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Crossed Volume 1 |  | Authors: Garth Ennis, Jacen Burrows
Publisher: Avatar Press
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.1
ISBN: 1592910904
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5
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Publication Date: May 11, 2010
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 Crossing The Line... June 30, 2010
darklordzden (Australia)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
America, The Present: When the end comes, it is without warning; overnight seemingly ordinary people transform into "The Crossed" - psychotic killers afflicted with a bizarre cruciform facial scar who exhibit an insatiable appetite for murder, torture, barbarity and sexual violence - and rampage across the continental United States in an orgiastic frenzy of bloodlust and carnage. Few survive the first few days of their onslaught. Those that survive the first weeks can expect little more than to survive the day. This is the story of a group of those that were cursed to survive just that little bit longer.
"Preacher", "War Stories" and "The Boys" alumnus Garth Ennis first long-form foray into the survival horror field is an unflinchingly visceral piece of work that channels the sensibilities of eighties splatterpunk authors such as Shaun Hutson, John Skipp and Craig Spector as well as the likes of "Deliverance/To The White Sea" author James Dickey, Sam Peckinpah and Cormac McCarthy's "The Road". For my money, it's the most perfect piece of survival horror to yet grace the comic book field because it is both genuinely shocking and the complete antithesis of the recent glut of run-of-the-mill zombie comics in which heavily armed groups of chiseled, good-looking "Matrix" clones wade effortlessly through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The survivors of this apocalypse are flawed, traumatized, terrified, increasingly losing their capacity for humanity and steadily dwindling in numbers.
Jacen Burrows artwork perfectly compliments the grim machinations of Ennis' storyline and he is unflinching in his depictions of the barbarity perpetrated by both "The Crossed" and their human prey (who are driven to increasingly desperate, gut-wrenching extremes in order to survive). This is not a book for the faint hearted: it contains explicit depictions of violence, rape, torture, infanticide, evisceration, amputation, a degree of gore generally not seen outside of an abattoir, the kind of language that would make a sailor blush and some very bleak insights into human nature indeed.
That said, Ennis never descends into gratuitousness merely for the sake of it. An extremely strong moral theme which questions the degree to which a person is prepared to sacrifice their humanity in order to survive anchors the book with a rigid existential focus.
Trust me. Hollywood won't be able to make a literal adaptation of this book any time soon, but in the cultural wasteland of a genre that has succumbed to a glut of banal, mediocre pap like "Twilight", "True Blood" and "Paranormal Activity", I say God bless Garth Ennis for pushing the limits, delivering the goods and producing a horror story that is actually horrific for a change.
Different (and adult) take on zombies/undead July 4, 2010
Jon Taylor (Mary Esther, FL, US)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Garth Ennis writes for adults and about adult content subject matter. This is a great story that is definitely not for kids due to language and content. Ennis is one of the most talented writers in the graphic novel/comic business. There are many twists and turns in this story, several of which greatly surprised me. As someone who reads "The Boys", which is written by him as well, I recommend this to fans of his work or anyone who is a fan of George Romero's Dead movies.
Intense and Graphic! June 29, 2010
Michael John Buckley (Ireland)
One of the best intros to a graphic novel series! If you want something that will push and even break the boundaries of good taste, then look no further. The smiles on the Crossed will haunt you. I THOROUGHLY enjoyed this book.
Lives altered, smashed, and otherwise not-so-spiffy July 27, 2010
TastyBabySyndrome ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA)
When the world falls, it doesn't simply scrape a knee and then find that everything is alright. It really falls hard, and it takes most of humanity with it. That seems to be the case in Crossed, with people becoming infected and doing - horrible things. These are not your run-of-the-mill infected that you are dealing with, either, because they bring a lot to the table. When they wear the mark, they like to make people suffer and they do it well. Granted, there are a few things i might have left out BUt I cannot fault them. Its the end of the world, I wasn't infected, and I really think that pushing the envelope was beautiful. Besides, the planes and the kids and all the other things - they got me passed the "Where's Waldo" searches on the freeways that looked like some jigsaw of human suffering.
As far as the series went, i really looked forward to Crossed being released. It had an edge to it that I expected because of The Boys, and it never really let up. I got to know characters, got to peer into their minds, and sometimes I saw things that really surprised me. TI liked that about the people, too, because the world would not be the infected versus an armada of saints. These are people and, well, people are sometimes really disturbed.
That was one of the things I really loved here.
The one thing about this series was that it was really hard to find # 0 and, for people who wanted to see the beginning, this was a bad thing. I perdosnally needed the flash and the beginning and the reason some of my main characters were suffering. Still, if a reader didn't know to look here then they were not privy to this information. That's why I was glad to see everything collected here and why i thought that the book was a complete piece of the Crossed puzzle.
If you plan on buying this, do a little research first IF you are just going by reviews. It has language, scenes, and many other things you wouldn't give your kids and many adults. Still, it has something to it, something needed, in a world that supposedly has no rules. That has always been one of my biggest rpoblems with movies and books; if you have no rules and the things are horrific, why do they hold back? I know ratings and i know about content, but many books and such seem to be stuck in an endless loop that feels like hitting repeat. So, if you are open to something graphically new, then check this out and see what you think. I personally wanted it, had been for a long time, and had to have the right person to make it.
I'm happy that it finally came along.
Buy this Hardcover August 11, 2010
BlagoSucks (Springfield, Illinois)
I won't give too much away regarding he storyline, however, this Hardcover version is excellently published. Pages are thick and the binding is strong to hold all of the pages together. This is a true collectible if you are interested in the series from the very beginning. Avatar should be commended on finally putting together this collection in a hardcover format. Garth Ennis' work could not stand out better than this.
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