Pour son deuxième comics sous la bannière Image Comics, Rick Remender (Black Science) s’associe au dessinateur Wes Craig avec Deadly Class. L’histoire s’inspire librement de la jeunesse Punk/Rock du scénariste. Il y mélange son obsession pour les assassins professionnels (Uncanny X-Force) avec un autre projet sur la jeunesse américaine à l’époque du président Reagan (initialement intitulé Reagan Youth).
Deadly Class s’intéresse à Marcus et ses camarades de classe formés à devenir les plus grands assassins du monde. Si la série débute en 1987, chaque arc verra les élèves évoluer dans leurs études jusqu’au diplôme… Pour ceux qui y survivent.
[quote]Deadly Class #1
Story by Rick Remender
Art by Wesley Craig
Colors by Lee Loughridge
Cover by Wesley Craig, Lee Loughridge, Jonathan Wayshak
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.50
Release Date January, 2014
It’s 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. He has no money. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can’t focus in class, his mind constantly drifting to the stunning girl in the front row and the Dag Nasty show he has tickets to. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin’s top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he’s failing is “Dismemberment 101” and his crush, member of the most notorious crime syndicate in Japan, has a double-digit body count. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world’s top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At King’s Dominion high school for the deadly arts, the dagger in your back isn’t always metaphorical, nor is your fellow classmates poison.
Join writer RICK REMENDER with rising star WESLEY CRAIG (BATMAN) and legendary colorist LEE LOUGHRIDGE (FEAR AGENT), to reminisce the mid’s 1980?s underground through the eyes of the most damaged and dangerous teenagers on Earth.[/quote]
[quote=« Wes Craig »]Well, we own this – which means we can do whatever we want. We entertained all options at first, then narrowed it down to what worked best – logo, school designs, the look for the coloring and lettering, etc. Creating your own world up-front can be very time consuming, but in the end, it’s one of the most rewarding aspects of a creator-owned book.
More specifically, I used borderless panels on a « Batman » comic I did with Lee, and Rick really liked that and asked me to keep it. The look of the action sequence in the book came out of experiments I’d been doing in my sketchbooks,trying to show motion in comic book form. Which is tough – 'cause y’know, those things don’t move.[/quote]
[quote]Deadly Class #1
Story by Rick Remender
Art by Wesley Craig
Colors by Lee Loughridge
Cover by Wesley Craig, Lee Loughridge, Jonathan Wayshak
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.50
Release Date January, 2014
It’s 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. He has no money. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can’t focus in class, his mind constantly drifting to the stunning girl in the front row and the Dag Nasty show he has tickets to. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin’s top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he’s failing is “Dismemberment 101” and his crush, member of the most notorious crime syndicate in Japan, has a double-digit body count. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world’s top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At King’s Dominion high school for the deadly arts, the dagger in your back isn’t always metaphorical, nor is your fellow classmates poison.
Join writer RICK REMENDER with rising star WESLEY CRAIG (BATMAN) and legendary colorist LEE LOUGHRIDGE (FEAR AGENT), to reminisce the mid’s 1980?s underground through the eyes of the most damaged and dangerous teenagers on Earth.[/quote]
[quote=« Wes Craig »] I love drawing Marcus, he’s not as visually striking as, say, Saya or Maria, but he’s got a lot going on internally that’s an interesting challenge to show through his expressions and posture,
Master Lin is small and craggy and I love drawing those kinds of characters, especially in contrast to all the smooth young people. [laughs]
And I love drawing Saya- because she’s just cool.[/quote]
[quote]DEADLY CLASS #2 Written by: Rick Remender
Art by: Wesley Craig
Cover by: Wesley Craig
Pages: 32
Price: $3.99
In stores: Feb. 26
It’s Marcus’s first day at the Kings Dominion High School for the Deadly Arts. A locker full of death threats, a schedule full of brutality, and whispers in the hallway about his mysterious past…which is fast catching up to cut out his freshly broken heart.[/quote]
[quote]Deadly Class #3
Story by Rick Remender
Art by Wes Craig
Colors by Lee Loughridge
Cover by Wes Craig
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.50
Release Date Wed, March 26th, 2014
Tasked with their first assassination mission, Marcus and Willie roam the sad and lonely streets of San Francisco in the dead of night, stalked by a shadow from Marcus’s mysterious past.[/quote]
[quote]DEADLY CLASS #4
Written by: Rick Remender.
Art by: Wesley Craig.
Cover by: Wesley Craig.
Description: Class trip! Marcus, Willie, and Saya tear through a neon-soaked Las Vegas, high on life…oh, and a bunch of acid too. And when you’re a teenage killer-on-the-run, stalked by a mutilated psycho with a raging hard-on for revenge, you’re in for one baaad trip.
Pages: 32.
Price: $3.50.
In stores: April 30. [/quote]
