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Steel Ball Run wasn't originally published as a new JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but you wouldn't know that from the first chapter [Popverse Jump]
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7 wasn't originally advertised as a new arc in the iconic manga until it switched magazines and release schedules.
Trent Cannon

Redemption was never an option for The Deep, explains The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke
Sometimes you gotta let bad people get a bad end to help give The Boys a satisfying finale.
Trent Cannon

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Spider-Noir creeps, Invincible expands, and Backrooms lurks: Popverse Playlist for May 23-29 2026
Nicolas Cage wants to be your less-friendly neighborhood wall-crawler while Robert Kirkman is bringing a new hero into the Invincible Universe... and A24 just wants you to get lost
Graeme McMillan

Who would win in a table tennis match, Bullseye or Marty Supreme? Daredevil: Born Again’s Wilson Bethel settles the question
A table tennis match between Bullseye from Daredevil: Born Again and Marty Mauser from Marty Supreme is at the forefront of our minds
Jules Chin Greene

Our Flag Means Death's Vico Ortiz joins Critical Role's next Daggerheart actual play - Age of Umbra: Sallowlands
From the High Seas to the TTRPGS, Our Flag Means Death breakout star Vico Ortiz will join the Critical Role family this coming July
Grant DeArmitt

Marvel’s Punisher: How to watch the MCU Frank Castle in release and chronological order
From Daredevil to the wider MCU: here's how to watch The Punisher’s war on crime in release and chronological order
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Sakamoto Days release schedule (Updated May 2026): When is Sakamoto Days 260 coming out?
We love the mixture of comedy and action in Sakamoto Days and we can't wait to read the newest chapter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's final Conan movie will echo a classic western, says the Barbarian himself
Arnold Schwarzenegger has promised that the King Conan film will have "extraordinary battles" in it

The Boys showrunner announces his favorite review of the series finale
The final episode of The Boys has apparently upset Elon Musk, which is not bothering Eric Kripke in the slightest

We did it, Amazing Digital Circus fans! We made Gooseworx regret creating The Amazing Digital Circus
Most enjoyers of The Amazing Digital Circus will tell you creator Gooseworx is entitled to her opinion about episode 9 leaking online. Thankfully, Real Fans are here to set the record straight

Ready or Not and Scream 6 directors to somehow bring Choose Your Own Adventure to the big screen
We have plenty of fond memories of making terrible decisions in those books, but how will a Choose Your Own Adventure movie actually work?

Supergirl ending explained: Who dies, what happens to Krem, and more from the comic the Milly Alcock movie is based on
How does Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow end, and how closely will the DC Studios film follow the comic?

Abbott Elementary creator gets into animation history with a Betty Boop biopic
Quinta Brunson will play Betty Boop in a film about her creation by animator Max Fleischer

Kyle MacLachlan is a TV and movie sensation - here's why he decided to go into podcasting
Twin Peaks legend MacLachlan says he "didn't really know any of the names" of some of his younger co-stars, so he started What Are We Even Doing to remedy that

Supergirl isn't really Supergirl for most of her movie, says Milly Alcock
Milly Alcock isn't in the Supergirl costume as much as you'd expect for the character's first DCU solo movie, according to the actress

Netflix is sneaking a Quentin Tarantino movie into theaters this year... sort of
The Adventures of Cliff Booth, starring Brad Pitt and directed by David Fincher, is heading to IMAX for a limited run before streaming on Netflix as planned

The mayor of DC's Gotham is having her worst day ever, so she's making Batman and the whole city pay for it in Bad Seeds crossover event
Batman: Bad Seeds is a crossover event launching in August in the pages of Poison Ivy and Batman

Brandon Sanderson is teaming with Agents of SHIELD showrunners for Skyward TV show
Tomorrow Studios jumps from Netflix's One Piece to Brandon Sanderson's Skyward

Paul Atreides is a hero, says Kyle MacLachlan - just maybe not for the reasons Dune fans argue about
David Lynch's Paul Atreides loves the Dune lead, but *maybe* not as the messianic figure Frank Herbert was wrestling with his later works

The current DC & Marvel crossover comics had some “dumb fucking notes” from corporate lawyers, according to Superman/Spider-Man writer Matt Fraction
DC and Marvel’s lawyers sent lots of “stupid fucking notes” during the production of the Superman/Spider-Man crossover

To play Bullseye on Daredevil: Born Again, Wilson Bethel calls on his skills as a pro tennis player
Wilson Bethel's tennis skills came in handy when it came to playing Bullseye on Daredevil: Born Again

Spider-Noir was "conceived to be as many seasons as we want," says showrunner
Will Spider-Noir season 2 get the greenlight on Prime Video? Maybe, maybe not - but showrunner Oren Uziel says its hard-boiled detective trappings certainly make it possible

Marvel Comics didn’t just lose Dan Buckley, it quietly stopped having a publisher for the first time in its 87-year history
Marvel Comics is entering a new era where the idea of a “publisher” may not exist anymore.
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Steel Ball Run wasn't originally published as a new JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but you wouldn't know that from the first chapter [Popverse Jump]
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7 wasn't originally advertised as a new arc in the iconic manga until it switched magazines and release schedules.
Trent Cannon

Spider-Noir creeps, Invincible expands, and Backrooms lurks: Popverse Playlist for May 23-29 2026
Nicolas Cage wants to be your less-friendly neighborhood wall-crawler while Robert Kirkman is bringing a new hero into the Invincible Universe... and A24 just wants you to get lost
Graeme McMillan

The Quintessential Quintuplets, my favorite trash romance anime, is finally streaming in full on Crunchyroll [Popverse Jump]
The Quintessential Quintuplets anime is flawed in so many ways and yet I can't stop loving it.
Trent Cannon
Popverse Spotlight: Spider-Man

How will Spider-Man: Brand New Day's 'Peter Parker No More' story work? Marvel Comics canon may have the answer
Spider-Man Brand New Day follows a comic tradition of Peter Parker losing everything... and here's how comics brings it all back.
Leon Miller

Inside the death of Paul Rabin and the Spider-Man/Mary Jane Watson/Venom love triangle with Amazing Spider-Man writer & editor
Joe Kelly & Nick Lowe unpack the surprise death of Paul Rabin, Mary Jane's partner and subject of eternal side-eye by some Spider-Man fans.
Chris Arrant

Spider-Man's 'Death Spiral' ends a Spider-Carnage, a killer MJ/Venom moment, and a new Parker family mystery
An Amazing Spider-Man: Death Spiral event post-mortem with writer Joe Kelly & Marvel Spidey-editor Nick Lowe.
Chris Arrant

Jake Johnson wants his own Spider-Verse spin-off about Peter B. Parker getting to be the Spider-Man we know he could be
I mean, Spider-Noir and Spider-Punk are both getting their own Spider-Verse spinoffs. Why can't the most sweatpantsed of the Spider Society join them?
Grant DeArmitt
The Boys

The Boys showrunner announces his favorite review of the series finale
The final episode of The Boys has apparently upset Elon Musk, which is not bothering Eric Kripke in the slightest
Trent Cannon

Finally, The Boys Season 5 delivers the Supernatural reunion we've been waiting for... and it is extra bloody
Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins finally reunite with Jensen Ackles on The Boys set and it is a big, violent Supernatural reunion
Trent Cannon

There's one big scene from The Boys comics that Karl Urban is disappointed didn't end up in the Prime Video TV series (and it involves an exploding vibrator)
If it weren't for Homelander's infamous plane incident, we may have gotten Karl Urban's favorite Billy Butcher moment from The Boys comics
Ashley V. Robinson

Critical Role, The Boys, Ming-Na Wen & more - our most anticipated ECCC 2026 panels
Just like you, your favorite TV and gaming stars are getting ready to head to Emerald City Comic Con 2026; here are the panels Popverse won't be missing
Grant DeArmitt
Robert Kirkman

The revitalized Transformer & G.I. Joe universe that Robert Kirkman & friends are creating came out of pandemic-era splurge purchases of "very expensive, very complicated Transformer statues"
Robert Kirkman had so much fun building Transformers statues that he decided to have his company Skybound Entertainment pursue a licensing deal with Hasbro
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

Invincible co-creator Cory Walker didn't disappear when he left the book after issue #7, and has been working behind-the-scenes all this time on the comic & TV series
It turns out Cory Walker stays involved in the Invincible comic book series long after everyone thought he stepped away
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

Too many movie & TV adaptations of comics try to outdo the original comic books, so with Prime Video's Invincible Robert Kirkman is out to correct that
Robert Kirkman says Invincible stands out from other comic book adaptations because it respects the source material
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

Invincible's Robert Kirkman & Ryan Ottley are revisiting one of the big open questions of the original comic with Battle Beast spinoff
Robert Kirkman teases the upcoming Battle Beast vs. Conquest comic, which he says will explain an unanswered question from Invincible
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Punisher

More Punisher after One Last Kill and Spider-Man: Brand New Day? Jon Bernthal is down, on one condition
With Frank Castle's future in the MCU undetermined after he joins the next Spider-Man movie, Jon Bernthal is making it clear he is up for returning to another chapter, so long as he's the one producing it
Grant DeArmitt

Jon Bernthal is a "perfect" Punisher according to the character's co-creator, Gerry Conway
The co-creator of The Punisher, Gerry Conway, was pleased to see Jon Bernthal's character speak out against police using his symbol in Daredevil: Born Again
Jules Chin Greene

Marvel’s Punisher: How to watch the MCU Frank Castle in release and chronological order
From Daredevil to the wider MCU: here's how to watch The Punisher’s war on crime in release and chronological order
Joshua Lapin-Bertone

Daredevil: Born Again season 2 ending explained - who dies and what happens next?
What just happened and, more importantly, what's going to happen next after that deadly Daredevil: Born Again season 2 finale? Let Popverse tell you
Grant DeArmitt





