Hit-Girl #1

[history79]

"This new Hit-Girl ongoing series, to me, is essentially our fucked up version of Tintin. I remember as a kid here in Scotland looking at my Tintin and Asterix graphic novels and seeing all these other books set in different countries that made up this enormous collection. That’s precisely what I’ve set up here. It’s all four-issue stories, all with A-list writing and art and each one set in a different country. So we have Ricardo and I doing Hit-Girl Colombia, Kevin Smith takes her to Hollywood, Rafael Albuquerque takes her to Rome and so on. I want this to run for three or so years and have nine different graphic novels set in all these different countries and, like Tintin, I want people to gawp at the back and wish they had them all."

- Mark Millar


Warning for Gore

Comments

[strejdaking]

I just really don't get what makes these Kick-Ass books any different from any other more violent superhero comics at this point. I'm not saying those shouldn't exist, but why continue Kick-Ass specifically, if all you're bringing to the table is "superheroes, except swearing and wacky violence".

[cyberghostface]

Well out of all the original titles Millar’s introduced it’s been the most popular and Hit-Girl in particular is a breakout character so from that perspective it makes sense to continue.

[beyondthefringe]

This art. Just...
I think what really helped make the original series work was Romita... this isn't doing it for me. Too cartoony.

[goattoucher]

The whole point is that the Kick Ass universe is supposed to be "realistic" (as much as you can be when an eight year old girl can cut through both of a grown man's legs with one swing), but these "Russian" armbands are straight super-villain technology.

[mastermahan]

I can see this being like Tintin. Specifically, Tintin in the Congo, where Tintin blows up a rhino.

But that's hardly representative of the series, is it?

[lissa_quon]

yea that tintin commented seemed really odd. "It's like tintin except its not!"

[thanekos]

On the one hand, it's an ongoing book conceived as a series of self-contained arcs by different creative teams.

On the other hand, its premise and protagonist.

[super_fly]

Ow The Edge

[mrosa]

I'm not even going to comment on Millar's "A-list writing" delusion, but this is "A-list art"?