Assorted Crisis Events #5. // Review
Something has happened to Anna. She’s trying to wrap her head around it. Can’t really understand what it is that’s happened to her, but then...no one else can seem to do as much either. Anna feels like she’s caught in a loop. It’s a destructive cycle that she can’t seem to get out of. She’s going to try, though. (She doesn’t really have much choice.) It’s either that or continue the cycle. Because she’s caught in a loop. And she’s trying to get out in Assorted Crisis Events #5. Writer Deniz Camp renders a graphically gripping existential drama with artist Eric Zawadski and colorist Jordie Belaire.
It feels like Anna keeps having the same conversation. And she can’t keep having the same conversation. It’s just not a good idea. And it’s not what she wants. And then she’s on the floor. She’s unable to move. They call 911 and she’s in the hospital. It’s a long, slow road to physical recovery from a physical assault. But she’s been here before, hasn’t she? She’s been in recovery before. (She’s certain of it.) But there must be some way to break free from the cycle. She’s just got to find her way out of it.
Camp tackles the tricky challenge of telling a story from the perspective of someone who is suffering from neurological challenges originating with some kind of physical trauma that may have come about from some kind of psychological issue that may have come about from some kind of physical trauma. It is a really fascinating way things particularly negatively. And violence. And it's really a very interesting look at how it all comes together in a cyclical story that dives deeply into the emotional substrates of the substance of time. There’s a hell of a lot in the heart of the story.
Of course, it would be very difficult to manage this sort of story in a graphic sense or not for the fact that our team does a really good job bringing Anna’s inner emotional life to the page. Zawadski’s don't worry her perspective to the page breathtaking. A bicycle nature of the drama plays out in circles on the page that are very cleverly laid out. Actions and reactions play out in cycles and circles that readiate out from the center of the page. A deep reading of the issue requires the reader to rotate it in various directions as Anna tumbles through her life. It's the sort of thing that has been done very sparingly before. And it hasn't always been quite as effectively as.Zawadski is managing here. The deeper emotional state of Anna is brought cicidly to the page in deeply resonant colors by Jordie Belaire.
Above all, Anna comes across as a very profoundly well defined person. Mrs. Quintin accomplishment given the fact that this is the first time she's ever made appearance. She's the center of the issue. But she takes the center of the in so many ways so well. It is really a very striking single issue story that feeds into Camp’s larger narrative beautifully.
