Hit-Girl (comic book)

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Hit-Girl
Cover of Hit Girl in Colombia (2018)
Publication information
Publisher	Image Comics
Genre	Superhero
Publication date	February 21, 2018 – January 15, 2020
No. of issues	24
Main character(s)	Mindy McCready / Hit-Girl
Creative team
Created by	Mark Millar John Romita Jr.
Written by	Mark Millar Jeff Lemire Rafael Albuquerque Rafael Scavone Kevin Smith Daniel Way Pete Milligan
Penciller(s)	Ricardo Lopez Ortiz Eduardo Risso Rafael Albuquerque Pernille Ørum Goran Barlov Alison Sampson

Hit-Girl is a creator-owned comic book sequel series to Kick-Ass: The Dave Lizewski Years, created by Mark Millar and illustrated by John Romita Jr., part of the Kick-Ass franchise and set in the Millarworld. The series was published by Image Comics from 2018 to 2020. The title, featuring a successive change of writers and artists for each four-issue story arc, follows Mindy McCready / Hit-Girl leaving the United States to carry on her fight for justice on a worldwide scale, depicting events mentioned in the epilogue of Book Four of The Dave Lizewski Years.^[1][2]

The first series of Hit-Girl is retroactively referred to as Hit-Girl: Season One following the release of the second series, titled Hit-Girl: Season Two.

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In February 2019, the series restarted under the title Hit-Girl: Season 2. The first issue featured the Kevin Smith storyline spoken about when the first series was first announced, Hit-Girl In Hollywood, also known as Hit-Girl: The Golden Rage of Hollywood.^[3] The plot revolves around Hit-Girl's infamy having grown to legendary proportions thanks to a bestseller book, which is about to be adapted into a movie, prompting Hit-Girl to go to Hollywood and settle the matter her style. However, as she soon discovers, the movie is not going to be the only copy of her life's story.

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The first issue of Kick-Ass vs. Hit-Girl, a five-issue crossover between Hit-Girl and the supervillainous Patience Lee incarnation of Kick-Ass (written by Steve Niles, art by Marcelo Frusin), was published on November 11, 2020.^[4][5] The series concluded with the release of the fifth issue on April 11, 2021,^[6] and was collected as the fourth volume of Kick-Ass – The New Girl.

Hit-Girl was well-received for its complex stories that deal with difficult subjects, something which reflected by the mature art style of every arc bar Hit-Girl In Hollywood, the first arc of Season Two of the series. Hit-Girl was called "visually stunning" by Darryll Robson of MonkeysFightingRobots.^[7]

In January 2019, Kevin Smith expressed interest in Hit-Girl in Hollywood receiving a film adaptation, with "a woman [being] in charge" of production.^[8]