Review by Booklist Review
With characteristic hyperbole, mainstream comicdom's edgiest scribe, Mark Millar (Civil War) has launched a campaign challenging the Big Two's monopoly on superhero adventure. Gathering top artistic talent, he is crafting stories that at once deconstruct superhero tropes and pay loving homage to them in a line of titles under the Millarworld banner, the most prominent of which is Kick-Ass (2011), the tale of a teenage nebbish turned superhero-over-his-head. Here, Millar brings the mythology of Shazam and Superman together in a screaming collision as wheelchair-bound preadolescent Simon Pooni is granted a wish and turns himself into an indestructible and beguilingly naive superhero dedicated to community service and pursued by a tenacious and, in this case, wildly oversexed female reporter. With the superempowerment of a jealous bully and the involvement of a mysterious talking monkey, Millar throws in a few narrative twists and intriguing moral quandaries. Millar has turned in another slightly subversive superhero romp for mature readers, topped off by Yu's bold lighting and wide-screen action sequences.--Karp, Jesse Copyright 2010 Booklist
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