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Crashing #2 (2022)

Art by: Morgan Beem

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[PREVIEW] Crashing #1 (September 21, 2022)

writer: Matthew Klein | artist [penciler & inker]: Morgan Beem | colorist: Triona Farrell | letters: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou | cover artist: Morgan Beem | publishing company: IDW Publishing

synopsis: Rose Osler is a specialist. Her focus? Patients with Powers… at a hospital with a No Powered Patients policy. When a battle between Boston’s protectors and destroyers erupts, Rose is trapped between saving the city’s beloved hero by day and greatest villain at night. Except Rose could become a casualty when she’s forced to risk her recovery. As Rose pushes past her limits to save everyone else, will she be able to save herself?

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Smash Pages Q&A | Matthew Klein on ‘Crashing’

The writer of the new IDW series discusses creating the story of a doctor who specializes in treating super-powered patients.

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Crashing #5 (2023)

Art by: Morgan Beem

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Comics Review: 'Crashing'

Crashing by Matthew Klein, Morgan Beem, Tirona Farrell, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

fantasy

science fiction

social commentary

superhero

My Rating: 5 of 5 stars

Ego blinds. Anger unravels. Lies reveal.

Doctor Rose Osler makes her name as an emergency room surgeon at a major east coast hospital. Boston is made better for her earnestness, she's intensely serious about her Hippocratic Oath, and even though various public parks and political offices have crumbled under the duress of brutal conflicts between powered individuals left and right, Dr. Osler is super focused. Super. Focused.

Maybe a little too focused? CRASHING is dramatic, incisive, and persistent in its wielding of a fundamentally moral character as a representative disease of Western civilization's cult of high-professionalism and personal wont.

Dr. Osler is a junkie (and like most addicts, the shadow cast by the consequences of her actions is longer than she cares to admit), Dr. Osler is petulant (and like most working adults, refuses to acknowledge her weaknesses), and Dr. Osler has a savior complex (and like most people who carve their own success, detests asking for help). So, naturally, CRASHING overloads the good doctor with multiple, unwinnable situations. When the region's foremost superhero, Rex Glassman, and his sidekick, Piper McNally, land in her hospital, Dr. Osler gets a call from the guy who put them there. Gordian is basically a supervillain, and he needs urgent medical care, too. What's the good doctor to do?

The insecurities and uncertainties that wreak havoc on the minds of the well-meaning will only deepen when one pushes and presses to convalesce when they aren't ready for it. Glassman was knocked unconscious and wants to get back out onto the street. McNally had two seizures overnight and wants to get back out onto the street. Camille Bogdanovich, Dr. Osler's boss, wants these powered individual discharged so the hospital isn't liable for any wrong turns. Don, Dr. Osler's devoted beau, is a public servant striding to pass local superhero registration legislation despite riots popping up across the Greater Boston Area. What's the good doctor to do?

CRASHING is a beautiful book, too. The creative team produced a bevy of diverse character art, complete with nuanced eye, nose, and mouth shapes, as well as perceptively articulated hands and hand gestures. The details tell the story. When Dr. Osler lies about her relapse, she dips her chin and lowers her gaze. When Glassman paces the hallway, devoid of sleep, the bags under his eyes are woefully obvious. For comic book fans searching for a title whose creative team loves its characters' flaws as much as it does its characters' frequently withering opportunities for success, CRASHING exposes one to the rivalries of the mind, and doesn't hesitate to let linger the awful truths that emerge.

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Crashing Signing with Matt Klein

Matt Klein is a friend, an industry colleague and an up-and-coming comic writer with a hit mini-series for IDW that is NOW collected in one beautiful volume!

For fans of medical dramas, super-powers, either one or both - there is something here for you! Or maybe you just like good story-telling or gorgeous artwork or vivid colors - Crashing has something for you too!

About CRASHING: House meets Daredevil in this powered up medical drama featuring a prized physician caught amid recovery from addiction and a polarizing campaign aimed to strip superpowered humans of healthcare rights.

Rose Osler is a specialist. Her focus? Patients with Powers…at a hospital with a No Powered Patients policy. When a battle between Boston’s protectors and destroyers erupts, Rose is trapped between saving the city’s beloved hero by day and greatest villain at night. Except Rose could become a casualty when she’s forced to risk her recovery. As Rose pushes past her limits to save everyone else, will she be able to save herself?

Witness the downward spiral conceptualized by debut writer Matthew Klein with art by Morgan Beem (Swamp Thing: Twin Branches and The Family Trade), colors by Triona Farrell (Ms. Marvel and Shang-Chi), and letters by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.

So join us on July 22 from 2pm-5pm as we invite Matt to come in-store, deface your copy of Crashing with a sharpie (we’ll have BOTH available) and hear him talk about going from comic sales to comic writing and everything in between!

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