Mark Millar Reveals ‘Kick-Ass’ Comic Sequel: ‘Balls To The Wall’.

Between new character posters, movie clips and the approaching series-concluding release of the comic book source material’s 8th issue, fans have plenty of reason to wonder if the pre-release buzz for Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s “Kick-Ass,” could already amount to a second helping of costumed vigilante brutality. Now, Millar’s begun projecting the series’ pending publishing schedule for 2010 and beyond.

While discussing the upcoming “Kick-Ass: Creating the Comic, Making the Movie” book set to arrive in stores on February 23 from Titan Books, Millar clarified his vision for the franchise, even before it saw print.

“We always saw this as at least a trilogy. There might even be more. I had the whole second series worked out two years ago,” Millar told Comic Book Resources.

Millar revealed that he not only has a storyline in mind, but also a tentative title and launch schedule.

“The working title is ‘Balls to the Wall,’ and we’re thinking about launching it round about San Diego time, right around August,” Millar said, “But to avoid delays, we’d like to stockpile a few issues, I think.”

Millar commented that since the first volume of the “Kick-Ass” comic series took nearly two years to release from start to finish, that he’d like to have a backlog ready for after the movie is released. Considering he’s had the series in mind since before the first eight issues saw print, Romita Jr. could have another busy illustration schedule ahead of him.

There’s no official word on whether this second comic book series is locked-in for a film adaptation, but given Millar’s hints, the prospect seems about as likely as the second volume of “Kick-Ass” featuring fractured faces.