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
Members Access
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
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.
Absolute Batman isn’t just a hit for DC Comics — it’s helping Image Comics five-fold according to its COO
Absolute Batman is helping Image Comics get better sales numbers (yes, you read that correctly)
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.
Kagurabachi release schedule (Updated April 2026): When is Kagurabachi 121 coming out, along with all the new chapters
The Weekly Shonen Jump hit manga, Kagurabachi, has new chapters coming out regularly in both Japan and the US.
End of an era: comics journalism outlet Newsarama gutted by layoffs as final writer exits
After years of cuts, Newsarama has finally gone silent
Hasbro is "really thrilled" with the new Transformers & G.I. Joe comics universe and its growth to 4 ongoing series under Robert Kirkman, Image, & Skybound
Skybound founder Robert Kirkman says Hasbro is thrilled with the success of the Energon Universe
There were too many white dudes in the Invincible comic says co-creator Robert Kirkman, but genderflpping Tech Jacket in the Prime Video cartoon is a step to "correct" it
Robert Kirkman admits Invincible’s early lack of diversity — and how Amazon's Prime Video show is changing it
Japanese manga giant KADOKAWA has plans to become the largest comic store chain in North America (and has already quietly come close!)
There aren't enough places to get manga in North America, so one Japanese manga publisher is changing that with its own comic store chain
Free Comic Book Day is the Olympics for comic book shop employees
The biggest day of the year for comic book shops everywhere is Free Comic Book Day
Supergirl and her "self-destructive nature" will be explored in her upcoming DC Studios film
The DC Studios Supergirl film will feature scenes set on Krypton to illustrate the source of Kara's trauma
Helluva Boss gets a season 3 release window... and a tease of just how big its return is going to be
Good news: Helluva Boss is back in fall 2026. Bad news: that's only part of the season. More good news: that's because the new season is the biggest yet.
Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day might be sneaky sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind
It sure looks like Josh O'Connor and Emily Blunt were abducted by aliens in Disclosure Day, right?
Jim Lee shares his private health struggles (he's okay now!) that led to Batman: Hush 2 delays, and a rethinking of his work-life balance
DC Comics publisher Jim Lee is cutting back on his late-night drawing sessions after being diagnosed as pre-diabetic
The Boys switch-up: Gen V cancelled, producers tease "other VCU projects on the horizon"
Bad news for fans of Godolkin University, as Prime Video is not moving ahead with a third season of Gen V
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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