One imagines that given the premise of this story - which involves children murdering each other - that he tells us about the terrible things he witnessed as a way of gaining social permission to express things much worse than that narratively for the sake of cheap entertainment. Remender opens the first volume by opening up about what a rough adolescence he had in Phoenix, where he saw one friend shot in the head, another die from a heroin overdose, and personally experienced two group beatdowns. By the end of Volume 4, we get a pretty interesting surprise ending that suggests a new direction for the series, but no, it's all undone, and it's all just more of the same.Īnd that same we get so much more of is just an endless conveyor belt of half-assed world-building, slapdash plotting, threadbare character development, self-important sermonizing about pop-culture, off-target edgelord references, and bathroom jokes a-go-go (somewhere in the middle of this, we get a three-page long fart joke). Remender is at his Remender-iest here (a feat he won't top until he launches his Scumbag series a few years later), which means that what begins as an intriguing, edgy concept has more than run its course by the end of Volume 1.
Now, lest you be tricked into thinking that this is going to be any fun, be advised that it isn't. There, he learns the tradecraft of murder, but also must navigate the corridors of teenage angst, shifting alliances, and more as he tries to survive long enough to challenge the school itself - and by proxy, all of the corrupt institutions that make the world such an awful place. There are some spoilers ahead.ĭeadly Class, written by Rick Remender and illustrated by Wes Craig, is the story of a wayward youth in the late 1980s who finds himself in a private academy where the children of extremely powerful people are trained in the arts of assassination. This is a collective review for Deadly Class, Vols.
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