Deadly Class #8

Deadly Class (Single Issues)

by Rick Remender, Wes Craig (Illustrator), Leo Loughridge (Illustrator)

For the first time in his life, teenage assassin-in-training Marcus Lopez has a lot to lose: a circle of friends, a lover, a home. All these things are on the line when a terrifying figure from Marcus' own shadowy past comes back into his life to torment him. It all started during those years Marcus spent in an orphanage, the year's he's chronicled in his secret journal.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Young Adult, Graphic Novels Comics, Crime

31 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2014

About the author

Rick Remender is an American comic book writer and artist who resides in Los Angeles, California. He is the writer/co-creator of many independent comic books like Black Science, Deadly Class, LOW, Fear Agent and Seven to Eternity. Previously, he wrote The Punisher, Uncanny X-Force, Captain America and Uncanny Avengers for Marvel Comics.

Reviews

[Dylan Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

FANTASIC! Possibly the best one in the series so far!

[Ely · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best chapter yet

[Whoaskedmimi]

a pox on this humble bundle

[sanj · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Sometimes remembering a moment in your life can psychically hurt as you relive everything that mattered to you then, and realise how far it is gone now"

Marcus Lopez Arguello I love you so much.

[Colin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh man, this was incredible.

Perhaps issue #8 of Deadly Class wasn't the most fast paced or exciting, but even if it was lacking in that department, it more than makes up for it in other areas. I always enjoy the action and the various foolish antics of our little gang but this issue was much more focused on character development for Marcus and that's never a bad thing, right?

We are basically treated to a 31 page long history lesson in which Marcus's past is revealed a bit more to us. In true Deadly Class fashion, what we discover about Marcus's past is dark and horrific. It also sheds further light on a character we met a while ago and also explains why Marcus was a street rat at the start of the series. To say that you really feel for Marcus in this one is an understatement; no human could ever go through what he went through and remain unscathed. Probably the reason why he has such dark and depressing thoughts all the time....

I'm super excited to see where this arc is going. Looks like shit is about to hit the roof, if that note at the end by Remender himself is anything to go by!