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Steve Niles and Marcelo Frusin Take Over Kick-Ass in September

Published Tue, 05 Jun 2018 23:13:24 -0500

Last updated Tue, 05 Jun 2018 23:13:38 -0500

Scottish Netflix comic book mogul Mark Millar has revealed the next superstar creative team that will take over Kick-Ass: writer Steve Niles and artist Marcelo Frusin! The duo will start with September's Kick-Ass #7. In a press release bursting with love an admiration expressed by everyone for everyone else, Millar declared Niles his favorite writer:

When we sold Millarworld to Netflix, the one and only downside was not being able to write more Kick-Ass with my new executive role, and so I did the next best thing—I got my favourite writer to continue Patience Lee's adventures. Steve Niles is without question my favourite writer in comics, and I rank 30 Days of Night as my favourite graphic novel of the last 20 years. I'm honoured he's taken the time to do this and slightly in awe that, like Jeff Lemire on Hit-Girl, he's already outclassed me on this book. I finally get to enjoy Kick-Ass as a reader!

While John Romita Jr. reflected on how lucky is to work with everybody:

I'm lucky enough to work with Mark again, but even luckier to have worked on Kick-Ass again, as well. Every time someone worries that the same old, same old is in line for another go 'round with a title, Mark Millar completely crosses people up with something completely different.

My attempt on every new panel, page, and story is to do something different. I think Peter Steigerwald and I have managed to do that, and Peter's brilliant color art is so vital to that difference. Overall, the three of us have provided something unexpected, and in all humility, excellent! I'm proud to have worked with Mark, Peter, John Workman and editor Rachael Fulton on this Kick-Ass title and so thrilled to hand the reins over to Steve Niles and Marcelo Frusin. I'm confident these two great talents will grab a hold and run with Kick-Ass seamlessly.

I can only speak for myself, but I will severely miss this lady in the Kick-Ass costume. Pretty sure Mark and Peter agree.

Next up, Marcelo Frusin praises his colleagues' superb work, Niles' wonderful scripts, and Sunny Gho's amazing coloring (is she coloring it? the press release doesn't say):

I am really happy to continue the superb work of Mark and John on Kick-Ass. The new character is gorgeous and I enjoy working on the book every day. I like drawing the world of Kick-Ass and its villains—Steve's scripts are wonderful and the color work Sunny is doing is amazing. It's great to have a team like this. I love doing Kick-Ass!

And finally, Steve Niles is thrilled to work with all of them:

I am absolutely having the time of my life working on Kick-Ass. It's a thrill to be continuing the work set out by Mark and John and wonderful to be working with Marcelo and Sunny.

Note: it's promising for the book that its new writer is the most concise of this bunch.

Kick-Ass #7 hits stores on September 19th!

In KICK-ASS #7—Kick-Ass has wiped out Hoops Lucero and seized control of his criminal operations, but Violencia's set to bust out of jail and get his bloody revenge on our favorite superhero.