Assorted Crisis Events Volume 1

Assorted Crisis Events #1-5

by Deniz Camp, Eric Zawadzki (Artist), Jordie Bellaire (Colorist)

An action-packed sci-fi anthology series following normal people navigating an alternate world where time is having a crisis, and just stepping outside your door can send you on an unexpected adventure. 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…Collects ASSORTED CRISIS EVENTS #1-5

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Anthologies, Time Travel

208 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2025

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Assorted Crisis Events is a collection of five tales in a world where the laws of time and space are breaking down. Deniz Camp is a gifted writer and I can't wait to see what he does years down the road. Eric Zawadzki, Jordie Bellaire, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou handle the art chores and the lettering and play a big part in how the book lands. The designers, Tom Mullin and Wesley Griffith, also play a big part in the feel of the book.

It reminds me of Ice Cream Man more than anything else, being that is an anthology with one common character, in this case the old man with the jetpack, and the varying structures of the stories. What cause the multiverse to begin unraveling isn't revealed and isn't all that important. I don't really want to spoil anything but the tales are unsettling and the look of the book adds to the uneasy tone of the stories.

[Rod Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Deniz Camp views our societal problems through the perspective of poor civilians suffering through a cosmic superhero crisis event. The time loops, dimension slips, and doppelgangers that usually vex the metas, mutants and superfolk fall upon poor schmucks just trying to get through their workday and family life.

It took me a moment to get in the groove and warm up to the book since each chapter introduces a new cast with new problems, but the third one that touches on immigration and xenophobia really hooked me and the next chapters just kept sinking the barb in deeper as they visited a hapless guy racing through life without agency and a young woman coping with the domestic violence she saw as a child.

So, yeah, heavy topics, but given a fresh new perspective through bizarre vignettes and illustrations that work perfectly to enhance the edge, horror, and wonder of the words.

I'm eager to see the second volume.


Disclosure: I received access to a copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.com.


FOR REFERENCE:

Contains material originally published in single magazine form as Assorted Crisis Events #1-5.

Contents: Chapter 1. Apocalypse Wow! -- Chapter 2. Slaughterhouse 9-5! -- Chapter 3. Crisis on Hearth-Two!-- Chapter 4. Time Flies -- Chapter 5. Strange Loops -- Cover Gallery / Mike Del Mundo, Stipan Morian, Eric Zawadzki, Filya Bratukhin, Riley Rossmo, Artyom Trakhanov, Gabriel Walta, Tyler Boss, Martín Morazzo, Rico Renzi & Chris Brunner, Chris Burnham & Jordie Bellaire, Alvaro Martinez, Javier Pulido, illustrators

[Sean Gibson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hands-down one of the bleakest, most depressing things I've ever read, but somehow still quite good?

[James DeSantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wanted to love this so much. As a huge fan of Deniz Camp's past work on his Ultimates and Martian Manhunter, my expectations for his creator-owned title, Assorted Crisis Events Volume 1, were incredibly high, but this book ultimately didn't do it for me. The core concept is awesome tho! A world fractured by a Time Crisis, leading to cavemen, medieval knights, and cyborg soldiers appearing in modern society, and ordinary people dealing with time-loops and alternate-reality attacks.

The first story, featuring Ashley trying to fix her deceased parents' clock amidst the chaos, is the strongest, successfully blending comedy and horror. However, the main problem is the characters. I simply couldn't connect with or care about any of the rotating leads in this anthology structure.

The fragmented approach, especially from Issue #2 onward, where we see rapid, back and forth panel jumps (such as in the dinosaur/slaughterhouse story), felt more disorienting than effective. While later issues tackle rich themes, like the doppelganger refugees in Issue #3 serving as an allegory for xenophobia, or the exploration of mortality in Issue #4, but they just lack the personal stakes.

Obviously, most reviewers love this book, praising its meta-commentary on our current era of constant crisis, but for me, the lack of a compelling emotional anchor meant I liked the idea more than the stories sadly. A 3 out of 5.

[Gera Sandoval · Rating 5 out of 5]

Basically, Deniz Camp is my new favorite comic writer. Issue #2 of this is the best single issue of the year. I can actually see it being taught at schools.

[Utkarsh Bansal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some day I'll have read everything ever written by Deniz Camp, and that day I shall become unstoppable.

[Rick Ray · Rating 3 out of 5]

Assorted Crisis Events explores the collapse in time and space on how it impacts the lives of regular people via single one-off issues. Collected in this first volume are the first five issues in the series, all scripted by the industry's rising star of Deniz Camp and skillfully penciled by Eric Zawadzki. An anthology styled series on multiversal collapse isn't exactly enticing to me in a time where these kinds of stories are saturating the market, but Camp's bend on this is really to explore real-world issues through the lens of high concept sci-fi. Again, nothing novel, but the execution here is sturdy enough. As an anthology, Camp and Zawadzki get to play with narrative and stylistic formalisms which all five issues collected here demonstrate. Narration style, characters, concepts, themes are all modulated to provide a sense of freshness and discovery to each new tale, though like another contemporary comic anthology like Ice Cream Man, recurring ideas emerge.

Unlike other stories about shattering realities, the central conflict the characters face in these stories are really not about that at all. Instead, the main characters in each story face internal crises for which the impact of distorting time only accentuates and perturbs, but the problems are very much real irrespective of the disintegrating multiverse. Personally, it's somewhat comforting to know that I'll be resigned to still worry about the little things in the face of an apocalypse. Perhaps the most telling is the story of two colliding realities where the peoples of one universe traverse into another as a means of exploring the idea of contemporary immigration policy. It's a morbid metaphor that even as the world is collapsing, people are still going to otherize instead of finding common ground. But that's just reflective of reality, even unburdened from a temporal disruptions.

I do think the majority of the stories here have a feel of being done before, whether it be in films like Groundhog Day or Everything Everywhere All At Once or even other comics, so that narrative formalisms aren't necessarily all that novel. The freshness of Assorted Crisis Events remains that any issues can be about anything, and as Camp continues to explore other societal and sociological ills, I'm sure the pastiche of the series as a whole will feel richer. The artwork is quite striking at times too, with Zawadzki crafting engaging panel layouts. Inventive as he is, there are a few times where the layouts are a little too disruptive to the narrative with the issue told as a Möbius strip being the most notable time. Otherwise, the artwork is stunning throughout with Jordie Bellaire's sparing color palette being even reminiscent of David Mazzuchelli's work.

[Benji Glaab · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great package. It has an anthology feel with a loose connection in the theme of time distortion, or time perception. Camp plays with some high concepts and each issue is very unique, and playful with layouts, and art.

I'd rec to Ice Cream Man fans, and anyone looking for bite sized stories that itch that Twilight zone bizaaro land vibe

[Alex Sarll]

"It's World War Three or Four out there today. Every week it's a new apocalypse. I can't keep track." You know the feeling, I'm sure. OK, we then get the reveal that the narrator is living on a street that's popular for filming disaster movies. But the next reveal is that, actually, reality is breaking down too, which you'd think might dent people's appetite for the fictional version, but somehow does not. If this all sounds a bit 'Aaaaahh'...well, yes, a little. But while Deniz Camp is very clearly jumping on the Ice Cream Man bandwagon with this series of standalone single-issue stories linked by an enigmatic background figure, he's also found a format which plays to his strengths and minimises his weaknesses. In the US comics mainstream mode, a single sequential serial following a small group of characters, his undoubted intelligence and engagement with the issues of the day don't always translate into believable (super)human interactions or coherent plotting – characters make portentous statements about things each other already know, the solidity of the worldbuilding is sacrificed to the points it needs to make about our own times. But give him characters we're only with briefly, narrating their predicaments to some unknown other (and so by default the reader), a world whose increasing incoherence is part of the point, and he's flying. It doesn't always land; the slaughterhouse issue is essentially a non-linear Flesh, which is not something I'm convinced we need, and the story where a small town's counterparts from a parallel Earth that died ever so slightly faster arrive as refugees is a story I've seen before, and better, most notably in Famous Men Who Never Lived. But my word, Time Flies, which weaponises the montage to follow a man who feels like every time he blinks one more chunk of his life has slipped away without him even getting to live it...ouch. And on art, Eric Zawadski mostly pulls off both the small-scale face acting and the formalist pyrotechnics the material requires, certainly with more variation than Ice Cream Man's Martin Morazzo – and if Zawadski's Moebius strip spread isn't quite up there with Mike Allred or JH Williams, well, what company to fall short of. Intermittently amazing, and always at least ambitious.

[A Serious Firefighter · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Next day or next week (it’s impossible to which), I wake up to a fascist nightmare.”

“But I still gotta go to work.”

Good lord this series!

Issue 4 about time flying hit hard 😵‍💫4.5

[Odo · Rating 5 out of 5]

9/10

[Rory Wilding · Rating 5 out of 5]

In recent years, Deniz Camp has been making waves, from his major contribution to Marvel’s Ultimate Universe that will be coming to an end soon, to writing what is arguably the best title in DC’s Absolute Universe with Absolute Martian Manhunter. However, there is also the creator-owned work and considering the lack of restraint he shows when reinventing existing characters, Camp pushes boundaries even further with original titles like 20th Century Men and now with Assorted Crisis Events.

Covering the first five issues of this ongoing anthology series, we get five standalone tales that all take place in a world where the collapse of time itself affects everyday people. The first issue alone sets the tone, which could either entrance or break you, if not both. As the end of the world is making its way, a young woman is simply trying to get this clock fixed as it has sentimental value. Even with time being fractured as characters like actual cavemen and medieval knights pop up out of nowhere, the woman and her neighbourhood are plagued by various productions that are shooting post-apocalyptic movies, which has become a popular genre nowadays.

A major theme throughout this series is characters trying to grasp their own reality, and no doubt this is where some readers may lose patience. However, if you stick with it, there are some compelling human narratives, even if they are about people on the verge of a mental breakdown. The first issue, at the very least, is the most comical of the bunch with its protagonist who struggles to know what is real whilst simply asking someone if they can fix her clock. Whilst the characters are essentially doing something mundane during these stories, they are juxtaposed to them being in some type of time crisis, such as the fourth issue about a man going through so many time-skips that he doesn’t remember huge chunks of his life, where divorce, losing a job and cancer have all occurred.

The third issue is the best from this volume, in which we see two parallel versions of the town Hearth, with one town existing in a world that is slowly dying and the other town existing in one that is about to die. By using the traditional sci-fi trope of a mirror universe, Camp tells a relevant story about immigration, even though it is really two versions of the same people interacting with each other. Whether it is a full page or just half a page, you can see the subtle details between the two perspectives and despite the various conflicts that arrive from this collision, whether personal or political, it is laying a simple message on how we are all the same.

With each issue exploring a different kind of time crisis, Camp has always been about pushing the boundaries with what you can do with comic book storytelling, even if the results can be somewhat head-scratching, as seen in the second issue where a young immigrant is dealing with family issues and capitalism, to suddenly a velociraptor appears and causes havoc. Given Camp’s dense writing, artist Eric Zawadski and colourist Jordie Bellaire do an incredible job in visualising the various time disruptions through a diverse range of panel layouts and bold use of primary colours. The final issue being the most experimental shows a woman constantly going a time loop, even if she tries to live her troubled life and there are many pages where the panels are circular, so you literally have to rotate the book to read what’s going on.

Whether through existing IPs or original works, Deniz Camp has always been about experimenting with what you can do with comics, whilst delivering a heavy dose of social commentary and sometimes the results can vary. Although I think he’s been more successful (and coherent) during his time at Marvel and DC, the first volume of Assorted Crisis Events is an extraordinary achievement of an anthology series that sticks to a central theme and does something different with it with each issue, whilst makes you question about where will this all go in the grand scheme of things.

[Dakota Morgan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A true 3.5 star book. I firmly appreciated the effort - the art is gorgeous, the storytelling strange but compelling. Assorted Crisis Events lacks clarity, yet the pages keep turning. Still, I yearned for a crisper throughline. Ultimately, the book reads like a grab-bag of depressing alternate universe tales that obviously explore one of our modern cultural issues. Immigration, refugees, male loneliness, our lack of agency in the face of technological overlords - all here, plus some.

Deniz Camp takes each topic in an intriguing direction...but it's still pretty clearly an allegory and never quite compelling as a standalone tale (and only a few have clear analogues in Marvel or DC "events"). A man skipping through his life without agency is interesting in a sort of drive-by way, but then it just ends. A mind-bending examination of under-the-table work performed by immigrants is fascinating and horrifying as it peters out into generic weirdness. A traumatized young women examines the recurring cycle of her trauma in a tale that's quite simply too much.

Someone will pick up Assorted Crisis Events and be absolutely thrilled. Like most of Deniz Camp's works I've read, I found that it shows a ton of promise, but it's not quite there yet.

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting collection of short stories all dealing with time crises. Some of the stories are stronger than others, and one I found to be a bit heavy handed in its messaging, but the ideas explored in the other stories made up for the weak spots. My favorite stories were "Apocalypse Wow!," "Time Flies," and "...Strange Loops!" After reading and enjoying this and Absolute Martian Manhunter, Deniz Camp is an author I will be paying attention to.

[Allie Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read it. Read it. Read it. Guys I cannot stress enough how genius and relevant this book is and the artistry is just out of this world. It might fill you with existential dread but also some clarity and enlightenment and it’s worth it!

[Bill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Weird but complicated tales of space and time fluctuations and cross-overs. Sometimes a bit too complicated and rarely with a main character that I cared much about. Still, it is certainly worth a read.

[Brandon Daniels · Rating 5 out of 5]

As good as everyone says it is. I’ve been reading this as singles, but, one thing I noticed reading this first trade is that I actually thing each issue is better than the last. And , spoiler alert, I think that trend is continuing past the first trade as well.

[Dan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Individual, self-contained, possibly connected stories of time losing its way. An absolutely must re-read for me.

Read as individual issues.

[Bertazzo · Rating 5 out of 5]

What if the Crisis on Infinite Earths affected normal people? Just brilliant - writing and narrative. I think #2 was one of the best single issues I've read in my life.

[Michael J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

ASSORTED CRISIS EVENTS is an ambitious experimental anthology series, each issue by the same creators and exploring a complete-in-one-issue story set in the same universe where time has gone wonky. Each protagonist handles the calamity in their own individual ways.

It can get confusing at times, and the story doesn’t always work. But when it succeeds it achieves greatness. The title seems to defy standard genre labels. I’d call it psychological profiles, slice-of-life stories in unusual settings.

I read this series in the individual monthly issues. While I wouldn't give each issue a five-star rating, this is a solid endeavor and worth investigating by anyone interested in more literary efforts in the comics medium. My issue-by-issue reviews provide more details below . . . .

ASSOCIATED CRISIS EVENTS #1
         Main character this issue is Ashley, who’s lost family members and seems completely alone in this time-twisted world. She goes through the same routine every morning - walking to work (and sometimes it’s in a different time zone where she doesn’t work there) to help keep her grounded. The neighborhood surrounding her apartment has become a favored movie set for several post-apocalyptic or World War IV films - - and she keeps walking through the filming and causing the directors to angrily yell “Cut!”. This happens often, along with time-displaced humans and aliens walking the streets. One day she witnesses a parade of Nazis and finds a crying Nazi officer - only to realize that he’s just another actor on a film set. Constantly walking by movie sets adds to Ashley’s confusion and that is the main conflict here - which is not resolved happily. 
THREE AND ONE-HALF STARS.

ASSORTED CRISIS EVENTS #2
     The story does not unfold in linear fashion, with multiple flashbacks and varying times in overlapping scenes. Camp and Zawadzki have assembled a jigsaw puzzle, and it’s up to readers to put the pieces in the right places. Issue #2’s setting within a meat-packing slaughterhouse of cattle is not going to make readers comfortable (blood, severed limbs, horrific scenes).

     Zawadzki plays with repetitive images while Campi teases us with repetitive dialogue - - do we get it, or are we just as confused and turning manic as the main character is? 

     Zawadzki puts characters in the foreground with darker lines and sketches the background with lighter strokes. Jordie Bellaire on colors enhances the appearance with vivid colors in the foreground and muted hues of the same color plus white in the background. The overall effect makes it look like a 3-D panel. 

     Issue #2 didn’t need the intrusion of flesh-eating dinosaurs at the end of the story - - but that helped make some points (if you can figure out the message). The story was disturbing enough before that happened. That is really the only time-related event in this story, except for the reappearance of the doom-sayer elderly man (from Issue #1) in one panel/scene.

     After reading this issue, I’m going to remember some of these scenes the next time I eat red meat.(Which I definitely need to cut back on).

     I”m not entirely sure that I understand what Camp is saying here, so I won’t attempt to summarize the story. Basically, it’s one man’s gradual descent into madness as the continued repetition of certain images/scenes from his life begin to trouble him. FOUR STARS.
  
ASSORTED CRISIS EVENTS #3 With Issue #3, ASSORTED CRISIS EVENTS realizes its’ potential in a huge way. Just like EC Comic’ various anthology series back in the 1950’s went beyond the quality art and story-telling to speak to topical issues of the times and make an implied statement about our society (like a mini-morality play) Camp and Zawadzki craft a story that reflects on global issues - especially within our country right now. 
   


I am reminded of an old comics story that I once read in an EC  paperback reprint that caught my eye from a drugstore book spinner rack back in the 1960’s. In it, an astronaut from Earth visits a new planet inhabited by two classes of robots, distinguished by color from blue to red. One class looks down upon the other, segregates and abuses them, until the astronaut helps them realize that both classes have equal skill sets, abilities, and other commonalities. When the astronaut returns to his spaceship and removes his helmet, we learn that he is a black man. Very powerful story-telling considering the segregation that occurred in the Southern U.S. then, and well into the early ’60’s.


   In ASSORTED CRISIS EVENTS #3 there are a multitude of parallel worlds, specifically a small town on Hearth 1 and Hearth 2, both inhabited by “Hearthlings”. The town and its’ citizens are identical in every way (including names and families) except for one distinct difference. Hearth 2 is suffocating from global warming and is dangerous to remain there. The citizens look for a way out and find a portal leading them to Hearth 1.

     Imagine opening your front door to be greeted by a family that appear to be duplicates of your family. At first, Hearth 2 residents are welcome and incorporated into the Hearth 1 community. Then, differences begin to appear, suspicion arises, followed by envy, resentment, and conflicts. 

      The mayor is the voice of reason: “Put yourselves in their shoes! Which are also our shoes!” His political opponent, speaks in opposition: “My question is, where does it end? . . . First, it’s Hearth-Two, next thing you know it’s Hearth-Three and Four, Hearth-52, Hearth-616 . . .”

       I won’t spoil by going any further. This deserves several reads, especially for the creative use of mirror images. The left page showcases what happens featuring the point-of-view of Hearth 1 citizens. The right page mirror those scenes, but from the point-of-view of the soon oppressed Hearth 2 residents. Coloring by Jordie Bellaire and letters by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou also reflect the changes, becoming darker on the Hearth 2 pages.

        Camp has crafted a tale that will cause readers to reflect on the current immigration “crisis/invasion”. Issue #3 is one of my favorite stand-alone, one-shot stories of the year and will most likely make the top list at year end. FIVE STARS.

ASSORTED CRISIS EVENTS #4 Following the high water mark that was Issue #3, ACE returns with a sad tale of a man who can’t catch up to time. From high school through college and into the working world Mike misses his wake-up calls, alarm bells, and start times - - always apologizing with the tired refrain: “I guess time just got away from me.”

Then through dating, marriage, children, divorce, and moving away there are big gaps in his memory of events. He’s always missed out on events and is unable to realize how much time has passed and how much he has aged - - - “time flies”, so “smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em.”

The only constant in his life is his cigarette addiction and the old bearded man with the jetpack (seem in every issue of ACE so far) who shows up out of nowhere. The final time Mike sees him is when he finally catches up to time, as the clocks stops.

The story unfolds in fascinating and tragic fashion. The evocative art is highlighted by the use of just three colors, to great effect: orange, blue, and beige. FOUR AND ONE-HALF STARS.

ASSOCIATED CRISIS EVENTS #5 Ask anyone who has experienced trauma in their life, and they will tell you - - it never goes completely away. Now imagine trauma that occurs in childhood. The victims relive the experience for the rest of their lives.

Such is the case with young Anna. Sixty seconds of witnessing an argument between her parents that ends in violence - -and she sees endless repetitions no matter what she does. She’s stuck in a loop, and none of the doctors, counselors and analysts can help her get out of it. It plagues her into adulthood, and she even considers suicide but doesn’t see it through. The story ends on a dramatic moment where she breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly to readers.

Sad, and disturbing. This one is going to bother me for a while. Some readers may dislike this book because of the presentation. Every page or double-page is a loop or a spiral. Sometimes text is
sideways or upside down causing readers to rotate the book, and enter the spiral in order to read it. Just remember to read this pages clockwise. FIVE STARS.

[Pranay · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars


This volume contains issues #1 to #5.
It's a very unique concept of time breaking down and affecting various timelines and people.

The first two stories were decent and to be honest, I was confused a few times as to what was going on.

The real winner was the third story. It's one of the best that I have read in the last couple of years. I was absolutely bowled over with the simplicity in which it started and how meaningful it became. Camp does a wonderful job making the readers reflect on what is currently happening in our world (i don't want to mention anything that can spoil this and would urge you to just duve in and read).

The fourth story was pretty good about a man who can't catch up to time. From high school to college to work to dating, marriage, raising kids, divorce, he keeps missing out on events and is unable to remember or realise how much time has passed. The only constant in his life is his cigarette addiction and seeing the old man with the jet pack on his back. That man we see on the cover is there in all 5 comics.

The fifth story is also a good one (a bit confusing at times). Young Anna has witnessed a traumatic event in her childhood which results in violence and she is stuck in a time loop experiencing it again and again throughout her life. The art is done in a spiral style here with text often turned upside so have to rotate the book to read it. It's different and courageous.

The art style is unique and creative for all the stories making it a good fit with it.

[Edward Salinas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don’t know how to put my thoughts into words. No Spoilers Here! From reading The Ultimates and Martian Manhunter, Deniz Camp has become my favorite Comic Book writer and so it was obvious to me to read his other works starting with Assorted Crisis Events. I had previously read only issue 1 to just see if I would like it, and I loved it. I bought the trade a bit after that and I finally read it. Every issue is like a punch in the face with its themes, stories, and art. Eric Zawadzki’s art is so mesmerizing to look at and the colors from Jordie Bellaire just make every page something to just stare and wonder at. Issue 2 made my stomach turn with how graphic it was. Issue 3 I think is so relevant to today’s political climate and just everything going on in the world. It was not subtle at all but I liked that. Issue 4 was a highlight for me as I could relate to the struggles of the MC in this particular story. Issue 5 being the end was perfect as it still gave some hope in this crazy ass world. Very much appreciated after back to back crazy issues. I truly believe this solidifies Deniz Camp as my favorite writer as of right now and I am looking forward to reading the rest of ACE and his other works.

[Iñigo · Rating 5 out of 5]

De los mejores cómics que he leído en mucho tiempo.

Este primer volumen de Assorted crisis events recoge los 5 primeros números, que aunque no están directamente relacionados y se pueden leer independientemente, forman un conjunto de historias sobre nuestro mundo contemporáneo, en el que el tiempo y el espacio están colapsando sobre sí mismos.

La segunda historia me ha encantado, y me ha recordado muchísimo al número de watchmen en el que el Dr. Manhattan experimenta toda su vida a la vez. Es increíble. Y mejor que increíble, es uno de esos pocos cómics que no se podrían llevar a ningún otro medio, ni la TV, ni el cine, ni los videojuegos…

Estoy deseando seguir leyendo todo lo que saque Deniz Camp.

[Jorge Sáez · Rating 5 out of 5]

⭐️5⭐️

Qué barbaridad de cómic. Cinco capítulos con historias independientes que te dejan con el culo torcido y con el mismo regusto que dejaban los mejores capítulos de Black Mirror (para mí el tercero, el mejor). Lo que más brilla de este volumen es la capacidad del guionista y del dibujante de explotar al máximo los recursos idiomáticos del comic, obligando al lector a perderse en sus páginas y, al igual que los protagonistas, a sentirse desorientado en el tiempo y el espacio. Un 10 rotundo.

[Dillon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Deniz Camp I am in love with you. Camp has quickly become my MVP in the comics scene with his wildly creative approach to Absolute Martian Manhunter, and his radical anti-fascist sprawling story telling in The Ultimates. Assorted Crisis Events is another favorite to add to my list now, an anthology series each set around the premise that time is falling apart at the seams. Each issue follows a different character's or setting's response to this rather vague but all encompassing crisis. Issue #1 you follow the daily life of a girl who has to face whatever falls in front of her on the way to work, be it the ever changing movie set in front of her apartment, or the fact her job temporally shifted and now has no records or memory of her existence. Issue #2 is a beautiful, grotesque, and moving story following a man who works as a killer in a meat factory. Issue #3 follows the conflict of a town Hearth, where citizens from an alternate timeline, Hearth 2, immigrate from their doomed universe. Issue #4 is about a man who finds that his entire life moves by faster than he can even comprehend, panel to panel it seems years go by. With the flash of a camera suddenly he has 3 kids, in the blink of an eye his hair line is non existent. And Issue #5 follows the traumatic aftermath of a little girl who was stuck perceiving the same 60 seconds of her father slapping her mother for what could have been millions of years. Each issue handles the collapse of time in an interesting and unique way, each issue is unflinching in where it decides to push the characters, and each issue is beautifully colored and drawn. The paneling is an especially huge highlight for this comic. More than once while reading Volume 1 did I find myself feeling the influence of the issue in Watchmen where Doctor Manhattan reflect back on his own life, constantly flashing back and forth decades of his lived experience. I very much look forward to a Volume 2, and I loved this first volume.

[Chad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Walks right up to the edge of feeling weird for weirdness' sake, but never quite tipped over into nonsense for me. Each independent chapter has a core of truth that resonated amongst the strangeness.

I love that each issue stands independently, and I hope Camp never feels the need to try and force everything into one coherent narrative.

[Alexis Panayides · Rating 5 out of 5]

It doesn’t happen often that I find something that leaves me gutted and at the same time makes me shout out loud in awe with full body chills. Yes, this book is THAT good. Some of the bleakest stuff I’ve read, the kind of stories that stay with you (I’m guessing for a long while) the way only comic book stories can. Extraordinary storytelling from Deniz Camp once more.

[Katherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. All of these stories are brilliant, depressing, revelatory in their own way. I enjoyed every second of it and I am certain these stories are going to stick in my mind for a long time to come.

[Jamie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The word 'ennui' reverberated through my brain during every story in this wonderful but somewhat depressing collection.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

My thanks to NetGalley and Image Comics for an advance copy of this graphic novel that tells the stories of people who live on the margins, just tying to survive, as the world they know it is ripped asunder, lost in time, invaded by parallel realities and other dangers that come from living in comic book world.

I have been reading comics for a long time, from the time when Superman would have weird adventures because of kryptonite, Spider-Man would grow six more arms, and Captain America would grow disillusioned about wearing the colors of the red, white and blue, probably six or seven times. I never thought about what the neighbors thought about living next to superheroes, other reporters at the Daily Planet, even normal New Yorkers trying to get through the latest Hulk Smash. As I got older more questions came to me. How would a normal person act during one of these numerous crisis, crossover events. Batman is suddenly twenty, Alfred is alive. What happens to the simple barista whose life is changed, suddenly no wife no kid, Earth is now Earth-2 and history is changed. Thankfully I was not alone in my thoughts, as shown in this graphic novel. Assorted Crisis Events Volume 1 is written by Deniz Camp with art by Eric Zawadzki coloring by Jordie Bellaire and lettered by Hassan Ostmane-Elhaou and tells a series of stories about normal people trapped in a world that is colliding with other Earths, falling in and out of time, meeting alternate worlds, all while trying to keep themselves and those they love close, and more importantly safe.

This is an anthology comic, featuring different characters, different worlds, and different dilemmas. I would say different times, but time is sometimes the enemy in these stories. The first is one that has stayed with me the most, a story about young woman, trapped in her own neighborhood that is being used to film a dystopian science fiction film about the end of the world. At the same time people are becoming out of phase with time, and her own clock a memento she cares most about is destroyed by the movie being filmed. The other one that really hit hard, and seemed mostly about the world of today is the discovery of a second Earth one that people are fleeing as that planet is dying these refugees look like the same people on well Earth-One, and are initially greeted and helped to settle into their new worlds until things go wrong. The other tales features stories about families torn asunder by time, war, and other destructive forces, familiar from comic book lore.

Deniz Camp is fast becoming an author I really enjoy, one who can write in a variety of forms, super hero, science fiction, odd tales, and never lose the flow nor the humanity of the characters that he writes about. These tales are no different, dealing with normal people facing incredible odds, and well their results may vary. I like the anthology setting, as too much time with certain characters might weaken the impact of their story. These are really good, sad, maudlin, hyper violent, and with a lot of meaning. Especially in these uncertain times. The art is really good, different in ways that reflect the story, and really add to the atmosphere and feeling of the comic. I can't think of another artist that would be as good, and the two really make a very good creative team.

A collection with a lot to recommend it. I have read most of the issues and eagerly await another collection. Camp is a creator to keep an eye on as his stories never cease to entertain me, either for good or for bad. A series for people who love Twilight Zone tales, and have an understanding of comic book history.