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WC11: “Super” with Wilson & Gunn

Actor Rainn Wilson opened the WonderCon panel for his new independent film “Super” by jumping on the table, raising a fist to the sky and shouting, “Shut up, crime!”

The stirring clarion call is the tagline his character invents after deciding to fight crime with a pipe wrench and a bright red costume. Writer and director James Gunn, who sat on stage alongside Wilson, said he started with the idea of a superhero who was also a stalker, and fell in love with the characters as the story got bigger.

Wilson stars as Frank D’Arbo, also known as the powerless superhero Crimson Bolt, with Ellen Page as Libby, an insane young woman who fashions herself to be his sidekick, Boltie. D’Arbo strives to

A group of three teenagers beat and robbed a Sunset District pedestrian last week, but as of Monday the knife-wielding miscreants remain at large.

The San Francisco Police Department alerted media to the crime this Monday: A group of three males aged 17-18 attacked a 16-year-old as he walked down a busy Sunset District street, threatening him at knifepoint and stealing his possessions.

Police say that the victim was walking near Ulloa Street and Sunset Boulevard when he was approached by the three suspects at 9:30 p.m. last Wednesday.

According to the SFPD, one of the teens "pulled a knife" and threatened the victim. When the victim tried to flee, a second suspect tripped him, causing him to fall to the ground.

A third suspect held him down, as the first two