This was a buddy read with the astonishing Kat. What the Hell have I been doing with my life, why did I not read this earlier! What starts off as a dark urban fantasy very quickly emerges to be (so far) one of the finest and entertaining portrayals of troubled youths in comic book history, an extraordinarily mature and innovatively drawn and inked ode to the 1980s. There's so much more in this from rock and indie music Easter Eggs through to gobsmackingly honest real interpretations of the actions and thoughts of the young mostly through Marcus's startlingly inciteful (at times) and self aware character. Nicaraguan immigrant, Marcus Lopez, who is saved from a police sting by the mysterious and so very deadly Saya (american Japanese) who in turn introduces him to her school - The Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts! And that's just the first issue in this superb coming of age drama for disaffected and truly troubled youths in their late teens in 1980s California. This first volume of this series introduces society outlier, homeless and on-the-run from the law,
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