Kieron Gillen (Uber Wicked & Devine) takes the horrors of the Crossed back to the ancient past where 75000 years ago humanity came as close as it has ever come to being purged from the Earth There were as few as 2000 humans remaining This is historical fact Why it came to this is generally blamed on super-volcano Toba causing a minor ice-age But that’s not the full story That is not the history of the Homo Tortor ie Man The Torturer This empire before the beginning of time that sends raiding parties gathering other Homo species & enormous mega-fauna invented cruelty refined domination & perfected killing & they think their power will last forever There is no help there is no hope There is only the Crossed ...

TV & Screenwriter Christos Gage returns to the grueling world of Garth Ennis’ Crossed with a vengeance Fans favorite Alpha-Crossed Smokey has returned & he’s on the mission he began back in the legendary ‘ Quisling’ story arc Driven by a powerful controlled cruelty Smokey discovers a survivalist bunker & forces a desperate man to help him do the unthinkablecreate a new Crossed civilization & city called ‘ Smokeyville’ But how long can even a creature like Smokey hold the murderous Crossed to his will before they turn upon each other? It’s the ultimate sociological experiment amidst the wreckage of civilization There is no equal to the terror & depravity within the pages of Crossed It is simply the most terrifying uncensored horror comic book being published This volume collects issues 93
- 100 of the ongoing Crossed Badlands series
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All seven issues of David Lapham’s horror masterpiece of Crossed Family Values are collected here with a large cover gallery! In one terrifying moment civilization crumbled An outbreak of insanity swept across the planet turning millions of people into the homicidal maniacs known as ‘the Crossed’ But from their isolated horse ranch the Pratt family of North Carolina remain uninfected & defiant Bonded together as generations of working living & learning together they rely on Joe the family patriarch to see them through the apocalypse But the Pratt family has a deep dark secret
- one that threatens to tear them apart even under the constant threat of the murderous hordes See some men are turned to Crossed but others others are just born evil Eighteen year-old daughter Adaline will soon discover which breed is worse David Lapham the critically acclaimed creator of the gritty Stray Bullets series delivers a tale so twisted so shocking it more than earns its place next to the original runaway bestseller Crossed Volume 1 by superstar writer Garth Ennis!
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The best-selling Crossed collections continue here with Vol 4 collecting Crossed Badlands 1-9 Two tales of terror from the most vicious landscape in modern horror written by groundbreaking graphic novelists Garth Ennis & Jamie Delano! When the worldwide outbreak transforms most of humanity into murderous psychopaths the uninfected survivors are driven by desperation to the very brink of sanity & morality In Scotland a young man devastated by the traumatic death of his wife struggles to survive the roving bands of Crossed at his heels Meanwhile three small groups of survivors in the marshy Florida Everglades
- haunted by personal demons driven by primal fears & all-too-human desires
- find themselves on a collision course guaranteed to leave bloody fiery destruction in their wake…

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Journey back to the earliest days of the Crossed outbreak when an outbreak of viral insanity first plunged an unsuspecting world into darkness in two tales scribed by the masters of modern horror David Lapham & David Hine! In high school Edmund earned his nickname ‘ Yellow Belly’ by running away & hiding whenever confronted by conflicts or fears But when the Crossed infection ignites at a local circus perhaps it’s that very same cowardice that will save him in the end! Meanwhile a group of self-centered & hedonistic college kids head to a writer’s retreat to explore their inner selves… but end up surrounded by berserk killers What depths will they sink to in order to survive? This volume collects Crossed Badlands 10
- 18 Horror masters David Lapham & David Hine expand Garth Ennis’ twisted Crossed universe with violent new tales! Original Crossed artist Jacen Burrows draws the first story in this volume!
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Available in print for the first time! The second chapter of the brutal apocalyptic horror series is finally here! Written by Si Spurrier (X-Men Legacy Silver Surfer Extermination) this critically acclaimed volume collects the latest arc of the weekly webcomic ongoing at Crossedcomic Unable to bear life on the doomed isl&-sanctuary he calls home manipulative writer Shaky has tricked his way into an expedition crew hunting supplies among the vile violent hordes of Crossed on mainland Scotland But will he find what he seeks amidst the blood-stained snow
- a way to stave-off numbness; a reason to go on
- or will the tough decisions of leadership & the terrors of a Crossed world rob him of what little humanity he has left? & if he survives what will he & his companions find when they struggle home to the killing-shores of Cava Island? These are the continuing excerpts from Shaky’s bleak diary the story of a community clinging to a false future in a world overrun by infectious sadistic fiends There is no hope There’s only the Crossed (C 0-1-2)

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When one of the last surviving human doctors gets trapped in a New York skyscraper SWAT veteran Lt Hunt Mac Avoy assembles a rag-tag group of handymen & embarks on a rescue mission of madness — right into a city swarming with millions of homicidal maniacs! Crossed bursts into a whole new dimension of horror with this original full-color graphic novel in 3D! Some horrors have to be seen to be believed & writer David Lapham delivers a shocking tale of Crossed in New York City! Every panel explodes off the page with hyper-detailed art by Gianluca Pagliarani (Ignition City Wolfskin) Created with state-of-the-art 3D effects over full-color art this graphic novel promises to shock & disturb you in a way you&ve never seen before! ...

When one of the last surviving human doctors gets trapped in a New York skyscraper SWAT veteran Lt Hunt Mac Avoy assembles a rag-tag group of handymen & embarks on a rescue mission of madness
- right into a city swarming with millions of homicidal maniacs! Crossed bursts into a whole new dimension of horror with this original full-color graphic novel in 3D! Some horrors have to be seen to be believed & writer David Lapham delivers a shocking tale of Crossed in New York City! Every panel explodes off the page with hyper-detailed art by Gianluca Pagliarani (Ignition City Wolfskin) Created with state-of-the-art 3D effects over full-color art this graphic novel promises to shock & disturb you in a way you&ve never seen before!
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Comics horror veteran Mike Wolfer writes & illustrates a powerful new chapter in the Crossed saga! After admitting two women into their defensible stronghold atop a collapsed bridge an uneasy alliance of survivors discovers just how the women successfully navigated through the horrors on the ground below They followed the advice of their ‘bible’ a best-selling ‘survival guide’ novel Fiction or not the book could be the answer to saving all of their lives in the wasteland ruled by the maniacal Crossed But trust in the uninfected can be more dangerous than the violent urges of the Crossed themselves There is no help there is no hope There is only the Crossed This volume collects issues 81-86 of the ongoing Crossed Badlands series ...

Rules are different outside the Society Chasing down an uncertain future Cassia makes her way to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky
- taken by the Society to his certain death
- only to find that he has escaped into the majestic but treacherous canyons On this wild frontier are glimmers of a different life & the enthralling promise of rebellion But even as Cassia sacrifices everything to reunite with Ky ingenious surprises from Xander may change the game once again Narrated from both Cassia's & Ky's points of view this hotly anticipated sequel to Matched will take them both to the edge of Society where nothing is as expected & crosses & double-crosses make their path more twisted than ever The sensational second book in the series & follow-up to acclaimed international bestseller Matched

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