Deadly Class #7
Rick Remender (w), Wes Craig (a)
Image Comics

Liz says: Whenever I try to explain what Deadly Class is about and why it’s the best series going at Image Comics, I always seem to fall short. ‘It’s a book about kids at a school for assassins’ is a pretty lame sell considering how many books exist with that same basic premise. Deadly Class is a far more rare and special prospect than its description conveys. Set in the eighties, rife with counterculture and music references, it is by all accounts a very personal story to its creators, and that’s what truly sets it apart. There are a lot of books out there with teenage protagonists, but surprisingly few that truly encapsulate the teenage experience, in all its raw beauty and pure pain. Deadly Class is the real deal, funny and heartbreaking and eminently relatable, especially if you were a certain sort of kid. Memories of being that kid will come rushing back to you in all their intensity. Read it and weep.