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Deadly Class, tom 1: 1987 Reagan Youth by Rick Remender, David Lapham, Lee Loughridge, Wes Craig
sbsantiago's review against another edition
4.0
4.5 Really cool and entertaining story! The coloring in this is seriously so good and was for sure my favorite aspect. Characters were all so different and unique. They added a lot to the story and I'm looking forward to learning more about their stories. Definitely excited to pick up volume two and see where the story goes!!
sandeeisreading's review against another edition
4.0
Humanity is a meaningless spurt of consciousness -- there is no god watching over me. Nothing ever stops the beatings. My life is insignificant.
After reading the afterword from the author, I understood his purpose of writing about Deadly Class more. It's more than just writing about kids violently beating each other up, or about them setting out to assassinate their target. Let me tell you, this does get very violent. There is blood are everywhere. I would not recommend this for younger readers. But the thing is, the message of this book is mostly geared towards them.
Marcus, our main protagonist, is one an unlucky bastard. Really. He is the person readers would be able to connect to the most, not only because he's the main protagonist, but because he deals with the most shit in this book, and we all go through shit. Just when things are starting to get better for him, like a place to stay (when he got in to the school where they teach you assassin stuff, finally had sort-of-friends) bad shit starts happening again. This is something that we all know too well. When we are expect something good to come out of something, we instead get slammed in the face with a huge hurdle that would put us back to where we started. That's basically how Marcus' life was. A constant struggle to keep himself alive.
This book also deals with bullying, revenge, and friendship.How it deals the bullying part is a bit clicheish, but it wasn't really a problem. While Marcus wants to get revenge for the person who he blames for his parent's death, other characters in the story was out to get their revenge as well. To balance it out though, this is not all about negativity, and how bad things keep on happening to people. I love seeing the friendship that blossoms with the characters. Despite the differences in their personality, they jived in well with each other.
The illustration is not the usual type that I go for.It does work well with the story they were trying to tell. The world Marcus lives in is messy, so the art, was a bit messy too. The colors, though, were vibrant and gloomy when they needed to be.
Overall, I liked it. It was a good read. Stuff like this, if not done well, could go bad extremely fast. Luckily, the authors know what they were doing, they knew what they were going for, and that made the story worth reading.
juliette_ariel's review against another edition
3.75
The set up and premise is really cool but it kinda lost me during the acid trip.
readsbylaura's review against another edition
4.0
Really love how dark this is! I'm definitely interested to continue reading the rest of the comics and (maybe) starting the show.
alrightieaphroditie's review against another edition
3.0
three stars ∗ oh boy! that was a wild ride. the concept for this graphic novel is so intriguing to me, and this first volume was absolutely amazing, so i’m eager to continue on with the series!