Whitechapel - CROSSED #2

Whitechapel - CROSSED #2 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:35:01 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106582#Comment_106582 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106582#Comment_106582 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:29:47 -0800 Cyman
So, are people sticking with it, loving it? Still shocked by it and whatnot? I'm writing final papers this weekend on what it means to be human, and it's pressing on my mind for sure. Obviously, this will be a very personal discussion, because the Crossed really do affect us pretty profoundly. I love it (well, not-- you know what I mean) and have to thank everyone at Avatar for this one.

What did everyone think of issue number 2?
It kind of goes without saying, but if you haven't read the first two issues,
A) Don't read any further in this thread, and
B) Go read the first two issues of this book. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106611#Comment_106611 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106611#Comment_106611 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:18:33 -0800 mister hex CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106619#Comment_106619 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106619#Comment_106619 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:34:10 -0800 William Christensen CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106714#Comment_106714 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106714#Comment_106714 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:22:01 -0800 Kosmopolit CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106734#Comment_106734 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106734#Comment_106734 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:42:30 -0800 Jacen
Fangoria Interview

It's a little choppy where they try to shoehorn in a bunch of responses into a small space but hits the major points of why I love this project. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106825#Comment_106825 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106825#Comment_106825 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:16:32 -0800 rickiep00h
Honestly, the series so far has made me laugh. It's so obscenely over the top and gory I can't do anything but laugh... and I don't know why. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106848#Comment_106848 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106848#Comment_106848 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:03:47 -0800 Cyman the thing with the bullets with a few friends of mine that I'm forcing all my comics on these days, and someone said that really as humans our most primitive instinct is to reproduce, to spread our own influence, so its very telling that that's all these guys are doing; the difference is that they stand for pure evil. This is a really great comic, and I hope a lot of people are buying it. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106906#Comment_106906 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106906#Comment_106906 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:26:05 -0800 James Cunningham CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106918#Comment_106918 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=106918#Comment_106918 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:13:36 -0800 filthy ring
Oh, and Jacen... I'm loving the wraparound covers. The December issues cover is funny in a terrible, terrible way. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107080#Comment_107080 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107080#Comment_107080 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:44:05 -0800 PyD CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107092#Comment_107092 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107092#Comment_107092 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:12:45 -0800 ales kot CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107149#Comment_107149 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107149#Comment_107149 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:41:37 -0800 Cyman family rape splash, you hit even closer to home on the issue 2 cover-- getting us the only place we love more-- Wal-Mart.
Oh those Crossed are so evil! Who could kill someone at a Wal-Mart?!
...Oh, fuck. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107150#Comment_107150 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107150#Comment_107150 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:41:59 -0800 ybm CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107165#Comment_107165 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107165#Comment_107165 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:09:34 -0800 Jacen CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107422#Comment_107422 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107422#Comment_107422 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:03:26 -0800 poor_boy

Was the scene in #2 with the bodies landing in the parking lot a planned reference to the wraparound cover of #1, or did it just come together that way?

Either way, that was my favorite scene in #2. Well, that and the one in Cyman's second post. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107425#Comment_107425 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107425#Comment_107425 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:08:42 -0800 William Christensen CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107432#Comment_107432 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107432#Comment_107432 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:28:57 -0800 Cyman See, one of my friends came up with a theory that you were doing that. And she predicted that there would be a Wal Mart massacre in issue 3. I laughed and told her it's cute when she tries to talk comics. It would be embarrassing if she was right.

Editted for a post-script: My favourite scene has to be the incredibly ironic first vision of hope for uninfected humanity;

The scene where the Crossed are shown killing they're own man, and he's just lovin' it. Right down to the guy with the intestine-straw... amazing artistically. But I love the irony that this represents the notion that it's possible for normal people to outlast them, letting them kill each other. And a little severed leg fucking is always a bonus, especially if there's smiles all around. Everyone's a winner!

Also, I've made my first joke about this book, meaning I'm officially a sick fucking bastard. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107433#Comment_107433 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107433#Comment_107433 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:32:00 -0800 poor_boy
It's still cool, but you guys have me wanting to see the Wal-mart one.

Edited because of Cyman: I will laugh until I shit if that's how this ends. In a good way. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107440#Comment_107440 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107440#Comment_107440 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:43:10 -0800 Rootfireember Jacen - Haven't read #2, just wanted to say I enjoyed reading the interview; it made several interesting and good points. Thanyou for posting the link. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107666#Comment_107666 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107666#Comment_107666 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:30:01 -0800 stilted CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107679#Comment_107679 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107679#Comment_107679 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:04:20 -0800 Mark Seifert CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107703#Comment_107703 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107703#Comment_107703 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:08:50 -0800 Kosmopolit
Not only do they not give a shit about your life, they don't give a shit about their's either. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107718#Comment_107718 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107718#Comment_107718 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:03:26 -0800 mister hex CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107939#Comment_107939 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107939#Comment_107939 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:03:51 -0800 AWilliamsID
Even though they may not care about life they care about price!

Also I wished the cover could advance...hmmm maybe half a second. I would like to see if our shovel friend rams the buggy (shopping cart for those of us not in the south) instead of the girl. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107999#Comment_107999 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=107999#Comment_107999 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:40:09 -0800 Spiraltwist CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108002#Comment_108002 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108002#Comment_108002 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:44:39 -0800 rickiep00h
I know, innit?! I loved the splash pages, I loved the pacing. I am, however, wanting to find out more... as I mentioned earlier in the thread.

Go Jacen! Go Garth! ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108021#Comment_108021 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108021#Comment_108021 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:28:34 -0800 Spiraltwist
We are such a "now" society. Be patient. ;) ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108026#Comment_108026 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108026#Comment_108026 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:42:49 -0800 rickiep00h
Ah yes... serialization makes me particularly ravenous for some reason, though. Release a mediocre book over the course of 3 months and I'll eat it up. (The Green Mile.) Dump something great all at once and I probably won't get through it in six months unless I've got some sort of bug up my arse about it. (Any other book I've ever read.) ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108350#Comment_108350 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108350#Comment_108350 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:15:13 -0800 Exploder CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108371#Comment_108371 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108371#Comment_108371 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:14:58 -0800 Blackfish CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108463#Comment_108463 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108463#Comment_108463 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:06:56 -0800 poor_boy CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108481#Comment_108481 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108481#Comment_108481 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:25:13 -0800 James Cunningham
LInked due to bigness.

And yeah, I got a laugh out of the bodies splashing down. I'll admit it. My only defense is that I also enjoyed the new Wonderful Wizard of Oz comic that came out this week, and that either proves I'm not totally hopeless or it's worse than I think. Bit of a tossup, really. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108750#Comment_108750 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108750#Comment_108750 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:32:12 -0800 Cyman CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108982#Comment_108982 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=108982#Comment_108982 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:42:07 -0800 Blackfish Cyman
The thing I love about that wrap cover is the child asphyxiated by the oxygen mask tubing. The irony is delicious.

I agree...fantastic ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109068#Comment_109068 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109068#Comment_109068 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:53:43 -0800 Jacen CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109134#Comment_109134 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109134#Comment_109134 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:28:21 -0800 poor_boy the punk rock thread and it suddenly dawned on me why I love this comic so much.

They fuck shit up.

The Crossed...they take everything that's been shoved down our throats in a consumer driven society, and they consume it.

Not that it would be an appealing thought to literally do what they do, but as a ongoing title...it's more than entertainment. Hell, it's downright cathartic.

I love this book. Thanks Jacen. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109457#Comment_109457 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109457#Comment_109457 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:19:57 -0800 Blackfish

The Crossed...they take everything that's been shoved down our throats in a consumer driven society, and they consume it.

Yeah! I fucking hate WalMart too!

I cannot believe that the crossed all cum into the bowl full of bullets to infect others just by shooting them! That is just so wonderfully twisted that I couldn't help but laugh...can't wait for #3 ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109463#Comment_109463 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109463#Comment_109463 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:32:09 -0800 orwellseyes I cannot believe that the crossed all cum into the bowl full of bullets to infect others just by shooting them! That is just so wonderfully twisted that I couldn't help but laugh...can't wait for #3

That's the thing about this series that has most gotten to me, it's the intelligence of these things.

Most monster of myth have some wonderful achilles heel for the hero to exploit. The cross holding back the vampire, the silver bulltet, the slow zombie. These are just people, devoid of anything resembling a soul or morality, curious about how it would feel to fuck your eye-sockets.

It's the only comic to give me a chill in a good long while. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109508#Comment_109508 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109508#Comment_109508 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:48:55 -0800 Kosmopolit
So there's really only two ways this series can end - all the humans die or get infected or they manage to dig themselves into a hole somewhere for ten years until most of the Crossed kill each other off.

But either way it's about the journey not the destination. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109674#Comment_109674 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109674#Comment_109674 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:05:03 -0800 poor_boy ...So there's really only two ways this series can end - ...

I'm gonna be kind of disappointed if this has a predictable ending.

Sick bastard that I am, I would end it with a conversation. Just one last human and one last Crossed, sitting in a cave talking.

Now that would be fucked up. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109794#Comment_109794 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109794#Comment_109794 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:12:05 -0800 Blackfish Sick bastard that I am, I would end it with a conversation. Just one last human and one last Crossed, sitting in a cave talking.

Come now...we all know that if one human and one crossed got together all there would be is screaming and screwing...not particularly in that order...and probably over and over and over ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109801#Comment_109801 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109801#Comment_109801 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:25:13 -0800 Jacen CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109803#Comment_109803 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109803#Comment_109803 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:29:02 -0800 Spiraltwist
Draw faster??? :D ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109821#Comment_109821 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109821#Comment_109821 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:22:27 -0800 Jacen CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109825#Comment_109825 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109825#Comment_109825 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:50:16 -0800 orwellseyes
Here it's a present, awful, cringe-inducing part of the menace that is the crossed. The notion that it's not a monster out for blood or brains. No, this monster, who looks just like you, wants to fuck and degrade you while they kill you.

Just freaks me out, in a very good way. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109843#Comment_109843 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109843#Comment_109843 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:15:08 -0800 Cyman
Just a few possibilities. It could really be anything though. (Other than those things just put in-- that won't happen.) Excited is an understatement. ]]> CROSSED #2 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109872#Comment_109872 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=4404&Focus=109872#Comment_109872 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:19:47 -0800 orwellseyes