REVIEW: Deadly Class No.50

I started this story reading the first volume one afternoon in Metro Detroit. On it’s 50th issue here, there is a huge gap as large as a canyon from the first volume, but that doesn’t deter from sinking in to the story here on this current arc : “A Fond Farewell”.

Where the last issue set everything up with Saya battling heroin addiction and Marcus being hired to put a bullet in her head, the action hits frame style with multiple scenarios on the best way for Saya and Marcus to storm her brother’s fortress to exact her revenge. The scenarios are gloriously violent, the type of material that would make Steve Dillon proud. Yet, Wes Craig is able to mix the styles of manga and neo-Italian art as the blood flows panel after panel that it gets hard to tell brain matter from bullets as the pages turn and the body counts pile up. Remender’s script is masterful in the art of action, providing full for the finest action scenes engulfed in nothing but black ink and onomatopoeia, with the threat that at any moment the series can be punctuated and the high-speed thrills can come to a halt.

“Deadly Class” is the type of series that streaming services would clamour for and can only provide a watered down presentation, because this is what comic books are made for. An title that can be picked up months and years in between life and still set the bar as the representation of high-level entertainment. Image might want to consider getting into film, action figures, etc because “Deadly Class” is the type of franchise that should not be allowed to ever die.

Score : 5/5

(W) Rick Remender (A) Lee Loughridge (A/CA) Wesley Craig