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Crossed: Family Values #1
Crossed Family Values #1
Nothing is sacred as Crossed returns! The biggest hit horror series of the year returns with an all-new six-issue series written by David (Stray Bullets) Lapham! Set right at the start of the Crossed outbreak, this epic tale of depravity promises to shock and disturb you with even more intensity than the first series! The Pratt family lived a idyllic life on a horse ranch in North Carolina. A few generations of family working, living, and learning together. But not all things should be shared with, nor done to, other human beings. Much less your own family. Some men are just born evil, some men are turned Crossed. But which is worse? Imagine, for a moment, the worst crimes against humanity. Picture the cruelest affronts to decency. Conjure your darkest nightmares... and then realize it could all be so much worse. When civilization crumbles in one terrifying moment; when people are gleefully breaking into unthinkable acts of violence all around you; when everyone you love has died screaming in agony: What do you do? There is no help. There is no hope. There is no escape. There are only the Crossed.
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August 26, 2025
Brutal and Terrifying!
August 10, 2024
Puff que perre coraje 🥲 desde el momento que vi a Emily caminado de esa manera con su padre ps lo supe.
March 1, 2023
After having read the first graphic novel in the " crossed " series I was enamored. An apocalyptic zombie distant future action drama with spectacular drawings and touching stories of survival, companionship and the meaning of life. Sure they were violent (the literal premise of this novel is a disease which makes a person a depraved zombie, that murders,r-words and tortures for no reason beyond that could. )but they were never gratuitous. It wasn't a sexualized competition to see how many traumatic instances of grape one could fit on a page(spoiler: too fucking much for anyone's good). Now it is. It's edgy and pointless tbh.
The first comic was nuanced. It juggled a myriad of perspectives, fleshing out carefully just what humanity would lose if we lost our compassion,if violence became reasonable to us as a base form of communication, if community meant mobs. It actually moved me enough to be on my favorites shelf on goodreads. But it's sequel is hopless. A story (that if you haven't read the goodreads summary on this page) centers around a family not from the original comic. A pious family on an isolated farm surviving in part due to isolation and the skilled management of the macho fundamentalist Christian/doomsday prepper father. A father who in protect also abuses his family, subjecting his daughters to sexual,religious, psychological and physical abuse. It's told at first in a darkly candid way,through the eldest daughters perspective until it shifts to father (a terrible choice in my opinion) because this is where the drawings become repulsive. I don't know why the writes saw fit to draw page by page assault scenes that are one creative choice away from being a creepy porn blogs frequented by unregistered offenders. It's genuinely horrific. I'm not kidding. It's also disappointing. Especially since it's premise of exploring incestuous family violence,unhealthy power dynamics ,coming of age and self righteous but hypocritical spiritual leaders could have been so promising and worthwhile. But it took a stark turn and came off beyond redemption. I give it two stars only because the eldest daughters arc kinda stuck with me (however brief) and was well done (for most parts). Will not EVER read again or recommend. I'm agnostic but I'll pray for the souls of anyone who comes across this and doesn't turn the last page ,whilst heaving into a toilet in disgust.
The first comic was nuanced. It juggled a myriad of perspectives, fleshing out carefully just what humanity would lose if we lost our compassion,if violence became reasonable to us as a base form of communication, if community meant mobs. It actually moved me enough to be on my favorites shelf on goodreads. But it's sequel is hopless. A story (that if you haven't read the goodreads summary on this page) centers around a family not from the original comic. A pious family on an isolated farm surviving in part due to isolation and the skilled management of the macho fundamentalist Christian/doomsday prepper father. A father who in protect also abuses his family, subjecting his daughters to sexual,religious, psychological and physical abuse. It's told at first in a darkly candid way,through the eldest daughters perspective until it shifts to father (a terrible choice in my opinion) because this is where the drawings become repulsive. I don't know why the writes saw fit to draw page by page assault scenes that are one creative choice away from being a creepy porn blogs frequented by unregistered offenders. It's genuinely horrific. I'm not kidding. It's also disappointing. Especially since it's premise of exploring incestuous family violence,unhealthy power dynamics ,coming of age and self righteous but hypocritical spiritual leaders could have been so promising and worthwhile. But it took a stark turn and came off beyond redemption. I give it two stars only because the eldest daughters arc kinda stuck with me (however brief) and was well done (for most parts). Will not EVER read again or recommend. I'm agnostic but I'll pray for the souls of anyone who comes across this and doesn't turn the last page ,whilst heaving into a toilet in disgust.
February 25, 2020
This series is and continues to be the pinnacle of gut wrenching apocalyptic horror, super focused on the cost of survival and how much a person will sacrifice to live.
August 22, 2022
Gory I loved it
August 30, 2023
Wow. That's a really vile first issue.
Good, though...
Good, though...
February 7, 2024
Wicked and gruesome
Very dark intro and it's only 23 pages that consists of rape, molestation and vulgar language. Hard-core to say the least.
Very dark intro and it's only 23 pages that consists of rape, molestation and vulgar language. Hard-core to say the least.
August 10, 2025
why'd I torture myself like this????
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