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There's a controversial lost Berserk chapter that creator Kentarou Miura blocked from being collected, and its about God (and God being evil)
Why Berserk creator Kentaro Miura pulled Chapter 83 from future publications and what it says about the setting's God
Trent Cannon
Lucasfilm keeps telling Star Wars prose writers (including creator Timothy Zahn) 'no' to reviving Mara Jade
Lucasfilm doesn’t want to bring Mara Jade back into Star Wars canon (and people keep asking)
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Why Fjord Stone's introduction in The Mighty Nein is different than in Critical Role Campaign 2 (and the Dark Horse Origin comics), according to Travis Willingham
Willingham, who plays Stone in both Critical Role Campaign 2 and Prime Video's The Mighty Nein, said that audiences entered the latter in "a deeper point canonically"
Grant DeArmitt
The Boys season 5 is the bullet America didn't dodge, says showrunner Eric Kripke
Eric Kripke and The Boys writers room wrote the final season of the authoritarian allegory before Donald Trump won re-election in 2024. Now, says the showrunner, their script has become a reality
Grant DeArmitt
Marvel's big X-Men movie reunites the creative team behind Netflix's Beef
The creator of the Netflix show Beef, Lee Sung Jin, and The Bear co-showrunner Joanna Calo have been brought on for the MCU's X-Men movie
Jules Chin Greene
DC revamping Bruce Wayne's tragic origin to be fallout from a school shooting is what Absolute Batman co-creator Nick Dragotta needed to join the project
Absolute Batman artist Nick Dragotta reveals the aspect of writer Scott Snyder's idea for the book that gave him the kick to come aboard
Jules Chin Greene
Latest
The Amazing Digital Circus heads to the big screen for its Last Act this June
The animated hit is going big for its final episode - all the way to the big screen, in fact
The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke explains why THAT character had to die in the Season 5 opening episode
It's a full circle moment, but Homelander got his revenge in The Boys Season 5
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"
Why is Critical Role Campaign 4 so different? According to Matt Mercer, it's partially that the original cast is "starting to pass the torch"
Matt Mercer says even parts of Critical Role Campaign 3 were the beginnings of a plan to "expand beyond just the eight of us" - that is, the OG cast members
Marvel says a new, most powerful superhero ever will debut in July's Avengers: Armageddon
Marvel has a new hero whose power is above all, even The-One-Above-All, according to the marketing department.
Critical Role release schedule (Updated April 2026): What time do the new Critical Role episodes come out? Here's the Campaign 4 schedule
Critical Role's Campaign 4 is showing no signs of slowing down, but if you fall behind, don't fret. Popverse is here to catch you up on everything you need to know about the D&D actual play series' next episode release dates
Spider-Man: No Way Home ending explained – how the memory spell erased the MCU Peter Parker
Spider-Man: No Way Home memory spell breakdown: The 'Who is Peter Parker?' twist, and what it means for Brand New Day and the MCU
Batman legend Greg Capullo was offered to draw an Absolute Batman arc, but says he's retired and "it's not the right fit" for his art
Scott Snyder says his New 52 Batman artist Greg Capullo has an open invitation to draw any issues of Absolute Batman he wants
Is Critical Role developing a live-action show set in Exandria? Here's what Sam Riegel actually said
Is there a Critical Role live-action series in development? Yes and no - but to be clear, there's no chance we're heading to Exandria in anything but animation anytime soon
Sony's unmade Sinister Six movie was a Spider-Man comic book annual come to life
Drew Goddard wanted his Sinister Six movie to feel like a summer annual, but then the 2014 Sony Pictures hack happened
Over $100k in rare comics were stolen from a University library. The culprit? The head of security
The security guard charged with stealing Florida State University's collection of rare comics has been sentenced to prison
Heated Rivalry might split its The Long Game adaptation into seasons 2 and 3, partially so it can add more material
Heated Rivalry creator Jacob Tierney says there's a lot to adapt from Rachel Reid's The Long Game, but that isn't stopping him from adding even more. (And by the way, we're going to spoil what "more" means)
Comic artists once again being as popular as comic writers is "good for the business" and "the artform" says superstar artist-turned-DC publisher Jim Lee
Lee, who comics fans know was at the heart of another artist superstardom phase in the 90s, says the balance of fame between writer and artist is righting itself again
Marvel's Sentry co-creator, Paul Jenkins, explains what made him the "breakout character" of the MCU's Thunderbolts*
Comic book writer Jenkins, who is currently working on the 2026 Sentry run for Marvel Comics, thinks neither the Golden Guardian or The Void are the key to the character
V for Vendetta co-creator Alan Moore believes comics is still "astonishing" and full of potential... but the comics business is a different story
It's not that Watchmen and Swamp Thing scribe Moore has given up on the comics art form "the full potential of which," he says, "Has been barely scratched." It's the comics *industry* that he's renounced
Jon Hamm almost played an iconic X-Men villain in a genuinely unlikely place
Jon Hamm as Mister Sinister in the New Mutants movie is somehow an even more cursed timeline than the one we're all currently in
Critical Role's Sam Riegel confirms at least one Campaign 2 guest star is coming to The Mighty Nein... and we even have a list of who it might be
Critical Role Campaign 2 guest stars Deborah Ann Woll or Chris Perkins might just make an appearance in Prime Video's The Mighty Nein. But they're not the only possibilities...
"Nostalgia is an illness": Watchmen co-creator Alan Moore on the state of comics and well, all of mainstream entertainment
Watchmen writer Alan Moore admits he hasn't been keeping up with comics lately, and doesn't have any interest in doing so
No, Wuthering Heights' Emerald Fennell isn't rebooting Basic Instinct
There is a Basic Instinct reboot in development, just not with Fennell as the director. Even though you might've heard she was involved from one of the franchise's key players
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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
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
C2E2
Bitsie Tulloch talks about Lois Lane’s 1938 debut, and how the comic book character was ahead of her time
Superman and Lois star Bitsie Tulloch says the 1938 version of Lois Lane was the original badass in the workplace
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Jurassic Park’s T-Rex is missing a tooth in one shot - and you can find it if you pause the movie at just the right time
The T-Rex in Jurassic Park lost a tooth during the Ford Explorer attack scene (and we have the timestamp to prove it)
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Jurassic Park’s Joseph Mazzello was injured by one of the raptor claws during the infamous kitchen scene
Jurassic Park’s Joseph Mazzello spent his ninth birthday on the floor recovering from a raptor attack (but it’s okay because he got cake)
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Marvel Studios actors have to go to a secure windowless room to read their scripts (which are on a locked iPad)
Marvel Studios has their own SCIF where actors can read their scripts
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Game of Thrones
How cozy can a cozy game with fire-breathing dragons be? Game of Thrones: Dragonfire is about to show us
House of the Dragon Season 3 is coming this summer, but HBO wants us to remember that someone had to raise all those dragon hatchlings. Someone had to love them. That someone is us.
Trent Cannon
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
Game of Thrones is not Lord of the Rings - but in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Westeros got its own Samwise Gamgee
Don’t get me wrong - if A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) took on Shelob, he’d probably lose. But the point is, he’d try anyway
Grant DeArmitt
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1 ending explained: Who dies in the finale, how the Trial of Seven ends, and what's on deck for season 2
It should go without saying, but SPOILERS for HBO's newest Game of Thrones spinoff, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, are laid out plain here. Don't say we didn't warn you
Grant DeArmitt
C2E2
Bitsie Tulloch talks about Lois Lane’s 1938 debut, and how the comic book character was ahead of her time
Superman and Lois star Bitsie Tulloch says the 1938 version of Lois Lane was the original badass in the workplace
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Jurassic Park’s T-Rex is missing a tooth in one shot - and you can find it if you pause the movie at just the right time
The T-Rex in Jurassic Park lost a tooth during the Ford Explorer attack scene (and we have the timestamp to prove it)
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Jurassic Park’s Joseph Mazzello was injured by one of the raptor claws during the infamous kitchen scene
Jurassic Park’s Joseph Mazzello spent his ninth birthday on the floor recovering from a raptor attack (but it’s okay because he got cake)
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Marvel Studios actors have to go to a secure windowless room to read their scripts (which are on a locked iPad)
Marvel Studios has their own SCIF where actors can read their scripts
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
DC Comics
DC revamping Bruce Wayne's tragic origin to be fallout from a school shooting is what Absolute Batman co-creator Nick Dragotta needed to join the project
Absolute Batman artist Nick Dragotta reveals the aspect of writer Scott Snyder's idea for the book that gave him the kick to come aboard
Jules Chin Greene
Watchmen co-creator Alan Moore believes he was "comically naive" to think he could change comics in the 1980s
Alan Moore has written some of the most influential comics for DC over the years, but he still remains sour on how the industry treats the people who create comics.
Trent Cannon
Watchmen co-creator Alan Moore diagnoses the problem with comics: Prices are too high, the number of working class creators is too low
Comics were once "ignored by culture and regarded as a trash medium suitable only for children or the working classes," says Swamp Thing writer Moore. And the change from that status is maybe not a good thing
Grant DeArmitt
DC Batman: The Killing Joke is being reprinted in ultra-deluxe and ultra-rare limited edition, complete with camera case
Batman: The Killing Joke's Avant-Garde edition will feature both the original 1988 coloring and modern retouching, as well as a new forward by Brian Bolland. What's more - only 47 copies (!) will be produced
Grant DeArmitt