Kerrpow!

Last week I went out to the cinema and was treated to what I consider to be the first genuinely enjoyable Hollywood adaptation of a comic book since Watchmen: Kick Ass. Like every other comic book devotee, this movie was no suprise to me. Almost as soon as it was first published by Marvel in 2008, it was clear that Mark Millar's story of a comic book nerd who gets to live out his fantasies was crying out to be turned into a script. As ever, I was cynical. Kick Ass' central brilliance stems from it's ability to poke fun at it's audience: "If you've ever thought about becoming a superhero, this is how badly you'd fail" it says without ever forgetting that, at it's heart, it's still a comic book movie. The film manages to balance humour and action more successfully in it's attempt to parody the genre than many straight comic book movies. For me, films like this seem to signalling a change in the way Hollywood sees comic books, something