Deadly Class, Vol. 1

Posted on 20 July 2018 by Rick Remender

It s 1987 Marcus Lopez hates school His grades suck The jocks are hassling his friends He can t focus in class But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin s top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he s failing is Dismemberment 101, and his crush has a double digit body count Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world s top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained Murder is an art Killing is a craft At Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in your back isn t always metaphorical Collecting the first arc of the most critically acclaimed new series of 2014, by writer RICK REMENDER BLACK SCIENCE, Fear Agent and rising star artist WESLEY CRAIG Batman Experience the 1980s underground through the eyes of the world s most damaged and dangerous teenagers.Collects DEADLY CLASS 1 6. Best Read Deadly Class, Vol. 1 By Rick Remender For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This was a buddy read with the astonishing Kat You are missed, Bub Hey Kids Welcome to the Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts You re not just a student here at Kings Dominion, you re part of a family The deadliest family on Earth We offer a wide variety of courses in the ways of the assassination and murder Here are a few examples Cleaning up a crime site Pre requisite Murder The Advanced Class What to do i...EDIT 01 15 FINALLY translated in French by Urban Comics A whole year of recommending this is starting D Beware, I ll show no restraint P A tale of survival Tell me, fellows readers, what are you ready to do to survive What happens when the only hope life can give you is to eat expired chili and to fight with an old homeless over your fucking shoes When the only choice offered to you is to attend an assassin school or to wait for a painful death to come Happiness is just the absence o EDIT 01 15 FINALLY translated in French by Urban Comics A whole year of recommending this is starting D Beware, I ll show no restraint P A tale of survival Tell me, fellows readers, what are you ready to do to survive What happens when the only hope life can give you is to eat expired chili and to fight with an old homeless over your fucking shoes When the only choice offered to you is to attend an assassin school or to wait for a painful death to come Happiness is just the absence of pain.It s the best I can hope for Just picture it You re alone Cold Hungry Desperate Feeling guilty and useless Here comes a bunch of crazy teenagers who ask you to follow them What do you do Do you follow them, even if it maybe means losing yourself evenFUCK YEAH Sarcastic humor and irreverent ton everywhere Hey, we re talking about an assassin s school, so obviously, don t expect regular high school drama Wait a minute, oops, actually, YE...Marcus is a street kid that is on the run from the cops one night He receives some help from a girl and she takes him to a very special place A school that isn t just the ABC s Marcus doesn t have a whole lot of choices in life He can either go back on the streets or sign up to become Assassin Kid He goes with Assassin since all he wants to do is kill Ronald Reagan anyways Once in the school he finds out that typical teenagers are everywhere Mean kid cliques Normal class assignments Marcus is a street kid that is on the run fr...FANTASTIC.Dark and gritty I do love me some assassins.3.5 stars Shallow Comic Buddy Read Criteria Nothing I enjoy by Marvel or DC Indie Comics only I ve said it before, but I m not the target audience for graphic novels like this I like my superheroes shrugs Sorry.It doesn t mean that I think these are bad , I just wouldn t normally seek them out In fact, I d wreck my mini van trying to Swerve to Avoidsomething like this view spoiler I don t read tear jerkers, biographies, mystery thrillers that don t have a fantasy element to them, or 3.5 stars Shallow Comic Buddy Read Criteria Nothing I enjoy by Marvel or DC Indie Comics only I ve said it before, but I m not the target audience for graphic novels like this I like my superheroes shrugs Sorry.It doesn t mean that I think these are bad , I just wouldn t normally seek them out In fact, I d wreck my mini van trying to Swerve to Avoidsomething like this view spoiler I don t read tear jerkers, biographies, mystery thrillers that don t have a fantasy element to them, or weight loss books So I m not just picking on one genre hide spoiler However My friends are determined to push me into expanding my horizons.Thank you.Ok Fine This was pretty decent There Are you guys happy now It wasn t hard to finish th...Find all of my reviews atLife is a series of unique opportunities It s our job to find the happiness in each oneI may not be a graphic novel expert, but I know what I like and BOY OH BOY DID I LIKE THIS Like all of my graphic novels reviews, I can t give away all of thefor fear the army of tiny Goodreads Spoiler T...Oh how I loved this It was deplorable and fantastic 4.5Young Marcus Lopez s whole world came crashing down right alongside the bridge diving schizo that flattened his parents This tragedy could have been prevented, if Reagan hadn t cut funding to mental health facilities which led to hundreds of patients being released back onto the street We catch up with a teenage Marcus a few years later, in 1980 something He s been kicked out of yet another foster home left to fend for himself on the mean streets of San Francisco Turns out he d rather Young Marcus Lopez s whole world came crashing down right alongside the bridge diving schizo that flattened his parents This tragedy could h...San Francisco, 1987, and Ronald Reagan has ruined Marcus life Reagan s healthcare cutbacks meant suicidal schizos were set free on the streets, and one such sufferer decides to end their life by jumping off the Golden Gate bridge shame Marcus folks were directly in the drop zone Suddenly orphaned, teenage Marcus is living on the streets...

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20 July 2018

Rick Remender