Spotlight
The Japanese government abolishes its anime/manga public relations fund after 13 years & $351m in debt
While anime and manga have boomed, the Cool Japan Fund couldn't profit from that success.
Trent Cannon
NYCC 2026 reveals new exclusive merch and an early pre-order window for Superfans and VIPs
Popverse Superfans & NYCC VIPs can get a bulk of their merch shopping done early, leaving more time for [insert fun here] at New York Comic Con.
Chris Arrant
Marvel's Ghost Rider is a one-man show, says Kevin Feige
When Ghost Rider heads into the MCU, it will be because Ryan Gosling had the vision and drive for the character.
Trent Cannon
25 years later, X-Men legend Chris Claremont still rejects Marvel's Wolverine origin story and sticks to his own headcanon for Logan
Chris Claremont has his own untold origin for Wolverine which he considers to be the hero's true backstory
George Marston
In Critical Role Campaign 4, Azune Nayar never corrects mispronunciations of his name. That's on purpose, says Luis Carazo
Is Luis Carazo's Critical Role character ah-ZOO-nay or aH-zoo-nay? Part of Azune Nayar's personality is revealed by the fact that we don't know
Grant DeArmitt
Alex Ross gives Kelly Thompson's Absolute Wonder Woman his highest praise: “The best Wonder Woman book I’ve read in years”
Absolute Wonder Woman’s Kelly Thompson drew inspiration from Alex Ross, who happens to love her comic.
Ashley V. Robinson
Latest
The King of Comics is coming home as Jack Kirby exhibition plans New York and Chicago stops
The Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles's Jack Kirby: Heroes and Humanity exhibit will come to the Windy City and Big Apple
DanDaDan and Spy x Family editor taking applications to live rent-free in apartment complex for other manga creators
VUY launched this year and aims to help manga creators by removing any outside burden or distractions to their work.
Black Lagoon Release Schedule (Updated September 2026): When the acclaimed action manga is out again
The Black Lagoon manga continues, though it is frustratingly infrequent.
Street Fighter is a personal movie for its cast according to director Kitao Sakurai
Both Balrog and Vega's actors felt a deep connection with their characters, which will hopefully make Street Fighter an even better movie.
Guillermo del Toro agreed to direct Pacific Rim on one condition: Give every robot two pilots
Pacific Rim scribe Travis Beacham was piloting the story almost 100% to del Toro's liking, but there was one modification it needed to be battle-ready
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War anime goes on 1 month hiatus as studio looks to improve animation quality ahead of climax
Fans have been waiting since 2016 to see the finale of Bleach animated, so a few more weeks won't hurt.
Jim Lee explains how regular walks with his wife help him manage family and DC Comics
DC's COO Jim Lee is one of the most iconic Bat-family and X-Men artists in comics - maybe it's because he's such a family man himself
Hulk vs. Thing, this time in Infernal rules in Infernal Hulk vs. Fantastic Four preview
Take a look at the Fantastic Four as they run for their lives from the Infernal Hulk
How does Critical Role's Chetney Pock O'Pea die? Travis Willingham (kinda) answers
Willingham, who played Chetney in Critical Role Campaign 3, has a vision of the character's transiion between this world and the next. But we're not 100% sure he's serious
Oh yeah, Critical Role's Sam Riegel has considered playing a Kobold... and making an all-Kobold game
The Legend of Vox Machina's own Scanlan Shorthalt is a fan of "playing smaller characters," as if you needed to know that
Mark Millar thinks secretly returning to Marvel & writing Iron Man under a pseudonym would be “hilarious”
Millar, who famously penned DC hits like Superman: Red Son or Marvel staples like Old Man Logan, has considered submitting other books under a different name
The Jack Kirby estate is working on a "bunch of new projects" that will be announced soon
Among other things, Jeremy Kirby, the grandson of Jack Kirby, is hoping to get a new trade paperback of Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers out.
Despite mountains of hype, Death Stranding didn't make enough money to keep Kojima at PlayStation
Hideo Kojima's last two games failed to meet sales expectations, so PlayStation is letting Xbox handle his next one.
Guillermo del Toro spent decades trying to revive Jim Henson’s The Storyteller
Unfortunately, the Pan's Labyrinth director's attempts at bringing The Storyteller back haven't gotten off the ground
Jason Momoa cast himself in Street Fighter
The director said that Jason Momoa had "contagious" enthusiasm right from the moment he was cast in Street Fighter.
New Saint Seiya manga gets new release date following 8-month hiatus
Following the issues Masami Kurumada had with his employee embezelling from him, he's announced that the next chapter of the ongoing Saint Seiya manga is coming.
Third Eat-Man anime adaptation is in the works, with original mangaka on board as scriptwriter
Akihito Yoshitomi is writing the scripts for the first Eat-Man anime to be created since the manga ended.
Uoto’s next manga is called Hallucination Meat, because apparently Orb wasn’t strange enough
Uoto has announced that his next manga, Hallucination Man, is coming this year, but that's not all he's been working on.
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Super Saiyan 3 is the cleverest story moment that Dragon Ball ever had
Fans complain that Super Saiyan 3 isn't used to defeat anyone in Dragon Ball, but that was kind of the point.
Trent Cannon
The Marvel Universe will never be the same after Popverse Playlist for September 12-18, 2026
Avengers: Armageddon is promising a big change for Marvel's comic book universe, Apple's failed secret agents are back in a new Slow Horses season, and it's time for more Resident Evil from the man behind Weapons
Graeme McMillan
Chainsmoker Cat is the grossest, most honest portrayal of addiction in anime [Popverse Jump]
Netflix is delivering one of the most memorable anime in recent years and it is, arguably, about cat girls getting high.
Trent Cannon
New York Comic Con
NYCC 2026 reveals new exclusive merch and an early pre-order window for Superfans and VIPs
Popverse Superfans & NYCC VIPs can get a bulk of their merch shopping done early, leaving more time for [insert fun here] at New York Comic Con.
Chris Arrant
Here is where to watch all the big New York Comic Con 2026 panels
Watch all the big panels from NYCC 2026 for free with Popverse.
Chris Arrant
Dragon Ball Super: Beerus release date announced, with an advanced screening for fans at New York Comic Con
Want to see the first episode of Dragon Ball Super: Beerus early? Get yourself to New York Comic Con next month.
Trent Cannon
House of the Dragon's Matt Smith is coming to NYCC 2026!
The star of House of the Dragon, Doctor Who, The Crown, and next year's Star Wars: Starfighter will be making it to the Javits Center this October
Graeme McMillan
PAX West
Gravitas turns stacking rocks into a ruthless tabletop battle of balance and betrayal [Sponsored]
Gravitas is part strategy game, part sculpture, and part glorious rockslide waiting to happen.
Ashley V. Robinson
Riot’s Marc Merrill says the games industry isn’t collapsing. Players are correcting it
Players are rejecting the games industry’s live-service obsession, according to Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill, telling companies, “We don’t want this stuff”
Chris Arrant
The League of Legends MMO has a fitting nickname inside Riot Games: The Grail
After a decade in development, Riot still sees its League of Legends MMO as a “worthy quest”
Chris Arrant
Civilization VII hired historians to name its planets, but your dog or cat’s name works too
Civilization VII: Earthrise has historians with doctorates who are researching what various Earth civilizations would name the planets
Jules Chin Greene
Rick Remender
DC offered Rick Remender Batman and the Absolute Universe, but he says he turned them down: "It feels like playing cover songs to me."
DC offered Rick Remender Batman, but there's one obscure superhero team he'd actually consider.
Chris Arrant
Uncanny X-Force's Deadpool was secretly a creator-owned character for writer Rick Remender, because he never read a Deadpool comic before
Rick Remender had never read a Deadpool comic before writing Uncanny X-Force
Jules Chin Greene
Marvel Comics have tried to get Rick Remender to come back to relaunch the X-Men twice, he says
Rick Remender walked away from Marvel's X-Men because he wanted to make comics "without anybody telling me" what he could do.
Chris Arrant
New Image imprint Giant Generator signs 12 Marvel and DC artists for future projects
Artists from titles like Black Panther, Punisher, Wonder Woman and more are signing on to a creator-controlled plan
Graeme McMillan
Dispatch
Critical Role's Laura Bailey & Travis Willingham both want the same thing from Dispatch 2: more Malevola Gibb
Bailey & Willingham - who voice Dispatch's Invisigal and Phenomaman, respectively - want to see more of the game's demonic ex-villain, voiced by Alanah Pierce
Grant DeArmitt
What the Critical Role Exandrian video game is taking from Dispatch, according to Travis Willingham
The hit game Dispatch was made with a lot of Critical Role support - and now the success of that game is informing Critical Role's first video game.
Grant DeArmitt
What your Dispatch ship choice says about you
This is a judgement free zone, friends, so let your Dispatch romance option of choice reveal a little more about you
Trent Cannon
Dispatch Switch censorship may be driven by Japan and AdHoc's resource limits — not Nintendo
A lack of nudity may be disappointing to some gamers, but there is more nuanced reasoning behind the Dispatch censorship than just "Nintendo bad."
Trent Cannon