Kick-Ass is nearly upon us. Matthew Vaughn’s ballistic superhero film which has had the kind of buzz studios dream of coming out of the test screenings so far, and Empire today released images from the film, which will adorn the front cover of their next issue.

Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Nic Cage are the stars of the show in these images, and I can’t wait to hear the quote attributed to Hit-Girl on the image I’ve included below coming out of the mouth of this psychotic schoolgirl

Big Daddy and Kick-Ass appear in the other images, which you can see on Empire’s site.