Kick-Ass: The Dave Lizewski Years Book One (Kick-Ass, 1)

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Overall the new Kick-Ass is a mixed bag, a fumbled attempt at producing the kind of comic the industry needs with some really nice looking art. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. To celebrate the launch of the NEW Kick-Ass series, all four volumes of KICK-ASS: THE DAVE LIZEWSKI YEARS are being released through Image Comics. He and artist Bryan Hitch pulled it all off in spades: The Ultimates and its sequel, Ultimates 2, were ensconced at the top of the sales charts every month; what's more, they were critical successes, as well. Don’t fool yourselves: the angular and blocky style remain, but it is far more subdued that what he delivered elsewhere (for a quick reference, take a look at DC´s recent “The Silencer”).

Does the change on scenario, lead and themes drive readers away from “Kick-Ass”, or was it just what was needed to reinvigorate the franchise?He's one of the clearest successors to Jack Kirby in that he's adept at crafting colorful, larger-than-life stories full of dynamic but impossibly proportioned heroes. The hope was that a new publisher and a new protagonist might help the new Kick-Ass succeed where the original struggled.

This is a brand new (though familiar) world for Kick-Ass, and hopefully this new take on the universe and a new home at Image comics proves successful for Patience. That only further divorces this book from reality and diminishes what should be one of its big selling points. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. breath new life in the 'Kick-Ass' universe with a hero for our times - a fierce black woman saving her community while supporting her family and her dreams. While not exploring unfamiliar territory, Millar, Romita, and team deliver a very strong issue, where script and art come together to tell an interesting story with even better characters.follows the theme of realism in his pencils, filling the action panels with blood, bruises, and very grounded fighting. Rather, the focus here is on character development: Millar is able to make readers fear for her very quickly, which is not a small feat for someone portrayed as such a powerful and capable soldier. But with no special powers and outmatched by New York City's most hardened criminals, Kick-Ass might be in for a little more than he bargained for. The initial pages showing Patience’s last tour in Afghanistan are intense, with helicopter and car chases mixed with gunfight: it moves forward at an incredible pace and readers will want to revisit those moments to capture all the details on a second reading.