Deadly Class Volume 10: Save Your Generation
Rick Remender, writer; Wes Craig, artist; Lee Loughridge, colorist
Image Comics, 2021
Back after a long hiatus, the narrative jumps around chronologically, as it has in recent volumes (the early ones all had a year on the cover, focusing on a single class year at Kings Dominion). The story begins in Phoenix, Arizona in 1991. Marcus is living a dissolute life, and is his usual cheery self: his narration begins "I've never felt like I deserved a single success, but I've taken total ownership of every failure." The bloody assassination attempt that closes the chapter shows that he has not left his old life behind. Forward to 1997, with a bunch of the gang relaxing in Lake Tahoe, California...but a flashback to 1989 finally gets to the heart of the matter. All of the classes at Kings Dominion have gathered in the auditorium for the end of the school year. Usually the freshman class are targeted by the rest in a battle for survival, but Marcus has other ideas. Instead of "kill the rats," he calls to "kill the snakes," and his supporters begin to wage war--a war which threatens not only the faculty but Master Lin himself. An earlier flash forward to 2001 shows a failing Saya reunited with a very polished looking Marcus (police detective or F.B.I., perhaps?). Lots of possibilities for the next (and final) collection.
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