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by Fussbett 05/06/2009, 6:28pm PDT |
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I immediately grabbed the first few issues of both Crossed and Walking Dead, not knowing which one I'd like more, but being down with anything set in the apocalypse and not having superheros.
 Crossed appears to be at issue #4, so I read that first and quickly. It's embarrassingly juvenile in how far it goes to be shocking, each two-page spread of carnage and rape reminding me of Dinosaurs Attack! cards of the late 80s. In fact there is so much debauchery I started to notice the edges of the envelope they are trying to push -- you can draw a severed horse cock, but you can't draw an attached human cock. You can draw human scrotums, but not female pubic hair. And you can rip a small child in half, and have a Crossed guy jerk off with the bloody open wound of a severed leg... but of course a whole child can't be raped. So that gets tiring, and it doesn't help that the artwork is weak and has that horrible 90s airbrushed colouring. Still, the Crossed do make scary enemies, at least, as I said the first time I saw them when Joss Whedon called them Reavers. I'll probably still check up on the Crossed gang in upcoming issues if nothing else than to see them break through the infected Canadian army at the border as promised.
Walking Dead is far superior but way too reverential to the standard zombie movie. In fact the protagonist wakes up from a coma to discover the empty hospital, then world, exactly ripped off from 28 Days Later (at least the move from triffids to zombies can be called an homage. Zombie to zombie rip off is embarrassing). It was really refreshing to come to Walking Dead from Crossed, as it's better written, not so bent on being edgy, and the artwork is much much better. But I can also see how the Walking Dead could actually sour me on zombie stories with no new ideas. I'll give it a chance too. Maybe I'll read all of these and then go back to Crossed for the palette cleanser once that series has built up a few more issues. I'LL LET YOU KNOW.
Incidentally, I'm reading most of these comics on my netbook, in bed, with the page rotated. I'm holding the netbook like a comicbook. In bed! It's awesome and awesomely hilarious looking. The only problem is the occasional two-page spread and the CDisplay/GonViewer (the faster CDisplay) lack of a hotkey for the rotate command. |
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Comic book reviews by Last 05/05/2009, 3:23pm PDT 
Queen and Country is fucking fantastic. Best spy fiction of the past 20 years. NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 05/05/2009, 5:12pm PDT
Thank goodness they rotate the artists on Queen and Country by Last 05/06/2009, 5:15am PDT
Re: Queen and Country is fucking fantastic. Best spy fiction of the past 20 by Last 02/23/2014, 6:40am PST
I might buy some comic books because of this! by Arbit 05/05/2009, 9:43pm PDT
Why buy them when you can download them? O_O by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/06/2009, 12:47am PDT
Best place I've found is Demonoid. NT by bink 05/06/2009, 5:52pm PDT
Jim Crow's zozo gun NT by Entropy Stew 05/05/2009, 10:47pm PDT
Crossed by bombMexico 05/05/2009, 11:08pm PDT
Protip! by motherfuckerfoodeater 05/06/2009, 7:42am PDT
cdisplay is a good program though and there's no reason for anyone to not have i NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/06/2009, 7:47am PDT
I prefer Comical (it has prefetching) *locks thread* NT by Ray of Light 05/06/2009, 5:52pm PDT
That's because you're a jagoff. 8( NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/06/2009, 7:09pm PDT
The comic books board is the Punisher one by the way. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/05/2009, 11:11pm PDT
Lock this etc etc NT by http://www.mininova.org/tor/2292712 05/05/2009, 11:26pm PDT
And ban all responsible. 83 NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/05/2009, 11:31pm PDT
The Caterer by Zsenitan 05/06/2009, 6:28am PDT
Re: The Caterer by E. L. Koba 05/06/2009, 11:14am PDT
Fuck you too buddy! NT by Zsenitan 05/07/2009, 1:01am PDT
NO FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUU by E. L. Koba 05/08/2009, 12:50am PDT
...'T WATCH MY FUCKING TV by E. L. Koba 05/08/2009, 12:54am PDT
Turns out every superhero's weakness is...a handgun by FABIO 05/06/2009, 8:03am PDT
Invisibles goes to shit in the second run. by Gutsby 05/06/2009, 12:23pm PDT
Don't go in to a Morrison comic expecting comprehensible, coherent plot NT by Entropy Stew 05/06/2009, 1:57pm PDT
cs1, did we mention it's awesome? NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 05/06/2009, 1:15pm PDT
Oh yeah Jsoh read Cat Shit One. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/06/2009, 7:12pm PDT
Crossed vs Walking Dead by Fussbett 05/06/2009, 6:28pm PDT
Fussbett in one by up with pod people 05/06/2009, 7:30pm PDT
on restraint by bombMexico 05/06/2009, 7:56pm PDT
Walking Dead update: the really awesome artist leaves around issue 10 :( NT by Fussbett 07/22/2009, 2:29am PDT
Guy with a blog says something disparaging about Crossed by motherfuckerfoodeater 01/21/2011, 4:26pm PST
This site is amazing. All nerds must fucking hang. NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 01/21/2011, 5:44pm PST
Re: This site is amazing. All nerds must fucking hang. by laudablepuss 01/21/2011, 7:35pm PST
Tying up this subthread: OVC guy loves Dinosaurs Attack by motherfuckerfoodeater 07/27/2012, 10:11am PDT
Fast forward by fabio 07/27/2012, 7:34pm PDT
Walking Dead by FABIO 05/09/2009, 2:11am PDT
Let's not get crazy here. by Fussbett 05/09/2009, 2:45am PDT
Yes, all zombie fiction gets worse the stronger the allegory by FABIO 05/09/2009, 5:04am PDT
You've said some stupid things and some smart things, but THIS... by Fussbett 05/09/2009, 12:09pm PDT
WHY did they have to shoot the children again? NT by Confused Crossed reader 05/27/2009, 10:32pm PDT
target practice, bullets just going to waste etc by bombMexico 05/28/2009, 1:11am PDT
or they could have taken them with them like the other kid NT by RAPE! 06/09/2009, 2:03pm PDT
No, it's because the kids couldn't be trusted around other humans anymore. by Fussbett 06/09/2009, 2:14pm PDT
That was my first though, but figured even a comic couldn't be that stupid NT by Rape Whistle 06/09/2009, 3:51pm PDT
I hope you have learned an important lesson about the lengths people will go to by motherfuckerfoodeater 06/10/2009, 1:12am PDT
Don't listen to them past me, they just can't see the hidden beauty and majesty by bombMexico 06/10/2009, 10:36pm PDT
Crossed: Based on real events? by bung 06/13/2009, 3:33pm PDT
how to kill a drug fueled cocaine african american person of color zombie by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/13/2009, 4:52pm PDT
*impale* NT by Sheva 06/13/2009, 5:42pm PDT
The Walking Dead coming to AMC by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 08/12/2009, 11:38am PDT
Mamet / Anne Frank by Last 11/05/2009, 12:20pm PST
Re: Mamet / Anne Frank by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 11/05/2009, 3:12pm PST
A-Always B-Be K-Killing. Always-be-Killing. ALWAYS. BE KILLING. by Fortinbras 11/05/2009, 1:27pm PST
God, is this what I have to put up with? I did direct Ronin and wrote Hannibal by David Mamet 11/05/2009, 2:51pm PST
ronin was frankenheimer by jeep 07/27/2012, 9:07pm PDT
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