After another night of waking up in a cold sweat over a dream where Ian and Stu are chasing me through the San Diego Convention Center demanding the third and final installment of my Comic-Con diary – Stu dressed in his Slave Leia outfit, to make it worse – I have decided to get up early and knock it out. (more…)
The good thing about a sequel is that you don’t have to bother with an origin story. Though my editors, Stu and Ian, will point out I’m so late with this installment I may as well just start writing one for next year’s Comic-Con at this point.
In any case, skipping to my second day at Comic-Con, my fears of a massive hangover after Friday’s ill-conceived night out were well-founded as I headed out to the Se Hotel, a 40-minute brisk walk from the America’s Best Value Inn through gang country – but the gangbangers are asleep at 8:30 a.m., apparently. (more…)
You may never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than Mos Eisley spaceport, but San Diego Comic-Con must run a close second.
Sure, if you’re a die-hard fan of anything remotely geeky, there’s nothing as exciting as spending four days moving from one line to another to see two minutes of exclusive footage from a movie coming out next summer that will be leaked on the Internet ten minutes later or to get an autograph from the guy who once lettered an issue of Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos in the ’70s. If you love comics, anime, sci-fi blockbusters, zombies, vampires that look like Robert Pattinson but don’t actually do any biting, robots, Cowboys and/or Aliens, ironic pop culture T-shirts and college-age women in inappropriately tight costumes, then this is the center of the universe. (more…)
Who would win in a fight?
It is a primal question that has spurred on more schoolyard arguments and message board flame wars than can be counted. Be it comic book characters, historical figures, fabled monsters or anything else, I can tell you that my favorite will kick your favorite’s butt any day of the week.
In that grand tradition, Unwinnable has embarked on a series of similar battles, pitting contributor against contributor in a battle royale of wits and smack talk. First it was the Kung Fu Showdown. Now it is the Superhero Movie Smack Down. Enter the arena, Dear Reader, and be thrilled by our blood sport. (more…)
With the New York Asian Film Festival starting July 1, we here at Team Unwinnable thought it time to pick the best Kung Fu star around. That has now devolved into a point/counterpoint piece. Enjoy! (more…)
Whether Green Lantern fans were disappointed or not with the movie this weekend, the brightest day is yet to come.
A sequel has already, pardon the pun, been green-lit and comic book readers knew even without the [SPOILER ALERT] big yellow hint in the last scene of Green Lantern that Sinestro would likely be powering up the villain’s role in the next movie. (more…)
Over the years, dozens of characters have tapped into the Speed Force — five Flashes, Max Mercury, John Fox, Impulse, two Kid Flashes, Jesse Quick and Johnny Quick come to mind, and that’s just off the top of our heads and not counting villains. With so many to choose from, everyone has their own favorite speedster. Now that Flashpoint is taking the DC Universe by storm, there is no better time for Unwinnable’s Flash fans to explain why their favorite is the best — and why everyone who says differently is an idiot. (more…)
