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Okay so I didn't love the first mini-series/graphic
novel from Mark Millar, and sure, I thought "Kick
Ass" the movie was pretty crummy, but overall I was
pretty interested in seeing where Mark Millar and
John Romita Jr. would go with volume two, the highly
anticipated follow-up to the comic book series that
proved to be most controversial. I mean sure it's
fishy that this came along right after plans for a
sequel were talked about, and fine, many of the new
characters seem oddly capable of being...oh... put
in a movie with a big star at the helm, but
nonetheless I was open minded to the first issue of
volume two that sticks true to the first arc of the
comic book and thankfully doesn't adhere to the
events of the live action movie. Volume 2 takes off
right after the battle of the first volume with John
Romita's usual sharp art work adding a grit to this
insane world filled with walking avengers who vow to
fight crime and make very little effort to change
the world. Kick Ass has been outed and his
headquarters has been blown to the ground by Red
Mist, his dream girl still hates his guts, his
friends are still comic book fanboys,
Mindy MacReady is now living with a stable family
and a dad who is begging her to put her past life
behind her as she sneaks around behind his back
(there's one humorous scene involving an armory
under Mindy's floor), and Dave and co. have engaged
in a fairly massive superhero and super villain war
in Times Square. This then backtracks to the events
prior that have Kick Ass being trained by Mindy/Hit
Girl who is readying him for combat and tailoring
him as a sidekick while Kick Ass is dealing with
infamy and watches brand new superheroes and super
villains blossoming from every corner of the web,
with the possibility of superhero teams making an
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With
Red Mist out of commission for a bit, Kick Ass
patrols the streets of New York in costume with
his new partner Dr. Gravity, an African American
man who takes great pleasure in patrolling and
finds a sick pleasure in dressing as a
superhero. What was once a form of sadism has
now become a fetish akin to furries, where
people dress in the anonymity of a superhero and
walk around rarely learning their compatriots
identities and taking pleasure in their own
practices. While I fail to find much
entertainment in the events of the first issue
involving a potential all out war, and new
characters who take this fetish much too
seriously as indicated in the final splash of
the first issue, the real treat is Mindy
MacReady who is now living the live of a preteen
garnering cellphones, purses, going to parties
and living a life of monotony anxiously trying
to escape the clutches of the superhero world,
while Kick Ass finds an entirely new dimension
of this world he's created where menaces linger
in every dark corner, Kick Ass is readying for a
big rumble, and Justice Forever has plans of
their own that we've yet to imagine. A strong
issue for a mediocre franchise, overall. |
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