super movie

Webcomics: My college roommates and I used to kick back with a brew or two and reflect on the madness that was Nickelodeon's '90s contest of might, GUTS. We'd usually laugh at the kids who lost while watching reruns on (the now defunct) Nick GAS...

While we weren't completely sold on the first few promos for James Gunn's Super, a black comedy centering around a loser jostled into costumed crime fighting by jilted love, Yahoo! Movies' newly-released official trailer helps flesh out the film's approach to subverting superhero fiction...

Gaming: Behold the Thor: God of Thunder videogame front box art on the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and Nintendo DS. Music: Donald Glover will blow you away with his latest jam Freaks and Geeks (NSFW audio). History: Kirb Your Enthusiasm analyzes comic panels by the legendary Jack Kirby, while occasionally digging into some righteous anecdotes from the artist's prolific history...

Far from her stylized Inception scarves and Juno jeans, the latest images from James Gunn's superhero satire Super serves up Ellen page in a Kick-Ass colored Kevlar vest rocking some very Wolverine-looking tekagi. Indeed, it is a far cry from her black-suited Kitty Pryde days in X3...

Webcomics: Behold! The cover to Dark Horse Comics' debut volume of Axe Cop has arrived. History: As one of comics' most prolific creators, Osamu Tezuka had to have some way to decompress. Enter his "secret room." Movies: James Gunn's Super, starring Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page and Kevin Bacon on April 1, 2011...

When we last spoke of Super, my ComicsAlliance colleague Esther Inglis-Arkell wondered if the ultra-violent superhero satire/parody/whatever could be responsibly categorized as "superhero" at all. Shot in a grainy hand-held style, the characters of the Rainn Wilson-starring film look especially ridiculous in their costumes, and appear motivated only by selfish rage at everyday inconvenie

"Super" is an upcoming film from the writer/director of "Slither," James Gunn. The film is a look at superheroes through a very jaundiced eye. It sees them as insane, petty people who are not even remotely up to the task that they set for themselves...