GEEKING OUT: Garth Ennis’ “Crossed”

Garth Ennis has made an entire career out of pushing the envelope when it comes to his story-choices.  Hell, Preacher alone was both awesome and risque enough all in itself to list Ennis as an all time great comic writer. Ennis own twisted and particularly take on the zombie-genre, Crossed, has been around for a while now, but it has been steadily good since the very first issue.  His sheer willingness to push the perverse violence to the very edge of reason (perhaps even beyond) may turn off some more narrow-minded critics, but has also served to great a more terrifying and disturbing read than anything that I have ever seen printed.

You may be asking yourself why I’m choosing to highlight this now, considering that the series is about to roll into the eighth issue later this month.  Good question, two answers.  Answer one, another oversight on my part.  I kept meaning to throw something up, but just would continue to forgot or be way too lazy.  Answer two, the trade paperback for volume one is coming out soon, the cover art for which you can find by going to the books’ publisher’s website at Avatar Press.  Perhaps what has me most excited about all of this is despite the fact that I’m pretty positive that I read numerous times that Crossed was going to be an eight issue limited run, the trade is being called Volume 1, which would lead me to believe there will be more issues on the way.

If you haven’t checked Crossed out yet, the trade due out sometime in April is a wonderful time to do so.  Should you find it’s your cup of tea, and somehow you haven’t read Garth Ennis work before, than you might want to track down titles like Preacher, Battlefields, and The Boys while you’re at it.  There’s also an “official” website kicking around, though it doesn’t look like it has been updated since November of 2007.  Just in case, here’s that for your viewing pleasure as well.