"The mini series takes place between the two 'Kick-Ass' volumes, and the supervillain story really picks up in 'Kick-Ass 2,'" writer Mark Millar told
Comic Book Resources in a recent interview in which he unviled the Phil Noto variant cover above.
"This is something I wanted to explore, but it was never going to get done justice in a book titled 'Kick-Ass.' I really wanted to play around with Mindy as a character. Put her in a school, and she's automatically the class freak. She's totally cool as Hit-Girl, but then when she walks into school, she doesn't know the new band that all the kids are into. She's never watched 'Glee.' She doesn't give a shit about 'Glee.'"
"So here we get the Red Mist where he was at the end of the first book or where people saw him at the end of the first movie," adds Millar.
"He's dedicated himself to doing this and trying to go out to start the world's first super crime. He's already been active in 'Kick-Ass 2' so here you see him putting on that mask and going out for the first time. It's almost like what Kick-Ass did – he's trying to go viral. He's trying to get his crimes out there on the internet where people will want to see them. But Red Mist being Red Mist, he [frick]s it up. We'll have all that in there too." To read the rest of the interview, click on the link below to head on over to the site.