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Deadly Class
Deadly Class | Rick Remender
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Change the world with a bullet. It's 1987 and homeless teenager Marcus Lopez Arguello has no reson to keep living. Until one fateful evening he is approached by a mysterious girl who invites him to join Kings Dominion Atelier of the Deadly Arts, a brutal, clandestine high school, where the world's top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art, killing is a craft and the dagger in your back is no metaphor.--Page 4 of cover, volume 1.
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vivastory
Deadly Class | Rick Remender
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This is a review of the entire series of Deadly Class. I read volume 1 towards the end of January & was immediately pulled in. Although I read the majority of the 12 volumes in the series in Feb I just read the final 3 in a sitting. Deadly Class begins with Marcus. At the beginning he is living on the streets of San Francisco, The son of immigrant parents who died, he is recruited to King's Dominion, a very dangerous school for assassins. (CONT)

vivastory There is a rule against students killing one another, the danger is very real. What drew me into DC was the character work: Marcus, Saya, Maria, Helmut, Petra, Shabnam. These were characters I came to both love & loathe. Although DC spans from the 80s to just a couple of years ago, the vast majority of it takes place in the 80s & there is a lot of passionate discussion about the music, of different genres, from that period. I absolutely (CONT) (edited) 2mo
vivastory loved this series, even when it broke my heart. I'm using volume 8 (Never Go Back) for #titlematcheslyricsfromasong for #52bookclub 2mo
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TheRomantiCate
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Very very very cool... I‘d heard interesting things about the show so I thought I‘d check out the GN! Very punk and cool art style... lots of violence and language (obvi) ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

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Moodyreader
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I love everybody in this bar, y‘all. Would protect them all at great risk to my personal being

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