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Spider-Man's ex Mary Jane is officially entering her villain phase with Death Spiral finale
As Venom, Mary Jane Watson has embraced what it means to be a Lethal Protector in Marvel Comics
Jules Chin Greene
The first teaser for DC Studios' Clayface movie is here with the most diabolical needle drop of all time
The Flaming Lips have never been more eerie than in the Clayface teaser from DC Studios
Jules Chin Greene
Just two movies in, Super Mario is one of the 10 biggest animation franchises ever
With more than $2 billion at the box office over two films, Super Mario Bros. is proving that the Nintendo icon isn't just for gaming anymore
Trent Cannon
Watch Game Changing TV: Celebrating Heated Rivalry with Rachel Reid & Jacob Tierney from BookCon 2026!
Game Changers author Rachel Reid and Heated Rivalry showrunner Jacob Tierney brought steam to melt a whole city full of hockey rinks, and Popverse was there to catch their BookCon spotlight
Grant DeArmitt
Veronica Roth's Divergent series is back with the first new novel in 8 years, The Sixth Faction
The Sixth Faction will be the sixth entry into Roth's Divergent novel series, but will take place in an alternate timeline than her previous works.
Grant DeArmitt
BookCon 2026 panels are coming to Popverse — here’s how to watch them all
Missed BookCon? Popverse is bringing the biggest panels online for free.
Chris Arrant
Latest
Critical Role Campaign 4: Halandil Fang is Liam O'Brien's desperate attempt to break his sad boi streak
O'Brien, who played such traumatized characters as Vax, Caleb, & Orym in Critical Role's campaigns past, once heard that he didn't need tragedy to build a strong character. So he's testing that out
The Boys Season 5 features an unexpected appearance by an actor best known for playing Superman
We didn't have Superman making an appearance in The Boys Season 5 on our bingo card but we're not upset by it
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' season 2 release date hasn't moved - despite the set being literally underwater
A flood has wrecked the sets for the HBO spin-off from Game of Thrones, but the show remains on schedule nonetheless
Watch the Penning the Perfect Atmosphere panel with Alexis Henderson, Alix E. Harrow, & Olivie Blake from Bookcon 2026!
At BookCon 2026, the creators of The Year of the Witching, Starling House, and The Atlas Six - Henderson, Harrow, and Blake, respectively - presented a masterclass in setting the literary mood. Popverse was there to film it
Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu — release date, cast, plot, and what to know
Wondering what you need to know about the first Star Wars movie in seven years? We have you covered here, even if you have never seen Disney+'s The Mandalorian
The Boys cast hint that Season 5 has plenty more "Oh shit" moments coming before the final episode
Two members of The Boys cast discuss how they expect fans to react to some of the upcoming episodes in Season 5
Plus Ultra! My Hero Academia in Concert announces US tour dates starting September 2026
My Hero Academia in Concert is hitting 35 US cities this fall, with tickets set to go on sale later in the year
Watch You Had Me at Hockey with Rachel Reid, Ngozi Ukazu, Emily Rath, Bal Khabra, Stephanie Archer, & Kate Cochrane from Bookcon 2026!
Ice has never been hotter, as the authors of Heated Rivalry; Check, Please; Pucking Around; Collide; Behind the Net; and Wake Up, Nat and Darcy attested at BookCon, where Popverse was filming their panel
Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko was a "gentle, friendly" guy who “did not suffer fools gladly," according to Gerry Conway
Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko had a lot in common with his character the Question (and he didn’t suffer fools gladly)
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
Heartstopper recasts a fan-favorite role ahead of its big Netflix finale
The bad news: Olivia Colman will not be returning as Sarah Nelson for Heartstopper Forever
The Pitt season 3 release date: January 2027 window, cast, plot and what we know so far
Season 2 just ended, but that's all the more reason to start asking the important questions regarding The Pitt season 3's release date on HBO Max now
Slam Dunk creator Takehiko Inoue pays tribute & shows his caring to his former assistant Yasuhisa Hara on the 20th anniversary of the Kingdom manga
"Please take good care of yourself and enjoy the journey ahead," Takehiko Inoue said to Kingdom manga creator Yasuhisa Hara on the 20th anniversary of the manga's serialization.
How Taylor Swift helped convince Veronica Roth to revive the Divergent series after almost a decade
Roth explained that she had a revelation when Swift played her old music at the Eras Tour - and that it led to the process that produced The Sixth Faction, the alt-reality return to Divergent
Horror is about making the reader uncomfortable, according to Bat Eater writer Kylie Lee Baker
Sure, seeing a dead body is scary, but finding yourself in an uncomfortable, almost alien situation is far worse, explains the Japanese Gothic author.
Apex release date: When the Charlize Theron movie debuts on Netflix
It's woman versus wilderness (and Taron Egerton) in this new Netflix thriller
Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness release date: When the new series from Larry David debuts on HBO Max
The limited sketch comedy series is from Larry David and Jeff Schaffer
Disney layoffs hit Marvel's podcast department and key audio producer Jasmine Estrada
Marvel Comics has laid off audio producer Jasmine Estrada, who worked on podcasts like The History of Marvel Comics, Marvel's Pull List, and more
Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat release date: When Interview with the Vampire Season 3 arrives on AMC
The adaptation of the second Vampire Chronicles book stars Sam Reid in the titular role
Cape Fear Season 1 release date: When the star-studded psychological thriller series debuts on Apple TV
The show, inspired by the Martin Scorsese remake of the 1962 crime movie, stars Amy Adams, Javier Bardem and Patrick Wilson
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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
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
Bookcon
Watch the Penning the Perfect Atmosphere panel with Alexis Henderson, Alix E. Harrow, & Olivie Blake from Bookcon 2026!
At BookCon 2026, the creators of The Year of the Witching, Starling House, and The Atlas Six - Henderson, Harrow, and Blake, respectively - presented a masterclass in setting the literary mood. Popverse was there to film it
Grant DeArmitt
Watch You Had Me at Hockey with Rachel Reid, Ngozi Ukazu, Emily Rath, Bal Khabra, Stephanie Archer, & Kate Cochrane from Bookcon 2026!
Ice has never been hotter, as the authors of Heated Rivalry; Check, Please; Pucking Around; Collide; Behind the Net; and Wake Up, Nat and Darcy attested at BookCon, where Popverse was filming their panel
Grant DeArmitt
How Taylor Swift helped convince Veronica Roth to revive the Divergent series after almost a decade
Roth explained that she had a revelation when Swift played her old music at the Eras Tour - and that it led to the process that produced The Sixth Faction, the alt-reality return to Divergent
Grant DeArmitt
Horror is about making the reader uncomfortable, according to Bat Eater writer Kylie Lee Baker
Sure, seeing a dead body is scary, but finding yourself in an uncomfortable, almost alien situation is far worse, explains the Japanese Gothic author.
Trent Cannon
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
Absolute Batman
DC's Absolute Batman is now selling 3 times what Scott Snyder expected, and DC staffers are looking back at 'New 52' data to learn how much bigger this is than that
Absolute Batman surpasses 'New 52' Batman sales on day 1, as DC admits “the success… is beyond bewildering."
Chris Arrant
The origin of Absolute Harley Quinn is coming this July
Absolute Batman's unlikely ally Harley Quinn is getting ready for her tell-all.
Jules Chin Greene
How Absolute Batman #19 homages one of Frank Miller’s most iconic Dark Knight Returns scenes
Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, and Frank Martin's Absolute Batman #19 features a scene that wonderfully subverts the first page of The Dark Knight Returns
Jules Chin Greene
DC’s Absolute Universe turns Robin into mech pilots in wild Absolute Batman twist: and here's how they revealed themselves
Absolute Batman #19 marks the first appearance of the Absolute Robins in DC Comics
Jules Chin Greene
Bookcon
Watch the Penning the Perfect Atmosphere panel with Alexis Henderson, Alix E. Harrow, & Olivie Blake from Bookcon 2026!
At BookCon 2026, the creators of The Year of the Witching, Starling House, and The Atlas Six - Henderson, Harrow, and Blake, respectively - presented a masterclass in setting the literary mood. Popverse was there to film it
Grant DeArmitt
Watch You Had Me at Hockey with Rachel Reid, Ngozi Ukazu, Emily Rath, Bal Khabra, Stephanie Archer, & Kate Cochrane from Bookcon 2026!
Ice has never been hotter, as the authors of Heated Rivalry; Check, Please; Pucking Around; Collide; Behind the Net; and Wake Up, Nat and Darcy attested at BookCon, where Popverse was filming their panel
Grant DeArmitt
How Taylor Swift helped convince Veronica Roth to revive the Divergent series after almost a decade
Roth explained that she had a revelation when Swift played her old music at the Eras Tour - and that it led to the process that produced The Sixth Faction, the alt-reality return to Divergent
Grant DeArmitt
Horror is about making the reader uncomfortable, according to Bat Eater writer Kylie Lee Baker
Sure, seeing a dead body is scary, but finding yourself in an uncomfortable, almost alien situation is far worse, explains the Japanese Gothic author.
Trent Cannon