Assorted Crisis Events #3

Assorted Crisis Events

by Deniz Camp, Eric Zawadzki (Artist)

CRISIS ON HEARTH-TWO! When their Earth is destroyed in fire, residents of the small town “Hearth” escape into a near-identical neighboring universe. Do the residents of this surviving Hearth accept their unlucky alternate-reality doubles, or do they abandon them?

Genres: Comics

Kindle Edition

Published May 28, 2025

Reviews

[Machiavelli · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really strong issue that leans hard into thoughtful social commentary without feeling preachy. The sci-fi framework is used effectively to explore empathy, fear, and moral compromise, and the parallels to current events are impossible to miss. Unsettling in the best way — this one sticks with you after you finish it.

[Colin Post · Rating 5 out of 5]

The structural device of portraying the two opposing multiversal worlds on facing pages is so simple and so powerfully effective. It’s also a simple message - love thy neighbor - that gets so complicated by a slight change in perspective.

[Joseph Crook · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow that was bleak. Explores issues like the climate crisis, immigration, Palestine. Well told and beautiful artwork as always. Amazing work on symmetry.

[Wm · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant wordplay in this profound satire/homage/mashup of the DC universe and cruel Trump-era malarkey.

[Remi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Assorted Crisis Events is the first comic series I have ever read. I am incredibly impressed with each issue, and I feel such a profound impact upon completing the next installment. Genuinely want to scream from the mountaintops for everyone to pick this series up and give it a go. Looking forward to more!

[Flora · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just as Hearth One and Hearth Two are parallel universe reflections of each other, so does this story parallel and reflect our reality… An incredibly well-crafted and thoughtfully-illustrated story that hits closer to home than we’d like to admit.

[Cybernex007 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every entry in this series feels deeper and even more existentially terrifying than the last and this one takes the cake for being able to apply this issues situation with real world problems. I love that this issue takes the constantly debated topic of immigration and flips it so that your new neighbor, is yourself. And then you watch in horror as the exact same thing in real life plays out. The minor inconveniences of life suddenly start to become larger, you start to dehumanize yourself, you start to push your neighbor out and see them as something you could never be. Cults of personality start to rise in the polls and take over…until everything burns. We all know it’s going to happen because it’s already happened. This series is phenomenal but this may be my favorite issue, just the setup itself where every page is a mirror reflection of the other side with a different perspective. I love it so much, in an odd way it’s such a humanizing book from the reader’s perspective.

[A Fan of Comics · Rating 4 out of 5]

Two worlds trying to coexist in one space…

There is a town that exists in two universes. When one of the universes collapses and is forced to travel to the other, the first universe has trouble adjusting to their own counterparts. Hearth 1 hates Hearth 2 despite it being themselves. They can’t stand the differences or similarities between each other and soon are set on destroying “the other”. Great commentary on displacement and what it means to “love thy neighbors”. There were some really dark moments in this issue and I can see people not liking the content. I think it’s really well done for the subject they are trying to tackle.

[Garth · Rating 4 out of 5]

2026 - 365 Days of Whatever Is On My Comic Book TBR
Day 38

I loved the concept of this one. However, I did constantly stumble over Hearthling every time it was used, which was too much. Not every word balloon needs to remind us of the term.

[Brandon Tindle-Cowgill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great!!

[Ziyad Baksh · Rating 5 out of 5]

solid dark comedy

its a solid dark comedy offering up a sci fi parable about a hot topic in american society.

very well done.

[Andy Waldron · Rating 5 out of 5]

every month i become more convinced that deniz camp is a genius. moments in this book literally made my jaw drop. generational stuff.

[Micah Glus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another banger from Camp & Co. Art was fantastic, and the story was another tough one to sit with.

[Jason Holtzman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was well done, especially when considering the wide range of topics you could consider it providing commentary on. With that in mind, it was a little wordy.

[achilles · Rating 3 out of 5]

yeah... it's like a simile tale for the current times if you will.

[James Stuart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hearth One and Two seem pretty familiar to Hearth Zero

[Cam Deloach · Rating 4 out of 5]

"We could never be like them"

[zachariah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Goodness gracious