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Iron Man director Jon Favreau tried to stop Marvel killing Tony Stark in Avengers: Endgame
Jon Favreau, the director of the first two Iron Man movies, was scared fans were going to be depressed after seeing Avengers: Endgame
Jules Chin Greene
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Popverse Playlist: The 3 things you need to check out in pop culture April 25 through May 1
A Hannibal reunion, Stranger Things returns and Swamp Thing regrows: Popverse Playlist's 3 things you have to see over the next seven days
Graeme McMillan
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Reading Dragon Ball to my toddler became the father-son moment I didn’t know I needed [Popverse Jump]
A Toddler's Reaction to Dragon Ball: The making of a weeb.
Trent Cannon
Jim Lee shares his private health struggles (he's okay now!) that led to Batman: Hush 2 delays, and a rethinking of his work-life balance
DC Comics publisher Jim Lee is cutting back on his late-night drawing sessions after being diagnosed as pre-diabetic
Chris Arrant
What time do new Legend of Vox Machina episodes come out? Here's the season 4 release schedule for Critical Role's Prime Video series
What is The Legend of Vox Machina's season 4 release date? How many episodes will The Legend of Vox Machina season 4 be? We're here to tell you what we know about Prime Video's latest Critical Role adaptation
Grant DeArmitt
BookCon 2026 panels are coming to Popverse — here’s how to watch them all
Missed BookCon? Popverse is bringing the biggest panels online for free.
Chris Arrant
Latest
Supergirl and her "self-destructive nature" will be explored in her upcoming DC Studios film
The DC Studios Supergirl film will feature scenes set on Krypton to illustrate the source of Kara's trauma
Helluva Boss gets a season 3 release window... and a tease of just how big its return is going to be
Good news: Helluva Boss is back in fall 2026. Bad news: that's only part of the season. More good news: that's because the new season is the biggest yet.
Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day might be sneaky sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind
It sure looks like Josh O'Connor and Emily Blunt were abducted by aliens in Disclosure Day, right?
The Boys switch-up: Gen V cancelled, producers tease "other VCU projects on the horizon"
Bad news for fans of Godolkin University, as Prime Video is not moving ahead with a third season of Gen V
Horror stories & cozy lit come from the same place, according to Better in Black author Cassandra Clare
Author Cassandra Clare, who has created her own dark fantasies in The Shadowhunter Chronicles, believes that there's a need we have as modern readers, and that both horror and cozy fiction fill it in different ways
Adam Hughes steps back from comics & cons to face cancer with family by his side
Comics legend Adam Hughes confronts colorectal cancer, a disease Peanuts creator Charles Schulz also faced.
These fantasy tropes need to die, according to fantasy authors Cassandra Clare, Sarah Mughal Rana, & Chelsea Abdullah
There were plenty of discussions at BookCon 2026 about the worst fantasy tropes, but none of them probably held the weight of the one between authors Clare (Shadowhunters), Rana (Dawn of the Firebird), & Abdullah (Sandsea)
Thor’s construction worker era is about to collide with a corporate monster in Mighty Thor #11
Here is your first look at preview pages from The Mortal Thor #11 by Al Ewing and Juann Cabal from Marvel Comics
Mobile Suit Gundam fans have been missing the series' anti-war message for nearly 50 years
Yoshiyuki Tomino is tired of Gundam fans who just think it is about cool space battles
Mortal Kombat 2 is "a purposeful swing into the crazy" that embraces the weirdness of the games
When Karl Urban joins Mortal Kombat 2, he'll have to deal with bigger, more ridiculous fights
Watch The Language of Love with Jasmine Guillory, Casey McQuiston, & Tia Williams from BookCon 2026!
Authors Guillory (The Wedding Date), McQuiston (Red, White, and Royal Blue), and Williams (A Love Song for Ricki Wilde) dissected what makes the romance genre work at BookCon '26, and Popverse was there to learn (and film)
Watch The Importance and Impact of Dystopian and Fantasy Fiction with Tahereh Mafi and Chloe Gong from BookCon 2026!
Mafi, author of the Shatter Me series, and Gong, author of the StrangeLoom series, shared their experience with the reigning champion of YA subgenres, and Popverse was filming their panel
Watch Into the World of Romantasy with Adalyn Grace, Stacia Stark, & Elise Kova from BookCon 2026!
You've read All the Stars and Teeth, We Who Will Die, & A Deal with the Elf King. Now hear what their authors - Grace, Stark, & Kova, respectively - had to say at BookCon '26, where Popverse was filming their panel
Watch The Alchemy of YA and New Adult Fantasy with Amélie Wen Zhao, Analeigh Sbrana, Jordan Ifueko, Tracy Deonn, & Claribel A. Ortega from BookCon 2026!
Popverse was there to record series authors Zhao (Blood Heir), Sbrana (Lore of the Wilds), Ifueko (Raybearer), Deonn (Legendborn), and Ortega (Witchlings) as they spoke about their history with and the future of YA Lit
DC’s Absolute Universe was born out of a desire not to sell the most books, but to help the comics industry "be healthier" (but it's doing both)
Absolute Green Arrow writer Pornsak Pichetshote was drawn to DC Comics' Absolute Universe because of the "generous" spirit behind it
Before he redefined Batman and Daredevil, comic book legend Frank Miller says there's one piece of advice he wish he'd been told sooner
Having the guts to stick to your unique vision is something that even Frank Miller had to learn while working in comics.
Silent Hill f is getting a new ending written by Ryukishi07, but only in the manga
Konami has already given us 5 endings to Silent Hill f, so what would one more hurt?
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Reading Dragon Ball to my toddler became the father-son moment I didn’t know I needed [Popverse Jump]
A Toddler's Reaction to Dragon Ball: The making of a weeb.
Trent Cannon
Popverse Playlist: The 3 things you need to check out in pop culture April 25 through May 1
A Hannibal reunion, Stranger Things returns and Swamp Thing regrows: Popverse Playlist's 3 things you have to see over the next seven days
Graeme McMillan
The Live Action One Piece has fixed one of the manga's worst characters - Sanji [Popverse Jump]
Toning down Sanji's unbearable horniness and giving him some much-needed emotional vulnerability makes the live action One Piece from Netflix infinitely more watchable.
Trent Cannon
Bookcon
Horror stories & cozy lit come from the same place, according to Better in Black author Cassandra Clare
Author Cassandra Clare, who has created her own dark fantasies in The Shadowhunter Chronicles, believes that there's a need we have as modern readers, and that both horror and cozy fiction fill it in different ways
Grant DeArmitt
These fantasy tropes need to die, according to fantasy authors Cassandra Clare, Sarah Mughal Rana, & Chelsea Abdullah
There were plenty of discussions at BookCon 2026 about the worst fantasy tropes, but none of them probably held the weight of the one between authors Clare (Shadowhunters), Rana (Dawn of the Firebird), & Abdullah (Sandsea)
Grant DeArmitt
Watch The Language of Love with Jasmine Guillory, Casey McQuiston, & Tia Williams from BookCon 2026!
Authors Guillory (The Wedding Date), McQuiston (Red, White, and Royal Blue), and Williams (A Love Song for Ricki Wilde) dissected what makes the romance genre work at BookCon '26, and Popverse was there to learn (and film)
Grant DeArmitt
Watch The Importance and Impact of Dystopian and Fantasy Fiction with Tahereh Mafi and Chloe Gong from BookCon 2026!
Mafi, author of the Shatter Me series, and Gong, author of the StrangeLoom series, shared their experience with the reigning champion of YA subgenres, and Popverse was filming their panel
Grant DeArmitt
Heated Rivalry
The Heated Rivalry season 2 rumors of a drastically bigger budget are wrong, says showrunner Jacob Tierney
Don't get your hopes up: Heated Rivalry season 2 won't have the budget to take Ilya and Shane to outer space.
Jules Chin Greene
Why HBO couldn't do much marketing for Heated Rivalry, according to showrunner Jacob Tierney: "Just be grateful there’s some horny people at HBO.”
Heated Rivalry showrunner Jacob Tierney explains why HBO didn't do more press for the episodes as they were airing during a BookCon 2026 panel.
Trent Cannon
The hockey crowds in Heated Rivalry are VFX and the raw footage looked like "COVID hockey" because no one was in the stands
Heated Rivalry was sold to HBO before the show's VFX had been finalized.
Jules Chin Greene
Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid opens up about how the TV series adaptation news buoyed her Parkinson's diagnosis just 3 or 4 days before
3 or 4 days after Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid was diagnosed with Parkinson's, she got the call to turn it into a TV series from Jacob Tierney
Trent Cannon
Absolute Batman
DC’s Absolute Universe was born out of a desire not to sell the most books, but to help the comics industry "be healthier" (but it's doing both)
Absolute Green Arrow writer Pornsak Pichetshote was drawn to DC Comics' Absolute Universe because of the "generous" spirit behind it
Jules Chin Greene
DC's Absolute Batman is now selling 3 times what Scott Snyder expected, and DC staffers are looking back at 'New 52' data to learn how much bigger this is than that
Absolute Batman surpasses 'New 52' Batman sales on day 1, as DC admits “the success… is beyond bewildering."
Chris Arrant
The origin of Absolute Harley Quinn is coming this July
Absolute Batman's unlikely ally Harley Quinn is getting ready for her tell-all.
Jules Chin Greene
How Absolute Batman #19 homages one of Frank Miller’s most iconic Dark Knight Returns scenes
Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, and Frank Martin's Absolute Batman #19 features a scene that wonderfully subverts the first page of The Dark Knight Returns
Jules Chin Greene
Bookcon
Horror stories & cozy lit come from the same place, according to Better in Black author Cassandra Clare
Author Cassandra Clare, who has created her own dark fantasies in The Shadowhunter Chronicles, believes that there's a need we have as modern readers, and that both horror and cozy fiction fill it in different ways
Grant DeArmitt
These fantasy tropes need to die, according to fantasy authors Cassandra Clare, Sarah Mughal Rana, & Chelsea Abdullah
There were plenty of discussions at BookCon 2026 about the worst fantasy tropes, but none of them probably held the weight of the one between authors Clare (Shadowhunters), Rana (Dawn of the Firebird), & Abdullah (Sandsea)
Grant DeArmitt
Watch The Language of Love with Jasmine Guillory, Casey McQuiston, & Tia Williams from BookCon 2026!
Authors Guillory (The Wedding Date), McQuiston (Red, White, and Royal Blue), and Williams (A Love Song for Ricki Wilde) dissected what makes the romance genre work at BookCon '26, and Popverse was there to learn (and film)
Grant DeArmitt
Watch The Importance and Impact of Dystopian and Fantasy Fiction with Tahereh Mafi and Chloe Gong from BookCon 2026!
Mafi, author of the Shatter Me series, and Gong, author of the StrangeLoom series, shared their experience with the reigning champion of YA subgenres, and Popverse was filming their panel
Grant DeArmitt