Crush Depth

by Tim Daniel, David DB Andry, Alex Sanchez (Illustrator)

Overview

A deep sea submarine horror adventure series that deals with the world-shattering effects of environmental cataclysm and the struggle for power between two brothers.

Two brothers locked in a sibling rivalry wrestle for command of a massive nuclear submarine, The Absolution, in a near-future irrevocably altered by climate change. Chief Science Officer Liana Pearson finds herself not only caught between the Wilder brothers, but drowning in her fear of the surface world. When something alien infiltrates The Absolution and upends the balance of power, Liana is left with only two deadly options--reaching the toxic surface world or steering the sub into the unforgiving abyss and crush depth--Breathe Deep!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781545821541
Publisher:	Mad Cave Studios
Publication date:	09/30/2025
Series:	Crush Depth
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	84 MB
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About the Author

Tim Daniel is a comic book writer and designer. His previously published works include Atoll, Burning Fields, Curse, Denizen, End After End, Enormous, Fissure, Skinned, Spiritus, and The Plot. He is responsible for the design of countless titles spanning nearly 20 years in the comics industry for almost every independent and major publisher including A Wave Blue World, Dark Horse, Dauntless, DC Comics, Icon-Marvel, Image, Mad Cave, Scout, Shadowline, Skybound, Valiant and Vault Comics. Tim resides in Missoula, MT with his wife and two daughters.

David ‘DB’ Andry is a physical therapist and comic book writer from Sacramento, CA. His credits include Resonant and Denizen from Vault Comics, Creepshow from Skybound and Morning Star and Crush Depth from Mad Cave Studios. He has signed a blood pack with co-writer, Tim Daniel, binding their souls together for all eternity.

Kubert School graduate with over twenty years' experience having provided artwork for the comics, magazine, newspaper and toy industries. (Star Wars, Katana, Godzilla vs Power Rangers).

Editorial Reviews

2025-08-01
In Andry and Daniel’s graphic novel, a primordial terror from the deep ocean attacks the survivors of a drowned planet desperate for human contact.

Aside from being shut up in a submarine for nearly a decade after the polar ice caps completely melted, the crewmembers of theAbsolution are doing pretty well for themselves. Morale is good, there’s birthday cake, and the showers are co-ed and uninhibited. All of this belies the sense of dread that the authors and illustrator Sanchez quickly establish with in-your-face splash pages foretelling the havoc and utter mayhem that lurk at the heart of their undersea horror show. These cramped and oppressively claustrophobic shots are juxtaposed against a wide-angle view of theAbsolution silently cruising through a green expanse of algae, the world the crew once knew above possibly erased out of existence. Crackerjack Science Officer Liana Pearson, capable Capt. Martin Wilder, and the rest of the crew are eager but also wary about investigating a sudden distress call from a British warship called theVehemence reporting the discovery of “clean soil” above their heads. (“If there are other survivors out there,if we aren’t the only ones, isn’t that worth exploring?” asks the chief engineer.) Gruesome dead bodies bathed in an awful green hue float mutely across several wordless panels before an insert highlights the fingernails of one of the corpses scraping across the hull of the smaller vessel theAbsolution has dispatched to investigate—the ensuing “Screee” sound effect couldn’t be more impactful. TheAbsolution’s crew manages to return safely, but they do not return alone: An undersea organism determined to consume them all has come with them. What follows, as the creators deftly parallel the confined with the expansive, the now with the later, and the orderly with chaotic, is a kind of Danse Macabre with elements of grotesque body horror. Interpersonal dynamics between Pearson and the captain, and between the captain and his problematic brother, effectively underscore the dramatic tension as the unwelcome visitor ramps ups its unstoppable campaign of carnage and conquest.

A thoroughly unnerving and highly atmospheric triumph.

Kirkus Reviews