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New Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania, and Silent Hill announcements make Konami the big winners at this week's State of Play
Konami gave details about a new JRPG as well as remasters of two Metal Gear Solid games, a new 2D Castlevania, and another Silent Hill game - all in one night.
Trent Cannon
Spoilers: Absolute Batman Court of Owls first look leaks before intended surprise reveal
The rebooted Court of Owls reveal in Absolute Batman wasn’t supposed to happen online before the comic came out, but here we are.
Chris Arrant
Prime Video's Spider-Noir trailer is here, featuring a web-head with a drinking problem and... Electro?
Hold on a minute, is Electro in the Nicolas Cage-starring Spider-Noir series from Amazon? Because it sure as hell looks like that
Grant DeArmitt
The Mighty Nein forced Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe to play Mollymauk Tealeaf differently than in Campaign 2
OG Critical Role star Jaffe knows what's ahead for fan-favorite teafling Mollymauk in Prime Video's newest Exandrian adaptation - unlike when he first started playing him in 2018
Grant DeArmitt
Daredevil: Born Again stars Charlie Cox, Krysten Ritter, and Wilson Bethel go from Hell's Kitchen to the Windy City for C2E2 2026!
Matt Murdock (Cox), Jessica Jones (Ritter), and Bullseye (Bethel) themselves will be at McCormick place this March - and Popverse Superfans get special access to the cast of Daredevil: Born Again season 2
Grant DeArmitt
Members Access
Love is in the air: 5 anime to watch this Valentine’s Day if you're single
Finding yourself alone on Valentine's Day? Here are 5 anime to help you feel better (or worse) about your current relationship status.
Trent Cannon
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Critical Role invites you to play as the cutest characters from The Legend of Vox Machina and Bells Hells with cozy card game A Familiar Find
Trinket the Bear, Little Mister, Pâté de Rolo - play as them all (and more!) with Critical Role's A Familiar Find, from Darrington Press
There's a new best Rat commander for your MTG Rat deck, thanks to the new TMNT set
The team behind Magic: The Gathering's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set dished on the rat card options
Blumhouse and The Conjuring writer team up for Dead by Daylight horror movie
The hit survival horror game Dead by Daylight is coming to the big screen and Blumhouse clearly see the appeal of video game adaptations.
How Spider-Man's New York City is different than the TMNT's NYC, according to Magic: The Gathering
Both the Marvel's Spider-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Magic: The Gathering crossover sets are set in New York City
Love the TMNT arcade game? Magic: The Gathering does as well, and they're building that into the upcoming TMNT commander deck
Unlike other commander decks in Magic: The Gathering, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles commander deck has a narrative to it
TMNT bosses gave Magic: The Gathering permission to create a “feminized” version of Leatherhead “without resorting to gator boobs”
Magic: The Gathering x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles features a lady version of Leatherhead
DC is turning Batman: The Dark Knight Returns’ 40th anniversary into a yearlong Batman event
DC Comics announced at ComicsPRO a slate of "new publishing initiatives, creator retrospectives, special edition releases, and global fan-focused activations" commemorating The Dark Knight Returns turning 40
Logan Paul's Illustrator Pikachu broke the record for most valuable Pokémon card ever for reasons that baffle us all
For more than $16 million, you could have gotten a Illustrator Pikachu card that Logan Paul wore to Wrestlemania and slapped in a gaudy protective case.
Let's Play: Flamecraft Duals, the magical matching game from Cardboard Alchemy
Let the Cardboard Alchemy team take you through the latest expansion of their delightfully draconic Dragons & Dragons fantasy game, Flamecraft Duals!
A man dressed as Batman challenged his city council over ICE protest crackdowns
"Batman showed me that concepts like hope and justice are only realized through action" is a line that honestly goes so hard.
George R. R. Martin is the perfect example of why no author should ever read the comment section
Game of Thrones fans need to accept that George R. R. Martin doesn't owe them another book, no matter how much we all want to see how A Song of Ice and Fire ends.
Star Wars fans are right: that's Embo in The Mandalorian & Grogu trailer
Personally, I'm here for Baby Greedo or Jacked Jabba. But I suppose if you're a Star Wars: The Clone Wars fan, it was cool to see your favorite niche bounty hunter in The Mandalorian and Grogu trailer
DC's Absolute Batman now has Chainsaw Man hands, and a new cover homages creator Tatsuki Fujimoto
The Mann Boyz variant cover for Absolute Batman #18 has already sold out, partly because it gave a wonderfully appropriate tribute to Chainsaw Man.
Here's why the Baki the Grappler manga took 35 years to come out in English (even after the hit anime), according to the original Japanese publisher
Japanese publisher Akita Shoten has been waiting 35 years to release Baki the Grappler in English, so they wanted to make sure the got a partner that could see the series to the end.
One Piece release schedule: When is Chapter 1175 of the One Piece manga release date
New chapters of One Piece are coming out most weeks. Find out when the next One Piece manga chapter will be released.
Blade Runner returns with bootleg Replicants in Tokyo Nexus: To Lose Is To Win
Return to the cyberpunk world of Blade Runner with the next Tokyo Nexus comic mini-series.
Something Is Killing the Children enters "a new era" with Fall of the House of Slaughter this summer
Fall of the House of Slaughter brings lethal succession drama to the Something is Killing the Children franchise.
The Fallout series is really good at reminding me of how much I love the Fallout games [Gamify My Life]
Between Ron Perlman's baffling cameo and The Ghoul's laser focus on the main objective, the Fallout series feels more like the games than anyone could have imagined.
How one of Baki the Grappler's most iconic special moves came to be, from the editor who shaped the Hitless Blow
The Hitless Blow (or True Mach Punch) was one of the most exciting moments in Baki the Grappler, but making it happen on the page was a team effort.
There's a secret doc with George R.R. Martin's Dunk & Egg ideas in it, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner Ira Parker has access
Want to know what George R.R. Martin has planned for Dunk & Egg beyond A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms seasons 1-3? Good news! All you have to do is become the showrunner HBO hires
Marvel, give us a real Wonder Man fan club, you cowards!
Marvel Studios has released a trailer for the in-universe Wonder Man movie, even advertising a fan club, but it only exists within the MCU
Dungeons & Dragons is now playable without the classic RPG rules — thanks to a new action figure line
Dungeons & Dragons Questers is a new action figure line geared towards introducing Gen Alpha to the Forgotten Realms
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Inside the secret to Baki the Grappler’s brutal longevity in manga and anime, with longtime publisher Akita Shoten exec Yuki Yokoi [Popverse Jump]
What 35 years of Baki the Grappler mean to one of the men behind the original manga.
Trent Cannon
Love is in the air: 5 anime to watch this Valentine’s Day if you're single
Finding yourself alone on Valentine's Day? Here are 5 anime to help you feel better (or worse) about your current relationship status.
Trent Cannon
Ask Ming-Na Wen, Critical Role, Gail Simone, Karl Urban, Chris Claremont, Denys Cowan, and more your questions as part of ECCC x Popverse member exclusive!
Popverse members can submit questions for select Emerald City Comic Con 2026 panels and interviews.
Chris Arrant
Emerald City Comic Con
Jurassic World and Star Wars mainstay Bryce Dallas Howard is coming to Seattle's ECCC 2026!
Bryce Dallas Howard has starred in three Jurassic World movies, directed four Star Wars TV shows, and now she'll be showing up to delight fans at Emerald City Comic Con 2026
Graeme McMillan
Creel World Seattle: Stranger Things' Jamie Campbell Bower is coming to ECCC 2026!
Vecna himself, Jamie Campbell Bower, is turning Emerald City Comic Con 2026 upside down hot on the heels of the Stranger Things season 5 finale
Grant DeArmitt
Gravity Falls' Alex Hirsch and Kristen Schaal are headed to Seattle's ECCC 2026!
The voices behind Bill Cipher (and Grunkle Stan!) and Mabel are going to be headlining their own panel, signing autographs, and more at Seattle's biggest pop culture shindig this March
Graeme McMillan
Ask Ming-Na Wen, Critical Role, Gail Simone, Karl Urban, Chris Claremont, Denys Cowan, and more your questions as part of ECCC x Popverse member exclusive!
Popverse members can submit questions for select Emerald City Comic Con 2026 panels and interviews.
Chris Arrant
Critical Role Productions
Critical Role invites you to play as the cutest characters from The Legend of Vox Machina and Bells Hells with cozy card game A Familiar Find
Trinket the Bear, Little Mister, Pâté de Rolo - play as them all (and more!) with Critical Role's A Familiar Find, from Darrington Press
Grant DeArmitt
Critical Role's Matt Mercer & Brennan Lee Mulligan got better at GMing thanks to Akira Kurosawa
Critical Role's new GM for Campaign 4 says there's a moment in Seven Samurai that teaches storytellers how to avoid the "soulless instinct to optimize." OG GM Mercer says it's a technique even used in shows like The Mighty Nein
Grant DeArmitt
How Critical Role's Daggerheart is a great place for the "nervous GM," according to Matt Mercer
What if you, as the GM, don't have something prepared for a scene your players want to explore? Critical Role's Matt Mercer says Daggerheart is structured to accommodate
Grant DeArmitt
The Mighty Nein forced Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe to play Mollymauk Tealeaf differently than in Campaign 2
OG Critical Role star Jaffe knows what's ahead for fan-favorite teafling Mollymauk in Prime Video's newest Exandrian adaptation - unlike when he first started playing him in 2018
Grant DeArmitt
Marvel Comics
Moon Knight can't be contained by a shirt in Marvel Comics anymore, as Marc Spector gives Absolute Batman a run for his money
Feast your eyes upon Moon Knight's new threads (or lack thereof) in a preview for Marc Spector: Moon Knight
Jules Chin Greene
Marvel revives Spider-Man: Brand New Day comics era ahead of Tom Holland’s new MCU movie
Dan Slott returns to Spider-Man for Spectacular Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Chris Arrant
Marvel cuts its new Hulk ongoing comic after just 10 issues, but creators say that was the plan and there's already a sequel underway
Infernal Hulk wraps at #10 after being launched by Marvel Comics as an ongoing series just months prior.
Chris Arrant
Free Comic Book Day 2026: What to expect from DC, Marvel, and more, and the whole Comics Giveaway Day wrinkle
Free Comic Book Day 2026 explained, including the new Comics Giveaway Day twist.
Chris Arrant
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson imagines what the movies would have been like had Sean Connery accepted the role of Gandalf
"I am the wielder of a sccchecret fire," quips Peter Jackson, director of The Fellowship of the Ring and SNL-level impressionist
Grant DeArmitt
From one Lord of the Rings director to another - Andy Serkis on what makes Peter Jackson “one of life’s great movement-makers”
Serkis, who will direct the next Lord of the Rings film, The Hunt for Gollum, reveals what made trilogy director Jackson such a fantastic director
Grant DeArmitt
The Lord of the Rings screenwriter Phillipa Boyens teases The Hunt for Gollum as "a really strong psychological" story
At the same time, confirms the Middle-Earth screenwriter, The Lord of the Rings favorite antihero will be portrayed with all the same physicality as Serkis had in the first go-round
Grant DeArmitt
The Lord of the Rings cast got stools to sit on between takes - John Rhys Davies got a La-Z-Boy, occasionally delivered by helicopter
Worry not for Gimli, son of Gloin (aka actor John Rhys Davies). His post orc-slaughtering during The Lord of the Rings filming was a comfortable break
Grant DeArmitt
ComicsPRO Industry Conference
DC is turning Batman: The Dark Knight Returns’ 40th anniversary into a yearlong Batman event
DC Comics announced at ComicsPRO a slate of "new publishing initiatives, creator retrospectives, special edition releases, and global fan-focused activations" commemorating The Dark Knight Returns turning 40
Jules Chin Greene
Marvel, DC, VIZ, more gather at ComicsPRO 2026, and we will cover it live thanks to Lunar Distribution
The comics industry is about to talk shop behind closed doors. and Popverse will be there to tell you what actually matters.
Chris Arrant