He keeps his identity a secret by taking off his costume and hiding it before the paramedics arrive. His first attempt resulted in him being badly beaten and stabbed by thugs, followed by walking the street and being hit by a car. Months earlier, Dave bought a wetsuit from the eBay website, wore it under his regular clothes, started exercising, and took rooftop walks to fulfill his ambitions of becoming a super real life hero for a while. Dave Lizewski, a run-of-the-mill New York high school student, comics fan and the child of James Lizewski, a loving single father and mother who died of a brain hemorrhage, wonders about the lack of costumed guards in the real world “some An Armenian.” “in a superhero outfit jumps from the roof of a skyscraper, doesn’t take off and dives to death in a car on the street below in front of a crowd of onlookers. The first volume of The Dave Lizewski Years with the original title Kick-Ass takes place over the span two years. Little by little, America’s past and that of heroes are being revealed. Laurie leaves the military base where they live, to join Dan Dreiberg (the Owl) for dinner. A few days after the Comedian’s funeral, in front of all his former colleagues (except Rorschach), Laurie and Dr Manhattan have a heated argument, mainly about Manhattan’s indifference to Laurie and the rest of humanity. Rorschach leaves him, telling him he’s going to come back and get some info, and Moloch better find it. Moloch, suffering from a major and fatal cancer, offered no real resistance to the Comedian, nor to Rorschach the Comedian would have ended up feeling sorry for himself, going from a fit of tears to anger. The Comedian allegedly broke into his home, drunk, woke him up to threaten him, talking about a list where Moloch’s name was found, as well as other people (including Dr. The latter confesses to him that he did meet the Comedian the day before his death. Rorschach, after his former colleagues, goes to see an old enemy: Moloch.
Manhattan seems rather indifferent to the news, and only reacts to the request of his partner Laurie, teleporting Rorschach out of his home, despite the latter’s protests. Ozymandias regrets the death of the Comedian, but thinks that Rorschach’s conclusions are only the result of paranoia, usual with him.ĭr. If the Owl seems to feel guilty about the Comedian’s death and his past, the Specter is delighted, having apparently never put up with the individual, nor does she support Rorschach. Manhattan and his companion the Silky Specter II have different reactions. Rorschach then makes the rounds of his former colleagues in order to keep them informed of his findings and to warn them. The latter, calling the victim “The Comedian”, assumes that he was murdered not for what he had done or was doing, but because he was a superhero. A masked character then arrives on the scene: Rorschach. Having concluded that a man with certain high-level connections has been murdered, the police leave the crime scene. Two police inspectors try to figure out what led a bodybuilder in his sixties to cross the bay window of his apartment and crash ten floors below.
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