Thanks for the scans link - it seems to work a bit more in comics form, if only because the easy-slice body parts are so ridiculous the whole thing takes on a bit of ironic distance that live action couldn't pull off. Despite Hit Girl's creepy dull expression while hack and slicing, which is less/more disconcerting than the chipperness of the film version.

It still gets me in a way I'm sure was not intended, the father/daughter bonding via losing one's fear of being shot, actively molding a girl into someone strong above all else. It mightily chokes me up and I wish parents would impress on their daughters as much as their sons not to capitulate to threats of pain. But without so many gunshots, maybe. Or at least for media that's not super-problematic to cover the same ground.