Crossed

I've been reading Crossed and I love it. It truly is horror about just surviving in the face of inevitable doom. Garth Ennis has clearly built everything so that there is no easy way for the characters to be saved (no military or scientists or anything like that). It's depressing and disturbing (the scene with the kids from Issue 3 really haunted me).

I love it (as much as anyone can love something that is meant to be so horrible) and can't wait to see where it goes.

Amazing stuff. It is what Stephen King's Cell should have been. I got the wrap covers for #4 to #6. I still need to go back and get the wrap covers for 1 - 3.

If there is one thing to love about Avatar, you can buy an endless number of variant covrs.

-P.D.

you guys are pulling this geek stuff comic book ish out on me and so i looked into crossed briefly and now i really wanna read that. i saw #0 and i think one through four. is this yet out in graphic novel format, or will it one day be?

crazy horror fucked up with great writing and art, i'm definitely interested-

kabol

Avatar doesn't usually do graphic novel trade paperbacks. If you want to read Black Summer, No Hero or Crossed you have to buy the individual issues.

-P.D.

just crafted and sent avatar press a formal letter. this is the meat of the letter:

Dear Editor,

This is a letter regarding inquiry into Crossed comics.
My name is Johnathan Kabol and I have recently heard of Crossed via fellow members of The Cult online workshop. I am a fan of writing and I am a huge fan of great writing, though I keep very few comic books. They don’t station well on a bookshelf. I have been warned that Avatar Press is not known to work often with the graphic novel format. From what I have read through a quick search, issues zero through six have printed and so there will only be three issues to publish, in maybe as many months.
This letter is a formal request for the producer and editor to please consider a graphic novel release for this series. And if one is planned, please let me know when and I will order it.

My Thanks & Attention,

who knows. the physical letter still holds some power. i am considering ordering the first few, though, just to try it out. i just have a strong distaste for reading something when i cant read it all. partially why i dont enjoy tv shows. err. or something.

Might should have said you were from chuckpalahniuk.net's online workshop instead of The Cult workshop. Might have given it a little more weight or at least for them to check out where you said your coming from to see if this was a legit website or just a bunch of goons fooling around online.

but regardless, it isn't that hard to store individual comics on a shelf. Just get one of them longboxes and set it sideways. The only disadvantage is not being able to see which comics are in there at a glance.

i used to lose so much shit that way. wound up simplifying my life and just selling my entire collection for cheap, in the two boxes. if the watchmen never came out in graphic novel, i wouldnt have read it.

and googling The Cult online workshop brings you a few pages, always on top, that take you to this site. and if they wanted to search me here, it wouldnt be hard to figure out.

sides, didnt want them to think i was pluggn, nawimean?-

Crossed is a 9-issue limited series. Issue #6 hit the store shelves last week on Thursday. That leaves just under three months until all nine issues are available. If you are not picky about which cover you want then you can get every issue on Ebay for cover price and you can often find one seller who has multiple issues for sale to save yourself some shipping costs.

The only issue you really need the Wrap cover for is #1. Without having seen the wrap cover for #1 you will not get one of the violence scenes.

It has been well worth the investment so far.

For further reading check out David Moody's Hater and Lamon's One Rainy Night, which are both novels with the same theme. If you haven't read it, then you also need to check out Simon Clark's Blood Crazy.

-P.D.