Posted on: September 10th, 2009 [REVIEW] Kick-Ass #7: Touching Your Inner Fanboy
“I always wondered why nobody did it before me. I mean, all those comic book movies and television shows, you’d think at least one eccentric loner would have stitched himself a costume.
Is everyday life really so exciting? Are schools and offices really so thrilling that I’m the only one who ever fantasized about this?
C’mon. Be honest with yourself. We all planned to be a superhero at some point in our lives.”
Did you? I did. Do…whatever. I want to fly, make constructs with a power ring, take people’s powers and memories by touching them, fly around with a lasso in an invisible jet and scream a scream that would make your head explode. One day I’ll figure out how to unleash my super powers. I could always fall back on Plan B where I sit in a wheelchair and have a super computer in a tower. I currently have a MacBook in a basement. Almost there!
Well, I read that dialogue above from the first page and Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass won me over. The second page had the poor guy getting his testicles electrocuted. Now doesn’t that sound like a riot? Do you guys remember how excited I was for the panel at SDCC? No? I was stoked. True, it was more geared towards the upcoming movie but I still popped a squat through a panel or two to see the cinematic interpretation of the book I loved.
The entire premise of the book is outrageous: comic book fan buys a wet suit on ebay and decides to fight crime. Yeah, okay-that’s not outrageous. How about a foul-mouthed ten year-old girl that partners up with her father in taking down drug lords via some awesome sword work? Closer.
Dave Lizewski is a high school student that reads his fair share of comic books and finds himself bored enough with his own life that he decides to patrol the streets of New York in a wet suit. His brilliant superhero name? Kick-Ass. His main concern? How many friends he has on MySpace. He’s more confident when he’s got his costume on underneath his clothes, so he’s getting to be a bigger hit with the ladies. He meets another masked vigilante and they become friends. Things are going great. Then when they meet Big Daddy and Hit Girl, Dave finds himself a little in over his head a.k.a. electrocuted balls.
The seventh issue of Icon’s ongoing story hit the stands today. It completely lived up to the action and humor of its former counterparts.
There’s a lot of gore; I won’t lie to you. John Romita Jr. manages to lighten it with his cartoon-like style. Hit Girl is a little unsettling at first, but it’s really become her book. The whole thing is dark and twisted but it has this good-natured innocence to it. It’s as if I were living the life of a superhero. Even though I’d try to turn out like Hit Girl, I’d turn out like Kick-Ass. I know it.
Have you been good this year? Do you feel you unrewarded for some unnamed feat of heroism? Did you not punch that one guy at work in the face? BUY KICK-ASS. You deserve it. No, don’t wait for the trade. You’ll probably be waiting forever. These issues take a while to come out. There are reprints of the earlier books. If you like fun and don’t flinch at curse words, you’re going to love it.
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