Kick Ass

My days have been filled with read­ing and watch­ing TV lately. Pre­mière sea­son is start­ing on TV… some inter­est­ing new shows I’m check­ing out as well as good shows returning.

On the read­ing front, I’ve been alter­nat­ing between fin­ish­ing the non-​fiction assigned read­ing I had for POL 107 and my ship­ments of comics. As inter­est­ing as the class read­ings were, I can’t power through non-​fiction like I can through fic­tion. And between my reg­u­lar comic series and the ones I’ve been hear­ing about through Vince and HeavyInk, I’d had plenty of mate­r­ial to dis­tract myself with.

Per­haps most inter­est­ing is Kick Ass. Actu­ally, it’s “KICK-​ASS.” The book is by Mark Mil­lar, who has done a lot of other work I like, includ­ing Wanted. It’s about a reg­u­lar high school kid who decides to become a real-​life super­hero after read­ing too many comics. No radioac­tive spi­der bite, no gamma rays, no toxic waste acci­dent on the docks, no mur­dered par­ents. Just a kid with a mask.

It def­i­nitely answers the ques­tion of why no one really tries to do any­thing like this. Oh, and it’s being made into a movie right now! Be elit­ist cool and read it before the movie comes out.

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