Spotlight
Jim Lee says the Marvel vs. DC rivalry is like baseball: The players change, but fans stay loyal
In comics, just like in baseball, says DC's Jim Lee, it's not always about who you're rooting for. It's sometimes about who you're not rooting against
Grant DeArmitt
Priscilla Queen of the Desert 2 is real, says Memento star - and it'll film in 2027
Guy Pearce hopes that the sequel for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert will be out in 2028
Jules Chin Greene
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
Konami reiterates that its goal is to make a Silent Hill game every year, with "many different types of diverse experiences"
At PAX West 2026, Silent Hill producer Motoi Okamoto expressed his enthusiasm for giving fans more "diverse experiences" within the franchise
Jules Chin Greene
Alex Ross is “sniffing at” the world of Kingdom Come again on its 30th Anniversary, but don’t call it a sequel
Alex Ross plays coy about revisiting Kingdom Come: “I talk too much”
Ashley V. Robinson
Latest
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Critical Role's Travis Willingham lends his advice on avoiding burnout
When you're as busy as Critical Role's Travis Willingham is, you discover a thing or two about how not to overreach. Now, The Legend of Vox Machina's own Grog is sharing what he's learned
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.
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
Resident Evil director Zach Cregger shuts down the Mikey Madison casting rumor as completely made-up
Madison is no stranger to horror, but Weapons director Cregger reveals the rumor she was in talks to be his Resident Evil star was "never" true
The MCU’s X-Men movie might've just found its crash out king in Warren Worthington III aka Angel (but really, Archangel)
Asa Germann is in "final talks" to play Angel in the MCU X-Men film, off the heels of his role as Sam Riordan in Gen V
The Rings of Power season 3’s five-year time jump is designed to win back viewers ahead of the Lord of the Rings movie franchise return
Five years have passed between The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 and 3, and as Sauron is aiming to gain more followers, so too is Prime Video's Tolkien adaptation
Marvel Studios planned for The Falcon & the Winter Soldier to lead its Disney+ slate, then WandaVision exploded
For Paul Bettany, WandaVision was supposed to be the "weird cousin" to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Disney+
Tim Curry’s iconic Legend villain inspired Alex Ross’ terrifying new version of Thor
Alex Ross reveals how Tim Curry helped shape Marvel’s worst possible Thor.
Kagurabachi manga release date schedule altered as creator Takeru Hokazono has a sudden illness (but he's okay!)
For the second time in four months, the Kagurabachi manga is going on a brief hiatus.
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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
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
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