Grant DeArmitt
News
Who would play Critical Role's Wicander Halovar in a live-action Campaign 4 adaptation? Sam Riegel has an idea
No, there's no confirmed adaptation of Critical Role Campaign 4 on its way, much less a live-action one. But hey, you can't keep a professional imaginer from imagining, can you?
September 10, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers script originally didn't feature the 'Gollum vs. Sméagol' scene, says Andy Serkis
Longtime Sméagol actor (and The Hunt for Gollum director) Serkis even said that, in the early stages of the movie, Gollum & Sméagol weren't written as different characters
September 09, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Laura Bailey gives her "selfish" reason she'd want to see a Campaign 4 animated, not live-action
Both times a Critical Role campaign has been adapted for the screen, it's been animated. Laura Bailey reveals why she'd want that trend to continue
September 09, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Don't read into the King Spawn movie title at Blumhouse, says Todd McFarlane - "Writers put titles on their scripts"
Yes, there is a comic called King Spawn. Yes, that is also the title of the upcoming Blumhouse-produced movie. No, that does not mean they are the same story
September 08, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
In Critical Role Campaign 4, Azune Nayar never corrects mispronunciations of his name. That's on purpose, says Luis Carazo
Is Luis Carazo's Critical Role character ah-ZOO-nay or aH-zoo-nay? Part of Azune Nayar's personality is revealed by the fact that we don't know
September 08, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe opens up about Campaign 4's Bolaire Lathalia and the Panto Masks: "Family in the sense that that is what we have been written to be"
In regards to his personhood, Critical Role's Jaffe compared his Campaign 4 character to the titular characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
September 07, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe has read your theories on how Campaign 4's Panto Masks works - but no one has guessed correctly yet
Heads up - we're getting into some spoiler territory not just regarding Jaffe's Bolaire Lathalia, but Critical Role's Campaign 4 in general
September 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe shares Bolaire Lathalia's thoughts on Campaign 4's Thjazi Fang: "A Righteous Monster"
There comes a point when "someone has something they believe in so passionately," said Critical Role's Jaffe, who plays Bolaire Lathalia in Campaign 4, "that it is inevitable that you are going to become a monster"
September 05, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Ed Brubaker and Amazon sued for hostile work environment on set of Prime Video Criminal adaptation
Brubaker and Amazon are amongst defendants being sued for creating a hostile work environment by someone who worked on staff for the upcoming Criminal series
September 04, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Marvel is releasing Amazing Spider-Man #1000 four days early for select stores participating in Local Comic Shop Day.
Marvel's hotly anticipated The Amazing Spider-Man #1000 drops September 30, but Marvel's sending out select variants early to celebrate Local Comic Shop Day
September 04, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Marvel accidentally released Uncanny X-Men #35 two weeks early on digital, but just pulled it
Uncanny X-Men's own Gail Simone recently took to Facebook to explain a publishing error that had digital X-Readers seeing a comic weeks before it hit physical shelves
September 04, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Luis Carazo wasn't finished with his Candela Obscura character, so some of him found his way into Campaign 4
Carazo, who portrayed Marion Collodi in Candela Obscura years before being cats in a Critical Role core campaign, says that his character is the culmination of years of exploration
September 04, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Taliesin Jaffe knows what's going on between Campaign 4's Bolaire and Vaelus (and seems to enjoy that we don't)
Jaffe gets awful sly when speaking about the relationship between his and Ashley Johnson's Critical Role Campaign 4 characters
September 03, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
How does the Critical Role cast decide on an opening sequence for each campaign? Let Laura Bailey tell you
Why did Critical Role Campaign 1 begin with everyone in character cosplay, when Campaign 2 began with a retro tabletop ad? The cast will explain
September 02, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Wolverine can die in Insomniac's game. Fortunately, rage is apparently a life-saver.
Marvel's Wolverine puts a hard limit on Logan's healing factor: "If his heart stops, then his healing factor stops."
September 01, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
13 years after first suggesting it, Andrew Garfield still believes in a gay Spider-Man
"You don’t see skin color, you don’t see gender, you don’t see sexuality," says The Amazing Spider-Man's Andrew Garfield, "Anyone can project themselves into that suit"
September 01, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
You wanted an Absolute Zatanna book? Good news: Absolute Wonder Woman's Kelly Thompson does too, and has an idea for it
Yenom Ym Ekat! Writer Thompson says for an Absolute Zatanna to happen, "the timing will need to be right"
September 01, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Sopranos stars reunited for a new mob story - this time, in audio format (Oh, and it's about 9/11)
UnderGround Zero: 9/11 & The Mob will star Michael Imperioli (Christopher Moltisanti) and Steve Schirripa (Bobby Bacala), alongside The Sopranos' Ray Abruzzo and Arthur Nascarella
September 01, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Marvel's Vision actor Paul Bettany says there are basically two kinds of robot story - and VisionQuest is the MCU's Frankenstein
Are you Pinocchio or are you Frankenstein? That's how the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Vision believes every great robot story begins
September 01, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
It's never been easier to become a comic book writer, or harder to make a living as one according to Image writer (and Top Cow exec)
Top Cow's COO Matt Hawkins, who created such titles as The Clock, thinks there's still a path for amateurs to turn professional comic creators. That path is a long one, though
September 01, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Writing Superman is therapeutic, but writing Spider-Man is neurotic and natural for Dan Slott
Slott writes both Superman Unlimited for DC and Spectacular Spider-Man at Marvel - and finds them two very distinct experiences
September 01, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Tom Hardy makes a surprise return as Bane... on his new rap album?
Tom Hardy might not have been born in the hip hop world, but Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer listeners will probably consider it his ally
September 01, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Chris Hansen buys adtime before screenings of Primetime, the movie about Chris Hansen
Primetime dramatizes Hansen's history on To Catch a Predator - a story that arguably portrays the newscaster in a less than positive light
September 01, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Laura Bailey recorded "almost the whole game" of Dispatch as Blonde Blazer before becoming Invisigal
Dispatch spent seven episodes trying to find its Invisigal before realizing it already had her.
August 31, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Fan service has "just become a checkbox" in comic book movies after The Cap/Mjolnir moment in Avengers: Endgame, according to former Marvel Comics boss John Nee
John Nee, whose experience in the comics medium stretches across decades, says comic references on the big screen have gone "downhill" since Avengers: Endgame
August 28, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Kyle Chandler's Comic-Con mission wasn't just promoting DC Studios' Lanterns... he also wanted to sneak onto the showfloor to read these Tom King comics he keeps hearing about
No evil shall escape his sight - but if you were at SDCC, DC Studios' own Hal Jordan might have escaped yours
August 28, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Insidious 6 was made because the franchise's psychic wouldn't let Sony cancel it
Lin Shaye, who has played Insidious's Elise Rainer since the first film, took immediate action after learning Sony had planned to pull Insidious: Out of the Further
August 28, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
A Spider-Man cosplayer punched far-right activist Jake Lang, and his supporters have now raised over $100,000 to help support his legal issues
The Marvel-attired counterprotestor has received a surge of support after punching right-wing influencer Lang, who was in Minneapolis to support a woman who reportedly hurled racial slurs at an autistic child
August 27, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker isn't worried about AI taking writers' jobs - he's worried about AI dictating them
Charlie Brooker, the mind behind Black Mirror's many episodes dealing with artificial intelligence, had a unique perspective on generative AI
August 27, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Yes, a Donnie Darko sequel book is on the way - but creator Richard Kelly says that's just the beginning
Kelly has penned The Philosophy of Time Travel, which takes place in the almost immediate aftermath of Donnie Darko's death. However, he says there are three decades' worth of storytelling planned after that
August 27, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Detroit has its new RoboCop as Prime Video puts Dan Stevens on patrol
Stevens will take on the role of Alex Murphy, originally played by Peter Weller in the 1987 scifi classic
August 27, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Matt Mercer has an irrational fear of skiing
Critical Role's usual GM Mercer fears skiing because, in real life, failing an agility check can kill you
August 27, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Frank Miller would like comics colorists to stop burning his eyeballs
"Color is powerful," said Miller, and as is true in any artform, but ESPECIALLY comics, with great power comes great responsibility
August 27, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Ed Brubaker is working on a follow-up to The Fade Out that he did with Sean Phillips
Brubaker hasn't gotten to the point of submitting scripts to partner Sean Phillips, but he does know the direction his not-quite-sequel will take
August 26, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Sean Murphy is working on a Catwoman comic for DC Black Label
Answer fan questions in a recent AMA, Murphy confirmed that he was working on Catwoman: White Knight
August 26, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Time Lords on the Tarmac: How Doctor Who presaged mysterious events at a British airport
In 1967, Gatwick Airport welcomed the cast of Doctor Who for an on-location, out-of-this-world shoot. Years later, the airport played unexpected host to what might've been the strangest fan to ever visit a set
August 26, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Black Mirror is a real place (if you're in New York in the next week)
Want to experience a frightening dystopia that's not, you know, this one? You've got until September 6, 2026 to check out The Black Mirror Experience
August 26, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Without zombies and reality TV, there would be no Black Mirror (says the man who created Black Mirror)
Long before he was depressing the UK (and the world!) with grim portents of a cruel future, Charlie Brooker was cutting his teeth on Dead Set
August 26, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Features
How to watch Peaky Blinders in order
The BBC's and Netflix's Peaky Blinders is a staple of modern crime drama streaming, and Popverse is here to take you through it in chronological order
August 26, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Matt Mercer is a huge House of Leaves fan... but doesn't want to see a film adaptation
Mark Z. Danielewski's experimental horror novel House of Leaves is only created for "the book medium," says Critical Role's Mercer
August 26, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker recalls challenging himself to dive into new territory: a positive ending
The beginning of Black Mirror's San Junipero, says Brooker, was the notion that doing too many bleak endings would make the show "predictable"
August 25, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Happy Popverse British Week - Black Mirror season 8 is shooting right now
Once again, we're wondering how Black Mirror knew exactly where we'd be right now
August 25, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
The man who isn't MCU's Professor X is glad he didn't get the role
Ozark's Tom Pelphrey describes the "very long, serious commitment," of working in a space like the MCU's X-Men franchise
August 25, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Nerdy media is getting darker... and Critical Role's Matt Mercer knows why
Why are projects like Mercer's own Age of Umbra actual play making such waves in geek spaces? Critical Role's usual GM has thoughts
August 25, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Sean Murphy is bringing the Justice League to DC's Batman: White Knight franchise
"Get ready," said Punk Rock Jesus's Sean Murphy, "For WW, Flash, GL, Hawkgirl, and a few others..."
August 24, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Absolute Batman's Scott Snyder teases a massive twist in #25 that "will spin the book in a direction I don't think anyone will guess"
Absolute Batman writer Snyder says something is coming this October that even the biggest fans of the series won't see coming
August 24, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Somebody lock up the Declaration of Independence: Nic Cage's National Treasure 3 is in the works
Will Nic Cage vandalize Mount Rushmore? Catfish the Lincoln Memorial? Forget the Alamo? Only time will tell, fellow National Treasure fan
August 24, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
How to watch every adaptation of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot's adventures have been adapted across nearly a century of TV and film - let Popverse unravel the mysteries of Agatha Christie's iconic detective on-screen
August 24, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Matt Mercer on what makes great occult (and for that matter, cosmic) horror
Matt Mercer, the mind behind Critical Role's Daggerheart setting Age of Umbra, knows a thing or two about how to build dread in an audience
August 24, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Which Critical Role voice does Matt Mercer do most IRL? It's not Essek Thelyss, believe it or not
With NPC credits as wide-ranging as Matt Mercer's, it's no surprise that they make appearances in his daily life. What may surprise you, though, is who comes out the most
August 23, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
Boston Blue, season 2, headed to you: Popverse has everything you need to know about the Blue Bloods spinoff on CBS (Updated August 2026)
With Boston Blue season 2 on the way, allow Popverse to do some investigating so you don't have to
August 22, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
Guides
Fire Country's season 5 release date is fast approaching - here's everything we know about the CBS (Updated August 2026)
When does Fire Country return? How many seasons of Fire Country are there? We'll let you know that and more
August 22, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
What's Daniel Destin Cretton working on after Spider-Man: Brand New Day? Naruto, with a side of Beef (star)
Beef and Riverdale star Charles Melton is in talks to join Cretton's live-action Naruto adaptation as Kakashi Hatake
August 21, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
If Critical Role's Percival de Rolo lost a limb, Taliesin Jaffe knows what he'd do next
You think that The Legend of Vox Machina's tinkeriest member couldn't pull a Luke Skywalker at the drop of a hat? (Er, leg?) Well buster, you'd be wrong
August 21, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Art Wins: Dropout is now the home to early internet sensation (and Oscar-nominee) Don Hertzfeldt
If you've ever leaned over to a friend and whispered, "I am a banana," I have very, very cool news for you
August 20, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
What would Critical Role's Caleb Widogast do with one wish? Fix Scanlan Shorthalt's weird penis, apparently
Don't take it from us - Caleb's real-life avatar Liam O'Brien said as much in a recent Critical Role chat
August 20, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Intellectual = boring for Image Comics' COO Robert Kirkman, and he's hoping to "broom the boring out of comics"
Terminal, Kirkman's latest comic book (and new superhero universe) at Image, aims to bring back the energy that brought us comics like Spawn, Youngblood, and Witchblade
August 19, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
What tattoo would Critical Role's Fjord Stone get? Travis Willingham knows
If you know anything about pirate orc Fjord, a key member of Prime Video's Mighty Nein, you may already know which direction Willingham is leaning
August 19, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Imagine a Critical Role starring Felicia Day. It might have happened, if it weren't for Supernatural
Day played the specter-smashing Charlie Bradbury on The CW's Supernatural, and if the role hadn't been as much fo a commitment, she may have been a founding citizen of Exandria
August 19, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Adult animation is a risk, says Rick & Morty's co-creator - and that risk is worth taking
In an age of slop and algorithms, adult animation has "a huge use for redeeming humanity," says Rick & Morty's Dan Harmon
August 18, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Laura Bailey has wielded tons of iconic items across her characters... but she doesn't plan those ahead of time
How did The Mighty Nein's Jester Lavorre actually wind up with that giant lollipop weapon? Let Laura Bailey herself explain her philosophy
August 18, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
What's the Endgame of the running joke about Deadpool and Wolverine asking for Doomsday roles?
After an appearance by Hugh Jackman and (kinda) Ryan Reynolds at D23, we're wondering what the punchline to this ongoing MCU joke is going to be
August 17, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
How big will Avengers: Doomsday be? It's already tracking towards $100 million in preview screenings alone
What's more intimidating than a guy who can take one of Thor's hammers in stride and not blink? Maybe the money that his big Marvel Studios debut is going to pull in
August 17, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Will Avengers: Doomsday see Doctor Doom get his hands on Thanos's Infinity Gauntlet? A cryptic message from Robert Downey Jr. has us wondering
RDJ is (once again) wearing a Victor Von Doom jacket that may contain clues to the plot of Avengers: Doomsday. We break down the most interesting of those clues here
August 17, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role has (lovingly) tortured DM Matt Mercer for years. His Campaign 4 character is revenge
Critical Role Campaign 4's Julien Davinos is the first time that Matt Mercer has had a PC in a CR core campaign
August 17, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Sam Riegel on the blink-and-you'll-miss-it TMNT easter egg from The Mighty Nein
Did you watch Critical Role's Mighty Nein season 1, episode 3 and suddenly get the urge to purchase a bo staff? There was a reason for that, says Riegel
August 16, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Of course Critical Role's Liam O'Brien has tried to put together Shakespeare readings - he even has a specific role in mind for Laura Bailey
To D&D, or not to D&D? That is the question Critical Role's Liam O'Brien says he and fellow castmates have considered before
August 15, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Is Heated Rivalry already planning to shoot season 3? A slip-up from Dylan Walsh seems to say 'yes'
It's a big old whoopsie from actor Walsh, Heated Rivalry's David Hollander, who got "in trouble" for a piece of content on his Cameo account
August 14, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Liam O'Brien reveals the key to most great heist movies: The plan fails
Along with fellow Critical Role star Marisha Ray, O'Brien penned the Legend of Vox Machina season 4 episode De Rolo's Eleven
August 14, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
For years, Deborah Ann Woll felt it was too difficult to get into D&D. Now, she's making it her mission to make the game more accessible
"Part of what kept me away from playing D&D for so long was feeling like I needed permission," says the Daredevil star, so now she's making sure that others don't feel the same way
August 14, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Are American Mary's Soska Sisters taking over Scream?
A series of social media posts sure make it seem like Jen & Sylvia Soska are directing Scream 8 - but just to clarify, Spyglass has not confirmed as much
August 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
House of the Dragon's James Norton didn't have much of George R.R. Martin's text to build his character out of. Fortunately, he did understand the smell thing
Norton, who plays warrior-lord Ormund Hightower in HBO's Game of Thrones prequel, found commonality in his character not over high ideal, but everyday pet peeves
August 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Coyote vs. Acme's WB shelving was a massive shock to its director, who assumed the Looney Tunes film would be safe
Yes, Coyote vs. Acme saw what was going on with Batgirl. He only assumed that it would be the last time something like that happened
August 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Mulder and Scully are going back to Roswell. Frankly, we're surprised it took X-Files this long (but they're doing it in comics)
X-Files comics vet Joe Harris and artist Riley Brown are kicking off a brand new era of paranormal investigating on the page... starting with the most sacred UFO location on Earth
August 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
The difference between Mighty Nein's Caleb and Vox Machina's Vax, according to Critical Role's Liam O'Brien
The difference between Critical Role star O'Brien's two most recognizable characters is the difference between doer and do-ee, if that last one is a word
August 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Deborah Ann Woll and Kevin Smith came together not over Daredevil, but over D&D
Daredevil and True Blood star Woll recounted having Kevin Smith on a previous D&D show... even though he didn't know D&D
August 13, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Forget Jason's mask - Peacock's Crystal Lake will feature Friday the 13th's *real* contribution to fashion
Crystal Lake star Linda Cardellini isn't just homaging Betsy Palmer in her performance, but in her wardrobe as well
August 12, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
For Critical Role's Laura Bailey, the 'beauty' of The Legend of Vox Machina's heist episode is in Liam O'Brien's writing. Well, that and Smart Grog
De Rolo's Eleven works for a great number of reasons, but for OG Critical Role star Bailey, it all comes down to family interactions and one brillaint barbarian
August 12, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Deborah Ann Woll answers: Which D&D classes are best for the Daredevil: Born Again characters?
Is Matt Murdock a fighter? Could Wilson Fisk be a rogue? Daredevil star and pro DM Woll has the answers
August 12, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Spoilers!House of the Dragon's showrunner explains why Rhaenyra’s “Prince that was Promised” moment was in the season 3 finale, but not in the book
Ryan Condal, who has been with House of the Dragon since it premiered on HBO, dives into one big change between Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) in George R.R. Martin's Fire and Blood and the Game of Thrones spinoff
August 11, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Game of Thrones' stage debut The Mad King is a roaring success in Stratford-upon-Avon. Next stop, London?
Game of Thrones: The Mad King by Duncan Macmillan fleshes out events George R.R. Martin has alluded to in A Song of Ice in Fire. And with its smashing debut, top minds are wondering whether it'll have a royal takeover of its own
August 11, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Five Nights at Freddy's Freddy Fazbear's will open for real in 2027, because cautionary tales are but diminishing echoes of a bygone age
Bring the family to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, only *modeled* after a place your children would get murdered!
August 11, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Laura Bailey answers: Who is the best fake vomiter in Hollywood?
I guess when you're in a voice booth with someone enough, you really get a taste for what their particular talents are. And yeah, I regret using the word 'taste'
August 11, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Sony's making a Bloodborne movie, but E.M. Carroll already showed them how to do it... as a comic
Horror comics legend Carroll may not be publishing official Bloodborne material, but their fan comics
August 10, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role fans love Taryon Darrington now, but according to Marisha Ray, it took the cast a minute to adjust to the character
"No one likes new people," says Critical Role's Marisha Ray. And as an avowed introvert, I tend to agree
August 10, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
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
August 07, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
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
August 07, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
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
August 07, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
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.
August 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
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
August 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
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"
August 06, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Chris Miller & Phil Lord say being fired from Star Wars left "scars" but taught them what they needed to make Project Hail Mary
"You can’t just be like, 'Oh, we’re in the coffee shop and here’s a pencil,'" says one of the minds behind hits like The LEGO Movie and Into the Spider-Verse, "What is a pencil in the Star Wars universe?"
August 05, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
The Legend of Vox Machina is a chance to do justice to Pike Trickfoot, says Critical Role's Ashley Johnson
In Critical Role Campaign 1, Blindspot star Johnson had to be away for a few sessions. But with Prime Video's animated adaptation of the story, her gnome cleric gets the chance to shine
August 05, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
James Tynion IV on how Exquisite Corpses used superhero DNA to create horror monsters (and a Kickstarter sensation)
If you've ever felt like Tynion and Michael Walsh's Exquisite Corpses characters had roots in Big Two superhero designs, you were right
August 05, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
There is a lost DCeased spinoff starring the Titans (and more), but Tom Taylor doesn't know if it'll ever happen (or if it should)
Why weren't the Titans much of a part of the DCeased saga? Titans writer Tom Taylor will tell you, but don't get your hopes up
August 05, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Critical Role's Sam Riegel blames COVID for the lack of Darrington Brigade adventures, but hopes there will be more soon
OG Taryon Darrington Riegel explained why the likes of The Owlbear and Hazel Copperpot haven't been seen much on Critical Role's streams, but also clarified he'd like to remedy that
August 05, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
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
August 05, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
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
August 05, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Chicago Fire is losing its chief in Season 15, but you’ll have one last chance to say goodbye
Dermot Mulroney, AKA Chief Dom Pascal, is leaving NBC's hit fire drama, but not before one final sendoff
August 05, 2026
Grant DeArmitt
News
Excited for HBO's Lanterns? Thank Supergirl and Mister Miracle writer Tom King
A recent profile of the Eisner-winner revealed that the idea for HBO's upcoming Green Lantern take began with King's pitch at Peter Safran's house
August 04, 2026
Grant DeArmitt