CROSSED #1 (OF 9)

Review by: thisisegan

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Price: 3.99

I don’t know what Im supposed to think or feel about this book.  I guess it’s a horror title, but there were no scary parts to it.  This issue was more or less a set up to show off the antagonists and how awful they were, but when the scene came to show how terrible the Crossed are I found myself starring at the page and wondering. 

Is this intended to be slightly humorous? I didn’t laugh.

Is this intended to be terribly shocking? I didn’t feel this was all that over the top.

Is this intended to just gross me out?  I’ve seen worse.

I guess it was trying to be all three, and it just did not work as far as I am concerned.

Despite its nice clean looking artwork and colors, I can’t imagine this mini being anything but an average tale of survivors being picked off by crazies in “shocking” and disgusting ways. 

It’s a shame, this could have delivered so much more if only they added suspense or true shock value by making the “shocking scenes” more than just a one page spread.

Story: 2 - Average
Art: 4 - Very Good

Comments

  1. Agreed.  I was pretty disappointed with this book.  It was an average survival horror story with some really tasteless rape/murder stuff thrown in.  That stuff could’ve been effective had there been some sort of weight behind it or emotional stakes but none of that came across.  

  2. While the shock value is defintely there, I don’t see much substance to this tale, just exploitation of sexual violence. It’s like Ennis’s self-indulgent deviant fantasy.

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