Spotlight
The real star of The Lord of the Rings: the Rings of Power isn't Sauron or the One Ring - it's Mount Doom
Charlie Vickers's Sauron finally enters his lava-decorated workshop in this season of Prime Video's Lord of the Rings prequel, and The Rings of Power producers made sure the setting was exactly as intimidating as it needed to be
Grant DeArmitt
Anya Taylor-Joy admits her Twilight fandom is “slightly problematic” - and she doesn’t like the movies
Anya Taylor-Joy didn't "get" the first Twilight movie when she watched it as a kid, but she's still Team Edward
Jules Chin Greene
Marvel’s new Spider-Woman series is embracing horror, noir, and gore... and we have a first look at a prequel story for her 50th anniversary
Jessica Drew's next adventure is darker than any Spider-Woman comic in years.
Chris Arrant
Disney CEO admits the Mandalorian movie flopped - but explains why he doesn't care
Both The Mandalorian and Grogu and the live-action Moana underperformed at the box office, but Disney managed to make money off them anyway.
Trent Cannon
This week’s X-Men ’97 makes Cable cooler than even his creator expected
Rob Liefeld gushed about Cable's upcoming appearances in X-Men '97 season 2 at San Diego Comic-Con 2026
Jules Chin Greene
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is going off-book but in-canon, with George R.R. Martin contributing previously unpublished material for season 2
Game of Thrones creator Martin shared unpublished Tales of Dunk & Egg with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms showrunner Ira Parker, and he's worked it into the second season
Grant DeArmitt
Latest
House of the Dragon and Widows Bay stars team for new Welsh language Star Wars
Matthew Rhys and Rhys Ifans are lending their voices (and Welsh language skills) to a new dub of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
If A24 ever got the rights to do a Fantastic Four movie for Marvel, it'd look kinda like Midnight Fantastic Four says writer Ben Percy
Midnight Fantastic Four writer Benjamin Percy says Marvel's new line is closer to modern boutique horror than classic monster comics
Netflix gave Avatar's cabbage merchant his own mockumentary
The Cabbage Merchant of Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender goes full method actor in a mockumentary
Absolute Batman is basically Scott Snyder’s Batman fanfiction... and that’s exactly how he likes it
Scott Snyder's secret to writing Absolute Batman is to pretend no one else is going to read it
Are you a Star Wars hero or a Star Wars villain? Some actors don't know even as they're filming
The Mandalorian's Katy O'Brian described the "really strange way" her Star Wars project shoots, where the morality of the character is sometimes a last-minute decision
Maximum X-Men is a love letter to Chris Claremont and Jim Lee’s classic blue-and-gold team
The new Avengers-esque Maximum X-Men team is taking its cues from some of the most classic X-Men comics of all time
Marvel delays Amazing Spider-Man #1000 because apparently printers have that Parker Luck too
Amazing Spider-Man #1000 is delayed two weeks as Marvel deals with a printer jam.
The Transformers and G.I. Joe comics universe is being rebuilt to be more like Marvel's inception— and Robert Kirkman wants it to last decades
No, there's no Iron Man or Captain America analogs coming to the pages of Energon's Transformers or G.I. Joe. But the *way* those comics are being published does reflect Marvel's glory days
What Critical Role's Ashley Johnson learned from The Last of Us's motion capture filming
Johnson, who originated the role of Ellie Williams, says her time in a mocap suit forever changed her career as an actor
The new Ghost in the Shell anime is faithful to the manga in ways the movies couldn't be [Popverse Jump]
Every other adaptation of Masamune Shirow's manga has stripped off the goofy, cartoonish expression, which is part of why they stood out.
Best gifts for Magic: The Gathering fans in 2026: 6 picks we actually recommend
Best gifts for Magic: The Gathering fans in 2026 (Editor's Picks)
Big men punching for good, more telepathic girls, and Batman goes back in time: Popverse Playlist for August 8-14, 2026
After Spider-Man: Brand New Day, The Wrong Girls is setting out to make telepaths the thing of the summer.
Scott Snyder says most DC Comics pitches from writers fail for the same three reasons, and he wants to help everyone get better
Absolute Batman writer Scott Snyder says these are the biggest mistakes writers make when pitching for DC Comics
Robert Kirkman wants to give the Transformers villain Skuxxoid his own solo series (but he can't find the time)
The Energon Universe Kirkman helped start under the Skybound banner has room to expand. But that doesn't necessarily mean it should, he says.
Marvel Midnight was designed to be "a true horror line:" the Jonathan Hickman gameplan he gave Dan Buckley
Midnight X-Men writer Jonathan Hickman discusses the origins of Marvel's new horror line
Cable was designed to be "the next Wolverine" and took inspiration from '80s era Arnold Schwarzenegger, accordint to Rob Liefeld
There's a reason Cable is a cyborg with massive guns, and the reason is Arnold Schwarzenegger
Critical Role's Laura Bailey reveals voice acting advice she gave her costar (and real-life husband) Travis Willingham
One has to wonder if Bailey gave her life partner and Mighty Nein costar advice in the Jester Lavorre voice, or kept it more professional
Game of Thrones' George R.R. Martin opens up about his battle with depression
In a recent blog post, Tales of Dunk and Egg author Martin spoke to a year that has been "stressful, to say the least"
The Pitt, Stranger Things and Love Island are what everyone wanted to watch in the first half of 2026
The Nielsen rankings for the most-watched shows of the first half of 2026 are in, and we're all still stuck in the Upside Down
Jim Lee says a $100 bet is the reason Batman: Hush shipped on time
Jim Lee was told he couldn't draw Batman monthly—so he proved everyone wrong.
James Tynion IV was killing Something Is Killing the Children after 5 issues, until Werther Dell’Edera & Erica Slaughter showed up.
How Werther Dell’Edera’s first image of Erica Slaughter turned Something is Killing the Children from a miniseries into an ongoing
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The new Ghost in the Shell anime is faithful to the manga in ways the movies couldn't be [Popverse Jump]
Every other adaptation of Masamune Shirow's manga has stripped off the goofy, cartoonish expression, which is part of why they stood out.
Trent Cannon
Big men punching for good, more telepathic girls, and Batman goes back in time: Popverse Playlist for August 8-14, 2026
After Spider-Man: Brand New Day, The Wrong Girls is setting out to make telepaths the thing of the summer.
Graeme McMillan
Why we should let Dragon Ball end after the death of Akira Toriyama [Popverse Jump]
Dragon Ball shouldn't become the Batman of manga.
Trent Cannon
Comic-Con International: San Diego
If A24 ever got the rights to do a Fantastic Four movie for Marvel, it'd look kinda like Midnight Fantastic Four says writer Ben Percy
Midnight Fantastic Four writer Benjamin Percy says Marvel's new line is closer to modern boutique horror than classic monster comics
George Marston
Jim Lee says a $100 bet is the reason Batman: Hush shipped on time
Jim Lee was told he couldn't draw Batman monthly—so he proved everyone wrong.
Graeme McMillan
James Tynion IV was killing Something Is Killing the Children after 5 issues, until Werther Dell’Edera & Erica Slaughter showed up.
How Werther Dell’Edera’s first image of Erica Slaughter turned Something is Killing the Children from a miniseries into an ongoing
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Tradd Moore believes today's comics industry wouldn't exist without DeviantArt
Silver Surfer: Black artist Tradd Moore says DeviantArt is responsible for raising a generation of comic book artists
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Marvel Studios
Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s villain wasn’t a MCU edict, says producer
The villain for Spider-Man: Brand New Day sprang out of an organic creative decision from the film's director, Destin Daniel Cretton
Jules Chin Greene
Spider-Man: Brand New Day's ending is meant to be ambiguous, for the filmmakers' sake
Destin Daniel Cretton says that the final scene of Spider-Man: Brand New Day is meant to fill you with joy even if it doesn't explain itself.
Trent Cannon
Sony's boss thinks The Odyssey helped Spider-Man: Brand New Day become a bigger hit
Having their three biggest stars out promoting another movie might have hurt Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Instead, Tom Rothman thinks it helped.
Trent Cannon
Marvel is keeping Tom Holland away from Secret Wars on purpose
Avengers: Secret Wars is Marvel's biggest upcoming project and they can't risk letting loose-lipped Spider-Man actor Tom Holland near it.
Trent Cannon
Berserk
Before Berserk became a masterpiece, it needed one outrageous idea... then Kentaro Miura thought of a huge friggin' sword
Inspired by Fist of the North Star, Kentaro Miura knew Berserk needed a strong visual gimmick to stand out, so Guts' giant sword was born.
Trent Cannon
Kentaro Miura says one real person, a childhood friend of his, inspired both Guts and Griffith
Kentaro Miura apparently had one of the most wild childhood friends, who would go on to embody both Griffith and Guts in Berserk.
Trent Cannon
Absolute Batman is Berserk without the Guts [Popverse Jump]
Absolute Batman plays it too safe to really embrace what makes Berserk a generational comic.
Trent Cannon
There's a new, gold foil Berserk skate deck... but you have to get in line behind me at San Diego Comic-Con to get it
Berserk’s Skull Knight is getting an ultra-rare SDCC-exclusive skate deck.
Chris Arrant
Todd McFarlane
Image Comics' president Todd McFarlane says relaunches and new #1s are a "short-term hit" but not worth it in the long run, and he'd never do it to Spawn
The core Spawn comic has been growing by one number every month since its debut in 1992. "Why would I disrupt it?" asks creator McFarlane
Grant DeArmitt
There's already talks about Gunslinger Spawn and Medieval Spawn movies, in case Blumhouse's King Spawn movie works
Image Comics cofounder McFarlane says he's "already talking to people" about more films and TV projects based on other books in the Spawn Universe
Grant DeArmitt
After Obsession and Backrooms, Todd McFarlane says Hollywood finally understands the kind of Spawn movie he's been pitching for decades
"There's a vibe to those movies," says McFarlane, "That, to me, is some of the stuff I've been saying for ten years about Spawn."
Grant DeArmitt
Jeremy Renner had one condition for joining the King Spawn movie at Blumhouse: approval of not the script or director, but the cinematographer
Hawkeye star Renner will play Twitch Williams in McFarlane's upcoming film version of his Spawn comics, all thanks to one thing the Image Comics cofounder agreed to do
Grant DeArmitt