So wrote a whole review and now it's gone...so fuck my life. This is some good stuff, the ending made me want more, and if you like violence, some sex, and a lot of cursing go grab it.

I realize that I need to review this right now or it'll be in a perpetual state of "RTC" if I don't write it NOW. "Life tattoos us with damage as a reminder...it won't be visible when you awaken, but people who know what to look for will see it, other victims of the same needle. It takes time to see them. It takes time to see anyone's real damage. But your people will see the colors--like a flag--and they will call you home to them." This graphic novel has been recommended to me so ma...

(A-) 84% | Very GoodNotes: Review pending re-read. Collected review for volumes 1-3 can be found here: Deadly Class, Book One: Noise Noise Noise

Public Service Announcement: This series is soon to be appearing on a Syfy Network near you! I look forward to it building a small but passionate fan base only to have Syfy cancel it in favor of another lame Sparkly Vampire Romance or Zombie Robot Space Adventure.Check out the pilot episode right here. -----------------------------------------------In the early 80s, the world came crashing down around Marcus Lopez when a bridge-diving schizophrenic flattened his parents. 🤨 The terrible tragedy w...

Bullet Review:After reading the nearly non-stop drug high of "The Goldfinch", I so didn't want to read about the acid trip of these guys. How did they get away with this much mayhem?! And goat f$&@er appearing to declare himself the villain and nemesis of Marcus? What?I just think this genre of "kids go to special school" has passed me by - along with enough teen angst to soak a tub.I didn't mind the art and the story was more interesting in the middle. Oh, and it's nice to see such diversity in...

Oh how I loved this. It was deplorable and fantastic. 4.5

Just read this, this morning. My first completed read of 2019 is Deadly Class. I was motivated to read this once I watched the first episode on SyFy. It's---violent lol I know that should go without saying but--okay honestly first impressions it felt like a better Kickass. No disrespect to Kickass I just preferred the characters in this. Kickass is full of high schoolers and their moments of characterization were when they were in costumes. Deadly Class is full of assassins who are characterized...

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 if you don’t want that body to be found? Dental records? DNA? You’ll ne

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 Avoid! something like this. (view spoiler)[ I don't read tear-jerkers, biographies, mystery/thrillers that don't have a fantasy element to them, or

A dark, gritty tale that isn't for the faint of heart or stomach. Drugs, violence, and sex fill this story, but it's still a very human story. Not so much a celebration of darkness, but more of an acknowledgment of the darkness that exists in the world. The art style is nice while still fitting the story. The plot is interesting, and the characters complex in personality, and morality. Not an easy story, but a strong one. I'm not expecting a happy ending, but I'm going to keep going.

5.0/10Not for me.Marcus is a homeless teenager living in 1987’s San Fransisco and one day he gets in trouble with the police. A girl pops out of nowhere and helps him. She takes him to a secret place, where he meets a bunch of teenagers and an old guy who tells him that these are his students and he runs a school, a very special school called “Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children” … oh wait no that’s not it… hmmmm oh there it is “King's Dominion Atelier of the Deadly Arts”. Ok they have t...

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 assignm...

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 when he’s approached to join a secret underground assassin’s school: the King’s Dominion School of the Deadly Arts. Marcus’ dream of assassinating Ronald R...

FANTASTIC.

This is writer Rick Remender's most personal comics work to date. He may not have written it outright in his afterword to this first volume of Deadly Class, but he intimated as much. The protagonist of Deadly Class is Marcus, a homeless orphaned immigrant who is an outsider in Ronald Reagan era America and the assassins school he enrolled in to escape the streets of San Francisco. As a teenager, Remender was also an outsider in every new town his family relocated and they moved a lot. He got fed...

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ “Life is a series of unique opportunities. It’s our job to find the happiness in each one.” I 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 the . . . for fear the army of tiny Goodreads Spoiler Trolls will barrage my review space with nasty commentary. I will say this had everything Mitchell and I could possibly wan...

Flipping Through Floppies*So, I follow this one in single issues from a comic store. I just couldn't resist jumping on a fresh Remender bandwagon a few years back. The real surprise? That this is my favourite thing Remender has ever done (Uncanny X-Force just got inched out). I just read issue 21, which is the conclusion of volume 4, and thought I should come back and recommend the series (really, I should be writing more about single issue series I follow as the trades come out). Wes Craig is t...

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 :P➊ 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 abse...

After watching the tv show „deadly class“ and falling in love with it, I thought, why not read the comic. And what can I say? The story is the same - they changed a few things in the tv show, but not much, even many of the dialogues were the same. Something like „I’m not the acid king.“ I loved many parts of the comic/the tv show especially the „trip“ Marcus had. It looked like I always imagined a trip to be. Absolutely freakin crazy. More than anything i love the characters in this story. Marcu...

I have been obsessed with graphic novels recently. And this one is so damn gooood~ I almost didn't pick this up, but I'm so glad I did!