Crossed: Gore Angels

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Warning for Rape and Gore





Crossed Badlands #40

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Crossed Badlands #41

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Crossed Badlands #42















Crossed Badlands #43

Comments

[locuatico]

Okay. Steretypes and the whole..."this is Avatar Press" aside, This does seem to tap the "The walking dead are not the zombies" thing that made TWD work.

[beyondthefringe]

. . .
Words honestly fail me at this series.

[onsokumaru]

It' s fun how the brain is wired.
A couple of manga illustrations in that comics, and I as beginning to read the whole thing from right to left.

[mastermahan]

Those are white-looking Asian women.

[katefan]

I was thinking the same thing.

[kamino_neko]

Eeeyep.

My initial reaction: 'Jesus, they set in Japan and make all the mains white people? ... Wait, they're actually Japanese?'

[thezmage]

Well it looks like they overcompensated by making them full on Asian stereotypes in personality

[deh_tommy]

I’m so confused about the depiction of the Crossed between stories.

Sometimes they’re just evil versions of regular people who are equal opportunity in the people they target, whether Crossed or not Crossed, and retain the skills, memories and abilities they had pre-infection. Other times, they’re tribalistic, impulsive, barely intelligble savages obssessed with sex and cussing who lose all sense of their former selves, including said skills, memories and abilities.

Yeah, they’re still scary (varying quality of stories notwithstanding), but I’d prefer they be a bit more consistent in how they operate and behave. If I die in or to The Walking Dead, I know I’m going to become a mindless, shambling corpse only interested in the next meal. If I get assimilated by the Cybermen or the Borg, I’ll become a drone existing only to assimilate and conquer for them. If I get Crossed, do I just turn into an evil version of me or do I become a zombie?

[kamino_neko]

On that note, what even **is** the Cross? Is that a rash? Open sores? Exposed skin? Muscle sinew? What?

Can't comment on the rest, but this was answered by the scans in one of the other Crossed posts - it's specifically referred to as a rash...and it's pretty similar in appearance to some of the eczema-rashes I've had - just with a very specific location and extent.

[deh_tommy]

I thought as much, but sometimes that looks like Flood-esque tendrils growing out of the pores and other times that looks like red necrotic tissue.

[jmacq1]

I've only read dribs and drabs of the series, but I have a good friend who's very much a fan. Apparently the inconsistencies are kind of a meta part of the story, and the readers aren't supposed to be able to discern much "definitively" about the infection. It's even left entirely unclear as to whether it's of supernatural or biological make (with conflicting stories as to its' origins).

And apparently if you get Crossed, you get turned into you without any inhibition, morality, or self-control whatsoever. It basically makes whatever "dark side" you have completely dominant. Apparently rare individuals (like "Smokey" from the example a few weeks back) are able to retain a bit more of that "self control" portion, but most pretty much become sewer-mouthed savage psychopaths who do everything on a whim. You still have your memories (You'll recognize people you knew before you were Crossed, and events that happened, at the very least), and usually your skills, but in the latter case you often can't be assed to actually use them because you're too easily distracted by opportunities to commit garish violence.

[rainspirit]

Uhhh, if that was their blood on her arms in the second last scan, then she would have been infected pretty quick...

[deh_tommy]

I thought you only got infected if the Crossed’s bodily fluids (like blood, saliva, semen, etc.) got into a wound or orifice?