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Assorted Crisis Events
Assorted Crisis Events #1
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Time is having a crisis.Mingling in the red-light district, you can find actual cavemen, medieval knights, and cyborg soldiers on leave from World War IV. Victorian debutantes amble their way into cell phone stores, confused and bewildered (what is a data plan?). On their way to work, bleary-eyed commuters get trapped in time-loops, assaulted by alternate-reality versions of themselves, and try to avoid post-apocalyptic wastelands. And the 3:15 bus just took a wrong turn...into the neolithic era.Rising stars DENIZ CAMP (20TH CENTURY MEN, The Ultimates) and ERIC ZAWADZKI (House of El) and Eisner-winners JORDIE BELLAIRE and HASSAN OTSMANE-ELHAOU are proud to present ASSORTED CRISIS EVENTS, an ongoing, zig-zagging anthology series about the compromised clicks of our clocks-full of one-shot stories both beautiful and ugly, tragic and redemptive, surreal and somehow all too familiar. Stories of people (and reality) in CRISIS-trying to keep it together while the world is falling apart, second by twisted second
Time is having a crisis.Mingling in the red-light district, you can find actual cavemen, medieval knights, and cyborg soldiers on leave from World War IV. Victorian debutantes amble their way into cell phone stores, confused and bewildered (what is a data plan?). On their way to work, bleary-eyed commuters get trapped in time-loops, assaulted by alternate-reality versions of themselves, and try to avoid post-apocalyptic wastelands. And the 3:15 bus just took a wrong turn...into the neolithic era.Rising stars DENIZ CAMP (20TH CENTURY MEN, The Ultimates) and ERIC ZAWADZKI (House of El) and Eisner-winners JORDIE BELLAIRE and HASSAN OTSMANE-ELHAOU are proud to present ASSORTED CRISIS EVENTS, an ongoing, zig-zagging anthology series about the compromised clicks of our clocks-full of one-shot stories both beautiful and ugly, tragic and redemptive, surreal and somehow all too familiar. Stories of people (and reality) in CRISIS-trying to keep it together while the world is falling apart, second by twisted second
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Published March 12, 2025
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March 13, 2025
Holy Moses…what a statement. This issue is filled with so many jaw-dropping moments and quiet, deep-hitting aphorisms. “On the street below, the end of the world is just people denying each other’s humanity.”
Fittingly, this book is very much of this moment - waking up one day to find a fascist nightmare - but also of any moment. One of humanity’s first and last questions is how the world will end. Every day we find out more to help us answer that question, but we also forget something true in the process.
Fittingly, this book is very much of this moment - waking up one day to find a fascist nightmare - but also of any moment. One of humanity’s first and last questions is how the world will end. Every day we find out more to help us answer that question, but we also forget something true in the process.
March 12, 2025
Not what I was expecting (or hoping) for
Interesting enough concept but it didn’t resonate with me at all. Nothing in the issue compelled me enough to think it’s worth plunking down $4 next month.
Interesting enough concept but it didn’t resonate with me at all. Nothing in the issue compelled me enough to think it’s worth plunking down $4 next month.
May 18, 2025
Assorted Crisis Events #1 by Camp sounded like a fun premise and the art had some striking moments, but the story never really came together for me. A world unraveling through temporal anomalies is intriguing, but the execution didn’t resonate with me. The narrative, centered on Ashley’s struggle to fix her parents’ antique clock amidst a backdrop of time-displaced chaos, felt disjointed and lacked emotional depth. Despite the creative team’s efforts, including Eric Zawadzki’s detailed art and Jordie Bellaire’s coloring, the story didn’t fully engage me. The concept holds promise, but this debut didn’t quite deliver. Doubt I will pick up the next one…
March 12, 2025
a fun trip through an absurd life
it's a slice of Ashley's days in an absurd world. Very dry with some dark humor. Does a good job setting up the central concept.
it's a slice of Ashley's days in an absurd world. Very dry with some dark humor. Does a good job setting up the central concept.
August 27, 2025
Really cool and weird. I love the coloring (shoutout to my girl Jordie Bellaire!). I look forward to seeing how different each issue is. I really became attached to the main character in this one.
March 19, 2025
Its ok.
It almost seems like a plot for a good book but it's too random for my taste. Yeah I know that's the point but idk. Just was not doing it for me. Kind of average. I like Deniz Camp but this was not good.
It almost seems like a plot for a good book but it's too random for my taste. Yeah I know that's the point but idk. Just was not doing it for me. Kind of average. I like Deniz Camp but this was not good.
July 10, 2025
“Next day or next week (it’s impossible to say which) I wake up to a fascist nightmare. But I still gotta go to work.”
OMG YES! I understand the hype behind this series now, this was astronomically amazing and I had no idea it was an anthology series until finally reading the back. I love anything time related, and this turns the dial up to the extreme! It’s such a nihilistic world to have time in utter crisis, literal street corners are becoming different periods of time and killing zones you have to watch out for…yet life goes on. People just disappear one day…yet I still need to go into work. It’s insanity, yet it’s so human! And that’s where Ashley comes in. With time constantly breaking around you, who has the time or need to fix a broken clock caused by the movies that continue to set off explosions outside your apartment, when the only person the clock means anything to is yourself. What clock enthusiasts nowadays care that it’s the only thing left to remember your parents. You just have to keep going, avoid your evil doppelgängers, and try and not let anything the old man with a jet pack says about your future get to you when he starts foreshadowing stuff. After all, there’s a near future chance that it’s your future, right? One in infinity that it actually plays out that way. But as we can see through the eyes of Ashley, constantly living like this can get a quite rough. It can become way too much, and it can all start to blend together to dangerous levels. At one point Ashley walks home after drinking at the bar, only to get an alert for a time anomaly causing an earthquake. She arrived home to find a giant crack in the ground, and saw this as her chance to let go and fall to her death…only to find out when she hit the pavement that it was a practical effect for a movie filming in front of her apartment once again. Things really take a turn for Ashley when she sees some cops hounding and trying to arrest the old man with the jet pack, according to them he wasn’t born yet so he doesn’t count as a person…which means they can just push him around. Ashley has had enough and this is not something she will stand for…which ultimately ends with her getting hit int he face really hard with a baton and waking up in the drunk tank. By the time she was finally she got her broken clock she has been desperately trying to get repaired…in pieces. Once she finally got home she once again woke to the sound of explosions. What post apocalyptic movie is filming now?! What’s even the point other than to give the man who runs the store downstairs PTSD attacks, we already know how the world ends! We are living it! So Ashley has had enough and she is going to go and try and shut down their production. She gets outside to find the usual, tank, Dino’s, giant explosions. Where’s the director! Wait a minute…why is the shop owner, Mr. Suleiman, running towards her with fear in his eyes?! Earlier the old man with the jet pack and stars in his eyes asked her “Do you know what a B325 super plasma beam does to the human body! You will.” With Mr Suleiman as the subject, I believe Ashley just found out the answer to that…and it’s horrific. But her again within all of this chaos, how can you even tell what is real?! It’s so hard to keep track, everyone is trying to make a buck off the end of the world…even the news reports supposed to help you. So how can anyone ever keep going…yet they do. Wow, this issue has just been a masterclass and I can’t wait to keep exploring it. I grabbed this issue as a reprint but I couldn’t find issue 2 at my comic shop. Definitely going to be looking for it now alongside issue 3 and 4 prints, such a good series!
OMG YES! I understand the hype behind this series now, this was astronomically amazing and I had no idea it was an anthology series until finally reading the back. I love anything time related, and this turns the dial up to the extreme! It’s such a nihilistic world to have time in utter crisis, literal street corners are becoming different periods of time and killing zones you have to watch out for…yet life goes on. People just disappear one day…yet I still need to go into work. It’s insanity, yet it’s so human! And that’s where Ashley comes in. With time constantly breaking around you, who has the time or need to fix a broken clock caused by the movies that continue to set off explosions outside your apartment, when the only person the clock means anything to is yourself. What clock enthusiasts nowadays care that it’s the only thing left to remember your parents. You just have to keep going, avoid your evil doppelgängers, and try and not let anything the old man with a jet pack says about your future get to you when he starts foreshadowing stuff. After all, there’s a near future chance that it’s your future, right? One in infinity that it actually plays out that way. But as we can see through the eyes of Ashley, constantly living like this can get a quite rough. It can become way too much, and it can all start to blend together to dangerous levels. At one point Ashley walks home after drinking at the bar, only to get an alert for a time anomaly causing an earthquake. She arrived home to find a giant crack in the ground, and saw this as her chance to let go and fall to her death…only to find out when she hit the pavement that it was a practical effect for a movie filming in front of her apartment once again. Things really take a turn for Ashley when she sees some cops hounding and trying to arrest the old man with the jet pack, according to them he wasn’t born yet so he doesn’t count as a person…which means they can just push him around. Ashley has had enough and this is not something she will stand for…which ultimately ends with her getting hit int he face really hard with a baton and waking up in the drunk tank. By the time she was finally she got her broken clock she has been desperately trying to get repaired…in pieces. Once she finally got home she once again woke to the sound of explosions. What post apocalyptic movie is filming now?! What’s even the point other than to give the man who runs the store downstairs PTSD attacks, we already know how the world ends! We are living it! So Ashley has had enough and she is going to go and try and shut down their production. She gets outside to find the usual, tank, Dino’s, giant explosions. Where’s the director! Wait a minute…why is the shop owner, Mr. Suleiman, running towards her with fear in his eyes?! Earlier the old man with the jet pack and stars in his eyes asked her “Do you know what a B325 super plasma beam does to the human body! You will.” With Mr Suleiman as the subject, I believe Ashley just found out the answer to that…and it’s horrific. But her again within all of this chaos, how can you even tell what is real?! It’s so hard to keep track, everyone is trying to make a buck off the end of the world…even the news reports supposed to help you. So how can anyone ever keep going…yet they do. Wow, this issue has just been a masterclass and I can’t wait to keep exploring it. I grabbed this issue as a reprint but I couldn’t find issue 2 at my comic shop. Definitely going to be looking for it now alongside issue 3 and 4 prints, such a good series!
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March 15, 2025
I definitely enjoyed it. A big chunk of the story, too.
The art was very good. Ihadnt seen this person before and Belaire was great as always.
The story is something I've always thought about and was looking forward to a deep dive into it. This may be that book, however at the end it states it is an anthology not a mini or ongoing.
I'll keep reading, can't judge if the anthology was the right decision now or now.
The art was very good. Ihadnt seen this person before and Belaire was great as always.
The story is something I've always thought about and was looking forward to a deep dive into it. This may be that book, however at the end it states it is an anthology not a mini or ongoing.
I'll keep reading, can't judge if the anthology was the right decision now or now.
March 29, 2025
A unique read that left me feeling both seen and more alone somehow. Really great job at using a timeline falling apart as an analogy for the feeling of alienation and powerlessness so many people feel today. Certain aspects of it left me unsure if I was missing a bigger commentary point or if I was trying too hard to read into something. That might be my fault more than the comics tho. Definitely want to revisit after letting it settle because the concept is so intriguing and well done.
March 14, 2025
Plays like a magician at the top of their game. In a world where time is broken and the future and past spill without warning into the present, ACE wrangles a metaphor about the dissolution of social consensus from it, while keeping snappy and twisty in a way that never feels tedious or redundant. Tricks a plenty but never the same two.
March 19, 2025
The writing style is amazing and the art is impressive (I can see some Arthur Adams in some panels). But the scope of the book isn't for me. If you like post-apocalyptic settings with an underdog heroine, this might be for you.
March 22, 2025
This was a very well crafted issue and story, but I’m sad to learn this series is an anthology — I would have loved to see this story in particular fleshed out more. Regardless, a great start to a new series!
March 16, 2025
I am fascinated by the barrage of red herrings baked into "as*hole" (as one character screams) Ashley's daily life, and more than willing to show up for the next issue.
March 25, 2025
What is happening? I'm here for this.
April 3, 2025
WOW. i looooved the art and story here. deniz camp is quickly becoming one of my favorite writers
April 7, 2025
Reality is not what it seems time is experiencing a crisis and you never know what or when is real
April 12, 2025
Holy smokes this is good. The story and characters are first rate. The art is phenomenal. This is special.
April 26, 2025
Great start to a hopefully very interesting sci-fi anthology. Cool artwork, cool character, good premise and one gag where I laughed out loud, which is rare.
April 30, 2025
Really cool first issue, very intriguing concept. Deniz Camp is quickly becoming one of my favorite comic writers, and Zawadaski's art is beautiful. Excited to see where this goes.
October 4, 2025
The art style was fantastic and I’m soooo intrigued by this! Also the symbolism of the broken clock was top notch
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