Crossed TPB (2010 Avatar) comic books 1970 or later

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Written by Garth Ennis. Art by Jacen Burrows. Garth Ennis has pulled out all the stops to write the most depraved and twisted book of his career, one that also may be his most poignant human drama! Crossed is Ennis' horrifically visceral exploration of the pure evil that humans are truly capable of indulging and collected here are all ten heart-stopping chapters. This gut-wrenching vision is brought to vivid (and more than a little disturbing) life by his partner in crime Jacen Burrows. 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. Softcover, 240 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $24.99.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. Written by Garth Ennis. Art by Jacen Burrows. Garth Ennis has pulled out all the stops to write the most depraved and twisted book of his career, one that also may be his most poignant human drama! Crossed is Ennis' horrifically visceral exploration of the pure evil that humans are truly capable of indulging and collected here are all ten heart-stopping chapters. This gut-wrenching vision is brought to vivid (and more than a little disturbing) life by his partner in crime Jacen Burrows. 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. Softcover, 240 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $24.99.

Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Family Values!" Written by David Lapham. Art by Javier Barreno. Cover by Jacen Burrows. All seven issues of David Lapham's horror masterpiece of Crossed: Family Values are collected here with a large cover gallery! In one terrifying moment, civilization crumbled. An outbreak of insanity swept across the planet, turning millions of people into the homicidal maniacs known as "the Crossed." But from their isolated horse ranch, the Pratt family of North Carolina remain uninfected and defiant. Bonded together as generations of working, living, and learning together, they rely on Joe, the family patriarch, to see them through the apocalypse. But the Pratt family has a deep, dark secret - one that threatens to tear them apart, even under the constant threat of the murderous hordes. See, some men are turned to Crossed, but others... others are just born evil. Eighteen year-old daughter Adaline will soon discover which breed is worse. David Lapham, the critically acclaimed creator of the gritty STRAY BULLETS series, delivers a tale so twisted, so shocking, it more than earns its place next to the original runaway bestseller, CROSSED VOLUME 1, by superstar writer Garth Ennis! Softcover, 176 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Psychopath!" Written by David Lapham. Art and cover by Raulo Caceres. The long-awaited third volume of Crossed is finally here, collecting all seven issues of the Psychopath series by David Lapham and artist Raulo Caceres! In one terrifying moment, civilization crumbled. An outbreak of insanity swept across the planet, turning millions of people into the scarred homicidal maniacs known as "the Crossed." For one small band of survivors, the discovery of a starving, injured man in the desert seems like an unexpected blessing. He knows where they could be safe: the location of the last holdout of the scientific community, where the military offers protection and the cure to the Crossed plague is being developed. But Harold Lorre is not the savior they hope him to be. He's a calculating, lethal man whose mind was dangerously unhinged even before the world went mad. Surrounded by marauding hordes, their nerves shattered by unending fear, the group fall victim to the manipulations and deadly perversions of a psychopath. Writer David Lapham, the critically acclaimed creator of Stray Bullets, returns to the universe of Crossed with a descent into evil so far beyond what you could possibly imagine. Softcover, 176 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

Volume 4 - 1st printing. "Badlands!" Collects Crossed: Badlands (2012) #1-9. Written by Garth Ennis and Jamie Delano. Art by Jacen Burrows and Leandro Rizzo. Cover by Jacen Burrows. The best-selling Crossed collections continue here with Vol 4, collecting Crossed: Badlands #1-9. Two tales of terror from the most vicious landscape in modern horror, written by groundbreaking graphic novelists Garth Ennis and Jamie Delano! When the worldwide outbreak transforms most of humanity into murderous psychopaths, the uninfected survivors are driven by desperation to the very brink of sanity and morality. In Scotland, a young man devastated by the traumatic death of his wife struggles to survive the roving bands of Crossed at his heels. Meanwhile, three small groups of survivors in the marshy Florida Everglades - haunted by personal demons, driven by primal fears and all-too-human desires - find themselves on a collision course guaranteed to leave bloody, fiery destruction in their wake... Softcover, 240 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $24.99.

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "Badlands!: Part 2" Collects Crossed: Badlands (2012) #10-18. Written by David Lapham, and David Hine. Art by Jacen Burrows and Eduardo Vienna. Cover by Jacen Burrows. Journey back to the earliest days of the Crossed outbreak, when an outbreak of viral insanity first plunged an unsuspecting world into darkness, in two tales scribed by the masters of modern horror, David Lapham and David Hine! In high school, Edmund earned his nickname "Yellow Belly" by running away and hiding whenever confronted by conflicts or fears. But when the Crossed infection ignites at a local circus, perhaps it's that very same cowardice that will save him in the end! Meanwhile, a group of self-centered and hedonistic college kids head to a writer's retreat to explore their inner selves... but end up surrounded by berserk killers. What depths will they sink to in order to survive? Softcover, 240 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $24.99.

Volume 6 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 3!" Collects Crossed: (2012) #19-28. Written by David Lapham, and David Hine. Art by Jacen Burrows and Eduardo Vienna. Cover by Jacen Burrows. In a volume that spans several eras of Crossed infection, we join three prolific writers each telling a tale set in the horrifying misery of the world during the plague. Series creator GARTH ENNIS returns to tell a story so big that it re-defines the way you will see the Crossed. In "The Fatal Englishman" the last military unit in Britain faces the biggest question of them all - when do you risk eliminating all life to stop the Crossed! SIMON SPURRIER puts us in the mind of a unique Crossed relationship, one which sees lovers from two different worlds as they are driven apart by infection. DAVID LAPHAM continues fan-favorite Crossed Psychopath survivor, Amanda's tale as she fights with the rising insanity in her own mind and a group of lunatic scavengers in "The Livers." Go where other horror survival stories fear to tread and enter the grueling world of the Crossed! Softcover, 256 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $24.99.

Volume 7 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 4!" Collects Crossed: (2013) #29-36. Written by Christos N. Gage and David Lapham. Art by Christian Zanier and Miguel Ruiz. Cover by Christian Zanier. From the boundary-pushing world of Crossed come two master storytellers who take you into the depraved depths of uncensored grueling survival horror. CHIRSTOS GAGE tells the tale of ultimate betrayal as one of the survivors betrays his own kind to live among the monsters in "Quisling" with the luscious art of Christian Zanier. DAVID LAPHAM reveals the final chapter in the trilogy of stories digging into the deepening insanity overtaking the mind of Crossed: Psychopath survivor Amanda. This volume of Crossed collects issues of the Crossed: Badlands series. Hardcover, 192 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

Volume 8 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 5!" Collects Crossed: (2013) #37-43 and the Crossed 2013 Annual. Written by Simon Spurrier and David Hine. Art by Rafa Ortiz. Cover by Jacen Burrows. Two of the hottest names in horror deliver three tales of terror in this volume of vile repulsions! SIMON SPURRIER spins the mad tale of the insane survivalist from Crossed: Wish You Were Here - Jackson! And from the Badlands vault comes Spurrier's Crossed tale of hippies meet grindhouse terror like you've never experienced in "American Quitters." Finally, an epic from the first hours of the Crossed outbreak in Japan as DAVID HINE releases the "Gore Angels." What happens when an abused manga artist in a traditional Japanese home must not only face grinning Crossed devils but also the men that sexually attacked her? The result is a tale of misery and vengeance made reality! Softcover, 192 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

Volume 9 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 6!" Collects Crossed: (2013) #44-49 and the Crossed Special 2013. Written by Daniel Way and Simon Spurrier. Art by Emiliano Urdinola and Gabriel Andrade. Cover by Gabriel Andrade. Two very different Crossed scribes open new wounds in the miserable world of the Crossed! Daniel Way introduces a naval captain and his crew as they attempt to survive the plague of insanity spreading across the globe in "Grave New World." He's a shrewd man and watching the monsters has given him an insightful plan for saving those in his charge. But whether it is inspiration or insanity, the crew still faces the gleeful misery of the Crossed. And Simon Spurrier returns to tell a tale set in the infected outback. Todd drives a road train through the desolate Australian desert. Before C-day he was a loser, an outcast, a fat nobody with a nobody-job. Now he's an Emperor of the wasteland. His rig and its trailers are the safest place around: stocked to the brim with canned food and gasoline. But his desire to have a harem who worship him opens himself up to the true horrors of the outback. Spurrier brings his trademark flare for developing intricately flawed characters to a story that will haunt your dreams for years to come. In a world of Crossed...there is no hope and there is no help. There is only the Crossed. Softcover, 176 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

Volume 10 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 7!" Collects Crossed (2013) #50-56. Written by Garth Ennis. Art and cover by Christian Zanier. GARTH ENNIS returns to the horrifyingly brutal world he created with a story that fans have waited over five years for! The Crossed outbreak created a miserable grueling world of monsters that dash out all hope of survival and ensures a terrifying end to everything in their path. For the first time, master storyteller Garth Ennis takes you back to the early days of outbreak and delivers the unexpected - a patient zero tale. With the outbreak spreading like wildfire across the globe, a group of soldiers attempt to piece together how the disease spread so quickly and to reverse the horror they see taking place in the streets. And as they struggle to catch up with events, a fleet of nuclear-armed planes carry the extinction of the human race as they race towards America, with only one British flight crew to stand in their way. No one can deliver this level of poignant horror like Garth Ennis. In a world where there is no help and there is no hope...there is only the Crossed. Softcover, 176 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

Volume 11 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 8!" Collects Crossed (2008) Annual #1 and Crossed (2013) #57-61. Written by Justin Jordan and Simon Spurrier. Art by Rafael Ortiz and Georges Duarte. Cover by Christian Zanier. The Crossed universe is an unyielding nightmare vision of animal depravity and homicidal insanity. In this volume, two of the industry's best new talents come together to tell very different stories of despair. Simon Spurrier takes you to a picturesque environment in the English countryside with tweeting birds, friendly vicars, crumpets and jam, and a mob of Crossed lurking near the duck pond. No one sees Wheezy the fat asthmatic kid hiding up in the old tower but if he shows his face it will only be the farmer's wife between him and a bloody fate. The problem is, she's Crossed too. And newly-Crossed Justin Jordan tells his first diabolical tale as two women attempt to escape the band of monsters out for their blood. When a mysterious unseen Samaritan helps them escape to a sanctuary it seems as though they've found what little safety there is in the new world order. But trusting anyone in the world of Crossed usually leads to a gut-wrenching and miserable end. Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

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Volume 12 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 9!" Collects Crossed (2013) #62-70. Written by David Lapham. Art by Francisco Manna. Cover by Gabriel Andrade. Garth Ennis' world of Crossed has become the pinnacle of survival horror in fiction. David Lapham (Stray Bullets) returns to Crossed with a crime story told both before and after the Crossed outbreak! A father is pushed to the brink when his family is brutally tortured and killed. With only revenge to keep him going, he becomes a monster himself with only one purpose, to find the man that did this and make him suffer more than anyone has before. But then C-Day happened and the world changed. Now a mystery to solve becomes one man's singular obsession to cross a sea of maniacs and destroy a monster no matter the cost. There is no help and there is no hope. There is only the Crossed. Softcover, 224 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $24.99.

Volume 13 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 10!" Collects Crossed (2013) #71-74 and Crossed Special (2014). Written by David Hine and Justin Jordan. Art by Fernando Heinz and Nahuel Lopez. Cover by Christian Zanier. Twisted tales master David Hine returns to the grueling world of Garth Ennis' survival horror Crossed with a story from the early days of the outbreak. When a Japanese mobster's daughter is trapped at a cosplay convention on C-Day, the criminals learn the hard way that in a Crossed world it doesn't matter how tough you are...just how fast you run. And Justin Jordan locks us in our nightmares with a visceral tale that takes us to Federal Prison. Jesse Bullock is not a good man, but a very hard man. Down for armed robbery and assault, the only crimes they were able to prove, he has but one good quality: he loves his cousin Otis. When they end up imprisoned at the same jail, Jesse intentionally gets himself denied parole to make sure he's there to protect Otis, who isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. But that job gets much harder when the Crossed spread inside those escape-proof walls! Softcover, 144 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

Volume 14 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 11!" Collects Crossed (2013) #75-80. Written by Kieron Gillen. Art Rafa Ortiz. Cover by Fernando Heinz. Kieron Gillen (Uber, Wicked & Devine) takes the horrors of the Crossed back to the ancient past where 75,000 years ago humanity came as close as it has ever come to being purged from the Earth. There were as few as 2000 humans remaining. This is historical fact. Why it came to this is generally blamed on super-volcano Toba causing a minor ice-age. But that's not the full story. That is not the history of the Homo Tortor, i.e. Man The Torturer. This empire before the beginning of time, that sends raiding parties gathering other Homo species and enormous mega-fauna, invented cruelty, refined domination, and perfected killing. And they think their power will last forever. There is no help, there is no hope. There is only the Crossed. Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

Volume 15 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 12!" Collects Crossed (2013) #81-86. Story and art by by Mike Wolfer. Cover by Christian Zanier. Comics horror veteran Mike Wolfer writes and illustrates a powerful new chapter in the Crossed saga! After admitting two women into their defensible stronghold atop a collapsed bridge, an uneasy alliance of survivors discovers just how the women successfully navigated through the horrors on the ground below. They followed the advice of their "bible," a best-selling, "survival guide" novel. Fiction or not, the book could be the answer to saving all of their lives in the wasteland ruled by the maniacal Crossed. But trust in the uninfected can be more dangerous than the violent urges of the Crossed themselves. There is no help, there is no hope. There is only the Crossed. Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

Volume 16 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 13!" Collects Crossed (2013) #87-92. Written by Max Bemis. Art by Fernando Melek. Cover by Christian Zanier. Singer and song writer Max Bemis of Say Anything spins a fresh tale of terror in the pages of Crossed: Badlands! In a world overrun by madmen and maniacs, how can anyone hope to survive with their sanity intact? When two brothers survive, one human, one Crossed, the family dynamic can be heartbreaking. Siblings are a blessing and a curse. Jack discovers that a lifetime of hatred by his troubled brother can turn into an instant of misery in a Crossed world. Three very different people come to terms with the Crossed infection as a strange love triangle plays out once more further fracturing the dysfunctional family dynamic between brothers. The lessons of a Crossed world are taught in tainted blood in "Shrink" - a new terrifying story of loss and misery. There is no help, there is no hope. There is only the Crossed. Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

Volume 17 - 1st printing. "Badlands: Part 14!" Collects Crossed (2013) #93-100. Written by Max Bemis. Art by Fernando Melek. Cover by Christian Zanier. TV and Screenwriter Christos Gage returns to the grueling world of Garth Ennis' Crossed with a vengeance. Fans favorite Alpha-Crossed Smokey has returned and he's on the mission he began back in the legendary "Quisling" story arc. Driven by a powerful controlled cruelty, Smokey discovers a survivalist bunker and forces a desperate man to help him do the unthinkable...create a new Crossed civilization and city called "Smokeyville." But how long can even a creature like Smokey hold the murderous Crossed to his will before they turn upon each other? It's the ultimate sociological experiment amidst the wreckage of civilization. There is no equal to the terror and depravity within the pages of Crossed. It is simply the most terrifying uncensored horror comic book being published. Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $24.99.