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Hit-Girl, Vol. 4: Hit-Girl in Hollywood

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Hit-Girl tears Tinsel Town a new one when she realises her life’s being dramatized for the silver screen. The adolescent assassin storms sets, wages war on fat-cat movie bosses, and lures old enemies out of hiding in this kamikaze Californian bloodbath.

Collects HIT-GIRL SEASON TWO #1-4

112 pages, Paperback

First published June 18, 2019

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Kevin Smith

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Kevin Patrick Smith is an American screenwriter, director, as well as a comic book writer, author, and actor. He is also the co-founder, with Scott Mosier, of View Askew Productions and owner of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic and novelty store in Red Bank, New Jersey. He also hosts a weekly podcast with Scott Mosier known as SModcast. He is also known for participating in long, humorous Q&A Sessions that are often filmed for DVD release, beginning with An Evening with Kevin Smith.

His films are often set in his home state of New Jersey, and while not strictly sequential, they do frequently feature crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon in what is known by fans as the "View Askewniverse", named after his production company View Askew Productions. He has produced numerous films and television projects, including Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Clerks II.

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10.3k reviews1,060 followers
July 11, 2019
Kevin Smith's arc starts off a little odd with a mostly silent, serious story about a school shooting. Then we move into more familiar territory when Hit-Girl heads to Hollywood after finding out they are making a movie about her. Smith takes on the #MeToo movement by creating the Dick-Taker, a Hit-Girl copycat who goes after Hollywood sleazebags. Like most of Kevin Smith's writing, it's witty, fun and over the top. Pernille Orum's Disney Princess style art is a contrast for such a violent book. She designed all of the DC Super Hero Girls and is a friend of Kevin's.
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150 reviews18 followers
April 10, 2020
Giving this one 2.5 because I really like the drawing but Kevin what did I read?!
A school shooting and some kind of me too movement … I am not sure what u thought Kevin and I guess you wanted to do some good but it’s a bit out of order believe me. Little sad because I was excited to read this.
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486 reviews
June 9, 2019
Was not expecting it to be this good...

I've never read a Kevin Smith book (although his green arrow is on my list). I thought a 4 issue mini series might be a nice place to start.
Picking up the first issue, just flipping through it I noticed there werent a whole lot of words. For most of it, it was a silent comic. I thought it was kinda strange but it's all with good reason! I don't think anything could/should be said in that first issue. But it got me excited for the rest! This book takes on school shootings, the #metoo movement and a darker side to Hollywood. Its still fun as heck though! I know a few people probably wont like how political it may be, but its a good read. The art is clean, the new characters are weird, and I'm pretty sure this is the last Hit Girl book for a while, making it a great ending as well.
619 reviews4 followers
August 9, 2019
So many bad decisions, where to begin? The first chapter, a full 25% of the book, doesn't even take place in Hollywood. But it gets worse! It's mostly a silent chapter, about a very serious topic (a mass shooting at a school), treated with about as much class and sensitivity as you would expect from Kevin Smith. Played for laughs or "awesome violence," we see Mindy smiling. I suppose reading this in the aftermath of El Paso and Dayton affects my experience somewhat, but considering there have beeen more mass shootings in the US this year than days in this year, when would I be able to read this? And it doesn't help that the art style is this cartoony; such a wrong disconnect for this book. Then when you actually do get to Hollywood it's all lowbrow crude crass humor and puns. Was this funny at some point? Was there even a plot? Everything's in bad taste, even the treatment of #MeToo. The action wasn't even interesting. Truly terrible.
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1,046 reviews25 followers
August 12, 2023
3.5 stars. This was probably my favorite of the Hit-Girl books so far and it is most definitely a Kevin Smith creation. This book harnessed a ridiculous amount of WTF energy in his style. The art took me a bit to get used to, but I warmed up to it enough that I didn’t mind it.
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395 reviews3 followers
December 9, 2022
Better than volume 3, but still not as good as original Hit-Girl stuff.
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98 reviews13 followers
August 2, 2020
Weakest entry in the series so far.
What are you doing Kevin Smith?
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7,054 reviews365 followers
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May 24, 2020
Kevin Smith working on a Mark Millar character would have been a really exciting prospect, in 2001. Now...well, I've had this out of the library since well before the Event, the comics pipeline entirely seized for a while there, the libraries are still shut, and I'm only getting to it now. 2001 is also, of course, when Kevin Smith already did a plot in which an established character learns their life is being turned into a major motion picture and heads to Hollywood to stop it. Still, I was intrigued by the choice of artist - Pernille Orum was lead designer on DC Superhero Girls, and uses the same cute, cartoony style here, which is wonderfully jarring when it opens on a silent scene of Mindy fucking up some school shooters, and goes on to include an impressive number of Hollywood moguls getting their junk removed. Because yes, as well as the more concrete restitution Smith has made over so much of his career being intertwined with Harvey Weinstein, he's clearly working out some of his feelings here too. He does bring enough twists to the set-up to stop it feeling too much like a reprise of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, but it's still a fun burst of catharsis more than it's high art.
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Author 2 books23 followers
August 12, 2019
My rage at this is hard to explain. I stopped after the first issue because the crass nature in which he handles what is a clear nod to Columbine is horrible. First, depicting a school shooting in this environment is tricky at best. But to have the killers first kill a boy who is making sexual jokes about his teacher implies 'Hey, maybe some of these students deserve this.' You could have just had them not successfully kill anyone. You didn't have to graphically depict children's brains being blown out all over each other. Then you have your answer to a school shooter being a better armed, more trained teenager to stop them? I get that's the point of the book, but come on. Smith has to see how irresponsible this was. There were any of a number of ways to get your point across without being so careless and so clearly about Columbine. Truly disappointed.
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511 reviews176 followers
July 30, 2020
Did somebody accept a challenge to see how terrible a story has to be before *everyone* hates it? Apparently they still have a ways to go, because some people gave this festering pile of excrement multiple stars. I'm baffled.
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4,549 reviews29 followers
August 20, 2020
Weird how you can address an issue like ubiquitous, industry-wide sexual harassment as a general evil and ignore the fact that the industry is nigh on monolithic-ly 'liberal'.
96 reviews
July 15, 2019
Very Kevin Smith humor with a rather stupid plot. I mean, Hit-Girl teams up with a new heroine named Dick Taker (who literally wears a cape made of severed penises) and her sidekick Super Agent to take out predatory movie executives and the remaining members of the Red Mist's family.
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308 reviews3 followers
May 14, 2020
When I peeked at the middle of this and saw a Hollywood executive getting his dick cut off after assaulting an actress and Kevin Smith as the writer, I was very excited and ready for some #metoo commentary.
Too f'ing bad. This is trash. All over.
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Author 219 books32 followers
April 20, 2022
This series seems to get worse with each new story. Flat and uninspired stories that try to one-up previous stories on gore and outre comments. The original Kick Ass had heart. This lacks that and it lacks brains too.
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Author 6 books7 followers
July 23, 2019
Well that went by fast.
76 reviews2 followers
January 19, 2021
#RetoComicólogo2021
Categoría: Pez fuera del agua

Si bien Kevin Smith ha escrito varios comics desde 1998, se le conoce más por su trabajo como director de cine (entrando así en la categoría del reto). Su primera película redefinió el cine independiente en Estados Unidos, ha ganado prestigiosos premios y tiene varias comedias que van de lo irreverente al chiste local para sus fans. Pero también ha realizado varias películas que pueden equipararse a pilas humeantes de estiércol. Y este comic se parece a esas últimas, incluso hace referencia a una de ellas, Tusk (se escuchan unos diálogos de la misma saliendo de un televisor). Ahora Hit-Girl ya ni siquiera lucha contra delincuentes o mafiosos, sino que decide visitar Hollywood para impedir que se filme una película sobre ella. Con la intención de atacar a un alto ejecutivo del estudio productor, se topa a otra “justiciera” que se dedica a castrar a productores que abusan de su posición para obtener favores sexuales. El movimiento #MeToo es algo muy relevante, pero la (necesaria) denuncia jamás se reduce a venganza y jamás debería hacerlo. Poner a un personaje psicótico dentro de este entorno complica una situación de por sí difícil, pero Smith tiene el pésimo gusto de llevarlo al extremo con una vigilante que porta una capa hecha, al parecer, de los penes y testículos que ha cercenado aquí y allá. Si a todo esto le añadimos un guión lleno de lugares comunes y juegos de palabras completamente burdos, un arte limpio y pulido pero demasiado “cute” que definitivamente no encaja con el personaje y comentarios trillados sobre la industria cinematográfica, el resultado es una basura inmunda que no merece nuestro tiempo ni nuestro dinero. Incluso las portadas de Francavilla, quien por lo general hace trabajos maravillosos, son horribles. Eviten este comic y, si les interesa Hit-Girl, háganse un favor y sigan con el volumen de Hong Kong.

1/5
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1,041 reviews34 followers
May 30, 2021
I'm surprised that this barely received an average of Three Stars by Goodreads reviewers. I liked this, although it's not even close to the premium quality that Kevin Smith is capable of (apparently when he wants to). But it's purely Kevin Smith's style, so my expectations were met.
Much of the disgruntlement and outrage seemed to be centered around the first issue, although that's not the full extent of it. Issue #1 relates a high school shooting, for which many readers/reviewers called out Smith for insensitivity in featuring it. It's a risky choice, but I wasn't offended and didn't see it as unsympathetic on Smith's part. After all, the high school student shooters are foiled after only two victims (but more than enough blood) by our hero - - Hit-Girl. It serves as the rationale for the rest of the four-issue series, as Hit-Girl knocks over a library bookshelf on one of the shooters and discovers a non-fiction work about her (Heretofore Hit-Girl) that she was completely unaware of.
This annoys Hit-Girl enough that she makes a trip to Hollywood, where the book has been optioned for a movie by current celebrity actor Juniper Florence. Hit-Girl meets Florence, whose prep for the movie includes method-acting by roleplaying as a superhero in her own right: The Dick-Taker who brings justice to a score of Hollywood producer/execs engaged in sexual predation.
There's some clever nods to the excesses of both Hollywood and the Me-Too Movement along the way, all in fun and not necessarily trying to make a statement.
HIT GIRL IN HOLLYWOOD is a fast-paced and fun read, a bit of fluff to enjoy and then forget about it. Thanks, Kevin. For the most part, I think you hewed closely to the Mark Millar canon on Hit-Girl. The art is just this side of Archie comics wholesomeness in a perhaps intentional contradiction, until the bloody scenes.
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985 reviews53 followers
May 11, 2020
Rating of 3.5.

Lights, camera, bloodshed and mayhem! The world’s most dangerous pre-teen assassin, Hit-Girl, travels to Hollywood in the fourth instalment of the brilliant and exciting Hit-Girl series.

Mindy McCready, the pre-teen vigilante known as Hit-Girl, is living her best life, killing bad guys and distributing her lethal brand of justice across the world. However, during her most recent mission she becomes aware of something truly terrible: someone is making a big Hollywood movie of her life and it is going to feature a dramatic re-enactment of her father’s death. Determined to stop the movie from being made, Mindy travels to Hollywood to crack some heads and put the fear of Hit-Girl into the movie makers. Deciding to strike at the very top, Mindy breaks into the set to have a “talk” with the studio boss, however, she instead comes across a rather disturbing scene that she was not expecting.

It turns out that there is another vigilante running around Hollywood, and she has in her sights the most evil and vicious predators there are: Hollywood executives who prey on young women. Her latest vicious attack on the studio boss behind the Hit-Girl movie has garnered a large amount of attention, and Hit-Girl is now the main suspect. Hit-Girl needs to find this new vigilante and get out of town fast. But with both the FBI and the remnants of the Genovese mob family gunning for her, can Hit-Girl survive, and what happens when she meets up with a vigilante who has even more issues than she does?

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1,543 reviews
July 6, 2022
tHe WoRlD tOuR cOnTiNuEs! We're headed to Hollywood!

Hit-Girl finds out there's an unauthorized bio of Hit-Girl making the rounds and it's soon to be "a major motion picture". Looks like she's going to get up close and personal with the sleazy side of Tinseltown. Can she handle reliving the trauma of Big Daddy's death as it's made into a movie? Somebody has to step up and clean up this cesspool of a town...
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Kevin Smith must have taken one too many bong rips when he agreed to do this. Either that or it was the massive coronary he'd had. This feels like it's another of his "soapbox" comics and he's taking time out of his day to provide commentary on the "#Metoo" movement and the sliminess of Harvey Weinstein.

The art on this arc is also WAY more cartoonish and it feels like it dulls the violent content. (this is the same artist behind 'DC Super Hero Girls') It looks good, but it's kind of jarring to have had all this violent content drawn realistically during the first half of the arc and now it's drawn like it's a Saturday morning kids show.

Bonus: The Dick-Taker cape is made of...dicks?
Bonus Bonus: The silent bit (the first ~25 pages of the comic) is set during a school shooting and is...awkward
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80 reviews
September 1, 2020
Amo a Mindy, de eso no cabe duda. Lo que si me ha parecido es que con cada entrega de la gira mundial de Hit Girl, este personaje se va poniendo más ridículo y menos interesante.
No suelo hacer comentarios muy malos acerca de las cosas que leo, pero en este caso me resignarė a hacerlo, sobre todo por que Hit Girl es uno de mis comics favoritos y poco a poco se estå volviendo una pėrdida de tiempo.
La puesta en escena que Kevin Smith y Pernille Orum le dan a esta superheroína en la ciudad del espectåculo reduce su calidad argumentativa respecto a las tres entregas anteriores de una forma dramática. El argumento sobre el abuso de poder y la violencia de género promovida por los grandes productores de cine termina siendo una parodia innecesaria que tiene como colofön la aparición de una nueva heroína con un nombre, por lo demás, innecesariamente específico: la arranca pitos.
Finalmente, no me ha encantado el trabajo gráfico de esta entrega. Siento que la espera ha sido en vano y que Hit Girl necesita regresar a las manos de Millar para que siga sobresaliendo.
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Author 5 books20 followers
June 14, 2024
Of COURSE it was Kevin Smith who wrote this story bringing the character to Hollywood. While he seems to be a supporter of the #MeToo movement, I’m not certain he was the best voice to deal with this sort of thing. And the school shooting in the silent chapter at the start? This was a mess. I guess I don’t even need to mention the art wasn’t as good either, but there you go. I don’t know what everyone was thinking.

There actually wasn’t as much commentary on the film adaptation of Kick-Ass as I thought there would be. Weirdly, the girl who portrays Hit-Girl for the movie in this is named Juniper Florence, and I do think Florence Pugh looks kinda similar to Chloe Grace Moretz.
683 reviews
October 7, 2020
The best "Hit-Girl in..." I've read so far.

At the beginning I started to eye-roll and think "oh great, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back starring Hit-Girl", but very soon the story turned to it's independent take. This was a perfect blend of Hit-Girl mythology, Hollywood as seen through Hollywood, and Kevin Smith-isms.

The art was also gorgeous with expressive characters and moody colours. My one tiny nit pick is that Hit-Girl and Dick Taker sometimes look a little similar and hard to distinguish during the climax, but part of the story turns on that so it's forgiveable.
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62 reviews
October 8, 2023
Hands down the best arc in the Hit-Girl series so far. Loved this one. I was starting to get bored with this series, but Kevin Smith gave it the shot in the arm it needed. The story continues to be as bloody and violent as it ever was, except this time Smith dials up the humor and injects a few surprising heartfelt moments. There’s some good social commentary on the dirtiness and fakery of Hollywood as well as some MeToo elements; with predator executives getting their commupance. Highly recommend. This is definitely the must-read Hit-Girl book.
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1,209 reviews27 followers
November 18, 2020
Hit-Girl's world tour continues this time in Hollywood and it's written by Kevin Smith (naturally). Smith really nails the right tone here and still manages to give everything a special spin. I loved that one of the characters was watching "Tusk"! I loved the unexpected team up and the special insanity that only actors have (or only insane people are actors).
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179 reviews
July 14, 2019
Not an avid comic/graphic novel reader but as a fan of Kevin Smith, I wanted to check this particular book out due to his involvement and promotion of it.

Didn't disappoint, however I think anyone who isn't a fan of Smith's particular brand of humor wont enjoy this book as much.
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31 reviews
March 3, 2024
Esto es tan soso como el primer tomo en Colombia. Me cuesta creer que esto lo escribió el mismo sujeto que escribió Guardian Devil en Daredevil.
Por otro lado es una pésima elección de arte para un cómic como Hit-Girl, nada contra la señorita Ørum, pero su estilo se siente muy fuera de lugar aquí, además de que hace una de las peores expresiones de terror que he visto en mi vida.
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520 reviews5 followers
April 15, 2024
The weakest of the six Hit-Girl volumes. I normally love Kevin Smith’s writing, but for me this story lacked an omah and intrigue of the past volumes. Little too comical in tone and the art a little too cartoon-y.
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