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Dispatch ending explained: How to get the Hero, Antihero, and Everyman endings
There is no right or wrong way to play Dispatch, but AdHoc Studio gave us plenty of options to make the ending perfect for you.
Trent Cannon
Members Access
Watch Marvel's Fantastic Four movie reunion with Ioan Gruffudd & Michael Chiklis from NYCC 2025
New York Comic Con 2025 obviously took place in the hometown of the Fantastic Four, and while Gruffudd and Chiklis were there to reminisce about their time in the blue suits, Popverse was there to capture the conversation
Grant DeArmitt
Inside Date Everything: Ms. Marvel co-star Anjali Bhimani on voicing a bathtub woman in the year’s weirdest romance game
Bhimani, who plays Bathsheba in the game where you get to... well, Date Everything, figures she probably got a similar call to all of the other Critical Role and Dimension 20 stars that are in the dating sim
Grant DeArmitt
Members Access
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
Made in '87: Rewinding to the movies, comics, games, and TV shows that define pop culture to this day
Why 1987 became one of pop culture’s most important years across movies, games, TV, and comics.
Chris Arrant
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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James McAvoy explains the surprisingly intense debate behind Professor X’s 'finger to the temple' move in the X-Men movies
X-Men actor James McAvoy fought for Charles Xavier to do Xavier’s iconic “finger thing”
The Lost Boys cast would go to the grocery store in full vampire makeup while shooting the movie
Kiefer Sutherland and Alex Winter hit the streets of Santa Cruz in vampire makeup from The Lost Boys
Inside the grim genius of Kraven’s Last Hunt, the Spider-Man comic that hunted the Marvel hero’s soul
I answered a phone call at my comic shop from a Sony Pictures exec looking for Kraven comics, and I had one answer: Kraven's Last Hunt.
How The Golden Girls tackled HIV in one of their most memorable episodes
The team behind Golden Girls’ HIV episode say it was an episode that needed to be done
Full House star John Stamos believes the show broke new ground with its unconventional family
Full House star John Stamos praises the show for normalizing non-traditional families with the Tanners
Why Superman IV became a disaster: Christopher Reeve’s inside story of the studio's cost-cutting chaos
Christopher Reeve's final outing as DC's Man of Steel was a flop with audiences and critics, and Reeve said he knew it wasn't going well even while the movie was being made
Watch Apple TV+ sneak the cast of Slow Horses - Saul Metzstein, Ruth Bradley, Nick Mohammed, James Callis, Christopher Chung - to NYCC 2025
The actors behind Emma Flyte (Bradley), Zafar Jaffrey (Mohammed), Claude Whelan (Callis), and Roddy Ho (Chung) joined director Saul Metzstein to chat about Apple TV+'s hit spy thriller at New York Comic Con 2025, and Popverse was there to film it
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Kerrice Brooks cried tears of joy during her NYCC panel, and it was one of the most genuine moments I saw the whole convention
Star Trek’s Kerrice Brooks’s tears of joy gave us one of the realest and rawest moments at NYCC
Critical Role just broke the rules of villain design in Daggerheart — now the whole table builds the dragon queen
Forlorn, the central antagonist of upcoming Daggerheart campaign Reign of the Weredragon, is a creation not just of the GM, but of the whole table. We asked Elise Rezendes, Rowan Hall, and Spenser Starke t explain more
How DC is splitting Vertigo and Black Label into two distinct lanes for the future of mature comics
DC executive editor Chris Conroy clarifies the difference between Vertigo and DC Black Label
Scott Snyder explains why DC K.O. turns the reboot cycle like 'New 52' into a punchline — and a promise of new stories
Inside the playful “take that” at the New 52 Scott Snyder put in DC K.O. #1
The Faithful release date comes in Easter 2026 with Minnie Driver leading a biblical cast
Fox is preparing an Old Testament revival for television this Easter as The Faithful aims to tell the story of some of the Bible's most well-known women.
The Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 release date is fast approaching, with Krysten Ritter joining Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio for the Marvel series
Marvel Studios is expanding the MCU with another Daredevil: Born Again season, with Season 3 already confirmed.
Tired of waiting for the Virgin River Season 7 release date to be confirmed by Netflix? One of the stars may have let it slip
Now we're just waiting for March to see if Netflix is actually going to give us more Virgin River episodes like we've been craving.
Yellowstone sequel and spin-off Y: Marshals release date is almost here - this time on CBS
The Yellowstone series is switching from cable to network TV for the first time.
Return to the Godzilla & Kong's Monsterverse as the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 release date approaches
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 looks like it will have more Kong, more Skull Island, and more tentacles than season 1.
Midsommer Murders season 25: Episode schedule, release date, cast, and more
Here's everything you'll need to know about Midsomer Murders season 25, including the rather punny episode titles and their release dates
Narrative games aren't as niche as people think, says Dispatch developers
Dispatch proves the narrative adventure isn’t dead — and AdHoc hopes the industry is paying attention.
Percy Jackson season 2: Episode schedule, release time
It's time to return to Camp Half-Blood with season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Disney+
Fist of the North Star created the modern seinen anime the same way Dragon Ball created the modern shonen [Popverse Jump]
Both Fist of the North Star and Dragon Ball debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump in the 80s, but would become the foundation for two different genres of anime.
Flambae in Dispatch was originally more of a bully until Lance Canstopolis made him hilarious
AdHoc Studio devs explain that it isn't until the infamous karaoke scene in Dispatch that people see the real fun of Flambae.
Billy Crystal broke into "2 hours of medieval Yiddish stand-up" while filming the Miracle Max scene in The Princess Bride - and no one could stop laughing
Both Cary Elwes and Rob Reiner had to be removed from the set because they kept ruining every shot of the Miracle Max scene in The Princess Bride by laughing
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Watch Apple TV+ sneak the cast of Slow Horses - Saul Metzstein, Ruth Bradley, Nick Mohammed, James Callis, Christopher Chung - to NYCC 2025
The actors behind Emma Flyte (Bradley), Zafar Jaffrey (Mohammed), Claude Whelan (Callis), and Roddy Ho (Chung) joined director Saul Metzstein to chat about Apple TV+'s hit spy thriller at New York Comic Con 2025, and Popverse was there to film it
Grant DeArmitt
Fist of the North Star created the modern seinen anime the same way Dragon Ball created the modern shonen [Popverse Jump]
Both Fist of the North Star and Dragon Ball debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump in the 80s, but would become the foundation for two different genres of anime.
Trent Cannon
To me, my X-Men cast! Watch as Professor X star James McAvoy and Kitty Pryde Eliot Page reunite at NYCC 2025
Kitty Pryde (Page) and Charles Xavier (McAvoy) made New York Comic Con 2025 their own X-Mansion, and Popverse was there to record it
Grant DeArmitt
Emerald City Comic Con
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
Jules Chin Greene
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
Graeme McMillan
Yellowjackets stars Sophie Nélisse and Courtney Eaton are flying up to Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con 2026
The stars of the Showtime series Yellowjackets will be appearing at ECCC 2026 Saturday and Sunday during the four-day pop culture event in the Pacific Northwest
Graeme McMillan
All the guests, panels, booths, coming to Seattle's ECCC 2026 (announced so far, at least!)
From Critical Role to X-Men writer Chris Claremont and more, here's everything coming to Emerald City Comic Con 2026 in Seattle.
Chris Arrant
Made in '87
The Lost Boys cast would go to the grocery store in full vampire makeup while shooting the movie
Kiefer Sutherland and Alex Winter hit the streets of Santa Cruz in vampire makeup from The Lost Boys
Jules Chin Greene
Inside the grim genius of Kraven’s Last Hunt, the Spider-Man comic that hunted the Marvel hero’s soul
I answered a phone call at my comic shop from a Sony Pictures exec looking for Kraven comics, and I had one answer: Kraven's Last Hunt.
Jules Chin Greene
How The Golden Girls tackled HIV in one of their most memorable episodes
The team behind Golden Girls’ HIV episode say it was an episode that needed to be done
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Full House star John Stamos believes the show broke new ground with its unconventional family
Full House star John Stamos praises the show for normalizing non-traditional families with the Tanners
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Dispatch
Narrative games aren't as niche as people think, says Dispatch developers
Dispatch proves the narrative adventure isn’t dead — and AdHoc hopes the industry is paying attention.
Trent Cannon
Flambae in Dispatch was originally more of a bully until Lance Canstopolis made him hilarious
AdHoc Studio devs explain that it isn't until the infamous karaoke scene in Dispatch that people see the real fun of Flambae.
Trent Cannon
Critical Role's Matt Mercer and a bit of restraint are the secret sauce to making Shroud the biggest villain of Dispatch Season 1
AdHoc Studio devs say they're surprised they're "not getting more shit for" how little Shroud is in Dispatch Season 1, but they found the right amount of Matt Mercer to give us.
Trent Cannon
AdHoc Studio explains why the Dispatch game's comics are still canon — even when they contradict the game
AdHoc Studio knows that the comics present the death of Mecha Man differently than the Dispatch game, but that doesn't mean they aren't canon.
Trent Cannon
Critical Role
Critical Role just broke the rules of villain design in Daggerheart — now the whole table builds the dragon queen
Forlorn, the central antagonist of upcoming Daggerheart campaign Reign of the Weredragon, is a creation not just of the GM, but of the whole table. We asked Elise Rezendes, Rowan Hall, and Spenser Starke t explain more
Grant DeArmitt
The Daggerheart romantasy campaign With Love and Magic is coming “fast” as Critical Role tests a digital-first release strategy
After Critical Role's Matt Mercer announced it earlier this year, we've been waiting on details regarding Daggerheart's With Love and Magic campaign. And at PAX unplugged 2025, we got to ask for details from the developers
Grant DeArmitt
Critical Role's Darrington Press turns limitation into invitation with new TTRPG - "If it doesn't fit on a card, it's not Daggerheart"
I'm quoting producer Elise Rezendes and lead codesigner Rowan Hall here - both of whom explained Daggerheart's less is more philosophy at PAX Unplugged this year
Grant DeArmitt
Critical Role’s Daggerheart team explains what makes a great TTRPG adversary in new monster pack reveal
Specifically, we asked designers Rowan Hall and Spenser Starke, plus producer Elise Rezendes, what makes for the best beast. And it isn't the "tiny numbers" on their stats page
Grant DeArmitt
Stranger Things
How Stranger Things season 5 could be waking up in an American Chernobyl for the town of Hawkins, Indiana
The end of Stranger Things season 4 featured ominous imagery reminiscent of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Jules Chin Greene
Stranger Things star David Harbour on the Netflix show’s fearlessness in hitting those Star Wars and Lord of the Rings “power chords”
The Netflix hit doesn't really try to reinvent the wheel; instead, Stranger Things tries to borrow the wheels invented by Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.
Trent Cannon
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