Heavy is the head that wears the crown We are big fans of Game of Thrones over at Pop Verse, and while I think that the Iron Throne would look great in our living room I can’t justify the £20,000 price tag. ...

I’m a huge fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. I have read the book three times, which is rare for me. Very few titles make it onto the ‘read more than once’ list. Films made from books rarely achieve ...

The US fall television line-up is out. Out of the new shows, there are some we’re excited about, some we’re curious to see, and others we couldn’t care less about. Then there’s Joss Whedon’s return to television: Marvel’s Agents of ...

Lost on the Fringe of Super-Trek – Into Darkness So the new Trek film was interesting. While the lens flare joke might have been an easy target, it was getting a bit silly in Into Darkness. It’s like J.J. Abrams is deliberately satirizing ...

I was having a discussion with my housemate (and fellow Pop Verse writer) Ash the other day, and we came to an agreement about the new Star Trek films. He was never a fan of old Star Trek in any ...

While I have been a geek for many years, I have never been a comic geek – until now. I currently live with two big comic book geeks. They really wanted me to try out some comics, especially after I ...

Pop Verse is proud to give you our first ever interview, with Geek-Girl creator, Sam Johnson. Sam works in indy comics, writing and editing, as well as with his own indy publisher, Actuality Press. What is your writing process? How ...

We shouldn’t focus only on comics published by mainstream publishers. There are a lot of independent comics published too. Today I am looking at ‘Geek Girl #0’, published by independent publisher Actuality Press, started by Geek-Girl’s creator, Sam Johnson. The ...

All work and no play makes Tony a dull boy We loved Iron Man 3. It was a great wrap-up to the character arc and it made perfect sense as the aftermath to ‘New York’. Also, it had a Hulk Buster ...

Traditional comics publishing and POD Getting your comic book or graphic novel published can be difficult. Like any sphere of the publishing industry, there are a lot of hoops to jump. Most of the big comic publishers don’t take unsolicited ...