(before I Fully start I want to apologize for the lateness of this article; I thought I pressed publish but i pressed save instead anyway, enjoy)
Hey all! As professor H has given us a freebie, I figured it would be fu8n to start a hero of the week sort of deal. It may be constant and (hopefully) will be interesting, so forgive me if these are short and a bit one sided !
This week’s hero is somewhat of an unsung hero, who’s name alone says what he does. I am of course talking about Kick-Ass
Kick-ass did not start like other hero’s out there, no one murdered his parents in a dark alley, he doesn’t come from a rich home, he doesn’t even have super powers. He’s a superhero who grew up wondering why there were no real superheroes in the world and decided to make a serious change in this issue. Before I continue I will not be using the movie “kick-ass” as a reference as that is a toned down version of the comics and , quite frankly, I prefer the way the comics flow, so if you become confused, swing by your local comic shop and pick this gem up.
Before I get off track , kick-ass kills off practically all notions the golden age set out to place. What I mean is this; every super hero started with a key element, superman is the last survivor of Krypton, Batman’s parents were killed and so on and so on. In way , Kick-ass does this but fuses the aspects of each hero into a new strange form where he forms a new comic age in his own series; the “garbage-heap” era (he says something else so this is a modified quote if you catch my drift)
I can He creates a whole new world, a world where comic books play such a key role that heroes (and later, villains ) are spawned out of this, none of which with super powers of course. When I read through this, I originally felt such distaste for it that I was a tad insulted, given the fact that costumed heroes walking across the street is something I tend to see a lot as a cosplayer and a commissioner, so I when scenes such as a mass of women pick on kick-ass for wearing his costume and the world looking down on him for his choice, it just slightly grazed a nerve, but , as the story goes on , I see the heroes making a difference, the community looking up to them, and finally, a tad bit of respect going to the fact that they ARE still human. So I saw a future I could respect , something I could look forward to.
Before I get off track , kick-ass kills off practically all notions the golden age set out to place. What I mean is this; every super hero started with a key element, superman is the last survivor of Krypton, Batman’s parents were killed and so on and so on. In way , Kick-ass does this but fuses the aspects of each hero into a new strange form where he forms a new comic age in his own series; the “garbage-heap” era (he says something else so this is a modified quote if you catch my drift)
I can He creates a whole new world, a world where comic books play such a key role that heroes (and later, villains ) are spawned out of this, none of which with super powers of course. When I read through this, I originally felt such distaste for it that I was a tad insulted, given the fact that costumed heroes walking across the street is something I tend to see a lot as a cosplayer and a commissioner, so I when scenes such as a mass of women pick on kick-ass for wearing his costume and the world looking down on him for his choice, it just slightly grazed a nerve, but , as the story goes on , I see the heroes making a difference, the community looking up to them, and finally, a tad bit of respect going to the fact that they ARE still human. So I saw a future I could respect , something I could look forward to.
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