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I know I’m a couple of weeks behind on this review, but it’s still a book I’m thinking about and can’t get out of my head.
Assorted Crisis Events is a special book. The premise behind the book is there is a time crisis happening in the world and we explore how different people experience it and deal with it. Think of a classic super hero crisis event happening but we are looking through the eyes of normal people and not super heroes.
In this issue our main character is a girl who is re-living the same minute over and over again. It’s a traumatic moment in her life, and she’s stuck in a time loop. She can’t escape it, forced to relive this minute again and again. This is explored through the panel layouts and her trying to escape the loop she’s in.
Assorted Crisis Events is unique because it hits three benchmarks: the story, the characters perspective and telling the story in a way that is relatable to every reader. Haven’t we all felt stuck in a time loop at some point? Reliving the same days over and over again, not knowing how to escape? Feeling trapped and unable to break the cycle?
If you aren’t reading Assorted Crisis Events, you are missing out on a fantastic book. You can pick up any issue and read it, you don’t necessarily need to read all of the previous issues, although you really should. Picking up the first issue (or the upcoming trade paperback) will give you the necessary background on the time event happening. It’s the kind of book that will keep you thinking for days and weeks after you finish it. It’s using page layouts and artwork in ways I don’t think I’ve read before, although I understand there are books that have done these types of layouts before, it’s something you don’t want to miss out on every month.
