![]() ![]() Remender ( Black Science) attempts commentary on the Reagan era, but ends up absorbing the decade’s cynicism with a callousness that offers solace neither to his characters nor to his readers. ![]() Craig’s appealing artwork is decompressed and crisp, and aided by Lee Loughridge’s European-style color palette. At first, the book to explores the society and intrigue of the school, but this is abandoned for more gratuitous thrills, soon moving to the depressing murder of a homeless man for a homework assignment, then sidetracking into a pointless drug-fueled murder trip to Las Vegas. Collecting the first arc of the most critically acclaimed new series of 2014, by writer RICK REMENDER (BLACK SCIENCE, Fear Agent) and rising star artist WESLEY. The cops are chasing him for a mysterious crime, but he’s rescued at the last minute by a one-man-army-of-a-teen-girl cliché who recruits him to a secret high school that trains assassins. ![]() The year is 1987, and young Marcus Lopez Arguello is homeless and suicidal following the death of his parents. Built on the comic book trope of a secret school for gifted youngsters à la X-Men, and mixing in John Hughes’ high school clique clichés, Remender’s self-described “memoir of sorts wrapped in the guise of a crime thriller” ends up not being much of either. 1: Reagan Youth Kindle & comiXology by Rick Remender (Author), Wesley Craig (Artist), Lee Loughridge (Artist) Format: Kindle Edition Book 1 of 12: Deadly Class See all formats and editions Kindle & Comixology 0.00 This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited 11. ![]()
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