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The Baldur's Gate TV series probably won't touch the game's plot, but it will pick up from my favorite D&D adventure
Despite it's title, HBO's Baldur's Gate tv show is going to more D&D than Baldur's Gate 3 and is probably going to handle the fallout of Descent into Avernus.
Trent Cannon
The great YouTube outage of 2026 - Why the hell was YouTube down?
It wasn't just you - millions of YouTube users across the planet reported outages on Tuesday, February 17. We'll tell you what happened
Grant DeArmitt
Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu trailer – Is Lucasfilm playing it too safe?
The Mandalorian and Grogu movie trailer definitely feels like an episode of the Disney+ TV show, which might be a problem
Graeme McMillan
The new Resident Evil movie is unlike anything the franchise has done before — by design
Resident Evil director Zach Cregger was given "carte blanche" to reboot the movie franchise in whatever way he wanted to
Jules Chin Greene
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
Latest
Marvel Comics launches new Avengers era with a Hulk leading global conflict in Armageddon
Avengers: Armageddon is launching this June, bringing with it war, and a new Avengers era for the Marvel Universe
DC Comics' fall crossover event Bad Seeds sees Poison Ivy take over Batman's Gotham in 'No Man's Land' style "primeval world"
DC’s Bad Seeds crossover threatens to remake Batman's Gotham in Poison Ivy’s image.
DC Comics revamps Teen Titans with Red Hood leading a new generation of heroes
The Teen Titans are back and are uncovering a new conspiracy in the DC Comics universe
DC Comics resurrects The Deadman as a key title spinning out of DC K.O. event
DC Comics' DC K.O. event is setting up the return of Deadman in his own comic series.
DC's Batgirl / Oracle is back in Barbara Gordon: Breakout series
DC's Barbara Gordon has been many things over the years: librarian, politician, Batgirl, Oracle, and more. Now she has a new role: Inmate.
DC makes it official: Absolute Batman, Absolute Wonder Woman, and more collide for first ever Absolute crossover event in 2026
DC doubles down on Absolute Universe with its first universe-wide event.
Batman: Dark Knight Returns inker Klaus Janson gets his first-ever US art show in New York on book's 40th anniversary
An exhibit showcasing 100 pieces of Klaus Janson's artwork will run at New York's Philippe Labaune Gallery from March 5 through April 11.
Judge Dredd comes to America: 2000 AD to be published in the US for first time in its 49-year history
Borag Thungg, readers! After half a century, the UK scifi anthology 2000 AD is being printed in the US for US (and us!)
House of the Dragon season 3 trailer reveals June 2026 release date: "This is the moment you become queen"
Background drama at HBO aside, Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon's season 3 looks to be the most ambitious yet
Absolute Batman's astrological birth chart is perfect, actually
Using Bruce Wayne's birthday in DC Comics' Absolute Batman #1, I figured out his astrological birth chart
Matt Kindt’s Mind MGMT relaunch kicks off with eerie recruitment stunt
Today I spoke with Mind MGMT. No, really - a guerrilla marketing tactic from has fans calling a secret phone number to get in contact with Matt Kindt's iconic scifi organization, who's changing publishing houses after 14 years
Critical Role's Mighty Nein showrunner, Tasha Huo, on the challenges of adapting Naruto from manga to live action for Lionsgate
The Mighty Nein showrunner Huo said the biggest difficulty in adapting manga-then-anime Naruto was "to make it feel real and believable in the world of a live-action movie."
From Baki the Grappler to Baki-Dou, one word can sum up this iconic manga: Strength
Strength means different things to different people, but it will always be part of what makes Baki the Grappler great.
Ocean's Eleven director talks about Disney axing his Star Wars movie: "It's insane"
Steven Soderbergh says he still doesn't understand why the Walt Disney Company didn't let his Kylo Ren movie The Hunt for Ben Solo go forward
Predator: Badlands is the stealth sci-fi hit that even a cloaked Yautja would approve of
Streaming audiences really can't get enough of the Predator franchise, with Predator: Badlands the most popular new movie on Hulu in 3 years
George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones live stage show comes to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre stage this summer
Game of Thrones: The Mad King will serve as a prequel to the events of the HBO show, detailing the events of what George R.R. Martin's readers will know as Robert's Rebellion
Why Baki the Grappler is so enduring, according to its publsisher
The core of Baki's enduring appeal is finding new ways to express the strength of its characters
Scream 7 doesn't have "that meta goal" like its predecessors, says creator/director Kevin Williamson
"It’s continuing the legacy of Sydney Prescott," says OG Scream screenwriter and now director Williamson. "It’s all about her daughter. It’s all about family."
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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's Mighty Nein showrunner, Tasha Huo, on the challenges of adapting Naruto from manga to live action for Lionsgate
The Mighty Nein showrunner Huo said the biggest difficulty in adapting manga-then-anime Naruto was "to make it feel real and believable in the world of a live-action movie."
Grant DeArmitt
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
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics launches new Avengers era with a Hulk leading global conflict in Armageddon
Avengers: Armageddon is launching this June, bringing with it war, and a new Avengers era for the Marvel Universe
Graeme McMillan
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
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 Comics' fall crossover event Bad Seeds sees Poison Ivy take over Batman's Gotham in 'No Man's Land' style "primeval world"
DC’s Bad Seeds crossover threatens to remake Batman's Gotham in Poison Ivy’s image.
Chris Arrant
DC Comics revamps Teen Titans with Red Hood leading a new generation of heroes
The Teen Titans are back and are uncovering a new conspiracy in the DC Comics universe
Trent Cannon
DC's Batgirl / Oracle is back in Barbara Gordon: Breakout series
DC's Barbara Gordon has been many things over the years: librarian, politician, Batgirl, Oracle, and more. Now she has a new role: Inmate.
Chris Arrant
DC makes it official: Absolute Batman, Absolute Wonder Woman, and more collide for first ever Absolute crossover event in 2026
DC doubles down on Absolute Universe with its first universe-wide event.
Chris Arrant