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Queer comics for people (of all ages) who are not into superheroes
Looking for some queer comics that aren't about super heroes? Here are some great places to start.
June 26, 2024
Jim McDermott
Guides
Top 7 Robins from DC Comics, ranked from Batman's best to worst!
Ranking all the Robins of the Batman family from worst to best
June 25, 2024
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
11 Queer superhero comics to help you get your Pride on
THEY’RE HERE! THEY’RE QUEER! THEY WEAR CAPES AND PUNCH BAD GUYS AND ALSO SOMETIMES HAVE DANCE PARTIES!
June 25, 2024
Jim McDermott
Features
11 times LGBTQ+ superheroes made national headlines (and where they are now)
A brief history of queer superheroes in the news
June 19, 2024
Kate Willaert
Features
Upcoming comics, manga, and graphic novels from Marvel, DC, VIZ, Scholastic, and more
All of the upcoming comics that we think you should keep an eye out for
June 11, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Star Wars: Inside The Acolyte's High Republic era, from its characters to its timeline, and more
Everything you need to know about the exciting new era of Star Wars before The Acolyte
June 03, 2024
Austin Gorton
Features
And the 2024 Eisner Award nominees are...
SDCC 2024 will feature the biggest night in comics - who will be up for an award?
May 23, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Wonder Woman is the hardest DC project ever for Tom King, and he explains why (and why he needs the challenge)
In an interview with Popverse, Tom King details the themes and challenges in Wonder Woman, including how fans changed his initial plans for the DC hero's story.
May 22, 2024
Sam Stone
Features
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees creator and editor on the series' surprise success and whether fans can expect to see more
Popverse got to chat with Patrick Horvath and Maggie Howell about all things Beneath the Trees
May 07, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
If you're wondering what James Tynion IV is scared of, look to his comics
Well, that and E.T. (Yes, the Extra-Terrestrial)
April 29, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: If you're collecting this hit comic, you can now collect its card as well
Fans of Patrick Horvath's new horror comic might want to pick up a collector's card of that already-iconic first cover
April 28, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Stan Lee once drew Usagi Yojimbo in a Spider-Man costume as a gift for Stan Sakai
Who doesn't love Spider-Man? Who doesn't love Usagi Yojimbo?
April 24, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
How the Marvel's Invisible Woman inspired the New Teen Titans’ female superheroes, according to Teen Titans co-creator Marv Wolfman
Marv Wolfman wanted strong female characters
April 22, 2024
Jules Chin Greene
Features
A guide to comics landmarks in New York City
Everywhere a comics fan needs to visit during their trip to the Big Apple
April 19, 2024
Jim McDermott
Features
Can anyone stop the Disney synergy train?
Probably not
April 18, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Death of the Author('s opinion on adaptations)
No, I actually don't care about what an original author thinks should be in an adaptation
April 17, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Jujutsu Kaisen's Yuji Itadori just snuck into the DCU
Eagle-eyed anime fans can spot Yuji in the pages of Nightwing #113
April 17, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
News
The comic book industry has a variant cover problem, and the upstart publisher Magma proposes a solution
Magma Comix wants to provide a simpler experience for both comic book readers and retailers.
April 16, 2024
Jules Chin Greene
News
Check, Please! heads to WEBTOON as cartoonist Ngozi Ukazu announces chapter-by-chapter release
Cartoonist Ngozi herself announced the drop on social medai
April 15, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
Sam Raimi says Boy Kills World is a "new direction" for action movies
Stand aside, John Wick. It's time for Boy Kills World.
April 12, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Cults, murders, and grief take the spotlight in this excerpt from upcoming horror graphic novel Loving, Ohio
Check out this exclusive excerpt from Matthew Erman and Sam Beck
April 05, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
How Emmy winner Andy Riley's tweet led to action parody comic Action Dude
It started out as a tweet
April 05, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
A murderer's row of comics writers regale packed room at Wondercon
"It's our job to find out what's fun and exciting about these characters"
April 02, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
The Beat celebrates its 20th birthday (and independent journalism) at WonderCon
The Beat Editor-in-Chief Heidi Macdonald led a panel full of contributors to chat one of comics' longest running websites
April 02, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Take a look at Gender Queer's Maia Kobabe's "starter kit for people thinking about binding for the first time"
Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding covers the basics for those interested in binding
April 01, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
Gail Simone's Uncanny X-Men will consist of 18 issues in its first year
The exciting news was announced at WonderCon 2024
March 31, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
WEBTOON readers will be able to support their favorite creators in a whole new way
Meet "Super Likes"
March 28, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Why Marvel celebrating LGBTQIA+ "Allies" for Pride Month isn't a surprise
In fact, it probably just started - like so many things in comics - as a sales tactic
March 22, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Where to read comics and comic books for free online
Free comics are everywhere online. Save money AND expand your digital to-read pile with our guide.
March 21, 2024
Dave Buesing
Features
Skyfall's Sam Mendes was once in talks to adapt My Favorite Thing is Monsters
The 1917 director's oeuvre shows that he's interested in form, so maybe he'd be a good choice
March 20, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
New Cyberpunk 2077 comic spin-off from Phantom Liberty writer will feature newly designed cars not in game
Cyberpunk 2077: Kickdown is created in close collaboration with CD Projekt Red
March 20, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Something evil waits in the darkness in this sneak preview of from Devour, a new horror graphic novel from Abrams
Magical rooms, spider gods, and legacy - Devour has got it all
March 18, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
A Quick & Easy Guide to Coming Out offers help to anyone struggling to show themselves the way they are this fall
The latest installment in the Oni Press series arrives in September
March 07, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
Batman: Wayne Family Adventures shows that there's plenty of worthwhile superhero drama to explore at home
It's not all about the streets of Gotham
March 05, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
Marvel's executive editor Tom Brevoort claps back on accusations of 'wokeness' towards the X-Men
Because reading comprehension is at an all-time low.
March 04, 2024
Fran Ruiz
News
Amazon Prime Video's "extreme" body horror follow-up Wytches release date is some time in 2025
The scary ride is taking shape.
March 04, 2024
Fran Ruiz
Features
Conventions are still the best place to dig through longboxes
You can always find treasure in these battered old boxes
March 03, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Happy Birthday Superman - here's a throwback to one of the most depressing birthday comics of all time
For the Man Who Has Everything may be the most haunting birthday story ever
February 28, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR taps Jason Aaron to write standalone Western story
BRZRKR: A Faceful of Bullets will feature B. in the 1800s American West
February 22, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels once co-owned a comic company
Live, from New York, it's.... Saturday night comics?
February 22, 2024
Chris Arrant
News
How Ke Huy Quan was convinced to do Disney+'s American Born Chinese, according to Gene Luen Yang
Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan was originally hesitant to take on the project
February 21, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
Over 200 million instances of digital piracy removed in 2023 by webtoon giant Tapas' parent company
The Tapas Entertainment owner is cracking down on piracy, hard
February 19, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Fan-favorite cartoonist is telling one of DC's best romance stories from a new perspective
Ngozi Ukazu's Barda is sure to be one of the hottest books of the summer
February 16, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
First Look: Pets go to space in Man's Best comic from Pornsak Pichetshote and Jesse Lonergan
Sometimes you really do have to rely on man's best friend
February 16, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Errands turn magical in this exclusive excerpt from cozy fantasy graphic novel The Baker and the Bard
Glowing mushrooms just seem delightful
February 15, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Six manga-style comics by Black creators you should read
Looking for some new manga-style comics to read? Check out these options!
February 15, 2024
Latonya Pennington
News
Disney is bringing Encanto and Turning Red to graphic novels, beginning with a free comic book
Disney has a new partner in comics
February 13, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
Isabela Merced praises her early Superman: Legacy experience as Hawkgirl
After Madame Web, Merced is going from one comic book universe to another
February 13, 2024
Fran Ruiz
Features
Why Matthew Macfadyen's role in Deadpool & Wolverine was inevitable after Loki
The TVA family is complete now.
February 13, 2024
Fran Ruiz
Features
Deadpool & Wolverine's trailer has reignited the Lady Deadpool theories
This conversation won't die.
February 13, 2024
Fran Ruiz
Features
If Cassandra Nova really is in Deadpool & Wolverine, what does that mean for the plot?
A different breed of villain.
February 13, 2024
Fran Ruiz
News
Marvel Studios teases Avengers 6 movie in the Deadpool & Wolverine as an easter egg
It's all coming together.
February 13, 2024
Fran Ruiz
Features
Deadpool & Wolverine: Is that Patch in the first trailer?
A particular nod in Deadpool & Wolverine's teaser trailer has caught our attention.
February 12, 2024
Fran Ruiz
Features
Deadpool & Wolverine cast: Who stars in the MCU's big movie of 2024?
It's a stacked one.
February 12, 2024
Fran Ruiz
Features
Glimpse witchy London in our exclusive excerpt from this new graphic novel about being a burnt out worker (and also a witch)
I Feel Awful, Thanks addresses burnout in a witchy fashion
February 09, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Best comics to buy for the non-comics reader in your life
No, Watchmen isn't on this list
February 08, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
A plane crash, an abandoned house, and ghosts(?): Take a sneak peek into one of the weirdest graphic novels of the season
Who doesn't love a possibly haunted house?
February 08, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
Disney+'s X-Men '97 animated show nabs prelude comic before series launch
Want to get ahead on the mutant drama before the series hits Disney+?
February 07, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
Thanos is returning to Marvel's MCU, or at least actor Josh Brolin believes he is
Much like us, he only has theories.
February 05, 2024
Fran Ruiz
News
X-Men: The Animated Series manga is returning in 2024 remastered and with a deluxe edition!
The long-unavailable classic returns, alongside other classic Marvel manga, thanks to a new collaboration with VIZ Media
February 05, 2024
Fran Ruiz
Features
That time Li’l Abner creator Al Capp was in talks to do a cover for an underground comix anthology
Yes, we said Al Capp.
January 31, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
Jessica Jones' Krysten Ritter is slyly campaigning (or is it teasing?) for her Marvel MCU debut
Is a Defenders reunion on the horizon?
January 30, 2024
Fran Ruiz
News
South Korea's government rolls out ambitious plan to grow its comics by $1 billion dollars in 5 years
Webtoon seems like the new buzzword
January 29, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
Duncan Jones' Rogue Trooper movie is very alive, with the cast finally announced
And principal photography on the 2000 AD adaptation has already been completed, apparently
January 29, 2024
Fran Ruiz
Features
Geoff Johns dishes on the machinations of DC and his future with Ghost Machine
In an interview with Popverse, Geoff Johns reflects on restoring DC history with DC Rebirth and charts a new future with Ghost Machine
January 29, 2024
Sam Stone
Features
Hobtown Mystery Stories is coming back, in color, from Oni Press starting this April
Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes's noir comic is returning in new editions, and that's just the beginning
January 26, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
A sneak peek at what's coming from Avery Hill in 2024
Four big new titles are coming to UK indie Avery Hill Publishing this year, here's what to expect
January 26, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Invincible season 2 part 2 release date: When is Prime Video's hit animated superhero series returning?
Mark Grayson is coming back soon, with a March release promised for the last episodes of the new season
January 23, 2024
Fran Ruiz
Features
Queer hardboiled detective reigns supreme in this exclusive excerpt from Tina Horn and Lisa Sterle's DEPROG
Take an early sneak peek at pages from this upcoming queer detective series
January 23, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
Marvel & DC art from Jack Kirby, Frank Miller, more is revealed to have been fed into Midjourney AI without the companies or artists' permission
Equal parts embarrassing and sad.
January 17, 2024
Fran Ruiz
News
Robert Downey Jr. says his Iron Man role is some of his "best work" ever despite bias against the genre
Despite trying to distance himself from his decade-plus as Tony Stark recently, RDJ remains proud of what he accomplished
January 16, 2024
Fran Ruiz
News
She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany doesn't think season 2 will happen (and she and explains why)
Jennifer Walters' next chapter might play out on the big screen
January 16, 2024
Fran Ruiz
News
DC re-elects Prez with new story (and new push for 2016 comic)
Prez is back, and in a new format too
January 11, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
Bunt! - An exclusive excerpt from Check, Please! creator Ngozi Ukazu's newest project
Bunt! from Ngozi Ukazu and Mad Rupert goes on sale in February, take a first look at pages from the YA graphic novel now.
January 10, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
Marvel Studios' Echo & What If co-star Devery Jacobs responds to "egregious" comments about Native American characters in MCU
There's more than enough space for them all.
January 09, 2024
Fran Ruiz
News
Seminal crime comic Criminal getting TV adaptation from Amazon Prime Video
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Criminal is (finally) coming to the small screen
January 08, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley once developed a "really weird" Eternals TV series
If you thought that the Marvel movie strayed from the comic book, Ridley's TV show might've disturbed you even more
January 08, 2024
Fran Ruiz
Features
How Mark Gruenwald changed the Marvel Universe (and inspired a central Loki character)
On Mark Gruenwald, Marvel's continuity cop
December 26, 2023
Matt Brady
Features
Poll: Should Jason Todd live or die?
In celebration for the new Death in the Family facsimile edition, we're asking DC fans a classic question
December 20, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
Five Nights at Freddy's: Take an exclusive look at the first pages of the new FNAF graphic novel
“Uhh the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night.”
December 19, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
Sarah’s Scribbles creator Sarah Andersen reflects on over a decade of webcomics success
From the perennially popular Sarah’s Scribbles to the bestselling Fangs, Sarah Andersen reveals the origins of her beloved webcomics
December 18, 2023
Sam Stone
Features
Editor Joe Illidge goes behind the curtain on the comic book industry
"[We need to] negotiate a better relationship." writer and editor Joseph P. Illidge says
December 13, 2023
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
5 weird (but still mostly heartwarming) comics Christmas specials to dive into this holiday season
Ready for some strange Christmas comics? Check out this list!
December 11, 2023
Nola Pfau
Features
Popverse's best comics of 2023
Here's which comics we loved reading this year
December 08, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
Inside Narwhal and Jelly's secret origin with creator Ben Clanton (and an exclusive preview of Book #9!)
Ever wonder where the idea for Narwhal & Jelly came from?
December 06, 2023
Tiffany Babb
News
Meet DC's newest supervillain, Apex Ava
She looks kind of familiar...
December 05, 2023
Fran Ruiz
Features
Spoilers!Is Marvel's Mystique trans? What we should learn from latest X-Men twist
Here's why everyone is talking about the revelation regarding Nightcrawler's origins.
December 04, 2023
Avery Kaplan
Features
Liveblog!Marvel's Gang War event: Follow along with the Spider-Man event panel live from Los Angeles Comic Con
Wanna know what's going on with Gang War? We do too
December 02, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Guides
The best original art for sale at New York Comic Con 2023
Scott Eder's booth features a treasure trove of the best independent cartoonists' work
December 02, 2023
Tiffany Babb
News
The first behind-the-scenes look at Agatha: Darkhold Diaries is here
It's not House of Harkness nor Coven of Chaos anymore.
November 28, 2023
Fran Ruiz
News
Taika Waititi reveals the main reason he took on Thor: Ragnarok
It wasn't because he was a big fan of the source material, as it turns out
November 28, 2023
Fran Ruiz
Features
Cat Kid Comic Club is the perfect gift for the kid (and adult) in your life who wants to make comics
Dav Pilkey's Cat Kid Comic Club series dives deep into the existential and practical concerns of making art
November 28, 2023
Tiffany Babb
Features
Peanuts' Snoopy puffer jacket and my search for Christmas' hottest toy
It's like Lucy and the football, really
November 27, 2023
Tiffany Babb
News
Daredevil actor Charlie Cox wants to team-up with (and geek out on) Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man
A team-up which would be difficult (but not impossible) to make happen.
November 27, 2023
Fran Ruiz
Features
Become the ultimate Spider-Man reader with two amazing Black Friday book deals
More web-slinging action than you can read in two sittings.
November 24, 2023
Fran Ruiz
Features
Get started on The Sandman comics with this magical Black Friday deal
It's hard to fall asleep while reading this one.
November 24, 2023
Fran Ruiz
Features
Snap the boredom away with this golden Black Friday deal on the LEGO Infinity Gauntlet set
You needn't be from Titan to use it.
November 24, 2023
Fran Ruiz
Features
A fantastic hardcover edition of Watchmen has hit a ridiculously low price this Black Friday
We're all puppets, but this is a really good deal.
November 24, 2023
Fran Ruiz
Features
Get The Complete Calvin and Hobbes collection for better than half price this Black Friday
This is the best price we've seen for one of the most influential comic strips of all time.
November 24, 2023
Trent Cannon
Features
Marvel gift guide: Super-powered presents for the 2023 holiday season
Fly towards the best Marvel gifts available before the Christmas endgame arrives!
November 22, 2023
Fran Ruiz