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Kicking Ass with Mark Millar's Kick Ass!

So Kick Ass, soon to be a major motion picture. I do have to admit, I purposely stayed away from this comic for a very long time. Why? Because they told me it was going to be the next big thing--and there was no reason behind it besides the creators. You could argue that the names Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. are enough to make it the next big thing. But I didn't think so, at least for the fact so many normal people came in looking for this book (by normal people or normies as I call them, non-regular comic people. The people that don't come in weekly or month for comics. People who either pick up the occasional graphic novel tied to a movie--the people that don't have comics on the brain 24-7)

So back to what I was saying, you could argue that the creator's names should make it the next big thing on its own but arguing with me on anything is a lesson in redundancy. All the ads for this book showed someone brutally getting punched in the face, the title, the creators’ names and I believe "the next big thing." And it totally worked. Comic book people ate it up, normies ate it up. So many people came in for it. The comic sold like hot cakes and went through something like 8 printings of the first four issues. And that's a great thing, great for my store, great for the comic industry--it's wonderful to make people excited for comics and to bring it new readers. But--it still bugged the heck out of me. So I didn't read it. Yes, I freely admit to being "that guy." The guy that won't read or watch something because he can't figure out why it's popular, why other people like it. Yup that's me. So I avoided it. I mean I would occasionally flip through the book but even doing that, nothing inspired me to read it. Until I saw the leaked footage from the San Diego Comic-Con. It was so freak'n cool, so *ahem* Kick Ass. It was the scene where Nic Cage was talking his daughter into taking a bullet to the chest and I thought, oh man this is going to be fantastic.