Crossed + One Hundred, Volume 2

Crossed + 100 #7-12

by Simon Spurrier, Fernando Heinz (Illustrations), Rafael Ortiz (Illustrator)

Alan Moore’s redefining of the Crossed universe 100 years in the future continues with his hand selected successor, Wish You Were Here scribe, Simon Spurrier. Future’s world was devastated by the realization that one of her closest friends was actually the ultimate Trojan horse and led to the devastation of Chooga. Now as she helps a new town of survivors prepare for the organized attack of the evolved Crossed, she realizes that her best efforts may not be enough. The Crossed have a plan and they are coming. No amount of wishful fiction will prevent the conflict to come.

This masterwork is a self-contained whole new world; no prior knowledge of the Crossed series is needed. Crossed +100 Vol 2 TP contains the continuing story originally presented in issues #7 - 12 of the ongoing comic book series.

Genres: Comics, Horror, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Comic Book, Zombies

160 pages, Paperback

First published May 10, 2016

Reviews

[Baba · Rating 3 out of 5]

An Alan Moore created Crossed reality is taking over by Simon Spurrier and we find the Muslim Musfreesboro settlement still awaiting proof of the Crossed massacre that Future Taylor shared her story of. Spurrier although crafting an OK reality both his plotting (a bit stunted) and his dialogue (way overkill on the language Moore invented), fails to really deliver on this more subdued spin-off of the main books. 6 out of 12.

[Scott Rhee · Rating 4 out of 5]

The graphic novel series “Crossed+One Hundred” by Alan Moore is akin to Denis Villaneuve writing and directing the newest “Friday the 13th” movie: it would be the most beautifully-filmed, nuanced, and intellectual slasher movie ever made. The question is: will fans of the original like it?

I have no idea if fans of the original “Crossed” series, written by Garth Ennis, like Moore’s “interpretation” of the horror graphic novel series, but I also don’t care.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the original series. To be fair, I only got through two volumes of it, because that was all that I could really stomach. It was truly one of the most disgusting, depraved, and amoral gore-porn series I have ever seen, and it exceeded my personal limits of good taste.

That said, I thought Ennis’s writing was decent, and I think he actually had something interesting to say about the human condition in the 21st-century. I just couldn’t take the inundation of anal-raping, child molestation, and chainsaw tortures that went with it.

Moore’s series is a fascinating one in and of itself for several reasons. It is, thankfully, a series that can be enjoyed without necessarily having to read the original. Indeed, one could come to “Crossed+One Hundred” without knowing anything about Ennis’s original series at all. Moore’s writing is that good.

Simon Spurrier is the author credited for Volume 2, but it should be known that Moore hand-picked him to write the second volume, based on Moore’s plot outline. Spurrier proves himself a worthy successor.

The story follows a woman named Future Taylor. She has grown up in a world several generations beyond what is called The Surprise, the day that the Crossed first appeared. She is an Archivist, someone who studies the ancient books and videos of the world pre-Surprise, in the hopes of keeping alive some of humanity’s Art and Culture. In her studies, though, she discovered something frightening: the pockets of Crossed that still live in the wild exist in far larger numbers than what everyone expects. Not only that, but they have adapted and, for lack of a better word, evolved. They are tribal now, with leaders and armies, and—-most frightening—-some can pass themselves off as Normal and infiltrate the uninfected cities.

After the fall of her city, Chooga, Future has taken refuge in the Muslim city of Murfreesboro. Her stories of well-organized and intelligent Crossed fall upon disbelieving ears among the leaders of the city. At first. Then, survivors and refugees from other cities start arriving with similar stories of well-organized armies of the Crossed. The peaceful city of Murfreesboro starts building up their armaments, but it may be too late.

There is a lot of gruesomeness and violence, as expected, but, unlike the original series, “Crossed+One Hundred” is more about the humanity worth saving in a world gone insane and less about gratuitous scenes of depravity and torture.

[A.J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Si Spurrier follows up Alan Moore’s incredible volume of + 100 with a pretty damn great one himself. Doesn’t reach the highs of Moore’s run, but it is more of a consistent read this time around. I also liked it more now that I have the futuristic dialogue nailed down to a tee. The art is still really good, even if the artists do change a bit too much throughout the series. Really loved this and I cannot wait to get into the last volume.

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very strong continuation of Alan Moore's take on the "crossed," who are basically humans infected with a virus that completely lowers all their inhibitions, not unlike the rage virus from the 28 Days and 28 Weeks Later movies. It's a hundred years since the virus first manifested and life should finally be getting back to normal for the survivors. Lacking all impulse control, the crossed have largely died out, except for the odd cell here and there. But in Moore's initial volume, a team of survivors out digging for history and remnants of the old society came across hints that maybe, just maybe, there's a hidden society of super-crossed, who have managed to keep some of their worst impulses in check (murder, cannibalism, incest), just enough to survive and prosper. Here, it's pretty much all-out war as it becomes apparent that an army of the crossed has been making "deals" with a number of isolated settlements: hand over 10 people a year, and the rest can stay alive. The survivors of a number of settlements that refused to give in have descended upon Murfreesboro, and things are about to get even more serious. This comic is a challenge to read, because of the future speak that Moore came up with and that Spurrier refines, but after awhile, you kind of get the hang of it and it isn't all that hard to follow what's going on. Spurrier's Crossed: Wish You Were Here was one of the strongest storylines in this entire universe and what he does here in volume 2 has me very optimistic to see what will come in volume 3. Scary, depressing, yet ultimately hopeful post-apocalyptic storytelling.

[Alex Sarll]

In the first volume, Alan Moore showed us the world a century after the Crossed outbreak (which was initially filed alongside zombie stories, but was really more like a contagious snipping of humanity's brakes). The monsters, with their poor impulse-control and tendency to eat their own young, had practically died out; humanity was rebuilding, after a fashion, with a culture and language forever altered by the disaster. Then, he pulled that rug from under his characters, meaning that when the story was handed over to Simon Spurrier, everything had already gone to shit. But then, I've not read many Spurrier stories that don't start when everything's already gone to shit. His fascination with the human capacity for (self-)deception made him the perfect choice, and he doesn't disappoint - keeping very much to the set-up Moore has laid out, yet finding all sorts of ghastly new ramifications to it. Such ingenious nastiness makes me suspect that, if there is ever a Crossed outbreak in which conscience and self-preservation stop constraining humanity's dark side, Spurrier would be one of the worst infected you could end up anywhere near.

[Gianfranco Mancini · Rating 3 out of 5]

Absolutely not as good as Moore/Andrade's amazing first volume, but Spurrier is a good writer, I enjoyed the "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" vibe and the ending was really great.
Still can't empathize with the characters, at last next volume is the last so let's see if they are going to die or not... Being this a Crossed comic you can bet on the first.

[Koen · Rating 2 out of 5]

clearly things have gone south..

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well this was the first volume of the entire Crossed series I just couldn't get into at all, and the sad thing is I don't think it was even the story itself that was the problem. This series is set 100 years after the Crossed outbreak, and the English language is broken. So basically, you have to slog through a bunch of words that make no sense in order to piece the story together. To make things worse, there's a TON of words in here. Tons of dialogue and description, just a very wordy comic.

From what I could gather, the story wasn't bad at its core. We have a group of Crossed confronting a town of uninfected, and there's a battle and some double crossing. Also a hot air balloon and a guy that looked like Santa Claus. The main character from the first volume is still around, but this volume was just too confusing.

The art was still top notch, and there's only one volume of this series left so I'll slog through the final one since it's literally the only Crossed volume I haven't read.

[Lesincele · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me ha gustado un montón y eso que el cambio de dibujante y de estilo me chocó un poco al principio. La historia sigue siendo bastante brutal y violenta pero tiene un par de giros argumentales que no me vi venir que me han encantado. El idioma que usan todos los personajes de lo mejorcito.

[Luigi Mangione Wannabe · Rating 1 out of 5]

Horrible , de lo peor y más pretencioso de crossed , un jodido coñazo

[47Time · Rating 3 out of 5]

The flow is similar to the previous arc and the semantic changes are still there. The pace is too slow for me, with a lot of planning and character interaction, and the violence is too limited. I still can't feel anything for any character, so I can't care less if they live or die. In fact, I hope they die in the end. This is the only thing that keeps me reading, unfortunately. The ending was enjoyable, though.

Fewch and Cautious, the two survivors from the first story, have been living for a year in the sister settlement of the one that was burned by the crossed. Fewch runs drills to train the locals how to handle a crossed attack, but they don't treat her or the threat serously. She tries visiting another settlement to warn them, but they have a deal with the crossed. They are supposed to send ten of their people to the crossed, in exchange for not getting attacked. Fewch is reluctantly joined by her lover and a few others to retrieve weapons from a settlement to begin a guerilla war against the crossed. They find the settlement has moved on or was completely razed, buildings and all. They encounter a conditioned crossed and his group who call themselves rejects, most likely from the training program in the video they found in the previous arc. He tries to control his people, but they turn on him and attack. Back in the main settlement, refugees from all over are coming in. They bring news that some communities agreed to give up ten people a year, others resisted and were overrun. Later, when the crossed threaten Fewch's settlement, some of the refugees take it over and force the leaders to agree to the infected army's demands, but they have a trap in mind that throws the crossed into disarray.

[Vittorio Rainone · Rating 4 out of 5]

Il secondo volume di C+100 si apre con un apparente stato di calma, dopo gli eventi (davvero) sconvolgenti del numero precedente. Le città, tranne Chooga, distrutta dagli scrociati, hanno ripreso il loro consueto trafficare, e nessun vuole credere a un esercito di mostri. Ma Future Taylor sa che quello che ha vissuto è vero, è terribile, e peggiorerà. E i mostri fanno la loro mossa: attaccano vari insediamenti proponendo un tributo di sacrificati o la distruzione. Non tutti accettano, e presto o tardi tutte le città cadono sotto il loro giogo. Fino a che nella musulmana Murfresboro, dove Future ha preso casa insieme all'archivista suo amante Mustaqba, i cattivi attaccano in forze. E vengono trucidati da un gruppo di profughi che non vogliono cedere al solito ricatto. Sulle rovine fumanti dell'esercito scrociato un solo essere sopravvive, davanti a Future: un neonato scrociato. Continua bene la riedizione futuristica pensata da Alan Moore per l'horror di Garth Ennis. Disegni discreti, ma nulla più.

[Nate]

In the first volume, Alan Moore pulled the rug out from under whatever sense of progress humanity made. Spurrier picks up where Moore left off, putting the characters through equally horrifying situations and introducing a new mystery of sorts. The result is another compelling Crossed entry where our protagonist is forced to make terrible decisions. Art-wise, this is weaker than volume one, and the ending is a rushed cliffhanger, but Spurrier paces the story well.

[Soso · Rating 1 out of 5]

Crossed +100 makes the worst volumes of Badlands look like Eisner winners. They should have scrapped this after Moore left. I'm actually flabbergasted that Avatar Press even published this shit. Not that they're exactly a mark of quality but this might be the worst comic book I've ever read.

[Mariano Di Maggio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Guión muy Walking Dead, pero con detalles incesantes. El dibujo es de otro planeta. Serie guarra muy recomendable

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vol 2 sees the story play out and develop in interesting ways but the art and writing have taken a dip from Vol 1.

[Steve Howells · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are a tough read in some aspects as they have there own language.

I prefer the original Crossed run.

[Javier Campos · Rating 3 out of 5]

llenar los zapatos del Diosito moore es una tarea titánica noble quedó grande el reto

[Neil Carey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Proof of if a publisher wishes to continue a series past Alan Moore, they should go with someone handpicked by the man himself.