Kick-Ass to return as a black woman, announces Mark Millar

The comics star says reinvented protagonist ‘opens up story possibilities that haven’t been tried in almost 80 years of superhero fiction’

Citing his belief that comics are “not short of white males aged around 30”, the writer Mark Millar is relaunching his popular superhero Kick-Ass as a black woman.

Originally a geeky white teenager called Dave Lizewski, whose love of comic books leads him to become a real-life superhero, Kick-Ass’s mantle will now be donned by a black woman, creator Millar told the Hollywood Reporter, who will have “a completely different take on Kick-Ass”. The upcoming story, drawn by co-creator John Romita Jr, will also be set in a new city, with a new supporting cast, according to the author.

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