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COMICS REVIEW: Crush Depth #1 (Mad Cave Studios)
- The Curator
- Feb 19
- 2 min read
About Crush Depth #1
Writers: DB Andry and Tim Daniel
Artist: Alex Sanchez
Colorist: Kurt Michael Russell
Letterer: Justin Birch
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Genre: Science Fiction/Horror/Post-Apocalyptic
Release date: March 19th, 2025
Crush Depth #1 Review
Keeping things post-apocalyptically vague, Mad Cave Studios invite us into the type of comic book story that’ll keep movie fans of The Abyss and Waterworld in a state of suffering the bends.
Crush Depth #1 is set on a submarine navigating the oceans of earth, presumably after climate change has gone haywire, flooding the entire planet. Following science officer Liana Pearson and her fellow crewmen, they pickup a transmission from a scuttled ship called the Vehemance, but as they search throughout the wreckage they encounter a burial ground of corpses and dead horrors.
Daniel and Andry have penned the kind of underwater horror story that will chill their readers to the bone. Though, an opportunity feels missed, when the majority of dialogue centers around this preoccupation of humanising the characters aboard Liana’s submarine. The birthday party depicted is unnecessary and the arguing commanders, who happen to be brothers, feels woefully immature. When that’s not happening, the script STILL isn’t given time to breathe or for the tension to be felt. This typical American approach of excessive dialogue waters down any redeemable value of this first issue.
Thankfully, it’s saved by the art of Sanchez and the coloring of Russel. Who together, have summoned forth an underwater chamber of horrors which will see readers come back for consecutive issues in spite of the writing. The rotting flesh on the underwater corpses are visceral and the titan-like visages of underwater sea beasts are terrifying. Hopefully we’ll see more of this with the second issue but for now I’m content to judge this issue for what it is. Merely a good idea with some decent horror moments but that itself isn’t enough for me.
My Kind Of Weird Score:
6/10.
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