Books like Deadly Class, Vol. 7 by Rick Remender

Deadly Class, Vol. 1 follows students at Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, where elite crime families train their next‑generation assassins in a brutal high‑school setting.

A weary graduate student, after a failed suicide attempt, is thrust into heart‑pounding vigilante justice, battling crime and his own darkness.

After a botched hit, ex‑cop turned hitman Nick Sax must evade cops and mob while confronting a child‑killer Santa armed with a deadly secret, all set to collide during a twisted Christmas with an unlikely companion named Happy.

In 1988, Marcus Lopez finishes his first year at Kings Dominion, an elite academy that turns damaged teens into deadly assassins. The final exam—literally murder—threatens to consume his friendships and love before he can graduate.

Marcus Lopez enters Kings Dominion, a clandestine academy that trains assassins, while juggling romance, friendships, and a murderous past that threatens those around him.

Marcus and his girlfriend Maria find themselves hunted by a Mexican cartel after being forced to kill a classmate, forcing Marcus to confront the brutal realities of his assassin training.

Makoto Kowata, a novice witch, moves to rural Aomori with her black‑cat familiar to complete her training while staying with distant cousins.

Deadly Class erupts with graphic, crime‑driven action as a squad of battered teens enrolls in a covert high school, training to become the world’s deadliest assassins.

Deadly Class, Deluxe Edition Book Two gathers arcs 4‑6 from the comic series, following 1980s teens trained at a clandestine academy to become assassins or reinvent themselves as ordinary people.

A new freshman class arrives at Kings Dominion, where the student council’s brutal rule turns the school into a deadly battleground. Amid betrayals, Saya’s past resurfaces and Marcus and Maria plot revenge.

Deadly Class (Vol. 5) continues the gritty saga of a notorious school where students train as assassins, balancing ambition with the cost of their humanity.

Shimura Takako's sensitive and charming manga series about two middle-schoolers wrestling with their gender identities continues. Faced with unwanted changes to their growing bodies, male-identified Takatsuki-san discovers the wonders of "breast binders," and female-identified Nitori-kun explores the limits of his ability to "pass." Also: the success of their performance of The Rose of Versailles in the fifth grade - in which the boys played the women and the girls played the men - inspires our protagonists to put on another gender-bending play for the junior-high school festival. They riff on Romeo and Juliet. Nitori-kun and his friend Chiba-san write the script together, but Chiba-san has an agenda: She wants to play Romeo, with Nitori-kun in the role of Juliet. But Nitori-kun wants Takatsuki-san to play Romeo. Chiba-san forces Nitori-kun to confront a question he's been avoiding. Are his feelings for Takatsuki-san those of a boy for a girl, a girl for a girl, or a girl for a boy? Meanwhile, Maho plans a trip to the beach with her boyfriend, and Nitori-kun must chaperone.

In the present day, Assassin Jonathan Hawk fights through a terrible setback to unmask a traitor in the Order's ranks, whilst his ancestor El Cakr battles Templar agents to gain possession of the powerful Scepter of Aset in 13th century Egypt. As paths intertwine and hidden agendas are revealed, both Hawk and El Cakr take dangerous steps that lead them ever closer toward their destinies.