Crossed Volume 1 Hardcover
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Imagine, for a moment, the worst crimes against humanity. Picture the cruelest affronts to decency. Conjure your darkest nightmares… and then realize it could all be so much worse. When civilization crumbles in one terrifying moment; when people are gleefully breaking into unthinkable acts of violence all around you; when everyone you like has died screaming in agony: What do you do? There is no help. There is no hope. There is no escape. There are only the Crossed. Garth Ennis has pulled out all the stops to write the most depraved and twisted book of his career, one that also may be his most poignant human drama! Crossed is Ennis’ horrifically visceral exploration of the pure evil that humans are truly capable of indulging and collected here are all ten heart-stopping chapters. This gut-wrenching vision is brought to plain (and more than a small disturbing) life by his partner in crime Jacen Burrows.
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Sorry, I am a HUGE Ennis fanboy (Hitman, Preacher, The Boys, best writer of Punisher EVER, and even his strait-lace war comics… I like them all), and even I can’t gush about this one.
Take Kirkman’s The Walking Dead… now change some of the characters around and as a replacement for of zombies, you have cannibalistic, sex-maniacal crazies. I have a feeling w/ the way this series finished, even Ennis might have got bored of this.
If you never read Ennis, there are better things to look for first, but you should include this for the heck of it. If you’re a Walking Dead fan, you might not see too much greatness here.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I’m generally a fan of anything post apocalyptic, huge fan of Walking Dead, never really read anything else by Ennis but I’m familiar with his work/style and others regularly recommended me Preacher. After reading issue 0 I had high hopes for this comic, but overall I finished up feeling pretty let down.
The first couple issues managed to keep my attention, but by the third I could not deal with the weak dialog and the tale which felt poorly paced and disjointed. It seemed to me that the reader was left to fill in some of the missing pieces and keep up with a cast of characters who ranged from paper thin to mildly appealing. None of them were particularly memorable and the leader failed to make me care if they lived or died in the end, which is pretty much the reason to read a book like this.
There were a few memorable moments sprinkled through these issues, even some high points that were truly appealing. You will certainly remember some of the more gory scenes but probably not much about tale or characters, and if thats your thing this book might be for you.
The art is decent and you will find yourself flipping back and into the world between some of the better full page spreads and the page before on one or two occasions, taking in the shock value and art style.
Overall though I would not really recommend this series and I can’t say that I cared for it all that much primarily because the narrative cannot match the presentation in terms of memorability or style.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This is a sick book. In our twenty first century lives where we are oversaturated with violence and largely desensitized to it, Ennis still shocks with his depravity and inhumanity. That’s a high compliment, but that’s not all Ennis can do and do well. His characterization and tale telling are first rate. This is a guy who makes you care about his characters, that way, when something grave happens to them, you feel it. Viscerally. Not for the sick, but certainly worth the read. The artwork was very well done & really conveyed the barbarism that the Crossed perpetrate on any remaining humans.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I can say with perfect confidence that Crossed is, hands-down, one of the best comics I have ever written, among the ranks of Sleeper and Transmetropolitan (although the content is vastly different).
No, I guess the tale is not original, as one reviewer stated, but truly — what IS original these days? There is nothing new under the sun. Oftentimes, when a name does try to work with an ‘original’ thought (such as Preacher), I reflect it comes across with a bit of a ‘tryhard’ vibe — if you don’t know what that means, reflect “I’M SO DIFFERENT! LOOK AT ME!” (see: Carlton Mellick, whose work I do like, but it’s obnoxiously keen to be “different”) Whereas Preacher had a strong start and (in my opinion) a spectacularly anticlimactic end, despite the to some extent original thoughts, Crossed reels you in, captivates you, snaps you up in its teeth, and simply WILL NOT let you go until you’ve turned every bloody page.
Basically, what I am trying to say is that I didn’t really notice or care about the ‘inventiveness’ of the tale. The tale was STRONG, the characters well-developed (even lacking much by way of backstory), the artwork incredible, and it describes a post-apocalyptic world that, despite its lack of ‘inventiveness,’ fascinates ALL of us. I could not place this book down (I bought the compilation of all 9 issues) and devoured it inside of an hour – I felt as if the tale was my tale; I was there, with the characters. I felt their terror, their grief, their uncertainty as if it were my own, and these things were happening to me.
So, my deepest thanks to the gentleman at the comic store who recommended this to me when I told him about my taste in comics (Gaiman, Ennis [Garth AND Warren], Grant Morrison, Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips, for persons interested) — he really nailed it. This is one of persons books that I am going to give away for a lot of birthdays. It’s so excellent that I want to share it with everyone.
READ IT. If you like the works of any of the fine artists I mentioned in the paragraph above, you will LOVE this tale.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
this book is hardcore.
it is the most disturbing horror i have even watched/read… and judge me i know them all.
texas chainsaw massacre, devils rejects, clive barker, japanese and new french horror movies – nothing prepared me for this.
i reflect only comics medium can get away with this because a movie like this would be ruined by censorship. the pictures are really detailed and gorgeous, exactly what this kind of extremely gory book needs.
BUT disturbing images dont make a excellent book. the tale is lame – a group of people extant apocalypse, dialogues are pretty terrible, lots of typos and many plot holes plague the book.
appealing as a piece of graphic horror but dont expect fantastic plot or smart dialogue.
the book is high quality as all the avatar press books, glossy even though thin paper, fantastic colors.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5