Whitechapel - CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328074#Comment_328074 2012-03-29T08:47:13-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 Horrible Warning Si http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1223 It's Thursday, it's mid-afternoon in London, it's another wrongheaded morning in Mericky, and it's time for more Crossed Hideosity. Episode 3, live and free-to-air. Remember: Not safe for ...
Episode 3, live and free-to-air.

Remember: Not safe for work, not safe for minors, not safe for people of a nervous disposition and similar wussy types.

Thoughts Cheerfully Solicited.]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328100#Comment_328100 2012-03-29T11:23:34-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 blighty http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10752 Very nice chapter, this. At first, I thought the cow was powering the boat with methane from its farts. The truth was also hilarious. One thing: CHAPTER 2 IS NOT AVAILABLE. I missed chapter 2, went ... CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328106#Comment_328106 2012-03-29T12:02:46-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 I knew eating my salad and reading this was a bad idea - I did it anyway and enjoyed every page. Now I've gotta get some beef. My only criticism would be the 'lion's roar in negative' line: I'm ... Now I've gotta get some beef.

My only criticism would be the 'lion's roar in negative' line: I'm not sure why yet but it stuck in my teeth oddly.
Other than that, all good clean fun. ;)

Thanks, Overlord!

-Serf Gwalchmai [whose Serfdom is in question since he learnt to read through these here picture books]]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328109#Comment_328109 2012-03-29T12:37:10-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 Mark Seifert http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3 I missed chapter 2, went to read it and its link just brings up chapter 3. That's fixed. Check it out: http://www.crossedcomic.com/webcomic/volume-1-chapter-2/ I missed chapter 2, went to read it and its link just brings up chapter 3.

That's fixed. Check it out:

http://www.crossedcomic.com/webcomic/volume-1-chapter-2/]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328113#Comment_328113 2012-03-29T13:14:03-07:00 2012-03-29T13:14:18-07:00 Beamish http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8236 Oh, that's good news. They did't have sex with the cow. Kind of nervous for a minute.
They did't have sex with the cow.

Kind of nervous for a minute.]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328123#Comment_328123 2012-03-29T14:46:29-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 Berserker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=41 I guess at this point it doesn't really matter if they shot the poor cow or not - I'm fairly certain anyone with ears anywhere remotely nearby probably heard that... CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328124#Comment_328124 2012-03-29T14:48:36-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 Kay Orchison http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10078 ARSE! COW! ASPLODE! Rolled gold. Timeline on TPB?
Timeline on TPB?]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328125#Comment_328125 2012-03-29T14:51:30-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2075 Poor Bess. I've been assuming, but coming to realize it maybe foolish, that an explanation for what the heck is up with the crossed is forthcoming. Do I need to read the other books to find out? ...

A question for the masses - though I might serve myself better asking on Can Haz Help thread - what is the term for this kind of gross out storytelling? I remember reading it a bunch when first introduced to Ellis and this somewhat applicable in Crossed. But I mean, the sort of mundane disgustingness of making dolphin eyeballs into a delicacy because dolphins were no longer in any danger, etc, that we first came across in Transmetropolitan. The sort of storytelling that goes into extreme detail of the grosser than gross things that the particularly deranged/degenerate people driving the stories get up to. Not horror porn, that's just the ultra horror stuff of the Saw movies, but I mean the stuff that is supposed to jolt the reader who is inured to violence and scatological jokes. The stuff that makes those of us here at Whitechapel sit up and laugh when poor sods get hacked to bits.

Looking for that term to do some research on art installations that do the same to the more artsy set. I'm working on a play centered around an art piece made of roadkill. The keywords would help a lot.]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328127#Comment_328127 2012-03-29T15:21:51-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 Kay Orchison http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10078 Transgressive art is the term you're after. Coined in 1985 to refer to the cinema of folks like John Waters. Get this book to begin. this book to begin.]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328128#Comment_328128 2012-03-29T15:23:29-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 icelandbob http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5250 When i saw the arm and the cow in pain, i actually thought that they had stuffed one of the crossed inside the animal! sort of a Trojan cow so to speak.... When i saw the arm and the cow in pain, i actually thought that they had stuffed one of the crossed inside the animal!

sort of a Trojan cow so to speak....]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328131#Comment_328131 2012-03-29T16:31:46-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 Purple Wyrm http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6726 So, they're working on the theory that the cow-boat (boat-cow?) was a trap created by other survivors to try and take out a few Crossed? Admittedly, I'm not overly familiar with the background (ie: ... CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328137#Comment_328137 2012-03-29T17:04:02-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 JP Carpenter http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2485 @Beamish - but how do you know? know?]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328139#Comment_328139 2012-03-29T17:06:43-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 jamfeb http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10750 You have one sick little mind Si! Must admit I have no idea where tue reasoning for the 'survivor' trap cake from from but I'm happy to accept it just to see a cow, shit a grenade. CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328141#Comment_328141 2012-03-29T17:15:42-07:00 2012-03-29T17:16:26-07:00 Beamish http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8236 NOOOOOOOOOO...NOT THE COWS! COWS!]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328142#Comment_328142 2012-03-29T17:18:44-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 JP Carpenter http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2485 MOOOOOOOO CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328143#Comment_328143 2012-03-29T17:46:36-07:00 2012-03-29T18:10:01-07:00 MrMonk http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6192 @purple - I think I agree. A trap to put fear into the Crossed? It seems that would be a futile exercise, and killing a small boarding party shouldn't make much difference. More likely it's a ...
More likely it's a bit of mayhem set up by the Crossed to draw out survivors. At some point, the dumber Crossed should do each other in, leaving the smarter ones who are a bit more creative. But they had to get the cow and grenade from somewhere, and that suggests that there were other organized survivors. And if it was done by survivors, why torture the cow?


"lion's roar in the negative" made a clear image (auditory and visual) to me.]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328144#Comment_328144 2012-03-29T17:50:01-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 Beamish http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8236 I concede. CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328148#Comment_328148 2012-03-29T18:35:35-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 arcaner http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2374 I shall need to find a way to work "Arse Custard" into my conversations this week. CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328153#Comment_328153 2012-03-29T19:41:38-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2075 @Kay -- maaaybe. "transgressive art" does give me a place to start but I can't remember if that was the phrase that people were using for Transmet/freakangels/Red. It may very well ... Deathtripping is the right book for what I'm looking for...but this is a good springboard. Thanks!]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328163#Comment_328163 2012-03-30T01:05:27-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 Horrible Warning Si http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1223 @razrangel - Short answer is that - "in world" - nobody has a clue where the Crossed came from. It's a stunningly contagious condition (even something like skin-contact with sweat, spit or ... CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328180#Comment_328180 2012-03-30T08:17:51-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 government spy http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6088 @icelandbob That's exactly what I had thought. I feel slightly better knowing that I'm not the only one that thought of the physical difficulties of engineering such a feat. CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328182#Comment_328182 2012-03-30T08:28:02-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 longtimelurker http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7739 Cow shits a grenade. It defies analysis. CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328193#Comment_328193 2012-03-30T13:58:39-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2075 Thanks Si! CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328208#Comment_328208 2012-03-30T17:10:35-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 curb http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1334 What I enjoy is that, regardless of the source of the bovine grenadier, this is one malevolent, vicious world we're watching. And now that the sortie has been mentioned? Well, there's something fun ... CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328221#Comment_328221 2012-03-30T22:10:56-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 scs http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7988 I'm horribly tempted to start shouting 'cowz!' in the same tone as we once shouted 'chikinz!' CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328229#Comment_328229 2012-03-31T02:20:15-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 Horrible Warning Si http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1223 BOVINE GRENADIER is my new tribute band. CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328235#Comment_328235 2012-03-31T04:45:40-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949 The Crossed infiltrated my dreams last week, which was nice. Now I've got the concept of Arse Custard to enrich my life. All to a soundtrack by BOVINE GRENADIER. These things make the world a ...
These things make the world a better place.]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328236#Comment_328236 2012-03-31T04:53:01-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 Purple Wyrm http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6726 @scs We once shouted 'chikinz'? ;D
We once shouted 'chikinz'?

;D]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328238#Comment_328238 2012-03-31T05:05:56-07:00 2012-03-31T05:06:40-07:00 curb http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1334 Actually folks, since making that post last night I've received a pretty strongly worded letter from lawyers retained by the MoD. Apparently, since the 101st Bovine Grenadiers are still an active ... CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328239#Comment_328239 2012-03-31T06:44:22-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 JP Carpenter http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2485 May I suggest 'COWBANG ARSEFOUNTAIN' as an alternative? CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328247#Comment_328247 2012-03-31T09:08:32-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 Ben Gwalchmai http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030 Just because curb wants some to say it: curb, I call bullshit on that.
curb, I call bullshit on that.]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328250#Comment_328250 2012-03-31T10:04:50-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 curb http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1334 Hah! CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328282#Comment_328282 2012-03-31T19:43:08-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 Mark Seifert http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3 The Crossed infiltrated my dreams last week, which was nice. Yeah, I've had that a few times now over the past few years. Very freaky. The Crossed infiltrated my dreams last week, which was nice.

Yeah, I've had that a few times now over the past few years. Very freaky.]]> CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 03 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10581&Focus=328602#Comment_328602 2012-04-04T05:23:06-07:00 2013-05-18T08:39:59-07:00 Fauxhammer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=27 Jesus Christ, this fucking strip. I love it, but at the same time, I hate myself for loving it.
I love it, but at the same time, I hate myself for loving it.]]>