3 Reasons Why Kick-Ass 3 Once Again Actually Kicks Ass
While the follow-ups to Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.s first Kick-Ass series, Kick-Ass 2 and Hit-Girl, no doubt enjoyed a great deal of financial success, its unlikely most fans would rank them as high as the original. Both sequels seemed to be following the adage more is more which theoretically makes sense for a series that eventually became as over-the-top as the original, but only succeeded in terms of the ultra-violence Millar tends to lean on when his large quiver of clever ideas has gone empty. Story-wise, both volumes moved too far away from the sharp, high-concept premise of the first one to deliver the kind of thrills you get when you realize youre reading something unique, something you truly havent read before. Although many writers, from Alan Moore to Millar himself, have scored big with other What-if-superheroes-were-real storylines, the first few issues of Kick-Ass cranked the realism up to 11, by turning the idea on its head and making it so the superhero in question could just as easily have been the readers themselves. Taken on its own, the first issue of Kick-Ass 3 does 3 things that make it feel like a return to what made the first few issues of the first series so special.