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Dungeon Crawler Carl: the TV show is officially in development at Peacock, from Seth MacFarlane and creator Matt Dinniman
The people (and platform) that brought you the TV versions of Ted and The 'Burbs are officially working on a TV version of Matt Dinniman's cult book series
Graeme McMillan

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is back with a new comic searching for the secret history of the universe in Uri Tupka and the Devils
Mike Mignola’s latest hero searches for faith in Uri Tupka and the Devils, a haunting new OGN in his Lands Unknown universe.
Chris Arrant

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms creator George RR Martin told Lyonel Baratheon actor Daniel Ings that he had more plans for his character
If you, like me, became obsessed with Ings's Lyonel Baratheon, AKA The Laughing Storm, in HBO's latest Game of Thrones prequel, then George RR Martin has good news
Grant DeArmitt

Matt Mercer is aware of (and humbled by) Critical Role's place in D&D history
Critical Role didn't set out to have such an impact on tabletop gaming, but it undeniably has
Trent Cannon

Hulu's Buffy the Vampire Slayer update is dead, but its writers are rising again for Scream 8
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale scribes Lilla and Nora Zuckerman are going from ghost chases to ghost faces as the new writers of Paramount's Scream 8, now in development
Grant DeArmitt

Watch the Hell’s Kitchen Returns: Daredevil: Born Again with Charlie Cox, Krysten Ritter, Elden Henson, & Wilson Bethel from Chicago's C2E2!
After the debut of Daredevil: Born Again season 2, Matt Murdock, Jessica Jones, Foggy Nelson & Bullseye themselves - that is, Charlie Cox, Krysten Ritter, Elden Henson & Wilson Bethel, respectively - brought the action to C2E2 2026. And you can watch it now
Grant DeArmitt
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The Hellfire Murder sees the X-Men do Knives Out, with Wolverine as Benoit Blanc (but sluttier)
X-Men: The Hellfire Murder #1 is the next edition of Marvel's long-running annual Hellfire Gala event, but this time, there's a murder mystery twist. And also, a lot of skin from a certain Logan

What Spider-Man could learn from Darth Vader, according to longtime Marvel & Star Wars writer Charles Soule
How Spider-Man is a little like Darth Vader (and how they’re different), according to a comic creator who was written for both

Daggerheart Creative Director Chris Perkins says Darrington Press can't be "vanity press" for Critical Role
The games and expansions that come out of Daggerheart can't just be for the enjoyment of the Critical Role crew

Kingpin’s Daredevil: Born Again boxing match is all Vincent D'Onofrio - as big and brutal as ever
Vincent D'Onofrio trained for Wilson Fisk's boxing scene in Daredevil: Born Again season 2

Marvel considered making a Hulk vs. Thing movie, but scrapped the idea after Fox abandoned their Fantastic Four sequel
Ben Grimm actor Michael Chiklis says there were discussions about a Hulk vs. Thing movie, but those talks ended after Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer's release

Have you noticed all the Corgis in DC's Wonder Woman recently? It's in-joke between Tom King and Belen Ortega that became serious
Tom King included numerous corgis in his Wonder Woman run as a favor to penciler (and dog lover) Belen Ortega

Weapons prequel Gladys adds Krampus and Monsterverse Godzilla scribe to cowrite script
Weapons director Zach Cregger will cowrite his prequel with Zach Shields, the man responsible for the Krampus and Godzilla vs. Kong film scripts

The CW slashed Superman and Lois’s budget for its final season, forcing the series to cut cast members and get creative with their VFX
How extreme budget cuts forced Superman and Lois to get creative during their final season tv

Marvel's original plan was for Cyclops to gain power over his eyes and lose the visor in the future, but the creators said "we're not doing that"
Jed MacKay and Ryan Stegman were pitched an idea to ditch Cyclops's most iconic feature for the future-set X-Men: Age of Revelation . And despite coming from the X-Men's line editor, Tom Brevoort, they ignored it

Chainsaw Man anime was fully funded by MAPPA so the studio could have full creative ownership of the manga adaptation
"Chainsaw Man clearly embodies the reason why I chose to work in animation," explains MAPPA studio president in recent column.

Even DC is surprised by the success of both the mainline Batman series and Absolute Batman
The runaway success of Absolute Batman and Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez's flagship Batman title has led to the vibe at DC Comics being "so much fun right now"

Marvel’s Elizabeth Olsen still doesn’t know what the deal is with the Infinity Stones
Scarlet Witch actress Elizabeth Olsen is still confused about the Infinity Stones (but he feels it hasn’t stopped her from doing her job)

The most expensive Magic: The Gathering cards from the Secrets of Strixhaven set
School's back in session, gamers! And we've crunched the numbers on the priciest Secrets of Strixhaven cards in Magic: The Gathering

Goodbye, D&D 5th Edition. Hello, D&D 5.5 Edition. Here's why, according to Wizards of the Coast
After nearly two years, Wizards of the Coast are ready to call it 5.5E, even if they insist it isn't a new edition of D&D.

There's one bit of the Justice League / Avengers crossover that bugs its editor 20+ years later, and it involves an aborted plan to put trade DC and Marvel heroes in their universes
Brevoort says the Marvel & DC crossover title by George Pérez and Kurt Busiek had to ditch one of the coolest ideas they had in the planning stage

Five Nights at Freddy's peels back the mysteries of movie-making with new book co-written by Scott Cawthon
FNAF creator Scott Cawthon will be contributing to a behind-the-scenes book about the making of the Blumhouse Five Nights at Freddy's movies

PS5 price increase 2026: Sony raises PlayStation 5 cost amid AI chip shortage and global pressures
Why the PS5 is getting more expensive instead of cheaper in 2026

Brad Pitt’s Netflix movie is headed for movie theaters before Netflix
The sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood looks like it is going head to the big screen before Netflix gets the chance to stream it at home

Matt Mercer continually underestimates Critical Role - and that's how he likes it
Even with the wild success of The Legend of Vox Machina Kickstarter "burned into his soul," Matt Mercer finds himself surprised at how popular Critical Role proves to be.

Why Storm is now officially “Earth’s Mightiest Mutant” for Marvel, according to her writer Murewa Ayodele
Storm's current writer, Murewa Ayodele, says that Ororo's status as Marvel's Mightiest Mutant is about more than just her powers. Which, we should also clarify, are pretty damn mighty
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Re-live C2E2 2026's Cosplay Central Costume Showcase!
Watch as C2E2's finest cosplayers walk the Main Stage catwalk.
Chris Arrant

Watch You Have Failed This Panel: The Cast of Arrow with Emily Bett Rickards and David Ramsey from Chicago's C2E2!
Having both stared at saved the CW's classic Arrowverse, Arrow's own Felicity Smoake and John Diggle - Emily Bett Rickards and David Ramsey themselves - took the stage at C2E2 2026. And Popverse was there to film it
Grant DeArmitt

Watch It's Clobberin' Time: The Cast of Fantastic Four with Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis from Chicago's C2E2!
Half of the OG cinematic Fantastic Four - Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis - brought a piece of the Baxter Building to C2E2 2026, and you can watch their panel right here, right now
Grant DeArmitt
C2E2

Marvel considered making a Hulk vs. Thing movie, but scrapped the idea after Fox abandoned their Fantastic Four sequel
Ben Grimm actor Michael Chiklis says there were discussions about a Hulk vs. Thing movie, but those talks ended after Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer's release
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

The CW slashed Superman and Lois’s budget for its final season, forcing the series to cut cast members and get creative with their VFX
How extreme budget cuts forced Superman and Lois to get creative during their final season tv
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

Marvel’s Elizabeth Olsen still doesn’t know what the deal is with the Infinity Stones
Scarlet Witch actress Elizabeth Olsen is still confused about the Infinity Stones (but he feels it hasn’t stopped her from doing her job)
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

How the pandemic affected the Marvel Cinematic Universe, according to the MCU's Scarlet Witch
WandaVision star Elizabeth Olsen recalls how the pandemic disrupted Marvel Studios
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Mike Mignola

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is back with a new comic searching for the secret history of the universe in Uri Tupka and the Devils
Mike Mignola’s latest hero searches for faith in Uri Tupka and the Devils, a haunting new OGN in his Lands Unknown universe.
Chris Arrant

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola's creator-owned vampyr Leonide reveals her origin in House of Yonda with co-creator Rachele Aragno
Leonide the Vampyr: The House of Yonda digs into the gothic origins of Mignola and Aragno’s vampire antihero
Chris Arrant

After the Dark Horse boss shakeup, Hellboy creator & owner Mike Mignola hopes for the best but "time will tell"
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola reacts to Dark Horse shakeup: “Dark Horse was Mike Richardson”
Chris Arrant

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is slowly becoming the next fairy tale & folklore king like Disney, Brothers Grimm, & Hans Christian Andersen.... and I am ready for it
Its time we tell our kids the Mike Mignola version of our favorite fairy tales
Chris Arrant
C2E2

Marvel considered making a Hulk vs. Thing movie, but scrapped the idea after Fox abandoned their Fantastic Four sequel
Ben Grimm actor Michael Chiklis says there were discussions about a Hulk vs. Thing movie, but those talks ended after Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer's release
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

The CW slashed Superman and Lois’s budget for its final season, forcing the series to cut cast members and get creative with their VFX
How extreme budget cuts forced Superman and Lois to get creative during their final season tv
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

Marvel’s Elizabeth Olsen still doesn’t know what the deal is with the Infinity Stones
Scarlet Witch actress Elizabeth Olsen is still confused about the Infinity Stones (but he feels it hasn’t stopped her from doing her job)
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

How the pandemic affected the Marvel Cinematic Universe, according to the MCU's Scarlet Witch
WandaVision star Elizabeth Olsen recalls how the pandemic disrupted Marvel Studios
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Is Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale not dead after all? “Welcome the mystery,” teases director Chloé Zhao
We're not trying to bring false hope into the apparent slaying of Zhao's Buddy sequel series, New Sunnydale, but one comment the Hamnet director made on the Oscars red carpet has our vampire senses tingling
Grant DeArmitt

Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival dead at Hulu, revealed a day before director Chloé Zhao heads to the Oscars
Excited about Buffy: New Sunnydale? We have some very bad news
Graeme McMillan

Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Oz, AKA Seth Green, was in the original 1992 movie - but his scene got cut
"I’m in a scene with Paul Ruebens," says Green, who became an icon in the Buffyverse for his role as werewolf Oz, "It’s not a popular fact. I got cut from the movie."
Grant DeArmitt

Seth Green breaks down potential Oz storyline in Hulu’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot
While Green did not confirm that he was reappearing as Oz in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale, he did see the Dark horse comics follow-up to the OG series as a great jumping off point
Grant DeArmitt
Daredevil: Born Again

Kingpin’s Daredevil: Born Again boxing match is all Vincent D'Onofrio - as big and brutal as ever
Vincent D'Onofrio trained for Wilson Fisk's boxing scene in Daredevil: Born Again season 2
Jules Chin Greene

Daredevil star Charlie Cox knows people will make headlines out of his MCU musings, so he’s more careful with how he answers panel questions
Daredevil star Charlie Cox is on to me (and I feel like he’s reading my mind)
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

Charlie Cox wasn’t a fan of the bank heist episode in Marvel’s Daredevil: Born Again (and he pointed out a plot hole the writers missed)
Charlie Cox tried to convince Marvel Studios not to do the Daredevil: Born Again bank episode
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

Watch the Hell’s Kitchen Returns: Daredevil: Born Again with Charlie Cox, Krysten Ritter, Elden Henson, & Wilson Bethel from Chicago's C2E2!
After the debut of Daredevil: Born Again season 2, Matt Murdock, Jessica Jones, Foggy Nelson & Bullseye themselves - that is, Charlie Cox, Krysten Ritter, Elden Henson & Wilson Bethel, respectively - brought the action to C2E2 2026. And you can watch it now
Grant DeArmitt





