Spotlight
Watch Game Changing TV: Celebrating Heated Rivalry with Rachel Reid & Jacob Tierney from BookCon 2026!
Game Changers author Rachel Reid and Heated Rivalry showrunner Jacob Tierney brought steam to melt a whole city full of hockey rinks, and Popverse was there to catch their BookCon spotlight
Grant DeArmitt
Marvel Studios April 2026 layoffs included the director of visual development of Avengers: Doomsday
Andy Park, who'd been working in visual development at Marvel since 2010, has been laid off by the company as part of wider cutbacks
Graeme McMillan
Veronica Roth's Divergent series is back with the first new novel in 8 years, The Sixth Faction
The Sixth Faction will be the sixth entry into Roth's Divergent novel series, but will take place in an alternate timeline than her previous works.
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
BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity headed to movie theaters, thanks to VIZ Media and Fathom
Want to see the next chapter of BLEACH before it debuts on streaming? VIZ Media and Fathom Entertainment want to bring you to the movies
Graeme McMillan
Members Access
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
Latest
Good Omens finale release date: When the conclusion of the David Tennant & Michael Sheen series arrives on Prime Video
The finale will take the form of a 90-minute movie, instead of a regular season of television
The Punisher: One Last Kill release date: When Jon Bernthal's Marvel Studios one-shot debuts on Disney+
If you're waiting for more Frank Castle, you won't have to wait too long
M.I.A. Season 1 release date: When the crime drama series debuts on Peacock and NBC
The show stars Shannon Gisela as Etta Tiger Jonze
Widow's Bay Season 1 release date: When the comedy horror series debuts on Apple TV
Apple TV's new horror comedy series stars Matthew Rhys
Half Man Season 1 release date: When the new series from Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd debuts on HBO Max and BBC iPlayer
The series from Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd also stars Jamie Bell
Part of Avengers: Doomsday will be in theaters earlier than you thought, as Endgame rerelease to include new footage of next MCU mega-event
At Cinemacon 2026, Endgame director Joe Russo revealed that Marvel Studios will be rereleasing the film "with footage that is set in the Doomsday story."
Top Gun flies back into cinemas for its 40th anniversary as Paramount tries to make theater owners happy
Tom Cruise is bringing his 1986 classic (and its sequel) back into theaters this May
Charlie Cox knows you think Daredevil is in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but he swears he isn't, really
Don't expect to see Daredevil teaming up with Spidey in Spider-Man: Brand New Day
2000 AD's animated Rogue Trooper movie releases its first teaser
Future war gets underway in the first glimpse of footage from the 2000 AD animated adaptation
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.
The pending Warner Bros and Paramount deal could clear the way for a Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter crossover film, says Liu Kang's actor
The pending deal would make clear at least one hurdle for a potential Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter crossover film, but Ludi Lin admits we should all "just live in the moment for now."
The latest Dragon Ball Super: Beerus trailer hints at a return of Frieza and a future Resurrection F arc remake
Frieza pops up at the end of the trailer, which shows that a future Dragon Ball Super anime might be in the works after all.
The Poppy War and Yellowface author R.F. Kuang writes fiction because it's "cheaper than therapy" and she gets paid for it
Sure, you could pay a therapist to help you process your trauma, or you could write a couple of bestselling novels instead.
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
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."
Watch the Heroines of Romantasy panel with Victoria Aveyard, Rachel Gillig, Carissa Broadbent, & Scarlett St. Clair from Bookcon 2026!
Aveyard (Red Queen), Gillig (Two Twisted Crowns), Broadbent (Crowns of Nyaxia), and St. Clair (Touch of Darkness) brought their romantasy expertise to NYC, and Popverse was there to record it
Watch the Page to Screen panel with Andy Weir, Emily St. John Mandel, Robinne Lee, & May Cobb from Bookcon 2026!
Weir, Mandel, Lee, & Cobb - the minds behind Project Hail Mary, Exit Party, The Idea of You, & the Hunting Wives, respectively - talked having their prose adapted to screen with BookCon '26, and Popverse was filming
Watch Shadow and Bone / Ninth House author Leigh Bardugo from Bookcon 2026!
Grishaverse creator and Six of Crows author Leigh Bardugo made BookCon '26 a must-quest for fantasy fans... and Popverse caught her panel on tape
DanDaDan release schedule (Updated April 2026): When DanDaDan 232 of the manga is getting released
The release date for new DanDaDan chapters is coming and here is when - and where - you can find them.
R.F. Kuang wrote the first draft of Yellowface in a month because as a digital native, she didn't have to do any research into how mean people could be on Twitter
For Yellowface, R.F. Kuang already knew the plot and the characters, plus she had already seen how nasty people could be on Twitter so she didn't have to do much research.
From book to screen fast: Heated Rivalry’s unusually quick path to TV success
It was only three years ago that Heated Rivalry writer/director/producer Jacob Tierney contacted Game Changers writer Rachel Reid about adapting her books to the screen
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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
Manga’s global boom isn't slowing down, so BookWalker is rewriting the rules & revamping itself for the future [Popverse Jump]
BookWalker CEO talks the difficulty of publishing manga in the West, why the platform just split from itself, and how to become an "ascended weeb"
Trent Cannon
Re-live C2E2 2026's Cosplay Central Costume Showcase!
Watch as C2E2's finest cosplayers walk the Main Stage catwalk.
Chris Arrant
Bookcon
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
The Poppy War and Yellowface author R.F. Kuang writes fiction because it's "cheaper than therapy" and she gets paid for it
Sure, you could pay a therapist to help you process your trauma, or you could write a couple of bestselling novels instead.
Trent Cannon
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
Watch the Heroines of Romantasy panel with Victoria Aveyard, Rachel Gillig, Carissa Broadbent, & Scarlett St. Clair from Bookcon 2026!
Aveyard (Red Queen), Gillig (Two Twisted Crowns), Broadbent (Crowns of Nyaxia), and St. Clair (Touch of Darkness) brought their romantasy expertise to NYC, and Popverse was there to record it
Grant DeArmitt
Heated Rivalry
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
From book to screen fast: Heated Rivalry’s unusually quick path to TV success
It was only three years ago that Heated Rivalry writer/director/producer Jacob Tierney contacted Game Changers writer Rachel Reid about adapting her books to the screen
Jules Chin Greene
Watch Game Changing TV: Celebrating Heated Rivalry with Rachel Reid & Jacob Tierney from BookCon 2026!
Game Changers author Rachel Reid and Heated Rivalry showrunner Jacob Tierney brought steam to melt a whole city full of hockey rinks, and Popverse was there to catch their BookCon spotlight
Grant DeArmitt
Absolute Batman
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
DC’s Absolute Universe turns Robin into mech pilots in wild Absolute Batman twist: and here's how they revealed themselves
Absolute Batman #19 marks the first appearance of the Absolute Robins in DC Comics
Jules Chin Greene
Bookcon
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
The Poppy War and Yellowface author R.F. Kuang writes fiction because it's "cheaper than therapy" and she gets paid for it
Sure, you could pay a therapist to help you process your trauma, or you could write a couple of bestselling novels instead.
Trent Cannon
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
Watch the Heroines of Romantasy panel with Victoria Aveyard, Rachel Gillig, Carissa Broadbent, & Scarlett St. Clair from Bookcon 2026!
Aveyard (Red Queen), Gillig (Two Twisted Crowns), Broadbent (Crowns of Nyaxia), and St. Clair (Touch of Darkness) brought their romantasy expertise to NYC, and Popverse was there to record it
Grant DeArmitt