Chris Arrant
Features
Livestream the NYCC 2025 Empire Stage for free, right here!
Here's where to watch the NYCC 2025 Empire Stage panels live.
October 04, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Livestream some of the biggest panels from New York Comic Con 2025's Main Stage for free
Here's where to watch the NYCC 2025 Main Stage panels live.
October 04, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Yes, we're livestreaming many of the big panels from New York Comic Con 2025 for free - here's how you can watch them
Critical Role, One Piece, Invincible, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and more - from our NYCC home into your home (or phone) with Popverse
October 04, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
NYCC 2025, George R.R. Martin, Absolute Batman, and more: Popverse plans for October 2025
A personal letter from Popverse boss Chris Arrant on all we're doing in October, including (but not limited to) New York Comic Con 2025.
October 03, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Post Malone's Big Rig is coming to New York Comic Con 2025 for a panel with Vault Comics
The Javits Center is going to need a bigger parking lot: Post Malone's Big Rig is coming to NYCC 2025.
September 30, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Steve Englehart and Joe Staton re-invented DC Comics' Guy Gardner 40 years ago, and now they are finally getting the credit (and money) beginning with the Superman movie this year
Steve Englehart reached out to DC, and convinced them to give himself and Joe Staton creator royalties for Guy Gardner (after years of being told no)
September 29, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
Let's Play: Tag Team, the arcade-style brawling tabletop game
Tag Team turns arcade fighters into card-battling Heroes in this new deck-building game from Scorpion Masqué.
September 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Magic: The Gathering revives its prose novel line after 5 years, beginning with the wizard university Strixhaven in Omens of Chaos
Wizards of the Coast is expanding the Magic: The Gathering official story into prose fiction.
September 27, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
There are more new Magic: The Gathering players in 2025 than any year before - and in 2026, Wizards of the Coast is looking to convert them into superfans with a new deck product
Lord of the Rings and Final Fantasy are bringing more new fans to Magic: The Gathering than ever - and now WotC is building new decks to get them deeper into MTG lore
September 27, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Spider-Verse's Tombstone voice actor for Tombstone has been called up by Marvel Studios to play him in live-action for Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Former Black Lightning villain Marvin 'Krondon' Jones III is coming for Spider-Man - after already doing it in the Spider-Verse movies.
September 23, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
The best TV series of 2025 (so far) [Future Fest]
From the crime-ridden streets of New York City in Daredevil to the unknown galaxies of Strange New Worlds, here are the places we had the most fun exploring in 2025 TV
September 18, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The best movies of 2025 (so far) [Future Fest]
Unicorns dying and supermen taking flight - 2025 was a big one for movies, and your Popverse pals are shouting out their favorite here
September 18, 2025
Grant DeArmitt
News
Brendan Fraser is coming to New York Comic Con 2025 to talk with you about The Mummy, The Whale, and more!
If you know him, you love him. Friends, Brendan Fraser is coming to NYCC 2025.
September 16, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
The best games of 2025 (so far) [Future Fest]
In a year with some massive game releases, it is indie titles that dominate our list of best games of 2025.
September 15, 2025
Trent Cannon
Features
Welcome to Future Fest at Popverse
Join us this week for Popverse Future Fest: It's time we begin writing the first draft of our pop culture future.
September 15, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
The Punisher star Jon Bernthal returns to New York Comic Con 2025 - and reunites with his Daredevil: Born Again castmates
Come talk movies, TV, football, pitbulls, and more with Jon Bernthal at NYCC 2025
September 12, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Fantastic Four stars Michael Chiklis and Ioan Gruffudd are staging a mini-20th anniversary reunion at NYCC 2025
We may need to rename the Javits Center the Baxter Building, because two members of the Fantastic Four are coming to New York Comic Con 2025
September 12, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
What to Watch This Weekend: Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, Futurama, Only Murders & more
Streaming Picks for the weekend of September 12: magic, murder, and futuristic mayhem.
September 11, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld has been trying to tell his definitive Cable story for the past 35 years, but he and Marvel keep breaking up [Marvel Matters]
Rob Liefeld broke into the mainstream with Cable - but he's never been able to tell the solo story burning in his brain for the past 35 years. He's gotten close though, twice... then it all falls down.
September 09, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
The rapper Redman is coming to NYCC 2025 with Vault Comics - and bringing Muddy Waters Too!
Time 4 Sum New York Comic Con Aksion for Redman and Vault Comics.
September 09, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Netflix's Thursday Murder Club contains a sly allusion to Helen Mirren's The Crown and Netflix's thematic expansion The Queen with Jonathan Pryce
20 years after playing Queen Elizabeth, Helen Mirren and the Thursday Murder Club give it a wink.
September 02, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Saying goodbye to the serious (and seriously funny) actor Graham Greene between Dances With Wolves, Northern Exposure, and Reservation Dogs
Honoring the memory and the mirth of Graham Greene following his passing at age 73.
September 02, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel is giving France, China, Russia, and the United Kingdom their own Captain America [Marvel Matters]
Now is the time for Captains of all countries, not just the United States.
September 02, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Capcom's Pragmata team admits to "difficult times" internally as the game has gone through four years of delays
Capcom's Pragmata director reveals the questions that percolated inside the development team as delays mounted.
September 01, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
A Marvel partnership was a bucket list item for Magic: The Gathering when Wizards of the Coast began dreaming up Universes Beyond years ago
It took four years to do a Marvel x MTG set, but we've now learned it's the first one that came to mind - and the biggest - since Universes Beyond was first dreamt up.
August 30, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
What to Watch This Weekend: Wednesday season 2 part 2, Taylor Kitsch returns in Dark Wolf, and Thursday Murder Club
Between Taylor Kitsch, Helen Mirren, and Jenna Ortega, we've got you covered for what to watch this weekend.
August 30, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
See all the Magic: The Gathering x Marvel's Spider-Man cards revealed at PAX West 2025
Spider-Man, Spider-Men, and villains such as Venom, Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, and more. (Wait... is that Knull?)
August 30, 2025
Chris Arrant
Guides
MTG x Marvel's Spider-Man release date, card list, most expensive card, and more
Wizards of the Coast is partnering up with Marvel for a series of dynamic sets, beginning with Spider-Man. Here's everything you need to know.
August 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Sigourney Weaver is joining the stacked New York Comic Con 2025 line-up alongside her Alien, Ghostbusters, and MCU co-stars
Aliens, Ghostbusters, the MCU Defenders, Avatar, and more. Now Sigourney Weaver can add NYCC to her list.
August 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Livestream Monster Hunter Wilds, Borderlands 4, Magic: The Gathering x Spider-Man, and more PAX West 2025 panels live
Be there from anywhere, as Popverse is livestreaming PAX West 2025.
August 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Batman, Netflix's Wednesday, NYCC pre-sales, the Witcher prequel, and more: This September at Popverse
Join us here in September as we are your tour guide and pop culture BFF, telling you what's good, what's bad, and why things are so great in the worlds of comics, movies, tv, games, and fiction lit.
August 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
DC has unveiled a major new Wonder Woman villain over two years in the making, co-created by one of James Gunn's top writers
Meet Matriarch, the new DC big bad foretold to kill Wonder Woman and (almost) all the Amazons
August 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Krysten Ritter and Vincent D'Onofrio join their MCU Daredevil: Born Again co-stars at NYCC 2025
Vincent D'Onofrio, Krysten Ritter, Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, and Mike Colter are now all going to be at New York Comic Con 2025.
August 28, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
NYCC 2025 is announcing new guests each day this week
NYCC 2025 is six weeks away, and ReedPop is far from done announcing what you can look forward to.
August 28, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Marvel Studios' Shang-Chi co-star Meng'er Zhang to reunite with Simu Liu at New York Comic Con 2025
The Witcher and MCU Shang-Chi star Meng'er Zhang is coming to NYCC 2025 for our Shang-Chi reunion.
August 27, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
DC Comics, Matt Dinnamin, Kickstarter, Jim Butcher, Warner Bros. Animation & more are part of NYCC 2025 Professional Programming line-up
New York Comic Con is the largest gathering of pop culture fans in North America. It's also the largest gathering of pop culture professionals as well.
August 27, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Phineas & Ferb themselves, Vincent Martella and David Errigo Jr., are coming to NYCC 2025
NYCC 2025 is going to be great days, because Phineas & Ferb's Vincent Martella and David Errigo Jr. are going to be there.
August 27, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Karl Urban has joined the cast of New York Comic Con 2025
Whether you know him The Boys, the MCU, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings or something else, you know Karl Urban. Now, you can meet him at NYCC 2025.
August 26, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Netflix's Kpop Demon Hunters Arden Cho and May Hong are coming to NYCC 2025 - and we have a presale!
NYCC 2025 is the biggest show yet. The most celebs. The most fun. Which means the most carb loading, with Kpop Demon Hunters' Arden Cho and May Hong
August 25, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
The biggest Marvel Comics characters not in Marvel Studios' MCU (yet) [Marvel Matters]
Hey Kevin Feige, here are the biggest Marvel characters you haven't brought into the MCU yet (but could, and should!).
August 20, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Batman and his prank war side from Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen days will pop out some in Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez's upcoming DC relaunch
Batman is "very hilarious," says upcoming Batman writer Matt Fraction.
August 08, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
What to Watch This Weekend: All the Alien movies before Alien: Earth next week
Before Alien: Earth, Hulu has Alien movies bursting out of its chest.
August 07, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
Chris Claremont isn't sharing his X-Men: From the Ashes pitch because he still has hopes to do it someday (and some way)
Although Marvel turned down Chris Claremont's recent X-Men relaunch pitch after the Krakoan Age, he still hopes to write it someday
August 06, 2025
Chris Arrant
Guides
The Amazing Spider-Man #23 release date: When Marvel's next Death Spiral issue drops
Spider-Man, Venom, and Carnage (kinda) are caught up in a sinister web with a new and terrifying supervillain - here's when you can expect Joe Kelly & Ed McGuinness's Amazing Spider-Man #23
August 05, 2025
Chris Arrant
Guides
Batman #1 release date: The creators, plot, and more from the upcoming Matt Fraction & Jorge Jiménez relaunch
Get ready for a new era for DC Comics' Batman, thanks to Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez.
August 01, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
What to Watch This Weekend: Jason Momoa as a Hawaiian war chief, Tom Brady invades real football, and reality romance veterans clash in Perfect Match
Three big shows are debuting and returning this week on Netflix, Amazon's Prime Video, and Apple TV+.
July 31, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
News
Once Upon A Time's Robert Carlyle is our new Sherlock Holmes as star joins CBS' Watson opposite Morris Chestnut
Get ready to love and hate Sherlock Holmes all at the same time as Robert Carlyle steps up to play the detective in CBS's Watson.
July 30, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Follow along live!Follow along as Stranger Things' David Harbour & Matthew Modine talk about season 5 finale and more live from Tampa Bay Comic Con 2025
Ahead of Netflix's Stranger Things season finale, Hawkins police chief Jim Hopper (played by David Harbour) and scientist Martin 'Papa' Brenner (Matthew Modine) are coming to Tampa to get us all excited.
July 27, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
News
Longtime Eisner Awards boss Jackie Estrada has given out her last award, ending a 35-year run with San Diego Comic-Con
For 35 years, Jackie Estrada helped us understand what were the best comics and who was making them with the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
July 26, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Marvel reveals that Ultimate Spider-Man is ending in December
Jonathan Hickman says his run on Ultimate Spider-Man is ending this year - on his own terms.
July 26, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Marvel's Ultimate Endgame is "the craziest and most impactful crossover idea since Crisis on Infinite Earths" - but its not the end of the Ultimate Universe
Marvel reveals the plot and creators of its upcoming Ultimate Endgame event.
July 26, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Prepare to meet the Absolute Bat-Family in DC's Absolute Batman, beginning with (a) Robin
Absolute Batman is a loner - but his family is coming sooner than you think.
July 25, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Now hiring: Sorcerer Supreme. Apply at Marvel Comics' offices
New Sorcerer Supreme, who dis?
July 25, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Absolute Wonder Woman is crossing over with Absolute Batman this December
Absolute Wonder Woman is becoming the team builder inside DC's Absolute Universe, beginning with Batman.
July 25, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Finally, Venom is stealing Spider-Man's original red-and-blue costume for his next outfit upgrade
Venom took over the Spider-Man costume in Amazing Spider-Man #252 - now the shoe's on the other foot in Venom #252
July 25, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Captain America is traveling through time to save the U.S.A. ahead of country's 250th birthday in Marvel's 1776
Captain America is going to team up with America's founding fathers.
July 25, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
The upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel comics WON'T be a reboot, and is out to please fans of the TV series
Kelly Thompson is out to "do Buffy and her world justice for all the fans" in new Buffy the Vampire Slayer series.
July 25, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
The X-Men 'Dark Phoenix Saga' co-creator John Byrne returns to finish the story 45 years later, on his own terms
45 years ago John Byrne quit the X-Men. 25 years ago he quit Marvel. Now, he's back with X-Men: Elsewhen
July 25, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Batman is picking a fight with all the Robins who grow up and replace him in new DC series Knightfight
Batman is going to jump through time to fight all Batmen who replace him
July 24, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
The darkest Superman variant, Superboy Prime, is back for redemption, and he's a big fan of those DC Absolute comics
Superboy Prime is out to save Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes... but can we trust him?
July 24, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
DC is rebooting Green Arrow as "a billionaire standing up to the other billionaires" in Absolute line
A new Green Arrow series launches in 2026 as part of the DC Absolute line.
July 24, 2025
Chris Arrant
Guides
Mighty Nein season 1 release date: The Critical Role spinoff is coming to Amazon Prime Video this fall
The Critical Role team have two big things this fall - NYCC 2025, and the debut of the Mighty Nein animated series.
July 24, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Danny McBride replaced by Our Flag Means Death creator to make a Booster Gold TV series for DC Studios & HBO Max
Warner Bros. has been trying to make a Booster Gold series for over a decade - and now they have someone new to help make it work.
July 24, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Marvel's Silver Surfer is a woman in the MCU, and soon in comics (but it may not be who you think)
Marvel Comics is giving the Silver Surfer a new surfboard, a new haircut, and a new female identity as a female SS debuts in The Fantastic Four: First Steps
July 24, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Marvel is reinventing Spider-Man Noir before the 2026 Nicolas Cage TV series - and bringing Erik Larsen back to do it
Erik Larsen has been bitten by the Spider bug again, and is writing a new Spider-Man: Noir series for Marvel.
July 24, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Follow along as DC unveils 2025 Batman plans, as well as his Gotham City friends, live from SDCC 2025
Get all the news about Batman, Robin, Batgirl, and more as DC goes full-on Gotham City at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2025.
July 24, 2025
Jules Chin Greene
Features
Follow along as Marvel Comics unveils the Endgame of its Ultimate Marvel line (and more) in its Next Big Thing panel from SDCC 2025
Avengers: Endgame was the highpoint of the MCU so far, and now Marvel Comics is looking to do it their way.
July 24, 2025
Graeme McMillan
Features
Follow along as Marvel Comics unveils its big 2025 X-Men event Age of Revelation at SDCC 2025
Marvel EiC C.B. Cebulski, top X-Men boss Tom Brevoort, and more talk about the drastic revamp of the X-Men line coming this fall as part of Age of Revelation.
July 24, 2025
Graeme McMillan
Features
Follow along as DC unveils its big 2025 event plans for Absolute Evil, DC K.O, Absolute Batman - and Absolute everything from SDCC 2025
Absolute Batman's Scott Snyder, Superman's Joshua Williamson, Justice League Unlimited's Mark Waid, and more convene to unveil DC's big plans for the rest of 2025 and beyond.
July 24, 2025
Graeme McMillan
News
A "new era" for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel begins as Disney signs deal to bring a new "interweaving story" to comics
Just as the Disney live-action sequel to Buffy the Vampire Slayer gets underway, so does new comics.
July 23, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
How Kickstarter is kicking its comics division into high gear by finding a place for big companies while continuing to nurture small press
As Kickstarter comics has its biggest hit ever with $4.5m Transformers Compedium, Popverse talks with its comics lead Sam Kusek about the platform and future plans.
July 22, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
South Park Studios is in talks to move all its streaming worldwide to Paramount+ for $1.5 billion - despite Trey Parker & Matt Stone trashing the whole company publicly weeks ago
The owners of South Park's wallets could soon be festively plump as they're nailing down a billion-dollar deal for old episodes
July 22, 2025
Chris Arrant
Guides
The 5 most popular Marvel characters, including in the MCU and the original comics [Marvel Matters]
Spider-Man, Wolverine, and more make the list of the most popular characters Marvel has right now.
July 22, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
The Magic: The Gathering and Star Trek crossover deck 'leak' that was actually a Ferengi-style hustle aimed at you and your search engine
A New Jersey MTG store overplayed their hand when it came to rumors of a Magic: The Gathering x Star Trek Universes Beyond deck
July 07, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Behold the jukebox biopic: the new subgenre Hollywood has on repeat, from Bohemian Rhapsody to upcoming films on Prince, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, and more
The overnight success that's been in movies for decades, from Jimmy Stewart's Glen Miller story to Amadeus and Bohemian Rhapsody.
June 30, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
One of Neil Gaiman's Sandman TV series co-creators is downplaying the writer's involvement in season 2 - and the decision to end the hit Netflix show
According to Netflix's Sandman co-creator David S. Goyer, the show ending was decided well before the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman became public.
June 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Jurassic World star Bryce Dallas Howard knows when a movie's going to bomb while she's making it, even things like Argylle, Gold, and Lady in the Water
Third-generation actor/director Bryce Dallas Howard has a nose for hits and misses.
June 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Final Fantasy XIV is still Square Enix's biggest active hit, but its boss says he's aware fans believe the game is withering out
Square Enix boss says he's "aware" of growing fan displeasure over the MMO Final Fantasy XIV, but says the new expansion will fix it.
June 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Marvel still regrets accidentally publishing a phone sex line on a Captain America comic's cover, 20 years later
This isn't the Captain America hotline, but Marvel was advertising a different kind of hotline back in the 'Winter Soldier' era.
June 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Netflix's The Sandman was hoped to run for four seasons... but then they re-read the comic, and decided to end it at two
The Sandman comic is an ensemble story - but when Netflix decided to make the TV series all about Sandman, it suddenly became much shorter.
June 28, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Man bites Earth, Earth bites back: A fictionalized post-apocalypse as reported in a real-life newspaper in The End Times
Bury the lede, bury the Earth - but first, an obituary in newspaper form with The End Times.
June 28, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
After 23 years in development hell, Warner Bros. gives up on making a live-action Akira - but others are lining up to try
It took the Akira manga 39 years to recover from World War III. It might take that long for a live-action Akira movie to be made as well.
June 27, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel Comics has a superhero problem solver, Jonathan Hickman, with a goal to create (or revamp) ideas that be their next Avengers, X-Men, and Fantastic Four
After successfully reviving the Ultimate Marvel line, Jonathan Hickman comes forward with his new job at the company: building new franchises (by rebuilding old ones).
June 27, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Loki sells a soul - not his, of course - to Mephisto in his Bring on the Bad Guys comic from Marvel in July
Loki needs a favor - Mephisto needs a soul
June 27, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
The great Spider-Man "rip-off:" Marvel artist says his work was "plagiarized" by another, and that artist says Marvel told him to do it
Marvel Comics published a Spider-Man cover homaging a classic one, but one of the original artists says it went to far and "plagiarized" the whole thing
June 27, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Prime Video's Reacher makes emergency recasting as How to Train Your Dragon's Jay Baruchel makes a sudden exit
Fanboys' Jay Baruchel is out of Reacher 13 days after being announced, replaced by his Fanboys co-star Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette.
June 26, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Star Wars & the murder of Yaddle by Count Dooku are being re-lived (and explored) in July's Jedi Knights #5
Witness the final turn of Count Dooku from Jedi to Sith Lord in Star Wars: Jedi Knights #5.
June 26, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Cyberpunk 2077 is outselling that Harry Potter game that's been the biggest hit in the past 5 years on the Nintendo Switch 2
Cyberpunk 2077 is the apogee of games for the Nintendo Switch 2, outside of Nintendo's inhouse games.
June 26, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Thanos' romance with Death was originally a big part of Josh Brolin's MCU story, but Kevin Feige thought fans weren't ready for that
MCU boss Kevin Feige thought fans weren't ready for a Thanos & Death romance in 2018, but it was in the original script.
June 25, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
There's one big problem with Star Trek's Prime Directive according to Captain Kirk himself William Shatner (and I kind of agree with him)
You can take Star Trek's Prime Directive too seriously says William Shatner - and when you do so, it ruins a good Star Trek story.
June 25, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
The great Marvel Swap: Why the MCU’s Next Captain America, Iron Man, and Avengers are the biggest gamble since Phase One [Marvel Matters]
Can the MCU survive its own legacy? Inside Marvel Studios' quiet revamp of Iron Man, Captain America, and the Avengers
June 24, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Meet Eric Pearson: Marvel Studios' unheralded fixer that helps save movies like Avengers: Endgame, Ant-Man, Fantastic Four, and Blade [Marvel Matters]
Some call Eric Pearson the MCU script doctor, the Marvel Studios closer. But for Marvel Studios, they just call him... frequently.
June 17, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Donny Cates' Ultimate Spider-Man pitch was to create a Spider-Man for grown-ups and not the kids Marvel has with its other Spider-Men
Inside Donny Cates' goal to "break" Peter Parker "as hard as you can" with his Ultimate Spider-Man.
June 11, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
"Never try to kill the giant": Todd McFarlane maps out his industry-redefining gameplan that created Image Comics, McFarlane Toys, and Spawn
The driving manta that led Todd McFarlane to success with Spawn, Image Comics, and McFarlane Toys.
June 11, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
The Rock's Black Adam action figure wasn't "ripped" enough for his tastes, so he had Todd McFarlane fix it before it was released
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson had one request when he first saw the Black Adam action figure from Todd McFarlane's toy company
June 10, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Why Doctor Doom isn't going to be in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and why its the right move again for Marvel Studios [Marvel Matters]
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps will be the first FF movie with no Doctor Doom, and the studio & the director have a good reason for that (but also a loophole).
June 10, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Meet the X-Men from a rejected early '00s manga reboot: A werewolf Wolverine, a genderswapped Angel, and a Professor X looking to 'cure' being a mutant
In the early '00s, Marvel published a manga-inspired reboot of all their major Marvel heroes - but this X-Men pitch never saw print.
June 06, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
The real-life town behind The Truman Show now has an AI "concierge" - and it wants to come to your city too
This feels like a reboot of The Truman Show, but with AI.
June 06, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Marvel Studios' Avengers movie "felt like a big mess" on set for the MCU heroes until one crucial moment (and its your favorite moment too)
Black Widow herself, Scarlett Johansson, revisits the Avengers film and remembers the bad, the good, and the great
June 05, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Marvel could've had a Red Hulk in the '70s, as that was the original idea for CBS's Incredible Hulk movie & TV series
Marvel was pitched a Red Hulk (as the main Hulk) 47 years before Captain America: Brave New World - as a TV series!
June 05, 2025
Chris Arrant