Leinil Yu's Completed 'Nemesis'/'Superior'/Kick-Ass' Crossover Artwork

Leinil Yu’s pencils featuring a crossover between Nemesis, Superior and Kick-Ass have been circulating for just over a month now and it looks as though it not as audacious a plan as first expected. According to Mark Millar, the creator of all three properties, there will be no crossing over of these books. This is a good thing as the writer himself admits “It wouldn't make sense as a story as they all exist in their own distinct universes.”

Marvel released the completed artwork and announced it is actually for the variant covers for each of the three individual books:

KICK ASS 2 #2
Release Date: 12/29/10

SUPERIOR #4 (of 6)
Release Date: 1/5/11

NEMESIS #4 (of 6)

Release Date: 12/29/10

Leinil Yu: 'Nemesis'/'Superior'/'Kick-Ass' Cross-Over (Finished Art)

Mark Millar offered up Leinil Yu's finished image for a possible Nemesis/Superior/Kick-Ass crossover on MillarWorld today. A draft of the image came out a few weeks ago, but there's still no official word on whether or not this event is an actual project of Millar's. Needless to say the art is again top notch from Yu.

Click on the image above to see the detail to Yu's awesome work.

Leinil Yu: 'Nemesis'/'Superior'/'Kick-Ass' Cross-Over

Mark Millar just tweeted this first picture from a possible cross-over between his creator-owned properties: Nemesis, Superior and Kick-Ass. When I first heard of this triad I thought he was joking. To be honest, I'm still not sure. Regardless, I'm going to just soak in the beauty that is Leinil Yu's artwork.

Thank You Sir, May I Have Another: Is Kick-Ass 2 Happening?

If you’re waiting to enjoy Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall (the tentative title) in a movie theater, you may have to bring a copy of the comic book with you to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, because it doesn’t sound like a movie is coming out any time soon.

While nothing is official about the fate of the sequel, Director Matthew Vaughn definitely has his hands full helming X-Men: First Class. In the past few weeks the cast has been interviewed and asked about the status of a follow-up to the much loved (somewhat critically maligned) Mark Millar/John Romita, Jr. adaptation.

On September 30th, Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass) told the following to CinemaBlend:
"Mark Millar and John Romita are just writing, possibly writing, the comic book. It’s kind of in Mathew wall court really, and he’s doing X-Men. I think it’s something we might come back to later."

Johnson’s thoughts on the project didn’t seem too dire. However, on October 4th, Chloe Moretz (Hit-Girl) spoke with Collider:
“Yeah, I’d totally love to be Hit Girl again, but I don’t know about Kick-Ass 2. Everyone’s like, ‘It’s just been announced!,’ but I’m like, ‘No, it hasn’t. That’s all rumor.’ I honestly don’t even know anymore. I don’t know anything about a second one. All I know is that there’s a second comic called Balls to the Wall. Hopefully, that will happen.”

Then Lyndsy Fonseca (Katie) expressed the following to Splash Page this weekend at the New York Comic-Con:
"It's going to be a while if it does happen. Everyone's kind of working on other things, and there needs to be more issues of the comic before there's material to do another movie. So wait and see."

Millar seems more optimistic about another big-screen sequel.  He told the following to Splash Page on August 31st:
“We’re probably about nine months away from production starting, at the earliest, because Matthew’s got to do X-Men: First Class."

Let’s hope it does, because Kick-Ass was easily the best comic book movie of the year (sorry Iron Man 2).