Spotlight
From Final Fantasy to the X-Men: Welcome to Popverse's celebration of love in pop culture
It's time to celebrate what works (and what doesn't!) about the way that pop culture deals with relationships and love, from Star Wars to Dispatch and back again
Graeme McMillan
Marvel, DC, WEBTOON, Vault, Yen Press, Glénat, Dark Horse, eBay, VIZ, and more are hiring #ComicJobs (February 2026)
Comics industry jobs: a monthly list of open positions you can apply for now.
Chris Arrant
Dispatch Switch censorship may be driven by Japan and AdHoc's resource limits — not Nintendo
A lack of nudity may be disappointing to some gamers, but there is more nuanced reasoning behind the Dispatch censorship than just "Nintendo bad."
Trent Cannon
Walton Goggins promises something “profound” in the Fallout season 2 ending
The Ghoul has spent centuries looking for his family - will he finally find them in the Fallout Season 2 finale?
Trent Cannon
"And my axe!" Lord of the Rings star John Rhys Davies says there's one world leader who deserves Gimli's iconic weapon
There are legendary heroes outside of Middle Earth, says Lord of the Rings star John Rhys Davies. And one of them, he believes, deserves the axe of Gimli, son of Gloin
Grant DeArmitt
The MCU Wonder Man vs. the Marvel Comics Wonder Man: 5 major differences explained
The Simon Williams in the MCU's Wonder Man show has a different backstory than his Marvel Comics counterpart
Jules Chin Greene
Latest
This new Resident Evil short film with horror queen Maika Monroe has some fans praising it over the movies
Capcom has released a live-action short film starring Maika Monroe in the lead-up to Resident Evil: Requiem
The opening trauma of Genshin Impact wasn't hard to fake for real-life twin Sarah Miller-Crews
When twins Aether and Lumine are torn apart in the beginning of action RPG Genshin Impact, the latter's voice actor didn't have to pretend to feel that
Marvel Studios' early designs for MODOK in Ant-Man 3 were much darker... and we all missed out
Didn't like the MODOK played by Corey Stoll in the MCU's oft-derided Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania? THen you're not gonna be happy hearing what could have been...
Supergirl: The trailer, the cast, the release date, and everything else you need to know about the DC Studios movie
Milly Alcock will take flight as Supergirl this summer in the 2026 DC Studios movie directed by Craig Gillespie
Who is Lobo in DC Comics? His powers, his origin, and why he matters in Supergirl (and why he's played by Aquaman star Jason Momoa)
Get to know Lobo ahead of his cinematic debut in Supergirl
The X-Men romances in Marvel Comics that make me glad I'm single
Sure, everyone has a favorite X-Men couple, but here are some cursed pairings in Marvel Comics that haunt me still
Invincible ending explained: What happens to Invincible, Omni-Man, the Viltrum Empire, and everyone else in Robert Kirkman’s original comic series
Here's what happened at the end of Invincible by Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley & Cory Walker.
Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefeld will be joining your Marvel Rivals lobbies soon, but go easy on him
Will Rob Liefeld be playing Healpool, DPSpool, or Tankpool in Marvel Rivals?
Book publishers were afraid of building shared universes until they saw how successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe was, according to Brandon Sanderson
How the Marvel Cinematic Universe changed the literature market
What is the Mercer effect? Let Critical Role Campaign 4 GM Brennan Lee Mulligan tell you
Brennan Lee Mulligan says Critical Role & the Mercer Effect gave an entire generation of GMs jobs.
A forgotten raw, extended version of the Gremlins movie has been unearthed
A "160-minute" assembly cut of Gremlins has reportedly been discovered, and is being digitized by fans
The Witcher's Eamon Farren auditioned for Geralt originally, but here's why he fell in love with playing Cahir
Cahir "has that perfect hero's journey," says The Witcher star Farren. "A broken hero's journey. As an actor, of course, that's great."
The secret Parks and Recreation Easter egg Leigh Bardugo snuck into her Grishaverse books
How Parks and Recreation has secretly influenced Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse
The biggest differences between the Invincible comic and the Prime Video animated series
How closely does the Invincible television series follow the comics? We found out.
How Hellboy II gave us a classic onscreen romance — and led to The Shape of Water
The relationship you remember from Hellboy II: The Golden Army probably isn't Abe Sapien and Princess Nuala. That should change.
Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway’s Guns N’ Roses trailer is pure early-internet nostalgia
Sweet Child O' Mine is one of the most recognizable songs in rock history, but we didn't expect to see an anime AMV of it with Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway - The Sorcery of Nymph Circe in the year 2026.
How to watch the Resident Evil movies, TV shows, and anime in order
From the Milla Jovovich movies, to the CGI animated movies and TV show, to the Welcome to Raccoon City reboot and Netflix show, here's how to watch Resident Evil
Michael Myers was supposed to die for good in Halloween H20, but a secret studio contract stated he couldn’t die
Jamie Lee Curtis wanted Laurie Strode to kill Michael Myers for good in Halloween H20, but a contract from the Weinsteins kept the killer alive
How to read the Marvel Comics' X-Men in order following the Krakoa era
From the Ashes: How to read the post-Krakoa era X-Men comics in release and chronological order
The best Green Lantern comics from DC that you'll ever read
Get to know the Green Lantern Corps with these 6 iconic comic book stories from DC.
What your Dispatch ship choice says about you
This is a judgement free zone, friends, so let your Dispatch romance option of choice reveal a little more about you
The world’s largest manga piracy site BATO.TO shut down by Chinese government, finding it made $50k+ a month off pirated comics
The collection of sites that made up BATO.TO have been taken offline, but not before it enjoyed more than 195 million views per month on pirated manga.
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I can't wait to cry my eyes out at Journal with Witch this January on Crunchyroll [Popverse Jump]
Everyone needs a good cry this time of year and Journal with Witch is this season's emotionally devastating story.
Trent Cannon
Chainsaw Man season 2 is where the show finally gets really weird [Popverse Jump]
Unsurprisingly, Chainsaw Man season 2 is going to go to some dark and weird places and that's what makes it so exciting.
Trent Cannon
2026 is the year of The Apothecary Diaries and we love it [Popverse Jump]
Romance, courtly intrigue, and a healthy dose of murder - The Apothecary Diaries has everything we could want.
Trent Cannon
Emerald City Comic Con
From the Ball to the Burlesque: ECCC 2026's Tavern is where to sidequest, Seattle-style
Whips, balls, gaming, and drinking - there's a lot more to do at Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con 2026 than you might expect.
Graeme McMillan
Critical Role, Doctor Who and multiple Marvel projects lead the charge in the Seattle ECCC 2026 programming schedule
Want to see William Shatner, David Tennant and the cast of Critical Role in one place this March? Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con 2026 is the place to be
Graeme McMillan
Join the cast of The Boys at ECCC 2026 this March
Karl Urban and Laz Alonso continue The Boys farewell tour in the run up to the show's fifth and final season this April
Trent Cannon
Star Wars' prodigal son Hayden Christensen returns for Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con 2026
This is where the fun begins, because Star Wars' Hayden Christensen is coming to ECCC 2026
Chris Arrant
XOXO Popverse
The X-Men romances in Marvel Comics that make me glad I'm single
Sure, everyone has a favorite X-Men couple, but here are some cursed pairings in Marvel Comics that haunt me still
Jules Chin Greene
How Hellboy II gave us a classic onscreen romance — and led to The Shape of Water
The relationship you remember from Hellboy II: The Golden Army probably isn't Abe Sapien and Princess Nuala. That should change.
Grant DeArmitt
What your Dispatch ship choice says about you
This is a judgement free zone, friends, so let your Dispatch romance option of choice reveal a little more about you
Trent Cannon
From Final Fantasy to the X-Men: Welcome to Popverse's celebration of love in pop culture
It's time to celebrate what works (and what doesn't!) about the way that pop culture deals with relationships and love, from Star Wars to Dispatch and back again
Graeme McMillan
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings cast got stools to sit on between takes - John Rhys Davies got a La-Z-Boy, occasionally delivered by helicopter
Worry not for Gimli, son of Gloin (aka actor John Rhys Davies). His post orc-slaughtering during The Lord of the Rings filming was a comfortable break
Grant DeArmitt
The Lord of the Rings stars Liv Tyler & Cate Blanchette didn't get cast tattoos: "It's just a movie"
Arwen and Galadriel - that is, Tyler and Blanchette respectively - didn't feel the need to commemorate the Lord of the Rings like the boys in the Fellowship of the Ring did
Grant DeArmitt
"And my axe!" Lord of the Rings star John Rhys Davies says there's one world leader who deserves Gimli's iconic weapon
There are legendary heroes outside of Middle Earth, says Lord of the Rings star John Rhys Davies. And one of them, he believes, deserves the axe of Gimli, son of Gloin
Grant DeArmitt
The Lord of the Rings Extended Extended Cut does not exist — and Peter Jackson says it never will
You and I both know we'd watch a 24-hour-long cut of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. But don't count on a further-extended cut of the trilogy coming along
Grant DeArmitt
Wonder Man
There was worry inside Marvel TV's Wonder Man crew that the writers strike could have led to it being canceled as a tax write-off like DC's Batgirl movie
Wonder Man showrunner Andrew Guest was nervous that the show would get axed by Disney when it shut down production during the 2023 strikes
Jules Chin Greene
The MCU Wonder Man vs. the Marvel Comics Wonder Man: 5 major differences explained
The Simon Williams in the MCU's Wonder Man show has a different backstory than his Marvel Comics counterpart
Jules Chin Greene
Wonder Man season 1 ending explained: What are the fates of Simon Williams and Trevor Slattery in the MCU?
All 8 episodes of Wonder Man are now streaming on Disney+, and we break down the ending of the finale here
Jules Chin Greene
Wonder Man director takes kids (and fans) behind the scenes of the Marvel Studios Disney+ show
Destin Daniel Cretton created a video for his child's career day at school, giving us a look at the Wonder Man show from Marvel Studios
Jules Chin Greene
Absolute Batman
Absolute Batman happened because DC Comics writer Scott Snyder got bored reading about ‘superhero fatigue’
With Absolute Batman, writer Scott Snyder and artist Nick Dragotta have proved that there is no such thing as "superhero fatigue"
Jules Chin Greene
Absolute Batman paves the way for DC to take risks, says Scott Snyder - unlike his New 52 Batman run
For Absolute Batman writer Scott Snyder, the pressure of writing one of DC's best-selling books right now is different from when he was writing Batman during the New 52
Jules Chin Greene
Absolute Batman is headed into big spoiler territory and co-creator Scott Snyder wants DC Comics to keep it a secret
Future issues of Absolute Batman will be solicited with redacted covers so readers can avoid spoilers before new issues hit stands
Jules Chin Greene
Absolute Batman writer Scott Snyder sees the modern comics market fundamentally changing in a post-variant, post-COVID, post-TV deal world
What makes fans want to buy comics in today's market? The idea that the stories have to be told right now, and have to be comics, according to the co-creator of the wildly successful Absolute Batman, Scott Snyder
Graeme McMillan