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This article will cover the first two arcs of the Deadly Class scripted series by Rick Remender and designed by Wes Craig. He comes the first 11 issues published at Image. The series is not translated into French. It is provided on the Urban Planning for the month of September 2015.

It all began in 1987. President Reagan decided that psychiatric hospitals are too expensive to the American taxpayer and began to close. In doing so, thousands of mentally ill Erent the streets of San Francisco. This is how the parents of the young Marcus Lopez are accidentally killed by a schizophrenic.

The boy then séchappe of the orphanage where he suffered the worst abuse to end homelessness in 17 years. After making a strange lépreuve, he was recruited into a school run by an old bald man. It comes not from school but Charles Xavier from Kings Dominion School of the Arts Deadly; a professional de.tueurs school! Too happy to be friends with the school violence seed and especially not sleep on the street, Marcus will live a more dangerous daventures series as each other without losing sight of its true motivation: to kill Ronald Reagan!

Here is a written thing with guts, no downtime and Marcus Lopez could be the son of Jesse Custer! When Preacher begins, how to take seriously the Pasteur story goes hunting to God with his girlfriend and her vampire hitgirl buddy? With the start of this deadly class, it's a bit the same! A secret dassassin school in the city? Mafia of children, teenagers and tramps disfigured psychopath service? A clever sexy Japanese sword? Really? Yes! REALLY!

Garth Ennis sold us the quest Jesse Custer via both a geographical exploration that history of the United States. The trip was ultimately more important than the destination (to quote lami Presence). Here this is the same. The quest against Reagan, one sen f *** finally. What counts, it is these colorful characters who deeply endearing, as they are improbable, ring TRUE!

At no time Remender plays with his audience, he gives everything he has, even to shoot all cartridges at a time. The subplots, the secrets surrounding the tragic life of Marcus are solved in 11 episodes. Just like Ennis who delivered the keys to the personality of Jesse Custer in the second arc, Remender not decompresses the horrible life of his hero to the orphanage.

But it would be wrong not to exist Deadly Class by its similarities Preacher. Remender, continues here, free from the constraints of Marvel, his work on childhood and violence left behind that he had brilliantly tackled in the Archangel saga. Reagan napparaît not directly in the book, but his (in) action is everywhere. His presence comes down àlabsence: absence of limits, morality, compassion, justice of a country that disengages by its ultra liberalism of any educational reach. The system is perverted, the worm in the fruit and the Welfare State Roosevelt abandoned his children.

Reagan triggered by an invisible economic war where the weakest refuge in delinquency and their impulses as post-Hiroshima kids who navaient as solution to make the thank you of the Japanese mafia. Finally Remender gives voice to ethnic minorities: Marcus is Nicaraguan, Saya Japanese, Mexican Maria. All have an account with a set lAmérique Reagan. And recalls the first Multi-Ethnic milling Claremont Xmen upside down, as if the dream of mutants is integration, that of Marcus and his friends is disintegration. To quote Johnny Rotten, they do not know what they want, but know how to get it.

In this, the shadow of Batman Miller is never far away! (Am I really trying to describe this, the patented batmophobe me?). Gotham mutants were in Bruce Wayne a father figure, who, as she was psychotic, did not abandon them and embodied a certain America. Deadly Class of kids are left to their fate and sow disaster wherever they go. Their reactions to what they face shifted trigger is often irresistible. Their actions are definitely serious, but committed with the candor of childhood. Each episode contains scenes already cult: the opening way Born Again and homeless hero discovery dune School psychopaths recalling the heyday of Xmen Jason Aaron, a trip to lacidestupéfiant, moments Remender trash and confrontation as violent as grotesque reminding the best hours of Kickass.

Impossible not to mention the work of Wes Craig, author of drawings and covers of the series. A filing his screenwriter who has digested all the best comics have to offer, Craig voluntarily imposes a cartoon style where lon finds the influence of Chris Bachalo for trombines and cutting ultra picky (I'm really trying to describe these lines-bis -?), the taste of Risso board for 100 Bullets. And of course the shadow of Miller and Mazzucchelli hovering as project sponsors. His style allows you to move to the less forgiving drive the ultra violence of these young people who clearly do anything with nimporte otherworldliness and a distancing with what is happening in the picture. As for the colorist Lee Loughridge it performs a remarkable job to give a specific tone to each sequence.

Remarkable, creaky and tender, this rascal class explores this dangerous age for lindividu and society. While the coverage of trade offers each time upside down mirror of our heroes, it is impossible to resist this school that would evoke a Charles Xavier mansion gone wrong. For Deadly Class also offers an exploration of the world of comics and mainstream (Marcus works in a comic shop). These brackets allow malicious doeil dadorables blink and caustics Remender a job that he loves. Xmen, but Akira Batman, Watchmen and Mashall Law are well cited. And the films of John Hughes, Class 84 or Terminator.

In short ruez on Deadly Class! The dialogues are tasty, the strong characters and art delicious, unpredictable situations and unsustainable cliffhangers. Remender delivers here an unstoppable fable about art and how to grow up in a beat-up company without a doubt rock face parentale.Voilà series full of sex, drugs, rock and dune not necessarily rebellion without cause. Remender written the opposite of what is shown: a humanist fable inhabited and tender, embodying the father that he lost all these misfits! Brilliant!