Spotlight
Disney layoffs hit Marvel's podcast department and key audio producer Jasmine Estrada
Marvel Comics has laid off audio producer Jasmine Estrada, who worked on podcasts like The History of Marvel Comics, Marvel's Pull List, and more
Jules Chin Greene
Just two movies in, Super Mario is one of the 10 biggest animation franchises ever
With more than $2 billion at the box office over two films, Super Mario Bros. is proving that the Nintendo icon isn't just for gaming anymore
Trent Cannon
Get a first look at Ravenloft: The Horrors Within in the only official D&D actual play series, Dungeon Masters
Wizards of the Coast is dropping previews of their upcoming Ravenloft: The Horrors Within sourcebook into Dungeon Masters' first two episodes.
Trent Cannon
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
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
Latest
Horror is about making the reader uncomfortable, according to Bat Eater writer Kylie Lee Baker
Sure, seeing a dead body is scary, but finding yourself in an uncomfortable, almost alien situation is far worse, explains the Japanese Gothic author.
Apex release date: When the Charlize Theron movie debuts on Netflix
It's woman versus wilderness (and Taron Egerton) in this new Netflix thriller
Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness release date: When the new series from Larry David debuts on HBO Max
The limited sketch comedy series is from Larry David and Jeff Schaffer
Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat release date: When Interview with the Vampire Season 3 arrives on AMC
The adaptation of the second Vampire Chronicles book stars Sam Reid in the titular role
Cape Fear Season 1 release date: When the star-studded psychological thriller series debuts on Apple TV
The show, inspired by the Martin Scorsese remake of the 1962 crime movie, stars Amy Adams, Javier Bardem and Patrick Wilson
Rick and Morty Season 9 release date: When Dan Harmon's smash-hit sci-fi animated returns to Adult Swim
Aw jeez, Rick: the Adult Swim hit returns May 24
Diabolical: The Boys pilot director Dan Trachtenberg was sneakily plotting Predator SFX on set
In both The Boys episode one and Prey, there's a very similar invisibility effect. And that's no mistake - Predator chief Dan Trachtenberg is behind them both
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.
Watch the Beaches, A New Musical - From Page to Stage panel with Iris Rainer Dart and Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso from Bookcon 2026!
Four decades after the novel Beaches hit shelves, author Dart was at BookCon to talk about its Broadway adaptation, alongside producer Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso. The Popverse gang was there too, and we brought our cameras along
Victoria Aveyard had to ask her parents not to comment on her Goodreads reviews
At BookCon 2026's Romantasy panel, Red Queen author Victoria Aveyard revealed that she lurks on her Goodreads page
Netflix Gundam starring Euphoria's Sydney Sweeney goes into production, thanks to Godzilla x Kong studio
Noah Centineo from Street Fighter and Black Adam joins Sydney Sweeney in Australia as the Mobile Suit Gundam film goes into production this month.
Critical Role's Liam O'Brien refuses to create headcannon for Caleb & Essek's romance: "I don't want to limit the future"
We know that Caleb Widogast and Essek Thelyss get together at the end of Campaign 2, which is where we get the story of The Mighty Nein. But what happens next? Liam O'Brien doesn't want to narrow down the possibilities
Hey New Line, give The Mummy's Lee Cronin the Lord of the Rings movie he wants to direct
Remember, before Peter Jackson adapted J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings for film, he was an experienced horror director - we're pretty sure that means that The Mummy and Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin deserves a shot, too
Watch The Depths of Darkness: An Exploration of Dark Fantasy with Holly Black and Marie Lu from Bookcon 2026!
Authors of The Spiderwick Chronicles (Black) and the Legend series (Lu), explored the side of the fantasy left out of most fairy tales - and Popverse was there to film it
The beauty of horror is in the empathy that it inspires in us, says boundary-pushing author Chuck Tingle
The Bury Your Gays and Camp Damascus author believes that fear is universal, even if what causes fear isn't.
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.
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
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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
Horror is about making the reader uncomfortable, according to Bat Eater writer Kylie Lee Baker
Sure, seeing a dead body is scary, but finding yourself in an uncomfortable, almost alien situation is far worse, explains the Japanese Gothic author.
Trent Cannon
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
Watch the Beaches, A New Musical - From Page to Stage panel with Iris Rainer Dart and Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso from Bookcon 2026!
Four decades after the novel Beaches hit shelves, author Dart was at BookCon to talk about its Broadway adaptation, alongside producer Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso. The Popverse gang was there too, and we brought our cameras along
Grant DeArmitt
Victoria Aveyard had to ask her parents not to comment on her Goodreads reviews
At BookCon 2026's Romantasy panel, Red Queen author Victoria Aveyard revealed that she lurks on her Goodreads page
Jules Chin Greene
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 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
Horror is about making the reader uncomfortable, according to Bat Eater writer Kylie Lee Baker
Sure, seeing a dead body is scary, but finding yourself in an uncomfortable, almost alien situation is far worse, explains the Japanese Gothic author.
Trent Cannon
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
Watch the Beaches, A New Musical - From Page to Stage panel with Iris Rainer Dart and Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso from Bookcon 2026!
Four decades after the novel Beaches hit shelves, author Dart was at BookCon to talk about its Broadway adaptation, alongside producer Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso. The Popverse gang was there too, and we brought our cameras along
Grant DeArmitt
Victoria Aveyard had to ask her parents not to comment on her Goodreads reviews
At BookCon 2026's Romantasy panel, Red Queen author Victoria Aveyard revealed that she lurks on her Goodreads page
Jules Chin Greene