Spotlight
House of the Dragon season 4 is going in the exact opposite direction as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
HBO has released the House of the Dragon season 3 trailer, and the fire and blood within reminds us just how different the Dunk & Egg spinoff is to other Westeros fare
Grant DeArmitt
Hazbin Hotel season 5 announced as the end of the Prime Video animated series, giving us 3 more seasons in Hell
We've still got three full seasons of Hazbin Hotel coming, so don't be scared that Hell is ending anytime soon
Trent Cannon
Top Shonen Jump editor behind DanDaDan, Chainsaw Man & SpyXFamily has left his staff position to start his own manga company
Shihei Lin helped shape Chainsaw Man, Spy x Family, and DanDaDan, and now he's set up his own independent manga company.
Trent Cannon
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Reading Dragon Ball to my toddler became the father-son moment I didn’t know I needed [Popverse Jump]
A Toddler's Reaction to Dragon Ball: The making of a weeb.
Trent Cannon
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Popverse Playlist: The 3 things you need to check out in pop culture April 25 through May 1
A Hannibal reunion, Stranger Things returns and Swamp Thing regrows: Popverse Playlist's 3 things you have to see over the next seven days
Graeme McMillan
Iron Man director Jon Favreau tried to stop Marvel killing Tony Stark in Avengers: Endgame
Jon Favreau, the director of the first two Iron Man movies, was scared fans were going to be depressed after seeing Avengers: Endgame
Jules Chin Greene
Latest
The MCU’s original Thor director wants to return for a Logan-inspired “final story” with Chris Hemsworth
Director and actor extraordinaire Kenneth Branagh would love to make a "glorious" final Thor movie with Marvel Studios
DC Studios Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters - what changed, what got added, and what went away after the first announcement
With The Authority being shelved for the time being and Waller in limbo, what remains of the initial DCU plans ahead of Supergirl's release in theaters?
Toy Story 5 really is growing up - with the franchise's first PG-rating
I don't know, that new, over-G rating for Toy Story 5 has me wondering if we're going to get our first 'gol-darnit' of the franchise. Or perhaps Woody will have tequila
AT-ATack on Titan? Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu gets a manga-style teaser as part of global promotional push
Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama has created a new promo image for the upcoming Star Wars movie
The Amazing Digital Circus cast knows all about Peeled Jax, and he's even headcanon for one of them
Michael Kovach, who voices Jax on The Amazing Digital Circus, has seen that creepy meme you kids are sharing about his character. And apparently, that's enough to convince him it's real
Think you want the Critical Role live events to be streamed into your home? According to lore-keeper Dani Carr, you don't
Yes, Critical Role episodes are livestreamed. But the live theater shows are a different beast, argues Carr, and that beast requires an editor
Why comic book variant covers went from art experiment to sales strategy, and how a particular 1990 Hulk comic by Marvel set it all off
Ever wonder why there are so many variant covers of the same comic at your local comic book store? Marvel's longest-serving editor thinks it stems from the publisher's most Incredible character
A natural disaster in Brazil almost derailed DC’s Absolute Superman and did force its original artist Rafael Albuquerque out, but he's back to Absolute with Green Arrow
Absolute Green Arrow artist Rafael Albuquerque was originally slated to draw Absolute Superman when the 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods in Brazil left him without power or water
Practical Magic 2 release date: When the witches are back in theaters
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman will reprise their respective roles as the Owens sisters.
Resident Evil (2026) release date: When the video game adaptation reboot will arrive in theaters
The much-anticipated reboot of the franchise comes from Barbarian and Weapons director Zach Cregger
Coyote vs. Acme release date: When the long-anticipated Looney Tunes movie finally debuts
The movie also features Will Forte and John Cena
Insidious: Out of the Further release date: When the sixth installment in the franchise will arrive in theaters
You're not confused; this movie was previous titled "Insidious: The Bleeding World"
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma release date: When the Jane Schoenbrun slasher will arrive in theaters
The director of I Saw the TV Glow is bringing you a queer slasher starring Hacks' Hannah Einbinder this summer
DC Studios shelves The Authority movie, despite The Engineer's Superman debut
James Gunn did confirm that the Booster Gold and Wonder Woman-related Paradise Lost shows are still in development at DC Studios
Spider-Noir release date, cast, Spider-Man connection, and more
The Nicolas Cage Spider-Noir show has assembled an all-star cast of characters who will swing into Prime Video this spring
How Gwen Stacy's death set-up the creation of the Punisher, according to the writer who did both for Marvel Comics
The Punisher never would’ve been created if Marvel hadn’t decided to kill Gwen Stacy
Manga fans find more of what they want out of American comics with Image Comics than superhero-specific Marvel or DC, according to superhero writer (and Image boss) Robert Kirkman
Invincible co-creator Robert Kirkman wants Marvel and DC to remember that comic books are about more than superheroes
Invincible release schedule (Updated April 2026): When does the next issue of Battle Beast come out?
We've got all the details about the Invincible Universe: Battle Beast comic book series from Image Comics, including when the next issue comes out
Batman's H2SH finale set, with a third Hush storyline by Jim Lee & Jeph Loeb on the horizon (but unscheduled)
Batman Hush 2 finale arrives May 27 — but the story isn’t over.
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Reading Dragon Ball to my toddler became the father-son moment I didn’t know I needed [Popverse Jump]
A Toddler's Reaction to Dragon Ball: The making of a weeb.
Trent Cannon
Popverse Playlist: The 3 things you need to check out in pop culture April 25 through May 1
A Hannibal reunion, Stranger Things returns and Swamp Thing regrows: Popverse Playlist's 3 things you have to see over the next seven days
Graeme McMillan
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
Bookcon
Horror stories & cozy lit come from the same place, according to Better in Black author Cassandra Clare
Author Cassandra Clare, who has created her own dark fantasies in The Shadowhunter Chronicles, believes that there's a need we have as modern readers, and that both horror and cozy fiction fill it in different ways
Grant DeArmitt
These fantasy tropes need to die, according to fantasy authors Cassandra Clare, Sarah Mughal Rana, & Chelsea Abdullah
There were plenty of discussions at BookCon 2026 about the worst fantasy tropes, but none of them probably held the weight of the one between authors Clare (Shadowhunters), Rana (Dawn of the Firebird), & Abdullah (Sandsea)
Grant DeArmitt
Watch The Language of Love with Jasmine Guillory, Casey McQuiston, & Tia Williams from BookCon 2026!
Authors Guillory (The Wedding Date), McQuiston (Red, White, and Royal Blue), and Williams (A Love Song for Ricki Wilde) dissected what makes the romance genre work at BookCon '26, and Popverse was there to learn (and film)
Grant DeArmitt
Watch The Importance and Impact of Dystopian and Fantasy Fiction with Tahereh Mafi and Chloe Gong from BookCon 2026!
Mafi, author of the Shatter Me series, and Gong, author of the StrangeLoom series, shared their experience with the reigning champion of YA subgenres, and Popverse was filming their panel
Grant DeArmitt
Avengers: Doomsday
Robert Downey Jr.’s Oscar-winning Oppenheimer role won him the Doctor Doom part in Avengers: Doomsday
"[Robert Downey Jr.] played the most iconic hero. Let's have him play the most iconic villain," said Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige
Jules Chin Greene
The Marvel Studios Hall H panel at SDCC this year won’t be about Spider-Man: Brand New Day
The Marvel Studios SDCC panel this year will focus on Avengers: Doomsday, according to reports
Jules Chin Greene
Part of Avengers: Doomsday will be in theaters earlier than you thought, as Endgame rerelease to include new footage of next MCU mega-event
At Cinemacon 2026, Endgame director Joe Russo revealed that Marvel Studios will be rereleasing the film "with footage that is set in the Doomsday story."
Grant DeArmitt
Marvel Studios April 2026 layoffs included the director of visual development of Avengers: Doomsday
Andy Park, who'd been working in visual development at Marvel since 2010, has been laid off by the company as part of wider cutbacks
Graeme McMillan
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
Newsarama
Newsarama, 1998 - 2026: an obituary & a eulogy, from a former writer & editor
Newsarama helped shape how we talk about comics and the story of what comics was for the past 25+ years.
Chris Arrant
End of an era: comics journalism outlet Newsarama gutted by layoffs as final writer exits
After years of cuts, Newsarama has finally gone silent
Chris Arrant
Newsarama co-founder makes a surprise exit from the comics journalism outlet
Doran co-founded Newsarama in 1998
Graeme McMillan