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artist: Gabriel Andrade
If I hadn't known about this beforehand, I probably would've ignored it just like everyone else seems to have...
Crossed is a Garth Ennis project. Depending on how much you know about Garth Ennis, once you read any Crossed at all, you have a pretty good sense what Garth Ennis is all about. And actually, there's supplemental material in this issue that explains everything you need to know about it, should you be so interested. And it explains everything you need to know about Garth Ennis, too.
More pointedly, this unusual project for Alan Moore, working in someone else's playground (y'know, besides a bunch of long-dead writers who fall outside the moral outrage attached to everything everyone has tried to do with his material over the years) for a change, might be one of those things that explains everything you need to know about him, too.
Crossed is a post-apocalyptic thing about a virus that unleashes mankind's most basic instincts, which Ennis interpreted as the most depraved possible. Crossed Plus One Hundred, as you may or may not be able to guess, is Crossed a hundred years in its future. Mankind survives, but the victims of the virus are, well, hardly model citizens. To call them zombies, as in The Walking Dead, or even cavemen, as in Tuki, would be a serious upgrade. They're basically stereotypical rednecks, if they were also zombie cavemen. Redneck zombie cavemen! What a concept!
Anyway, I don't think this is at all a project that would convince anyone who doesn't see Moore as a hallowed treasure of literature in anywhere near that kind of light. It's interesting. And it's also language that Moore sees as degenerating worst, which makes the whole thing read like someone who definitely doesn't have Moore's fabled credentials. Basically as if written by redneck zombie cavemen.
As far as objectivity goes, the redneck zombie cavemen give themselves the worst dialogue, though. Just so you know.
If I hadn't known about this beforehand, I probably would've ignored it just like everyone else seems to have...
Crossed is a Garth Ennis project. Depending on how much you know about Garth Ennis, once you read any Crossed at all, you have a pretty good sense what Garth Ennis is all about. And actually, there's supplemental material in this issue that explains everything you need to know about it, should you be so interested. And it explains everything you need to know about Garth Ennis, too.
More pointedly, this unusual project for Alan Moore, working in someone else's playground (y'know, besides a bunch of long-dead writers who fall outside the moral outrage attached to everything everyone has tried to do with his material over the years) for a change, might be one of those things that explains everything you need to know about him, too.
Crossed is a post-apocalyptic thing about a virus that unleashes mankind's most basic instincts, which Ennis interpreted as the most depraved possible. Crossed Plus One Hundred, as you may or may not be able to guess, is Crossed a hundred years in its future. Mankind survives, but the victims of the virus are, well, hardly model citizens. To call them zombies, as in The Walking Dead, or even cavemen, as in Tuki, would be a serious upgrade. They're basically stereotypical rednecks, if they were also zombie cavemen. Redneck zombie cavemen! What a concept!
Anyway, I don't think this is at all a project that would convince anyone who doesn't see Moore as a hallowed treasure of literature in anywhere near that kind of light. It's interesting. And it's also language that Moore sees as degenerating worst, which makes the whole thing read like someone who definitely doesn't have Moore's fabled credentials. Basically as if written by redneck zombie cavemen.
As far as objectivity goes, the redneck zombie cavemen give themselves the worst dialogue, though. Just so you know.
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