Kick-Ass 2 (comics)
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Cover of Issue One
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Icon |
| Format | Ongoing series |
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| Publication date | October 20, 2010 – March 21, 2012 |
| No. of issues | 7 |
| Main character(s) | Dave Lizewski / Kick-Ass |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Mark Millar John Romita, Jr. |
| Written by | Mark Millar |
| Penciller(s) | John Romita, Jr. |
Kick-Ass 2 is a comic book series by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. It takes place chronologically after the Hit-Girl comic book series. The story follows the main character, Kick-Ass, who is trying to form a team of "real life" superheroes, while concurrently preparing for the arrival of The Red Mist (now known as The Motherfucker) – an enemy character who has been gathering a team of "supervillains" in order to defeat both Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl.
Plans for the sequel to Kick-Ass were in the works when the first mini-series was being written. However, the success of the Kick-Ass movie, plus the popularity of Hit-Girl, led to the decision to expand the plan trilogy of mini-series to include additional volumes.
Unlike the first mini-series, Kick-Ass 2 was first serialized in Mark Millar's CLiNT magazine. It was later published as a mini-series by Marvel Comics under the "Icon" imprint, as was the first mini-series.
The series, like the first series, was published with massive delays between issues. In spite of it, it was a sales success and the first issue sold out within a week of its publication.
The series was later reprinted as a hardcover and trade paperback in 2011.
Following the events of the first Kick-Ass series and the first Hit-Girl series, Kick-Ass is training and fighting crime in New York City. Hit-Girl meanwhile is in a state of forced retirement, having been reunited with her biological mother. Her new step-father Marcus Williams, a former ally of her father Big Daddy, seeks to reintegrate Hit-Girl back into society as a normal girl. Though she continues to train Kick-Ass, Hit-Girl reluctantly obeys her step-father's wish for her to have a normal life.
Kick-Ass eventually joins 'Justice Forever', a superhero team of which his friends Marty and later Todd are members. Led by the repentant born-again Christian "Colonel Stars", the group launch a campaign against the local crime families of the city. Behind the scenes, the Red Mist (now using the code name "The Motherfucker") has begun recruiting his own group of villains using social media and his father's wealth. Together, the group (known as "The Toxic Mega-Cunts") brutally murder Colonel Stars by cutting off his head, inserting his dog's head on his body, and then launching a full-on assault upon the suburban neighborhood where Katie Deauxma (Kick-Ass's unrequited crush) lives. Nearly a hundred innocent children, police officers, and Katie's father are sadistically killed by The Motherfucker and his henchmen, who then take turns gang raping Katie.
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