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Review: Crossed Issue 2; now with more Soggy Cookies

Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows set the Rape and Murder by crazed Rednecks bar really high in Crossed #1.  I can safely state that issue two doesn't add to the horror, instead it shows the keen, steely and purposeful levels of evil the "Crossed" can reach.  Speaking of the Crossed, here's the birth of one:

Our uninfected are telling this story in anecdotal form, which means at least one of them is alive "in the future" I'm guessing either as one of the Crossed or it is the kid that has been tagging along all this time.   Giving a hopeful narrator with such bleak and (really) dark subject matter strikes me as an odd choice.  The Crossed tear one of their own apart and rape the severed foot/calf, with that kind of determined horror, it's hard to imagine some form of hopeful anything save a quick death.

As for the crossed themselves. when they aren't mutilating each other and raping men, women and children (and animals I'm sure) to death, they are "spreading the love" in an inventive and evil fashion, through the use of a variant Soggy Biscuit game.

I'll leave that there for you to puzzle out on your own.

Overall verdict; read it if you are a fan of post-apocalyptic stories as well as "zombie" fiction, as the Crossed are the implacable but intelligent foe that Zombie fiction sometimes wants for.

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Before: Kevin was born on the mossy hills of Scotland and lived for a while in West Lothian before the mores of pre-Thatcher and REALLY pre-Oasis Great Britain sent his family across the ocean to North America. They moved here and there and Kevin did the same when he was old enough. Now he lives in London with his family and a Dog. Kevin Wardrop is an amateur writer, amateur photographer and professional pain in the ass. He has worked in the PC support business for most of his adult life and has been accustomed to simply answering technical questions as a matter of fiat, it was his career choice after all. Now he herds cats and puppies for a living as well as babysitting the web enterprises at the heart of western industry. He sleeps on an eastern-style bed and dreams of laying cable over country roads.