The interwebs tells me that his official title of this is Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, but my copy is titled simply Kick-Ass. I'm not sure what happened, but if Mark Millar needs any suggestions, I came up with these options: 
 Kick-Ass 2: Kick Harder 
 Kick-Ass 2: The Kickening 
 Kick-Ass 2: Wrath of Ass 
 Kick Ass 2: Electric Boogalo 
 You're welcome, Mark. 
 In the first collection, teen-age nerd Dave Lizewski took his love of superhero comic books to the extreme when he put on a costume and started patrolling the streets while calling himself Kick-Ass. Unfortunately for Dave, his enthusiasm was far greater than his fighting skills so he took far more punishment then he dished out, and his naive efforts got him mixed up in a war between the mob and another costumed vigilante, Hit Girl. Despite being only ten years old, Hit Girl is a deadly fighter with a foul mouth. 
 Picking up shortly after the events of the previous story, Hit Girl has retired to her civilian life as Mindy and is just trying to be a normal kid. Dave apparently didn't learn his lesson and is still trying to be a superhero. His efforts have inspired others to put on masks and join the fight against crime, and Dave fulfills one of his nerd dreams by becoming a member of a superhero team. Unfortunately, his old foe Red Mist is back and is spending a fortune recruiting so-called super villains. Changing his name from Red Mist to The Motherfucker, his gang of thugs embark on a sadistic and brutal round of crimes to take revenge on Kick-Ass. 
 While I liked the original Kick-Ass and it's movie adaptation, I thought it had a contradiction at the heart of it in that sometimes Millar strips away the illusion of stylized violence to show how ridiculous the idea of putting on a costume and taking on criminals is by having Kick-Ass being badly injured repeatedly yet then he'll have Hit Girl engage in graphic over the top violence that asks the reader to believe that a pre-teen girl could defeat an army of heavily armed mob thugs. 
 That contradiction is even more evident here since Dave's life is wrecked and permanently damaged by his actions as Kick-Ass. Dave has clung hard to the delusion of being a superhero but this time a lot of innocent people are killed or hurt as a direct result of Kick-Ass and for a long time it seems that Millar's point is to show how even a well-meaning fantasy can screw someone up if they refuse to acknowledge reality. However, when things are at their worst for Dave, the solution becomes to once again put on a costume and engage in even more graphic violence. 
 This really hit home for me in one scene where Hit Girl is talking to a cop and refers to herself as a superhero. The cop scoffs, "You are NOT a superhero. You're a little girl with a personality disorder." And he's absolutely right. Yet the comics set Hit Girl up as the one we're supposed to cheer for as she routinely engages in mass murder. 
 Maybe Millar is trying to make some complex points about violence as entertainment, but it seems more like he's trying to have his cake and eat it too. 
 Fans of this should also check out the movie Super for more carnage resulting from a geek trying to play superhero.