Assorted Crisis Events Is Black Mirror on Steroids

With The Ultimates recently winning IGN's Best Comic Book Series or Original Graphic Novel of 2024 award, it's safe to say we're eagerly looking forward to whatever new projects writer Deniz Camp has lined up. March 2025 is quickly shaping up to be a big month for Camp. Not only are Camp and artist Javier Rodríguez preparing to launch Absolute Martian Manhunter at DC, he's also cooking up a new sci-fi anthology series at Image Comics called Assorted Crisis Events.

Assorted Crisis Events sees Camp team up with artist 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 series explores how the collapse of time and space affects ordinary people just trying to make their way through life. In other words, it offers a very different perspective on the cosmic spectacle of stories like Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Check out the slideshow gallery below for an early look at Assorted Crisis Events #1:

Here's Image's official description of the new series:

In Assorted Crisis Events, 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 LOOK: the 3:15 bus just took a wrong turn…into the neolithic era. Rising stars Camp and Zawadzki, and Eisner-winners Bellaire and 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…

“Assorted Crisis Events is like Crisis on Infinite Earths if it was happening to normal, everyday people, or Black Mirror, if the fabric of space and time were breaking down,” said Camp in a statement. “But going deeper, Assorted Crisis Events has been one of the most ambitious and rewarding creative experiences of my life. The challenge of making every issue complete and personal and inventive, while playing out the larger story of the Crisis—what is causing it, can it be solved, who is The Broken Man?—across the series has been thrilling! Every member of the creative team adds so much to every issue—no one is just doing a job, they're all artists in the truest sense, and I think every issue ranks among some of the best I've ever been a part of. If you've liked anything I've ever written before, please pick this up. You will not be disappointed.”

“This comic has been a dream project from the start," Zawadzki said. "Deniz’s ambitions with pushing the boundaries of the medium of comics match my own. Every script is a new challenge for me and it’s resulted in the proudest work of my career. I can’t believe my luck, being able to work with one of the best colourists and one of the best letterers in the comics industry, Jordie and Hassan, both of whom won the Eisner award for their respective crafts in 2024.”

Assorted Crisis Events #1 will be released on March 12, 2025.

For more on what's coming up in the comic book world, check out a preview of Invincible: Battle Beast and find out more about the upcoming Star Wars: Legacy of Vader.

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