Bet you thought you would never hear me say this..but this book was almost too much for me. It upped the violence and cussing to the point where I was like WTF? Millar crossed over the line of awesome into the feeling of just trying to shock the reader. I love the first book and hate the way this one turned out. Yuck.It picks up shortly after the first one ended. Kick-Ass is training with Hit-Girl. Then her reins get clipped as her step-dad makes her promise to not don the outfit or fight cri...

The interwebs tells me that his official title of this is Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, but my copy is titled simply Kick-Ass. I’m not sure what happened, but if Mark Millar needs any suggestions, I came up with these options:Kick-Ass 2: Kick HarderKick-Ass 2: The KickeningKick-Ass 2: Wrath of AssKick Ass 2: Electric BoogaloYou’re welcome, Mark.In the first collection, teen-age nerd Dave Lizewski took his love of superhero comic books to the extreme when he put on a costume and started patrolli...

(A-) 81% | Very GoodNotes: It dishes body blows in deconstruction: a black and bruising, blunt-force drama, fun no more and bleak with trauma.

Unnecessary violence, ludacris writing and inconsistent art makes this sequel fall far below the standard set by its predecessor.

The second volume is still kicking in big way!!! A REVERSE EXPERIENCE My experience with Kick-Ass 2 was kinda opposite to the one with the first story. When I watched the first film, I hadn't read yet the comic book, and since I loved the movie, I moved fast to read the original comic book as soon as possible. And I loved too the comic book.When the comic books of Kick-Ass 2 came out, I was prepared and I was able to get them on single issues without having to do the titanic quest of the o

I have a confession to make. I haven't read the first Kick-Ass book nor its follow up, Hit-Girl. To the best of my knowledge, the first movie pretty much nailed what went on in the first two hardcovers and by the looks of the trailer for Kick-Ass 2, it's set to do the same. I can't imagine them losing anything in the transition from comics to film.. well, aside from one key factor: the violence.Now, don't get me wrong, Kick-Ass was a violent movie. Any movie that depicts a gangster exploding ins...

Just....no.Too much, not an ounce of humour, just violence on top of violence and then some violence thrown in for good measure.The novelty has worn off. Hit Girl swearing like a sailor isn't funny anymore, and a gang rape of a teenage girl, followed by the hanging murder of a character was enough. But then to have a bloodbath at the funeral? No.I hope he's just taking the piss, but this felt more like the Fonz jumped over the Shark.***I put it down right after the Funeral attack***

4.5🌟The most outrageous series I've read since Preacher. Give me some more pls.

This is a difficult book to review. On the one hand, its art and its writing were impressive--especially the art. The colors were striking and the visuals arresting. This might be my favorite style of any graphic novel, though I can't say I'm particularly well-read in the genre. On the other hand, this book acts as if it's going to deal with the question of what a "real" superhero would go through. This is the story's excuse to make every possible misery happen to our protagonist and his loved o...

I'm really really really upset that I've read this book. Let me tell you why. I don't mind violence, you know """justified""" violence, sometimes because the world is not totally black or white. But I can't stand books/comics/movies who makes situations like rapes, explosing fucking innocent children in the face like some funny jokes. There were two important deaths (it's a little a bit a spoiler), they were awfuly bring in the story, awfuly justified. Like the author wanted to give himself a ge...

My love of the first volume of Kick-Ass is well documented. The perfect childhood fantasy made into a 'reality'. I mean, I had notebooks full of my own costume ideas and weapons I'd make once I finished college or came into money. Ok, I was eight years old, but still. Millar made our dreams come true on paper. Too damn good. But of all the things I thought about the idea of Kick-Ass, sustainable never came to mind. I've heard people talk about what a fabulous liar Mark Millar is. Supposedly his

You have to love a comic where the introduction begins, "Hey Fuckers." Well.... you don't *have* to love it. But I certainly did. A great continuation of the series. An interesting combination of genuinely interesting emotional story combined with the profoundly grim fucking ultra violence. Don't start with this one, obviously. People who begin reading a series in the middle go to the special hell, along with child molesters and people who talk in the theatre. Also, what's happening here won't m...

4,5/5 I can understand people finding this too much. I love it, just bursted out laughing sometimes with the ridicilous brutality.

Compared to the original Kick-Ass, which was awesome, this falls very, very flat on its face. It's too violent. Yeah, I know it's supposed to be psychopathically gory, but this was just... painful. Pointless. Forced. There's no story. If you emptied a couple of tankers of blood in a pre-school yard, you get the depth and complexity of the storyline and plot right there. There are no interesting characters. Part 1 was brilliant because it gave us Kick-Ass, Red Mist, Big Daddy, and the one and onl...

So this series isn’t quite getting bad but downhill? Perhaps.What’s it about?In order to explain that I’d have to spoil stuff so skip.Pros:The story is interesting. It tries to take a more realistic(ish) approach on superheroes and it works fairly well.The artwork is pretty good.Most of the characters are interesting and well written.I really like the action scenes in this. There are a lot of them and they are brutal as hell but fantastic!This book is sometimes fairly humorous, not as humorous a...

Maybe it was because I listened to Magma's Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh while reading this, but I was far too entertained by such an awful book. Unfortunately the music has ended and I now see the book in all its awfulness. Some spoilers to follow. This sequel sees Kick-Ass join a superhero team, called Justice Forever, and we also see the formation of a supervillain team led by Red Mist, called Toxic Mega Cunts. There's a lot more violence in this one, and not so much the fun kind, but more of

At first I was liking where the story was going, all of Kick-Ass's talk about Justice Forever, and about why they were fighting crime got me excited and thinking maybe I was going to enjoy it more than the first one (also the fact that the art seems better this time around) but when I finished I was dissapointed and disgusted. Yeah, I know Kick-Ass is a violent and gory comic-book but ugh this was so much worse than the first one in that aspect, AND FOR WHAT? The villain at the head of it all ha...

David Lizewski/Kick Ass is being trained by Mindy/Hit Girl to become a better superhero but when Hit Girl is dissuaded from putting on her outfit and bloodying up criminals by her new step-father and recently re-united mother, Kick Ass sets off to meet others who are dressing up and fighting crime. And it turns out there's a few, so many that they wind up making the first "real-world" superhero team, Justice Forever. But things are about to get shaken up by Red Mist who is gathering an army to e...

“The minute this got big, I read a hundred different articles, Psychologists asking why we did it every night. Were we mad? Were we lonely? Were we just obsessed with comic books?The answer, Of course was a little of all three… but I also liked to ask why they didn’t chase their dreams… No it wasn’t normal… it wasn’t even close. But it was awesome, man…” Dave Lizewski, a.k.a Kick-AssWith Kick-Ass 2, Mark Millar has raised the level of violence and raunchiness in a comic book to new heights. If K...

I read this and Kick-Ass at the same time....got them from the library. I was inspired to be the movie Kick Ass. I'd not seen it till the second one came out.Oh and Kick Ass showed up on TV.The general story of Kick Ass is about the same, book and movie. I can't speak for that here as I haven't seen the movie, but some of the same characters are the same.I grew up in the '50s and '60s. This is what's generally called the "Silver Age" of comics (or comic books for the purist). Over time comic boo...