NEMESIS #2

Well, it's not even half as good as Kick-Ass. The art helps, as Steve McNiven is a superstar artist. The story, though, is fairly dull, even though it's trying to be nothing short of awesome. The premise is that there's a super-villain who is rich and powerful and trying to take down a great, unstoppable chief of police in Washington, D.C. The super-villain has kidnapped the president and done a bunch of other outrageous things like crash Air Force One and spread a poisonous chemical inside the Pentagon. It sounds so thrilling yet it's not at all interesting. The problem I guess is that it's mean-spirited. That's kind of the point, though, unless the bad guy loses in the end, which would be kind of a cop-out. At the close of this issue, Nemesis is apprehended by the D.C. cops. When he's being handcuffed he shouts, “You retards! You brain-dead little shits...You think I didn't plan all this?” So maybe his big masterful plan will make #3 a little more entertaining. *1/2