![]() And none of us are defined by our best or our worst moments. Morgan Beem: That people are complicated. Learning how to recognize you need help and realizing that asking for help is okay would be the most rewarding sentiment a reader could tell me they take from Rose’s journey. This is a story about a person who doesn’t believe she deserves help, never asks for it, rebukes every offer she gets, and has to handle the consequences of this self-destructive behavior. Klein: That asking for help doesn’t make you weak. TG: What would you like for the readers to take away from a story like Crashing? Learning the value of putting your own needs first and how that enables you to take care of others. It is Rose’s story of learning the importance of self-care, essentially. Being put to that choice has deadly consequences for her, her marriage, her career, and the people she wants to help. That breaking point is to where she may need to give up seven years of sobriety in order to survive the day and save her patients. In the first issue, Rose is put through the wringer and pushed to her breaking point. Klein: The incredibly smart marketing folks at IDW came up with this idea of a downward spiral in five issues and I think that’s pretty on point. TG: Without spoilers, what kind of character arc, the main narrative theme of said arc, can readers expect Rose to go through in the current five-issue story? Doctors and nurses have their own villains that they fight and the whole team got really into the idea of tackling an everyday hero, surrounded by people with powers, who has the power to heal or destroy them and herself with her choices. And throughout the pandemic we witnessed so many of them enduring this daily dose of trauma but still going to work every day. Our culture teaches us to treat doctors like superheroes. Instead, they maneuver scalpels and run down corridors in tennis shoes. They don’t have to shoot lasers from their eyes or wield a weather-controlling scepter. Like everyone else, I was surrounded by first-hand accounts of their daily struggles to save lives under the most overwhelming circumstances. Matthew Klein: The inspiration came from seeing the stories of first responders, doctors, and nurses in the midst of the pandemic. The Geekiary: I have to ask, where did the idea of having a non-powered human doctor be the lead in a world with superpowered beings come from? We don’t really have a bunch of stories being led by “human” doctors or healers in the superhero comic book space. ![]() Here’s my interview with the creative duo! I recently shared a sneak peek for issue 1. Picking up less than ten years into her rehabilitation, recovering addict Rose is one of the few doctors in the US who specialize in treating “Powered individuals”. Crashing Issue 1 Cover C by (Image: PR/IDW) As someone who is looking forward to the debut of Crashing issue 1 this September, I got the chance to talk to writer Matthew Klein and illustrator Morgan Beem to learn more about what their five-part comic book will offer readers.įrom IDW, Crashing has been described as The Boys meets Nurse Jackie.
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