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Rosario Dawson opens up about competing against Beyoncé for her role in Josie & The Pussycats
Rosario Dawson was shocked to learn that she beat out Beyonce Knowles for the role of Valerie in the 2001 Josie and the Pussycats film
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Inside Japan's $210 billion bet on manga, anime, gaming & music
As South Korea and China push to expand, Japan doesn't want anyone catch up to their dominance in manga, anime, and more.
Chris Arrant
Critical Role is so successful because they were an adventuring party before they were a business, claims Laura Bailey
Before they were the folks producing The Legend of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein, the Critical Role cast were the kind of plucky, ragtag team those adventures are about. And according to Bailey, that's the secret to their success
Grant DeArmitt
Coyote vs. Acme is a love letter to Wile E. Coyote's inability to quit, say filmmakers
When life gives you lemons, build lemon bombs. That's the lesson we should all be taking from Coyote vs. Acme.
Trent Cannon
Spider-Man: One More Day co-creator Joe Quesada has an idea for a sequel (and a finale)
Joe Quesada wants to write a sequel to Spider-Man: One More Day (but don’t expect it anytime soon)
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Where to read comics online in 2026: The best apps and platforms compared
The battle to replace ComiXology is heating up.
Leon Miller
Latest
How the Josie & The Pussycats movie became a prescient look at pop culture 25 years in the future, according to the cast
Josie and the Pussycats predicted the dark future of the music industry, and none of us listened to the warning
The Amazing Digital Circus kept breaking Discord in its early days thanks to Alex Rochon's Caine voice
The Amazing Digital Circus cast did their early table reads on Discord, and the platform wasn’t always kind to Alex Rochon
Marvel Studios' Avengers: Doomsday first look is all the talk of the internet, but everyone's missing my favorite bit: Mystique's comic-accurate costume change
Rebecca Romijn's Mystique flaunts a comic-accurate look in art for Avengers: Doomsday
Farming Life in Another World release schedule (updated July 2026): When the next chapters of the hit manga and light novels will be released
If you're looking for an isekai manga that is more slice of life than world saving, Farming Life in Another World might be your best bet.
When choosing between a Marvel or DC 'exclusive' contract, writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson weighed alot and explained how Marvel won him over
Phillip Kennedy Johnson breaks down his decision to sign an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics and whether he'd return to DC in the future
Marvel's Armageddon is also an Avengers comic for those keeping count, according to hidden legacy numbering
Marvel math is including Avengers: Armageddon event as part of the Avengers comic run.... but its not the first time an event has doubled as a main Avengers book.
One of America’s biggest comic shop chains is gearing up for major expansion, and have named a new leader to help grow
The Florida comic store giant Coliseum of Comics recently expanded to Texas, and now it's promoted Chris Powell to keep growing.
Superhero fatigue isn't real says Invincible co-creator Robert Kirkman... it's just a dearth of good superhero stories that can't rely on the novelty of superheroes anymore (Sorry, Iron Man!)
Who’s afraid of superhero fatigue? Not Robert Kirkman
DC All In's Jeff Lemire JSA run is ending this fall
The future of DC’s JSA is uncertain after Jeff Lemire’s imminent departure.
People who buy comics for variant covers only is "upsetting" to Chip Zdarsky, and wishes the industry would just print variants as prints to save trees
How Chip Zdarsky learned to stop worrying and love variant covers
Scott Snyder avoided using Catwoman during his DC 'New 52' Batman run because he found her relationship with the Dark Knight repetitive
Scott Snyder thinks Batman and Catwoman’s relationship is too repetitive in the main DCU, and he’s hoping to fix that in the Absolute Universe
A Hart of Dixie reboot is the kind of "warm and fuzzy" show everyone needs right now, according to star Rachel Bilson
Could we see more Hart of Dixie? The cast is ready to answer the call
Imagine Backrooms with Amazing Digital Circus characters. Here's what would happen, according to the cast themselves
The Amazing Digital Circus cast speculate on how their characters would navigate the Backrooms
The TMNT cartoon's Michelangelo is just Sean Penn's Fast Times at Ridgemont High character, but you know, teenage, mutant, a ninja, and a turtle
The producers of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon wanted Michelangelo to sound like Sean Penn from Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Failure is the major theme of The Vampire Lestat, says showrunner
For The Vampire Lestat executive producer and showrunner, Rolin Jones, humanity is at the core of the show
Marvel has "some big changes" planned for the X-Men in 2027
Marvel's upcoming DNX crossover will have far-reaching implications for the X-Men moving forward
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The Devil May Cry anime isn't necessarily good... but I love it anyway [Popvese Jump]
No show that heavily features Limp Bizkit can be taken seriously, but Devil May Cry still manages to be fun to watch
Trent Cannon
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey lays waste to the pop culture landscape, but we also have magpies and Anya Taylor-Joy: Popverse Playlist for July 11-17, 2026
We're not going to pretend that you're not going to see The Odyssey in the next week, but we have some other suggestions for what to do while you're waiting, as well
Graeme McMillan
Stardust Crusaders is where JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure finally becomes JoJo [Popverse Jump]
The introduction of Stands to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure suddenly gives the series its identity while still having enough threads to its past.
Trent Cannon
New York Comic Con
Star Wars, Superman, Scream stars and more headline the first wave of NYCC 2026 guest announcements
Want to see Hayden Christensen, Clair Obscur's Jennifer English, Percy Jackson author Rick Riordan, and comic book legend Frank Miller all in one place? Get yourself to New York Comic Con 2026 this October
Graeme McMillan
In honor of 20 years of NYCC, we're opening the Vault (and Popverse Superfans get 10% off and first access!)
We are opening the NYCC Vault with classic merch & first dibs on 2026 exclusives, like official Crocs.
Chris Arrant
NYCC 2026: Guests, dates, ticket pre-sale info and everything you need to know about October's hottest pop culture event
With the first wave of guests announced, here's everything you need to know about the year's biggest pop culture event ahead of its October debut at the Javits Center
Grant DeArmitt
New York Comic Con 2026 is already on its way, and we have the dates for the big show
Clear your second week of October 2026, because New York Comic Con is coming back to the Javits Center
Graeme McMillan
Image Comics
Spawn '77 will feature the very first cover Todd McFarlane ever drew. He's also considering publishing the first comic he ever completed
Spawn '77 is McFarlane's tribute to his work as a 16-year-old comics artist. So one of the book's variant covers will be, well, his work as a 16-year-old comics artist
Grant DeArmitt
Todd McFarlane's original Spawn mythos was heavily Star Wars-coded, explains Image founder - more "Silver Surfer" than Satan
At just 16, comic creator Todd McFarlane created a character called Spawn who sold his soul for the love of his love. In 1977, though, that deal was made with more of an Emperor Palpatine-type than Malebolgia
Grant DeArmitt
Image Comics is pulling all new comics from GlobalComix after 3-year partnership changes
The battle to replace ComiXology just took another turn.
Chris Arrant
Todd McFarlane stepped away abruptly from writing Spawn & 3 spinoff comics for one simple reason: to draw more
Don't worry, Spawn fans. There was nothing negative about McFarlane passing the pen to other writers in the Spawn Universe. In fact, says the Image Comics cofounder, it was for extremely positive reasons
Grant DeArmitt
Five Nights at Freddy's
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 movie drops Scott Cawthon from script duties, replaces him with Annabelle writer
Cawthon, who created Five Nights at Freddy's and had script credits for the first and second Blumhouse films, is stepping aside for Gary Dauberman to write the script
Grant DeArmitt
Five Nights at Freddy's peels back the mysteries of movie-making with new book co-written by Scott Cawthon
FNAF creator Scott Cawthon will be contributing to a behind-the-scenes book about the making of the Blumhouse Five Nights at Freddy's movies
Graeme McMillan
How a FNAF movie leak "disheartened" creator Scott Cawthon, but the FNAF fans helped him regain his faith in humanity
Learning that the Five Nights at Freddy's movie was leaked online left FNAF creator Scott Cawthon feeling "really, really disheartened."
Jules Chin Greene
A Five Nights at Freddy’s star thought she was auditioning for a Freddy Krueger movie, even after she got hired
Kat Conner Sterling thought that Five Nights at Freddy’s was a Freddy Kruegger movie, and couldn’t understand why fans kept sending her bear emojis
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
The Mighty Nein
Why is The Mighty Nein so much darker than The Legend of Vox Machina? Critical Role's Ashley Johnson has an idea
Johnson, who plays Yasha Nydoorin in Prime Video's second animated Critical Role adaptation, says that the darker tone of the series goes all the way back to the cast's character creation in Campaign 2
Grant DeArmitt
The real inspiration behind Sam Riegel's Mighty Nein character? Parenting
Parenting is tough, but parenting in the middle of a Critical Role campaign is something else entirely.
Trent Cannon
The Mighty Nein season 2 release date schedule (Updated June 2026): When the Critical Role series returns to Amazon's Prime Video
What time do new Mighty Nein episodes come out? Here's what we know so far about the season 2 schedule
Grant DeArmitt
The Critical Role cast can’t agree on the franchise’s most misunderstood character, but their picks are eye-opening
In honor of Legend of Vox Machina season 4, Critical Role's Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jafe, Marisha Ray, Travis Willingham, Ashley Johnson, LIam O'Brien, and Sam Riegel sat down to debate which of their characters was least appreciated
Grant DeArmitt