The pages are bizarre and trippy and loaded with amazing detail that will have you scanning all of the fine points of the illustrations. All of this culminates into a tense conclusion that will leave you excited and anxious to get your hands on the next issue. Overall, first issues can be difficult to balance, but the creative team has gone after this story in an aggressively creative fashion. Read Full Review

Collapser's debut issue is a pleasant surprise in so many ways. Shaun Simon and Mikey Way take the bare bones of a traditional superhero origin and turn it onto its head at every turn, creating a poignant take on anxiety, self-sabotage, and the cost of being emotionally vulnerable. Read Full Review

This is a well done first issue. Kudos to the creators and everyone over at the Young Animal line of unique comic books. Read Full Review

DC's Young Animal is back, and their newest series debut is an impressive one;Collapser #1 is a gorgeous, must-read issue. Read Full Review

Its an impressive first issue, and hopefully bodes well for an interesting ongoing book. Read Full Review

All in all, Collapser #1 is a polished book about a messy situation. Read Full Review

'Collapser #1' is a thoughtful exploration into the impacts of mental health and our attempts at coping told through the lens of Liam, a man who lives with an actual black hole inside him. Read Full Review

ALl of that hardly even touches on the jumbled chaos that occurs when Liam's black hole activates in his apartment. I could honestly be here all day detailing what I liked on the art side of things. “Collapser”#1 is fascinating from start to finish. I read about a man changing bedpans and it was as fascinating as a superhero battle. Things are probably only going to get weirder from here and I can't wait. Read Full Review

While it's only a first issue, Collapser #1 shows a lot of promise, as well as skill from the creators. There's a lot to get excited about. Read Full Review

Collapser #1 is characterization meets strong visuals and colors with a side dish of trippy worldbuilding to literally suck you into the story. Mikey Way and Shaun Simon make Liam a little bit of an asshole; he's not the greatest towards his girlfriend and is a little insensitive at times. However, Liam's passion for music and fear of failure are all too relatable. He makes a great POV character for this wild space odyssey of which Collapser #1 is a solid first few steps. Read Full Review

Collapser #1 is indeed a superhero story that could only come from DC's Young Animal imprint. This creative team took advantage of the room to run wild with an impossible scenario, and the colorful language to capture everything insane about the way that Liam James' life has been flipped on its head. Read Full Review

Overall, I found Collapser #1 to be an entertaining and assured story, one that was experimental but knew from its start exactly what it wants to be and why. I could say the same thing about the new generation of Young Animal Doom Patrol comics, which launched with a new #1 issue earlier this month. Young Animal, it would seem, has itself far more figured out than our hero in Collapser #1. Read Full Review

Collapser #1 succeeds mostly because of the likeability and realism of its main character, Liam James. Read Full Review

Collapser is the first new series from the Young Animal line's second wave, launching alongside a revival of Doom Patrol. Co-written by Mikey Way and Shaun Simon, it's an odd duck of a book " equal parts "unlikely superhero" story in the vein of legacy heroes like Sam Alexander, Jaime Reyes, Robbie Reyes, and Khalid Ben Hassin; and deep, dark exploration of millennial angst and depression. Read Full Review

As introductory issues go, this does an awful lot more right than it does wrong. Liam is a great sympathetic character; the situations he finds himself in are entertaining and intriguing. Kyriazis' layouts and art are great and Peter's colors are wonderfully subtle. While Liam's internal monologue does grate at times, there's a lot to like here and I'm optimistic about the prospects for this series.  Read Full Review

Writers Mikey Way and Shaun Simon deliver a thrilling adventure into Liam's world. It's rare in stories to truly be along for the same ride as a character, but as I read through Collapser, I felt what Liam felt, I was shocked by what shocked Liam. It is such a ride to read this book. Read Full Review

Pleasantly retro but still fresh and interesting. Read Full Review

I love this book's style. I also have a theory to what is going on...

Story telling was a bit disjointed for me to follow along, but the tone and atmosphere was fun

I don't really care about this, sorry not sorry.

This guy’s anxiety seems to be mostly just having a really whiny inner monologue. I don’t really like him and I don’t see why I should.

I tried, I really tried.

I read the whole thing. I went back and read selected sections to try to better understand characters, motivations, plot development. It didn't work. We apparently have a young adult who hates his life and his job, retreating into a dream/alternative world to escape his reality. It was just done very, very poorly.

But there were lots of unnecessary foul language words, so I guess that makes it edgy.

Art was uninspired. For a book apparently about teen-young adult angst, it does nothing to convey such feelings through the character work. Layouts didn't draw my eye to anything in particular, with the color palette so limited as to remove the possibility of pops of color to accent a panel, a scene, a moment.

For the life of me, I do not understand why DC greenlighted this title. more