I don't think they're even planning to make a third Kick-Ass movie. The first was great, the second less so, and I think Hollywood has decided to let the series die.

But Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., who created the Kick-Ass comic-book series, kept going anyway. The series needed an end.

Kick-Ass 3 concludes the series with a bang. Hit Girl, the young uber-vigilante who completed Dave "Kick-Ass" Lizewski's training to be a superhero, is in prison. Hell, she's running it. Justice Forever, Dave's loosely tied band of heroes, is still recovering from the catastophic events of Kick-Ass 2, keeping their heads down and dealing with a newbie hero who treats their HQ like a bachelor pad. Chris Genovese, the former villain Red Mist, is at a crossroads.

And Dave has a girlfriend. Who saw that coming?

Overall, it's a good book. Plenty of action, lots of violence like we've come to expect. Nothing I'd call "new" about it, though -- it's more of the same, more of what we've come to expect from the series. It puts a nice cap on things, but I think Millar and Romita were wise to close the door when they did.

There's a nice touch, by the way, with the ending, which neatly reflects back to the opening of the first book in the series. Cute!