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Hit-Girl
Hit-Girl, Vol. 2: Hit-Girl in Canada
HIT-GIRL’S IN CANADA. Our adolescent assassin is locked, loaded, and ready to seriously mess up some Canadians. JEFF LEMIRE and EDUARDO RISSO take on MARK MILLAR’s psychotic 12-year-old Hit-Girl for the next stop on her blood-soaked world tour. No amount of ice, snow, or Mounties will prevent Mindy from slaughtering her latest enemies.
Collects HIT-GIRL #5-8
Collects HIT-GIRL #5-8
104 pages, Paperback
First published October 31, 2018
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Jeff Lemire
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Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
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December 14, 2025
(B) 73% | More than Satisfactory
Notes: Won't let you forget it's Canada-set (beats you o'er the head), a slaying show, all bloody snow: a lot of white and red.
*Progress updates: Preamble ◦ Issues #5-6 ◦ Issues #7-8
Notes: Won't let you forget it's Canada-set (beats you o'er the head), a slaying show, all bloody snow: a lot of white and red.
*Progress updates: Preamble ◦ Issues #5-6 ◦ Issues #7-8
July 2, 2023
Hit-Girl is visiting Canada (a country she doesn't like) on the trail of some bad heroin that killed people in New York. Hit-Girl has to face rude barmen, posees (yes, plural), the cold, ill-fortune and more.
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Although still not up to the standard of the original book, sees Jeff Lemire, being the first writer who isn't Mark Millar on this book, give it a bloody (joke, unintended) good go. The art is much cleaner than than on the previous volume and fits better with the cannon - thank you Eduardo Risso. 8 out of 12, Four Stars.
2019 rad
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Although still not up to the standard of the original book, sees Jeff Lemire, being the first writer who isn't Mark Millar on this book, give it a bloody (joke, unintended) good go. The art is much cleaner than than on the previous volume and fits better with the cannon - thank you Eduardo Risso. 8 out of 12, Four Stars.
2019 rad
September 23, 2018
The boilerplate for the least remarkable superhero story is always: hero fights gangsters because crime bad. And that’s the essence of this new Hit-Girl series. First she went to Colombia to stop faceless gangsters from criming; now she’s doing the same but in the snowy Canadian north. The question is: when is it meant to be interesting??
I thought a new creative team – writer Jeff Lemire and artist Eduardo Risso – might be able to do better with this character than Mark Millar and Ricardo Lopez Ortiz managed with the first book but no such luck. Hit-Girl in Canada is still more boring, mindless rubbish.
She gets hurt but she’s still as invincible as ever which makes for a tension-free read. Lemire fills out his unimaginative story with bland, forgettable one-note characters like the generic mob boss, clichéd stereotypes like corrupt cops and politicians and even deploys the gobsmackingly corny trope of the dead girl ghost only seen by the protagonist. Who was the girl, asks Hit-Girl to the Grizzly Adams character, she your daughter? Grizzly Adams looks up: My daughter’s been dead these past ten years…
Faceplant. And the scene where she’s somehow hidden in the back of the police car was so sloppily executed. She’s not invisible or has the Speed Force, guys, they would’ve seen her! Risso’s art didn’t do anything for me – I don’t think he draws kids very well and his Hit-Girl looked very strange. Lemire’s plot is predictable as hell and the action was unexciting.
Hit-Girl remains an unengaging series despite the change of creative teams, showing the limitations of this increasingly played-out character.
I thought a new creative team – writer Jeff Lemire and artist Eduardo Risso – might be able to do better with this character than Mark Millar and Ricardo Lopez Ortiz managed with the first book but no such luck. Hit-Girl in Canada is still more boring, mindless rubbish.
She gets hurt but she’s still as invincible as ever which makes for a tension-free read. Lemire fills out his unimaginative story with bland, forgettable one-note characters like the generic mob boss, clichéd stereotypes like corrupt cops and politicians and even deploys the gobsmackingly corny trope of the dead girl ghost only seen by the protagonist. Who was the girl, asks Hit-Girl to the Grizzly Adams character, she your daughter? Grizzly Adams looks up: My daughter’s been dead these past ten years…
Faceplant. And the scene where she’s somehow hidden in the back of the police car was so sloppily executed. She’s not invisible or has the Speed Force, guys, they would’ve seen her! Risso’s art didn’t do anything for me – I don’t think he draws kids very well and his Hit-Girl looked very strange. Lemire’s plot is predictable as hell and the action was unexciting.
Hit-Girl remains an unengaging series despite the change of creative teams, showing the limitations of this increasingly played-out character.
March 25, 2019
"I f...ing hate Canada"--Hit-Girl
I read this because Lemire and because I heard Mark Millar's first volume was even worse. The idea is to have a variety of authors do short arcs, with different approaches. Here we have an invincible "hit girl" who solves crimes of forgettable generic characters. Millar has his volume in Colombia (because cartels, that's basically that's what they have there, bad guys), and since Jeff Lemire is in Canada we are now with the drug-running in Canada, which could be a bit funny because we don't think of Canada as a crime center. It's colder there, too.
Lemire has NYC-girl Hit-Girl as foul-mouthed New Yorker and super violent "super-hero" crime fighter. Lemire goes all Garth Ennis on us, with grotesque bloody killing of drug traffickers throughout. That combo of humor and violence is familiar to comics, a kind of crazy Preacher or The Boys edge, but it's a girl. Is that funny? I guess.
Lemire is a hockey guy and Canada is a hockey country, so Canadian drug kingpin Billy Baker used to play hockey. And then the action take places in Cree country, in Moose Factory. Lots of snow, so snowmobiles. Did I say it's cold there? So why did she forget her parka? Hit-Girl arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Of course. A bear eats a key guy, because that's what bears do in the North. Let's see, have we exhausted the amusing things we know about snow and Canada? Oh, she does a snow angel, sure. Mildly entertaining, completely generic, read it in a matter of minutes, good art from Risso (100 Bullets). Oh, Canadian bacon, they forgot that!
I read this because Lemire and because I heard Mark Millar's first volume was even worse. The idea is to have a variety of authors do short arcs, with different approaches. Here we have an invincible "hit girl" who solves crimes of forgettable generic characters. Millar has his volume in Colombia (because cartels, that's basically that's what they have there, bad guys), and since Jeff Lemire is in Canada we are now with the drug-running in Canada, which could be a bit funny because we don't think of Canada as a crime center. It's colder there, too.
Lemire has NYC-girl Hit-Girl as foul-mouthed New Yorker and super violent "super-hero" crime fighter. Lemire goes all Garth Ennis on us, with grotesque bloody killing of drug traffickers throughout. That combo of humor and violence is familiar to comics, a kind of crazy Preacher or The Boys edge, but it's a girl. Is that funny? I guess.
Lemire is a hockey guy and Canada is a hockey country, so Canadian drug kingpin Billy Baker used to play hockey. And then the action take places in Cree country, in Moose Factory. Lots of snow, so snowmobiles. Did I say it's cold there? So why did she forget her parka? Hit-Girl arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Of course. A bear eats a key guy, because that's what bears do in the North. Let's see, have we exhausted the amusing things we know about snow and Canada? Oh, she does a snow angel, sure. Mildly entertaining, completely generic, read it in a matter of minutes, good art from Risso (100 Bullets). Oh, Canadian bacon, they forgot that!
March 18, 2019
Much better than the first volume but still not great. At least Jeff Lemire gives us a little characterization even if this is ultimately just an excuse for some graphically explicit battles in the frozen tundra of Canada.
October 1, 2019
El diseño mejora en este volumen,pero la historia no es nada memorable
December 19, 2018
Much better than the last one (new writer), but still very disappointing.
November 21, 2018
Garbage. How on earth did Lemire write this?
October 20, 2020
I see what Mark Millar did here. He started this new Hit-Girl series and has a new team write each story arch. I was dubious going in when I realized what had happened but I'm very pleased to say that Jeff Lemire did an outstanding job with this.
This time our favorite pint sized murdered ended up in the Great White North to, you know, kill some people and ends up befriended by a kindly old man with a daughter who may or may not exist. Blood, guts, bears, and more than a little redemption lie in store for the reader here. I hope the successive authors keep up this level of quality.
This time our favorite pint sized murdered ended up in the Great White North to, you know, kill some people and ends up befriended by a kindly old man with a daughter who may or may not exist. Blood, guts, bears, and more than a little redemption lie in store for the reader here. I hope the successive authors keep up this level of quality.
August 12, 2023
This was very predictable, but was fun and entertaining anyway. It was a bit of a throw hearing such vulgarity written by Jeff Lemire, but the subject matter called for it in this instance. I figured there would be some human emotion in this book since Lemire was writing, and I wasn’t disappointed. The art was also better in this book than the last volume. Overall, this was a fun one.
July 21, 2019
Lots of killing, blood, and guts without anything special in terms of story. Disappointed in Lemire.
Also Moose Factory is an island - can't take a bus there as depicted.
Also Moose Factory is an island - can't take a bus there as depicted.
July 28, 2020
Hit-Girl kills bad guys in the frozen north. The art is above average, the story nonexistent. Jeff Lemire really wrote this? Maybe he wrote it while asleep.
August 20, 2020
Millar's creation done by others - not quite the same.
January 23, 2019
Mark Millar is someone I have complicated feelings about--yet, his enthusiasm for the medium, film and his hyperbolic proclamations about his projects are somewhat endearing to me.
With Netflix, Mark Millar has literally become an alchemist and mad scientist. Paid to turn base materials into "Hollywood Gold".
As such, two of his most successful (and my least favorite) concepts have been opened to let others play. Mark has been curating and basically throwing wads of money to his favorite writers and artists to take his licenses for a spin. I've not seen anything particularly innovative, but its nice to some some high-profile writers/artits put their own angle on the characters. It's something I wish the Image Founders had done (i.e. Todd McFarlane did this a bit, albiet very briefly with Moore, Sim, Gaiman, Miller and Morriosn with Spawn, but the rest of his teams have generally stank (other than David Hine's run).
There's nothing particularly cutting edge here, but it's literally seeing a millionaire pay people to play with his toys. I'd do it a little differently, but hey, that's a dream.
I just hope he gets some female talent in soon (I believe Kevin Smith's upcoming run has a female artist)
With Netflix, Mark Millar has literally become an alchemist and mad scientist. Paid to turn base materials into "Hollywood Gold".
As such, two of his most successful (and my least favorite) concepts have been opened to let others play. Mark has been curating and basically throwing wads of money to his favorite writers and artists to take his licenses for a spin. I've not seen anything particularly innovative, but its nice to some some high-profile writers/artits put their own angle on the characters. It's something I wish the Image Founders had done (i.e. Todd McFarlane did this a bit, albiet very briefly with Moore, Sim, Gaiman, Miller and Morriosn with Spawn, but the rest of his teams have generally stank (other than David Hine's run).
There's nothing particularly cutting edge here, but it's literally seeing a millionaire pay people to play with his toys. I'd do it a little differently, but hey, that's a dream.
I just hope he gets some female talent in soon (I believe Kevin Smith's upcoming run has a female artist)
November 26, 2018
Enjoyable action packed second volume of the current Hit-Girl series. Mindy, the half-pint assassin versus Canadian drug dealers in the snow covered north; what more could one ask for? Highly recommended to mature readers.
April 27, 2019
"s"hitgirl...haha This was definitely better than the first in the series.
November 18, 2018
What makes the difference here ? Edouardo Risso’ art.
November 19, 2018
A young female ‘super hero’ battles some villains.
This book had a violent storyline that did not have much development, except for the old man section.
This book had a violent storyline that did not have much development, except for the old man section.
December 6, 2018
If you love over the top violence then... well, you know what to expect with this. Sadly the story was a little on the basic side and only took about 20 minutes to read in total.
March 30, 2019
You don't need to read Hit girl Colombia first in order to jump into this volume.
I think the best part about the new Hit Girl series is that you dont need to read any of the other volumes in order to understand it. I've only ever watched the movies for the original series so I do have some what of an idea on who the character is. BUT you dont need to know all about Millar's runs in order to enjoy this. Not even Hit girl Colombia, its an anthology!
Jeff Lemire takes a run with hit girl,so of course shes in Canada this time! This volume wasn't as fun as the Colombia volume was. Not to say it wasn't good, but Lemire focuses more on the emotional state of things and less on random gang violence. Hit girl actually gets hurt and runs into a older man in the woods who helps her. Both have lost someone close to them and they're hashing it out. It was a good read. It was also interesting to see such a serious take on her (not too serious). It was still bloody and gory, but this time with reason. My one complaint; I'm not sure why but I was expecting the art to be better? Not that its bad, but it wasn't my favorite either.
I think the best part about the new Hit Girl series is that you dont need to read any of the other volumes in order to understand it. I've only ever watched the movies for the original series so I do have some what of an idea on who the character is. BUT you dont need to know all about Millar's runs in order to enjoy this. Not even Hit girl Colombia, its an anthology!
Jeff Lemire takes a run with hit girl,so of course shes in Canada this time! This volume wasn't as fun as the Colombia volume was. Not to say it wasn't good, but Lemire focuses more on the emotional state of things and less on random gang violence. Hit girl actually gets hurt and runs into a older man in the woods who helps her. Both have lost someone close to them and they're hashing it out. It was a good read. It was also interesting to see such a serious take on her (not too serious). It was still bloody and gory, but this time with reason. My one complaint; I'm not sure why but I was expecting the art to be better? Not that its bad, but it wasn't my favorite either.
August 23, 2019
El arte de Eduardo Risso me gusta cada vez más. Perfecto para obras del estilo noir, o historias oscuras de crimen. Con el tiempo, el colorista de Risso se ha vuelto muchísimo mejor también. El arte de Risso para Hit-Girl en Canadá me gustó muchísimo.
No puedo decir lo mismo del guión de Lemire. Aunque soy muy fan de Lemire, creo que la historia de Hit-Girl en Canadá, no profundiza en ningún personaje, no desarrolla a nadie, es impresionante lo pobre que está a nivel narrativo.
La acción es interesante pero que ningún personaje se desarrolle y que a nivel narrativo solo sea una historia de Mindy buscando narco traficantes canadienses para matarlos, sin absolutamente nada más, es triste.
Me gusta la aparición del montañés hermitaño sin nombre, otra prueba del pobre desarrollo, porque de cierta manera Lemire intenta conectar a ese hombre y a Mindy con sus propias ausencias de sus seres queridos, pero no lleva a ningún lado.
No puedo decir lo mismo del guión de Lemire. Aunque soy muy fan de Lemire, creo que la historia de Hit-Girl en Canadá, no profundiza en ningún personaje, no desarrolla a nadie, es impresionante lo pobre que está a nivel narrativo.
La acción es interesante pero que ningún personaje se desarrolle y que a nivel narrativo solo sea una historia de Mindy buscando narco traficantes canadienses para matarlos, sin absolutamente nada más, es triste.
Me gusta la aparición del montañés hermitaño sin nombre, otra prueba del pobre desarrollo, porque de cierta manera Lemire intenta conectar a ese hombre y a Mindy con sus propias ausencias de sus seres queridos, pero no lleva a ningún lado.
January 5, 2021
#RetoComicólogo2021
Categoría: 12 apóstoles
Como parte del reto de lectura, decidí incluir este comic pues fue escrito por Jeff Lemire, uno de los “12 apóstoles” según los Comicólogos. Y es precisamente su guión una de las cosas que distinguen a este volumen del anterior, pues en lugar se mostrar a Hit-Girl como una psicópata, se enfoca en sus aspectos más heróicos. Es como Punisher en miniatura. Hay flashbacks con Big Daddy, un personaje que simpatiza con Mindy y una crítica al star system que hace que deportistas famosos den el salto al crimen organizado o a la política (que no son muy diferentes) para seguir enriqueciéndose. El arte de Risso es lo mejor, demostrando su experiencia ilustrando historias de crimen. El contraste entre la nieve, la sangre y las sombras luce muy bien. Aún así, es un buen comic pero nada excepcional. Recomendable para fans de Hit-Girl, de Lemire, de Risso o de ex-jugadores de hockey vueltos gangsters.
3/5
Categoría: 12 apóstoles
Como parte del reto de lectura, decidí incluir este comic pues fue escrito por Jeff Lemire, uno de los “12 apóstoles” según los Comicólogos. Y es precisamente su guión una de las cosas que distinguen a este volumen del anterior, pues en lugar se mostrar a Hit-Girl como una psicópata, se enfoca en sus aspectos más heróicos. Es como Punisher en miniatura. Hay flashbacks con Big Daddy, un personaje que simpatiza con Mindy y una crítica al star system que hace que deportistas famosos den el salto al crimen organizado o a la política (que no son muy diferentes) para seguir enriqueciéndose. El arte de Risso es lo mejor, demostrando su experiencia ilustrando historias de crimen. El contraste entre la nieve, la sangre y las sombras luce muy bien. Aún así, es un buen comic pero nada excepcional. Recomendable para fans de Hit-Girl, de Lemire, de Risso o de ex-jugadores de hockey vueltos gangsters.
3/5
July 6, 2022
Hit-Girl goes Canadian, eh? Her mission takes her to the Great White North and she's a stranger in a strange land there. No taxis. Few cellphones. Cold as *$#@! How much $#@% can a 12yr old get into? Wait and see...
Interesting to see that Jeff Lemire took his shot at Hit-Girl in 'Millarworld'. It feels like he's channeling Mindy from the OG Kick-Ass series, but I feel like she's a better sidekick and not a solo act.
Next stop? Italy!
Bonus: It's Canada....so...hockey?
Bonus Bonus: It's Canada....so...bear?
Interesting to see that Jeff Lemire took his shot at Hit-Girl in 'Millarworld'. It feels like he's channeling Mindy from the OG Kick-Ass series, but I feel like she's a better sidekick and not a solo act.
Next stop? Italy!
Bonus: It's Canada....so...hockey?
Bonus Bonus: It's Canada....so...bear?
May 15, 2019
The usual witty bloodbath for our little minx. Enjoyable stuff
Mindy is hunting drug dealers in the frozen North. The usual bloodshed ensues with few survivors. It’s entertaining stuff, nicely illustrated with the usual assortment of swearing. Not really much more to say: it’s what fans would expect from any Hit-Girl story.
December 11, 2019
This was a fun story about Hit-Girl coming (begrudgingly) to Canada to track down heroin dealers.
I haven’t read any Kick-Ass or Hit-Girl stories before, it I really liked this one. I saw Jeff Lemire’s name on this one and had to check it out!
Maybe I’ll start checking out all of the other ones in the series now.
I haven’t read any Kick-Ass or Hit-Girl stories before, it I really liked this one. I saw Jeff Lemire’s name on this one and had to check it out!
Maybe I’ll start checking out all of the other ones in the series now.
March 7, 2020
El motivo de la historia es dispar como el solo, ella mata, dispara, maldice y ya perdió el impacto de cuando lo hizo en la primera miniserie, es predecible y ...mehh, pero el arte es de Eduado Risso, que es una bestia para y todo lo que hace es genial, impresionante y aca hace lo que puede con un guipon que se cae solaba asilaba.
January 25, 2021
What a wild proposition! A favorite writer with one of my Very Favorite artists team-up for a short story with one of my favorite characters!
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I delighted in a weird way to see a minor continuity mistake that Eduardo Risso made,
(the hand-cuffs at the end)
it proves after all that he IS mortal.
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I delighted in a weird way to see a minor continuity mistake that Eduardo Risso made,
(the hand-cuffs at the end)
it proves after all that he IS mortal.
December 8, 2022
A giant step up from Hit Girl in Colombia, due largely to Risso's artwork. The story is better, too--not just an orgy of nonstop killing (though there is plenty of that). Lemire brings an authentic flavor to the Canadian setting and characters. Still, I'm not really sold on the whole idea in the first place, though I guess I'll take a look at the next volume set in Rome.
April 15, 2024
Jeff Lemite takes the writing reins for this second volume of Hit-Girl. I enjoyed Eduardo Risso’s art in this volume. The story was very contained. Perhaps could have benefited from explore characters more, but I liked that it was a bit more “realistic” than the first volume in its action sequences.
July 2, 2019
Worst thing I’ve read with Lemires name on it and wow does it ever look like shit. Eduardo Risso does an awful job with the whole thing.
I was pretty surprised when the hermit guy said “you won’t go a mile without bleeding to death”. Really? A mile? Not a kilometre?
I was pretty surprised when the hermit guy said “you won’t go a mile without bleeding to death”. Really? A mile? Not a kilometre?
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