I enjoyed a lot first storyline included in this volume with Smokey, a smart crossed former fireman axe-wielding giant, able to delay killings [image]
I enjoyed a lot first storyline included in this volume with Smokey, a smart crossed former fireman axe-wielding giant, able to delay killings to satisfy his urges and plot strategies to inflict as much as possible damage on untainted survivors: not as disturbing as the graphic violence trademark of these series, but far more interesting and frightening. Sadly never been much a fan of psycotic Amanda and I think her storyline was just meandering and gross for shock's sake....more
Ennis' "The Fatal Englishman" storyline was excellent and Spurrier's one was original and not so bad at all. Sadly after a real good one tale in[image]
Ennis' "The Fatal Englishman" storyline was excellent and Spurrier's one was original and not so bad at all. Sadly after a real good one tale in previous volume, Lapham is back to his usual average grotesque/extreme gore-porn. Artworks were just over the top and a few disturbing scenes really made me feel sick, Sometimes you find some really good stories hidden and buried under all the ultra-violence in Crossed series: Garth Ennis' one here was a real gem for me....more
First story was so good that I'm going to forgive Lapham for his awful previous volumes of Crossed. Which horror fan doesen't like gangs of bike[image]
First story was so good that I'm going to forgive Lapham for his awful previous volumes of Crossed. Which horror fan doesen't like gangs of bikers set against circus crazies? And that twisted ending was an hilarious 5 stars one. Sadly second story, a sick and gross version of Poe's Masque of Red Death, was just too much extreme and terrible for my taste....more
First story by Ennis and Burrows is a 4 (almost 5) stars one (the guy claiming to be Prince Harry and leaving you in doubt he was him for real [image]
First story by Ennis and Burrows is a 4 (almost 5) stars one (the guy claiming to be Prince Harry and leaving you in doubt he was him for real was just 100% pure greatness Ennis style). Sadly it was just one third of the volume long and second story by Delano and Rizzo was just not as good as the previous one, too much surreal and similar to Lapham's 2nd and 3rd volumes of the series (that I really hated).
Damn you, Alan Moore! Some parts of this shall remain with me forever, in my dreams and nightmares.
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Verbose, insane, disturbing.
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Damn you, Alan Moore! Some parts of this shall remain with me forever, in my dreams and nightmares.
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This is just the Watchmen of all horror graphic novels, Jacen Barrows is Steve Dillon reborn and that ending "In the Mouth of Madness" style was just a blast lefting me speechless.
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An hell of a ride and now I really have to re-read all 3 volumes together with Neonomicon as soon as possible.
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A must read for all fans of H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.
Absolutely not as good as Moore/Andrade's amazing first volume, but Spurrier is a good writer, I enjoyed the "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" vibe[image]
Absolutely not as good as Moore/Andrade's amazing first volume, but Spurrier is a good writer, I enjoyed the "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" vibe and the ending was really great. Still can't empathize with the characters, at last next volume is the last so let's see if they are going to die or not... Being this a Crossed comic you can bet on the first.
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Vote: 4,5
The Crossed-Apocalypse 100 years later by Alan Moore is one of the best volumes set in the extreme-horror-gory-splatterpunk universe invented by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows.
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The world building was a real blast: umanity survived and is looking for its roots, developing new tribe-cultures and languages based on old ones (loved the term"wi-fi" for "wishful fiction"), but the threat of the infected is still alive and kicking. Same for the great artworks, storyline and twists, unexpected and shocking. My only problem were the characters, really not liked them much and maybe they needed some issues more for better fleshing and development.
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Best Crossed story ever together with Spurrier's "Crossed: Wish you were here" mini-series....more
The ride is finally over and Shakespeare's story too. A full of twists and flashbacks tale about survival, gory visceral horror, pathos and... R[image]
The ride is finally over and Shakespeare's story too. A full of twists and flashbacks tale about survival, gory visceral horror, pathos and... Romance.
An excellent mini-series if you like "The Walking Dead", Stephen King's "Cell" and flicks like "28 Days later", "The Crazies" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"... Just be warned: this setting is so extreme and disturbing that it's never going to have a movie/tv series adaption.
And Simon Spurrier just wrote a real good story here, with a well fleshed, despicable and unforgetable main character.
"What do you think? Is it a good story?" "Mm?" "Oh. Didn't read it." "Just counted the words."...more
An awesome second volume, far better and disturbing than ever. Shaky i[image]
Mysteries. Mysteries. Mysteries.
Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.
Getting better and better!
An awesome second volume, far better and disturbing than ever. Shaky is a well fleshed amazing main character for real, the full of unexpected twists storyline is so good, and that ending was just one of the most shocking ever.
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Far better than expected.
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The two awful volumes after Garth Ennis' first one made me quit this ultra-gory-disturbing-extreme-horror series, luckly the good reviews online made me give a try to this excellent spin-off.
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I really enjoyed a lot the storyline, the characters, the twists and the "28 Days Later"/"The Walking Dead" vibe. Prove that sick-ultra-violent-not-for-faint-heart-readers comics can be really good too with well written main characters and storylines.
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Better than the original one.
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... And Jackson is just Willie the groundkeeper from "The Simpsons"!!! XD ...more
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