It's 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. He has no money. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can't focus in class, thanks to his mind constantly drifting to the stunning girl in the front row and the Dag Nasty show he has tickets to. 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, a member of the most notorious crime syndicate in Japan, 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 King's Dominion High School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in your back isn't always metaphorical, nor is your fellow classmates' poison.
Join writer RICK REMENDER with rising star WESLEY CRAIG (Batman) and legendary colorist LEE LOUGHRIDGE (Fear Agent) to reminisce about the mid-1980s underground through the eyes of the most damaged and dangerous teenagers on Earth.
by Image Comics
Published January, 2014 (Modern Age) by Image Comics and went on sale January 22, 2014 for $3.50 USD. This issue contains 24 pages in Color, the current NM value is $20.00 USD. The publisher has rated this issue Mature/Adult.
UPC: 70985301548200111
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Homeless teenage orphan joins assassin's school. This is the essential premise of Deadly Class, the new Image book from Rick Remender and Wes Craig. It's 1987 and after being homeless for some time, Marcus Lopez is pretty down in the dumps. Begging for food, sleeping on the streets, fighting bums for shoes, it's all getting to him. It's only after a fateful encounter at a festival the Marcus is offered the chance to belong somewhere once again, but this new school is anything but ordinary. Continue Reading »
There is so much to take in and process while reading this first ish'. It's one problem after another for our protagonist. We find him homeless and in need of something good in his life. He apparently watches his parents die in a freak accident involving a mentally deranged woman, the boy's orphanage he is placed into is closed out of an unnamed tragedy, and he is marked by unknown individuals who are trying to kill him? This cerebral adolescent seems to be followed by trouble wherever he goes. Luckily, a school for teenage assassins has been scouting his talent. Love the slow read of this com; Marcus' thoughts are completely disclosed. Oh yeah, he makes it clear he has this hair-brained idea of taking out President Ronald Reagan. Haha!
