Reading 'Deadly Class' for the first time isn't something most readers will forget. It all works so seamlessly - the story, the artwork and the incredible colouring. Literally the only way it can be fairly described is as 'an experience'. It's so much more than 'Just a comic' that you'll find yourself thinking about it on every level for weeks after your first read through. The series manages to perfectly capture the realities of teenage life on the fringe of the norm. It is a book that will resound with anyone who ever set foot in a high school, but even more so for those that reveled in moving against the grain. Sure, it's a pretty safe bet that readers aren't going to have attended a high school designed to train assassins, but the messages that the story delivers ring clear and there's just so much going on that it's hard not to get caught up in everything. Throw in the fact it's set in 1986 and you have some of the most iconic pop-culture references of all time (musically and filmically) littering the pages. It's also hard to overlook the fact that Vol. 1 which takes the name 'Reagan Youth', spends it's entire time barreling out of control toward an extreme conclusion - very much like it's real world namesake.