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So there's this comic series called Kick Ass. It's created by Mike Millar, who also created the comic series that the movie Wanted was based on. Kick Ass takes the generic superhero scenario and respins it in a way that hasn't really been done all that much. Instead of the main character donning a suit to fight crime for revenge or because it's "right", he decides to fight crime because he's bored. He has no super powers, just a wet suit and a mask. Anyway, since I'm not really great at describing this sort of thing, here's a basic synopsis from the Wikipedia page:

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Dave Lizewski, an otherwise ordinary New York City high school student and the child of Greg Willer, loving single father, takes his interest in comic books as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. He assembles a suit and mask, which he wears under his normal clothing, begins exercising, and practices things like walking on roofs, sating his ambitions for a time. He eventually seeks to fight crime, his first attempt at which leads to a severe beating and stabbing by thugs, followed by his wandering into the street and being hit by a car. He retains his secret identity, however, stripping off and hiding his costume before paramedics arrive.

Telling his father he was mugged, he undergoes intense physical rehabilitation, including four operations. He is released weeks later, and as soon as he is off crutches dons the suit once more and goes on patrol. When he saves a man from a beating, an onlooker catches the scene on a cellphone camera and uploads it to YouTube, turning Lizewski into an overnight sensation christened with the name Kick-Ass.

In school, the mugging excuse used to cover up his bruises spawns rumors Lizewski is a gay prostitute. Believing them, his longtime crush, Katie Deauxma, adopts him as a "gay best friend". Lizewski goes along with this in an effort to spend time with her. His father, worried about him, gives him a can of police-issue pepper-spray for protection.

As Kick-Ass, Lizewski sets up a MySpace account, so people can contact him for help. The first such request he investigates leads him to an apartment of violent lowlifes who try to kill him. He is rescued by a costumed, sword-wielding young girl named Hit-Girl,[3] who kills all the attackers and then leaves to join a grown man named Big Daddy. The two disregard Lizewski, who later learns that Kick-Ass has inadvertently inspired a subculture of people dressed in makeshift, original superhero costumes. Later, one such hero, the Red Mist, appears, and teams with Kick-Ass on street patrol. The two gain great public popularity after nearly being killed rescuing a cat from a burning building.

After the burning building adventure, Big Daddy and Hit Girl approach Kick Ass for a possible team up to take down a local drug kingpin. Unfortunately Red Mist turns out to be an informant for the drug dealers who ambush the two vigilantes and capture Kick-Ass when he tries to meet them.

The movie should be coming out later this year, and it looks to be pretty good. Here's a clip from the movie with Nic Cage. This is the best footage out there right now from the clips seen at Comic Con.



I've read the first 6 issues of the comic, and it's pretty good. The series itself is only 8 issues, and I haven't been able to find issues 7 and 8. Regardless, this is a series to pay attention to.

Some more links:

http://io9.com/53291...erhero-violence

http://io9.com/53221...-the-comic-book

And the first comic's cover:

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