Get To Know Your Superhero: Kick-Ass
Marvel is a giant in the comic book industry. They are so powerful and so influential over the industry that one wrong move would be magnified to, well, comic book proportions. Because of this, Marvel can come off as some what reluctant to take chances and produce something completely “different.” Thus, the creation of Icon and with it, the creation of a recent cult hit. This week’s edition of Get To Know Your Superhero dips into a modern character. This week’s edition is about Kick-Ass. Sit back and enjoy.
Kick-Ass was created independently by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr was first published under Marvel’s Icon in April 2008.
Before the comic was launched an anonymous Youtube video was uploaded showing footage of Kick-Ass.
Soon after a Myspace page for Kick-Ass appeared stating that Millar and Romita will be making a comic about his life.
The Myspace page also ran a global contest to see if anyone would name Kick-Ass – the winner was Dave Lizewski.
Dave Lizewski is a normal NYC high school student with a love of comics.
He loves comics so much that he become inspired to create a suit and fight crime.
After training himself for a while, Lizewski attempts to stop a mugging – the result was him getting his ass kicked.
After the beating he wanders into the streets only to be hit by a car.
Lizewski spent the next few months in rehab but returned to the streets.
Lizewski is then caught on cell-phone camera while saving a man from a mugging – the video landed on Youtube and was tagged with the named Kick-Ass.
Like many high school boys, Lizewski has a big crush on one of his friends Katie Deauxma.
After his massive beating, other students in his school started a rumor that Lizewski was a gay prostitute – but Lizewski went along with it because he was getting sympathy from his crush.
Kick-Ass now has an active Myspace page where people can call upon him for help.
On one of his first missions, Kick-Ass finds himself in trouble with a violent gang of thugs. All looks lost until he is saved by Hit-Girl.
Hit-Girl is an 11-year old sword swinging girl who fights crime with her father Big Daddy.
After being saved by Hit-Girl, Kick-Ass begins to notice that his Myspace page and Youtube video have inspired an entire subculture of superheros.
Kick-Ass is later approached by Red Mist, another costumed hero looking to team up.
It turns out that Red Mist is actually working for a drug dealer who later captures Kick-Ass.
Each issue of Kick-Ass features a different, real local comic book shop.
The Kick-Ass phenomenon will be coming to screen with the following cast – Nicolas Cage, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Lindsay Fonseca and Aaron Johnson.
Kick-Ass is probably one of the biggest comic characters to come out of 2008. A lot comic book fans focus on the originals or the classics, but there’s always room for something new and exciting and Kick-Ass is both of these things. So now when the film hits theaters some time next year you’ll be able to know exactly who is who and what is going on. Just don’t be that douchebag in the back of the theater who explains everything to his friends while the movie is playing. Until next time…..
that’s nuts. i’ll have to check it out. good look.
I gave up comics since college. Recently, got into the graphic novels though. This may bring me back to the comics. Looks good.
You never left E…. You never left.