Assorted Crisis Events #1 // Review
A clock has fallen off of Ashley’s shelf. It’s a classy, little thing that’s broken now. There was an explosion outside her window. It’s no big deal. It’s only the end of the world. Again. Ashley is going to continue to have issues with reality in Assorted Crisis Events #1. Writer Deniz Camp opens a fun, new series with artist Eric Zawadski and colorist Jordie Belaire. The basic premise is quite clever on a few different levels and it all feels quite well-defined as a multi-faceted satire on modern life and various aspects of hte stories we tell ourselves to try to understand it all.
Ashley lives in a really bad neighborhood. It's actually really cheap to film there. If you're into the market for trying to film some sort of a post apocalyptic movie. You don't really have to go far. Just look around the neighborhood and you'll find precisely the type of buildings you would expect to find it after the bomb or something like that. This is the least of Ashley's problems. She has quite a lot to deal with in addition to that. Her basic understanding of reality is kind of twisted by the fact that she seems to be always moving through different times streams. Or perhaps different phases in reality. That seems like it would all be just a question of getting away from all of the films being shot outside of her apartment complex. But then one of the neighbors gets shot and it all starts to look quite real.
Camp is playing on basic fears. And amplifying them the whole concept of crisis to a level that would be both ridiculously comical and very, very horrifying at the same time. We exist on the edge of probability as a modern culture. And the author seems to be engaged in on some kind of serious level. Really be understanding and the feeling of constantly being under the thread of complete and total annihilation. It could happen. The more that we're aware of it the more scary it is. And the author really seems to be tapping into that fear on a brilliant view clever level.
Zawadski redners shley as a totally approachable and completely vulnerable kind of person who is heroic by virtue of the fact that she’s not living in constant terror. Focusing cataclysmic drama, somebody who's really incapable of feeling totally terrified by it all kind of a challenge for an artist. Zawadski making sure that it don't comes together. It's all flowing in very well-rendered drama that is made all the more atmospherically tilted immersive-ness by the coloring work of Bellaire.
As this is only the opening pray for this series, it's difficult to tell exactly what direction that they're going to take it. Honestly, they could just keep expanding the ensemble and looking at this situation and this parade of crises from multiple different people within the contact. However, it would be really tragic if. Camp and company didn’t focus more on Ashley. She’s just a really, really cool character.
