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Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth
by Rick Remender, David Lapham, Lee Loughridge, Wes Craig
I wasn't sure how I was going to put these into my Goodreads because I'm reading them issue by issue online, but didn't want the issues to count as a bunch of separate books. So, I've decided to log each volume as a kindle edition.
That means I'm not going to have a lot to say here since all the issues are blending together as one story and this is the first volume, therefore a set-up. The style stands out to me among the other graphic novels and comic series I've read. It's less bubbly and round, quite straight and gritty. Movement is captured really well within the drawings, too! At one point in the beginning, Saya does a flip onto a car and I could really connect the images and see her doing the flip.
I like that there is diversity in the cast of characters and important issues are a basis for parts of the story and characters, but it doesn't feel forced or shoved in my face. I think the social commentary is relatable even with it taking place in the 1980s, which to me always makes stories better. Even though the characters are being trained as deadly assassins, they are still just young people trying to live in the world.
I'm not sure how I feel about the characters, yet, like if I have a favorite. So far I just feel like a bystander observing what happens.
Also, this is probably more like a 3.5 because the whole sneaking out and going to Vegas for like a night seemed odd to me. AND Chico followed them from San Francisco to Vegas. AND the bad guy is there. It was one of those moments when I was like, okkayy so this is happening... and it didn't feel like a cohesive part of the story.
That means I'm not going to have a lot to say here since all the issues are blending together as one story and this is the first volume, therefore a set-up. The style stands out to me among the other graphic novels and comic series I've read. It's less bubbly and round, quite straight and gritty. Movement is captured really well within the drawings, too! At one point in the beginning, Saya does a flip onto a car and I could really connect the images and see her doing the flip.
I like that there is diversity in the cast of characters and important issues are a basis for parts of the story and characters, but it doesn't feel forced or shoved in my face. I think the social commentary is relatable even with it taking place in the 1980s, which to me always makes stories better. Even though the characters are being trained as deadly assassins, they are still just young people trying to live in the world.
I'm not sure how I feel about the characters, yet, like if I have a favorite. So far I just feel like a bystander observing what happens.
Also, this is probably more like a 3.5 because the whole sneaking out and going to Vegas for like a night seemed odd to me. AND Chico followed them from San Francisco to Vegas. AND the bad guy is there. It was one of those moments when I was like, okkayy so this is happening... and it didn't feel like a cohesive part of the story.