn’t about heroes, it’s about collaborators
At New York Comic Con 2025, the King of comics shared what superheroes he hopes to one day get the chance to work on.
Ashley V. Robinson
Batman takes on the police starting in March 2026 (and one of the Bat-Family pays the price)
In 2026, it's the Dark Knight vs. Vandal Savage's GCPD and Pamela Isley's City Hall - but it won't be Bruce Wayne who's the first casualty
Grant DeArmitt
Green Arrow moves to Gotham City and joins Batman's Detective Comics after his own comic was canceled due to low sales
After wrapping up his solo series this month, Green Arrow is moving into Batman's stomping grounds (and the flagship title Detective Comics) in March 2026
Graeme McMillan
Lincoln Lawyer
Netflix's Lincoln Lawyer season 4 will make the titular lawyer the client in what will be Mickey Haller's "trial of his life"
Along with the Lincoln Lawyer season 4 release date, Netflix has unveiled a brief plot synopsis for the Manuel Garcia-Rulfo-starring legal hit
Grant DeArmitt
Netflix's Lincoln Lawyer season 3 to include flashback to a younger, scruffy Mickey Haller - a happily-married surfer dad
Lincoln Lawyer, Zuma Beach Surfer?
Chris Arrant
The Lincoln Lawyer season 3 cast: Mickey will face off against 4 new characters
The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix will be back for season 3 this month, and we've got all the details on the new characters debuting this season.
Jules Chin Greene
The Lincoln Lawyer season 3 release date: Haller hops into the saddle once again
Season 3 of The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix will adapt the fifth book of the Lincoln Lawyer book series by Michael Connelly
Jules Chin Greene
Emerald City Comic Con
David Tennant 💕 Seattle, and is returning for Emerald City Comic Con 2026
By popular demand (from Seattle and the actor!), David Tennant is returning to ECCC in 2026.
Chris Arrant
The Popverse Superfan presale for ECCC 2026 celebrity photo ops and autograph is here - here's everything you need to know
We have everything you need to know about the Superfan presale for autographs and photo ops at Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con 2026.
Graeme McMillan
Agents of SHIELD, assemble! Marvel stars Clark Gregg and Ming-Na Wen are flying into Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con 2026
Clark Gregg and Ming-Na Wen will be available for autographs and photo ops Saturday and Sunday at Emerald City Comic Con 2026 in Seattle
Jules Chin Greene
The Amazing Digital Circus stars Lizzie Freeman, Michael Kovach, and Alex Rochon are coming to Seattle's ECCC 2026
The voice cast of hit YouTube series The Amazing Digital Circus are coming to Emerald City Comic Con 2026, with Lizzie Freeman, Michael Kovach, and Alex Rochon appearing for all four days of the show!
Graeme McMillan