Spotlight
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
Hunter x Hunter is returning after 16-month hiatus, as creator Yoshihiro Togashi says a return release date is imminent
We don't have a release date for Hunter x Hunter Chapter 411, but Yoshihiro Togashi says we won't have to wait long thanks to the encouragement and help of his wife, the creator of Sailor Moon.
Sentenced To Be A Hero season 2 anime potentially at risk after Umamusume: Pretty Derby animation studio announces insolvency
Studio Kai has reported a more than $3.5 million loss in 2025, despite having a hit anime air at the start of 2026.
BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Calamity headed to movie theaters, thanks to VIZ Media and Fathom
Want to see the next chapter of BLEACH before it debuts on streaming? VIZ Media and Fathom Entertainment want to bring you to the movies
Supernatural's Jared Padalecki finally confirms his character in The Boys Season 5 in comic-con appearance
Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles are reuniting on the final season of The Boys - and now we know who both of them are playing this season
Phantom Busters release schedule: When new chapters of the hit manga are released in Japanese and English
The English release is significantly behind the Japanese Phantom Busters manga, but it is slowly catching up.
Zombie classic Train to Busan returns to US theaters for 10th anniversary re-release this summer
Train to Busan is getting a big screen re-release, ahead of a new zombie movie from the same director
How Absolute Batman wears its manga influence not just in the artwork, but down to the lettering & word balloons
The secret behind Absolute Batman’s manga-inspired look isn’t just the art—it’s in the lettering.
Stranger Things producers' new show turns the formula upside down with retirees stuck in The Boroughs
We've seen kids deal with the unknown. Now it's time to see how retirees do it.
Marvel Comics is recruiting its next recruiter of top writers, artists, and more
A powerful behind-the-scenes position at Marvel Comics is now open, and for comic creators it really matters.
A celebrity writer gets canceled for fatshaming, and it gets even worse for her in horror comic DId You Hear About Mimi Green?
When a celebrity writer's past fat-shaming writings are discovered, getting covered by a TMZ-like outlet is the least of her problems.
Why Justice League: Dream Girls marks a turning point for trans heroes in the DC Universe (and why we need it now more than ever)
DC Comics says “Trans Rights”: Justice League: Dream Girls explained and explored.
What time do new episodes of The Boys come out? Here's the season 5 schedule
We have the dates and times for the final season of Prime Video's superhero satire
The secret origin of Marvel's new event-level villain revealed in 'Death Spiral' Body Count one-shot
Here's a first look at the origin of Torrment in an Amazing Spider-Man: Death Spiral - Body Count #1 first look.
How Critical Role's Sam Riegel would make a Phoenix Wright movie
"You can't handle the - OBJECTION!" Phoenix Wright fans, Critical Role mainstay (and voice of Wright himself) Sam Riegel has a movie pitch you're gonna want to hear
Spider-Man wants to swing two fans into LA for the Brand New Day premiere
Tom Holland's charity has launched a sweepstakes where fans can win an all-expenses-paid trip to the world premiere for the next Spider-Man movie in Los Angeles
Finally, a Metal Gear Solid movie is happening, thanks to the filmmakers behind Final Destination: Bloodlines
Sure, the idea of an MGS movie might've kept you waiting, but Sony Pictures has one in the works after all these years
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.
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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
How Absolute Batman wears its manga influence not just in the artwork, but down to the lettering & word balloons
The secret behind Absolute Batman’s manga-inspired look isn’t just the art—it’s in the lettering.
Chris Arrant
Why Justice League: Dream Girls marks a turning point for trans heroes in the DC Universe (and why we need it now more than ever)
DC Comics says “Trans Rights”: Justice League: Dream Girls explained and explored.
Avery Kaplan
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