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FREE KICK-ASS, VOLUME 1 PDF Mark Millar,Jr. John Romita | 240 pages | 14 May 2013 | Marvel Comics | 9780785184010 | English | United States Kick-Ass: The Dave Lizewski Years - Wikipedia Volume 1 was initially published by Marvel Comics under the Volume 1 Icon imprint and republished under Kick-Ass Comics. It Volume 1 the story of Dave Lizewskia teenager who sets out to become a Kick-Ass life superhero. His actions are publicized on the Internet and inspire other people. The first volume of the series was adapted into a film of the same Volume 1 directed by Matthew Vaughnand starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the title role. A sequeldirected by Jeff Wadlow and adapting the second and third volumes of the series, was released in As of February 14,Kick-Ass new Kick-Ass series, subtitled The New Girl went Volume 1 publication from Image Comicsfeaturing new protagonist named Patience Lee, an Afghanistan war veteran and single mother who dons Kick-Ass' costume to clear her family's financial debts by robbing high-profile criminals. The title sees Mindy McCready leaving America to carry on her fight for justice Kick-Ass a worldwide scale, depicting events Volume 1 in the epilogue of Book Kick-Ass of The Dave Lizewski Yearsserving as a sequel to the main events of the series. Dave Lizewski, an otherwise ordinary Kick-Ass York City high school student, comic book fan, and the child of James Lizewski, a loving single father, and his deceased via brain hemorrhage mother, ponders the absence of costumed vigilantes in the real-world while "some Armenian guy" in a superhero outfit leaps from the Kick-Ass of a skyscraper, fails to take flight, and plunges to his death on a car on the street below in front of a crowd of Kick-Ass. Months earlier, Dave buys a wetsuit from the website Kick-Asswhich he wears under his normal clothing, begins exercising, and practices things like Volume 1 on Volume 1, satisfying his Volume 1 to become a real-life superhero for a time. He eventually seeks Kick-Ass actually fight crime, with his first attempt leading him to receive a severe beating and stabbing by thugs, followed by his wandering into the street and being hit by a car. Telling his father he was muggedhe undergoes intense physical rehabilitationincluding Kick-Ass operations. He is released Kick-Ass later, and as soon as he is Kick-Ass crutches dons Kick-Ass suit once more and goes on patrol. When he saves a man from a beating, [7] an onlooker records the Kick-Ass and uploads it to YouTubeturning Dave Volume 1 an overnight sensation Kick-Ass with the name "Kick-Ass". Local mob boss John Genovese is annoyed by Kick-Ass' appearance, Volume 1 his business has been disrupted by other vigilantes. In school, the mugging excuse used to cover up his injuries for a second time spawns rumors Dave is a homosexual prostitute. Believing them, his longtime crush, Katie Deauxma, adopts him as a "gay best friend". Dave goes along with this in an effort to spend time with Kick-Ass. The continued patrolling takes its toll on Dave, Volume 1 his father, worried about him, gives him a can of police-issue pepper-spray for protection. As Kick-Ass, Dave sets up a Myspace account, so people can contact him for help. The first such request he investigates is a man called Eddie Lomas who has been harassing his ex-girlfriend, which leads Kick-Ass to an apartment of violent lowlifes who try to kill him. He is rescued by a costumed, blade-wielding young girl named Hit-Girl[8] real name Mindy McCready, who brutally kills all the attackers and then leaves to join a grown man, named Big Daddy McCready, also wearing a superhero costume. Later, one such hero, the Red Mist, appears. He partners with Kick-Ass on street patrol and Kick-Ass two happen upon a burning building. Volume 1 a woman begs them to save her "baby", Kick-Ass drags a very reluctant Red Mist into the building, only to Kick-Ass that the "baby" is actually a kitten. Volume 1 the two are nearly killed while saving the kitten, they gain great public popularity after the rescue. Big Daddy is revealed to the reader to be "a good cop in a bad Volume 1, whose wife was killed because he would not accept bribes from criminals. He escaped with his baby daughter and plotted revenge, training his daughter to become a lethal Volume 1. Tortured, Big Daddy reveals he is not Volume 1 ex-cop at all but an accountant frustrated with his marriage, who took his daughter and left his empty life to create a new Volume 1, financing himself through selling comic books. He chose Genovese as a target because he and Hit-Girl "needed a villain". The gang kills Big Volume 1 and tortures Kick-Ass. Hit-Girl, Volume 1 is alive due to body armor, saves Volume 1. Genovese and his remaining thugs manage to capture Hit-Girl, but Kick-Ass comes to the rescue armed with Volume 1 gun and shoots Genovese's penis. Hit-Girl finishes off Genovese with a meat cleaver and guns down the remaining Volume 1. Dave's life does not improve although he helps Mindy return to a normal, calm life with her mother who, contrary to what Big Daddy had said, is very much alive and stepfather. He hoped Volume 1 by revealing to Katie Deauxma that Kick-Ass is not gay, and confessing his love for Kick-Ass, but she is outraged Volume 1 his lying and has her Kick-Ass boyfriend Carl punch Dave before sending him a picture of herself performing oral sex on Kick-Ass. When he comes home, he walks in on Kick-Ass father having sex with Eddie Lomas' ex-girlfriend Lucille. Despite all of this, he remains optimistic, as he is no longer a loser but a cultural phenomenon. The main story ends with a would-be superhero who tried to fly at the start of Volume 1 story taking an elevator to the top floor of Kick-Ass building. The epilogue shows Red Mist at a computer in a different costume. He sends a vengeful e- mail to Kick-Ass that has the Batman film Joker quote: "Wait until they get a load of me". As mobsters beat and kill costumed Volume 1 Silver Beatle for information about the now-retired Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl, Mindy Kick-Ass stepfather, Marcus Williams watches a news broadcast concerning the murder, prompting a response from a spokesman for the real-life superhero movement. Upstairs, Mindy considers the differences between Kick-Ass life being trained as a superhero by her father and her life now. At the bus stop, she is mocked by classmate Debbie Foreman Kick-Ass her clothing but muses to herself that she will get to be Hit-Girl again that night. At school, Mindy discusses her plans to suit Kick-Ass alongside Dave, citing that as John Kick-Ass brother Ralphie has seized control of Volume 1 Genovese crime family, which he runs entirely from his jail cell, there is a need for them to return. Mindy later visits her father's grave and laments that Kick-Ass with all of her superhero training, being able to kill without a care, she doesn't know how to handle Debbie's bullying. When Kick-Ass arrives at the safe house, Hit-Girl gives him a tour of the facility, explaining that the equipment was purchased with the money she and her Kick-Ass "Big Daddy" had liberated from Kick-Ass pimps and pushers over the years. Hit-Girl then agrees to Volume 1 Kick-Ass as she was trained in exchange for him teaching her "how Volume 1 be normal". Volume 1 Red Mist's old boathouse, Kick-Ass visits his concerned mother in costume, informing her that he has come Volume 1 pick up his comics and that he has become the first of the new breed Volume 1 criminals: a super-villain. He Kick-Ass that he will avenge his father's death before Kick-Ass over the family business as his father's heir, and explains that he plans to commit the first super-crime. At night, Mindy and Dave "go fishing" for criminals in order to hone their street-fighting skills: using themselves as bait, they quickly attract four muggers, and Mindy times Dave while he incapacitates them. Later, they practice swinging between buildings and crashing through windows at an abandoned warehouse, while also working on opening lines for Dave to use while breaking into criminals' hideouts. During the day, Dave instructs Mindy on what clothes to buy and what television shows and movies to watch, and Mindy realizes that blending in with other teenagers is just another " undercover operation ," resolving to Kick-Ass how to be a Mean Girl or a Queen Bee. At Kick-Ass, Mindy overhears her mother and Marcus discussing attempts by the mob to infiltrate the police department, but Marcus denies that anything at work has changed; privately, he admits that he knows about Mindy's superhero alter-ego, and orders her Kick-Ass retire for her mother's sake. Mindy promises, but Marcus and her mother promptly pass out, having been drugged with Volume 1 dose of Rophynol that Mindy slipped into their cocoa. In an alley, Kick-Ass meets up with Hit-Girl, and the two set Kick-Ass in her car toward a restaurant where Kick-Ass interrupt a meeting of Russian and Italian mobsters.