Mark Millar - John Romita Jr.
Kick-Ass

LA RECENSIONE

Who among us has never dreamed, at least once, perhaps as a child, of becoming a superhero? Kick-Ass, the comic under review, tells us, or rather illustrates, the story of an ordinary American teenager who one day decides to make his dream of becoming a superhero to help people a reality. And precisely for this reason, through the pages of this comic published by Icon Comics, it manages to make me dream a little too.

Because Kick-Ass is not your regular superhero; first of all, he has no powers, he's quite clumsy, especially during his first approach (so much so that he even gets stabbed in the stomach), he has the issues that every boy his age has and he finds himself fighting against the most ruthless enemy of all. This enemy is the simple reality of the facts, the real world, which is conveyed through a simple phrase: "In the world I live in, heroes only exist in comics. It would be really perfect if the villains were also unreal. But it's not like that." This would seem to be an uneven battle, if not for the factor that puts the story on the tracks of imagination more than realism: the appearance of Hit-Girl and Big Daddy, two "vigilantes" who eventually end up collaborating with Kick-Ass, who, thanks to his tenacity despite failures, will become a true superhero in the real world. The comic is characterized by intentionally exaggerated and explicitly shown violence; indeed, bright colors predominate, with the red of blood taking center stage.

But the thing I liked most about this comic was that from the first to the last page it is compelling and never makes you lose interest; in other words, I practically "devoured" it. My final advice is to read it because this short story is truly worth it (so much so that a film and a sequel were made), and you definitely won't be bored.