Deadly Class [vol. 1]: 1987, Reagan Youth by Rick Remender, art by Wes Craig, 160 pagesMarcus is living on the streets in San Francisco, dodging the police (who are after him for burning down a home for orphaned boys), when he's picked up by an odd assortment of teens. Turns out they've come to recruit him for Kings Dominion, a high school that trains teens to become assassins. As in most schools with strict rules, cliques reign supreme and the rules at Kings Dominion are also broken regularly — of course, the cliques at Kings are more akin to crime families, and the rules include the prohibition of sex, drugs, and killing one another. With this 1980s-set series, Remender and Craig re-create the insanity of that decade's drug scene, as well as the universal awkwardness of teens, and put an edgy twist on it. I enjoyed this first volume, and I'll definitely be reading more.
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