REVIEW: ‘Deadly Class #22′ wants to meet your maker

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Story by: Rick Remender

Art by: Wes Craig

Publisher: Image Comics

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Deadly Class #22 starts off a new arc by highlighting a new set of students of the secretively infamous School of Deadly Arts. Sure, the remaining sophomores who survived the great final examinations from the last arc are enjoying the moment except for fan-favorite Saya (“Shout To The Heart, And You’re To Blame…You Give Love […]

Posted September 29, 2016 by Paul Ramos

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Deadly Class #22 starts off a new arc by highlighting a new set of students of the secretively infamous School of Deadly Arts. Sure, the remaining sophomores who survived the great final examinations from the last arc are enjoying the moment except for fan-favorite Saya (“Shout To The Heart, And You’re To Blame…You Give Love A Bad Name!”). Thus, we are treated with new interesting characters from different nationalities/ethnicity (East German, Vietnamese and Irish to name some), and another roller-coaster emotional ride by the master himself, Rick Remender, and equally stunning art by Wes Craig. To make this issue more memorable, Rick has this fatso-Machiavellian back-stabbing manipulator do the welcoming speech that is so hilarious, embarrassing, and downright colorful all roll into one, proving the writer has something more in his writing repertoire. Moreover with the writer’s portrayal with the Soviet jock whose characterization is given a significant change for a better, even so with Rick’s new characters around.

Wes Craig’s art remains consistently excellent from start to finish, including his sequential paneling, although my favorite picks are the speech delivered and the cemetery portion, which proves ones and for all that my fave DC character is anything but alive (sob). Powerful artistic delivery is the description I can say on Craig’s excellent illustrations. The purple colors soften the already emotional starter of loss, debauchery and wackiness.

Aside from occasional cuss words, innuendos, and other mature stuffs that are literally commonplace in Deadly Class run, this twenty-second issue jumps on a good trajectory point about rejection, power-playing, high school politics, bullying and first year naivete experiences. If only Rick hears Sharon Cuneta’s iconic song, “Oh My High School Life”.