Five Films to Cure Your NY Comic-Con Fatigue

While the annual San Diego Comic-Con is the Super Bowl of nerd-dom, New York Comic-Con is the final playoff game. It's the convention that stays much more loyal to its original core: comics, comics comics (and its diehard fanboys). They've got the paper cut scars, strained eyes, and plethora of comic universe knowledge to trump you with their endless devotion to these fictitious worlds. Some series get reboots and revamps, like DC Comics did most recently with its superhero cast, and some start anew, like Batman and The Avengers. But there's a place for everyone--fanboy and newbie alike--at these ridiculously fantastic conventions. Here's five films that get us in the crime-fighting, butt-kicking, tights-donning mood.

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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

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This film is the ultimate geekgasm: awesome music, awesome cast and awesome adaptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's acclaimed graphic novel series. It combines the best of comic-book action with the video game genre, and Michael Cera's typical skinny awkward nerd schtick actually doesn't get old. Edgar Wright stayed loyal to most of the graphic novel's plotline and even the aesthetics. It's such a shame the movie didn't bank as much as it deserved and was KO'd quickly at the box office.

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