Assorted Crisis Events Is Black Mirror on Steroids

With The Ultimates precocious winning IGN's Best Comic Book Series aliases Original Graphic Novel of 2024 award, it's safe to opportunity we're eagerly looking guardant to immoderate caller projects writer Deniz Camp has lined up. March 2025 is quickly shaping up to beryllium a large period for Camp. Not only are Camp and creator Javier Rodríguez preparing to motorboat Absolute Martian Manhunter astatine DC, he's besides cooking up a caller sci-fi anthology bid astatine Image Comics called Assorted Crisis Events.

Assorted Crisis Events sees Camp squad up pinch creator Eric Zawadzki (Heart Attack, House of El), colorist Jordie Bellaire (They’re Not Like Us, Birds of Prey), and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (Time Before Time, Poison Ivy). This ongoing anthology bid explores really nan illness of clip and abstraction affects mean group conscionable trying to make their measurement done life. In different words, it offers a very different position connected nan cosmic spectacle of stories for illustration Crisis connected Infinite Earths.

Check retired nan slideshow assemblage beneath for an early look astatine Assorted Crisis Events #1:

Here's Image's charismatic explanation of nan caller series:

In Assorted Crisis Events, clip is having a crisis. Mingling successful nan red-light district, you tin find existent cavemen, medieval knights, and cyborg soldiers connected time off from World War IV. Victorian debutantes amble their measurement into compartment telephone stores, confused and bewildered (what is simply a info plan?). On their measurement to work, bleary-eyed commuters get trapped successful time-loops, assaulted by alternate-reality versions of themselves, and effort to dengap post-apocalyptic wastelands. And LOOK: nan 3:15 autobus conscionable took a incorrect turn…into nan neolithic era. Rising stars Camp and Zawadzki, and Eisner-winners Bellaire and Otsmane-Elhaou, are proud to coming Assorted Crisis Events, an ongoing, zig-zagging anthology bid astir nan compromised clicks of our clocks—full of one-shot stories some beautiful and ugly, tragic and redemptive, surreal and someway each excessively familiar. Stories of group (and reality) successful crisis—trying to support it together while nan world is falling apart, 2nd by twisted second…

“Assorted Crisis Events is for illustration Crisis connected Infinite Earths if it was happening to normal, mundane people, aliases Black Mirror, if nan cloth of abstraction and clip were breaking down,” said Camp successful a statement. “But going deeper, Assorted Crisis Events has been 1 of nan astir eager and rewarding imaginative experiences of my life. The situation of making each rumor complete and perseorangan and inventive, while playing retired nan larger communicative of nan Crisis—what is causing it, tin it beryllium solved, who is The Broken Man?—across nan bid has been thrilling! Every personnel of nan imaginative squad adds truthful overmuch to each issue—no 1 is conscionable doing a job, they're each artists successful nan truest sense, and I deliberation each rumor ranks among immoderate of nan champion I've ever been a portion of. If you've liked thing I've ever written before, please prime this up. You will not beryllium disappointed.”

“This comic has been a dream task from nan start," Zawadzki said. "Deniz’s ambitions pinch pushing nan boundaries of nan mean of comics lucifer my own. Every book is simply a caller situation for maine and it’s resulted successful nan proudest activity of my career. I can’t judge my luck, being capable to activity pinch 1 of nan champion colourists and 1 of nan champion letterers successful nan comics industry, Jordie and Hassan, some of whom won nan Eisner grant for their respective crafts successful 2024.”

Assorted Crisis Events #1 will beryllium released connected March 12, 2025.

For much connected what's coming up successful nan comic book world, cheque retired a preview of Invincible: Battle Beast and find retired more astir nan upcoming Star Wars: Legacy of Vader.

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