LIFE IN THE GUTTER! A homeless comic book artist falls into the gutters – literally! Can Wally find his way back to life and reality, or is he lost in the blank white space between panels forever?
And then there were aspects of the issue that feel almost incredibly cheesy. There's an element of it that feels very much like a weirdly mutated version of Jon Stones The Monster at the End of This Book. Aspects of the interaction between reader and character and creator feel kind of forced in places. This isn't a bad thing as it does speak to the overall state of mind of the narrator and main character. He's just trying to make sense of it all in at times he's going to be incredibly quaint. And silly. And awkward and cringy. But those aspects of this issue only serve to make Wally and his story that much stronger. Read Full Review
Assorted Crisis Events #8 is incredible, and continues this series' amazing run. Miss it at your own detriment. Read Full Review
Assorted Crisis #8 is the best example yet of the creative risks taken by this series that lead to incredible storytelling results. Read Full Review
Assorted Crisis Events #9 is a daring, unsettling meditation on the cost of creation, using the very language of comics to dramatize a life unraveling. By turning gutters into psychological space and collapsing the boundary between reader, creator, and character, Camp and Zawadzki craft an issue that feels at once exhausting and exhilarating. It may not offer easy answers or familiar structure, but it stands as one of the series' most ambitious and thematically resonant chaptersa reminder that sometimes the medium itself is the message. Read Full Review
Assorted Crisis Events #8 gets more serious than what we are more accustomed to in this series. Don't get me wrong, every issue has a message, but usually it's delivered with a little more of a tongue in cheek style. This issue abandons that and puts the message front and center with an overall depressing feeling with said message. With that being said, this is the most relatable of all the messages thus far. This issue is another great installment in this amazing series. Make sure to grab a copy when you visit the shop this week and then prepare to have a good deep thought about what you read after. Read Full Review
This is incredible.
This was the most Ice Cream Man like issue. I'm giving it an 8.5 at the time of reading. I think I might reread. I can tell I'm already starting to go over it in my mind. My grade might be too low, but this comic was so different I found it hard to rate. Not sure how I fully feel about it.
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